Killer at Large

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Author_Maurice Procter
Category=FF
Chief Inspector Martineau series
crime fiction
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kidnap
killer on the run
missing girl
murder
mystery
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781471902697
  • Weight: 41g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Mar 2013
  • Publisher: The Murder Room
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Imprisoned for seven years for killing his fiancée's lover, now Guy Rainer has escaped, and Detective Inspector Martineau is on his trail.

Martineau had sent Guy down. Now it's his job to find the escaped prisoner. But in the midst of the hunt for the killer, Martineau is faced with another problem: a nine-year-old girl, Dessie Kegan, has disappeared. Has Dessie been murdered? Has Guy Rainer taken her, for reasons of his own?

Martineau has to work fast - and he knows it.

Born in Nelson, Lancashire, Maurice Procter attended the local grammar school and ran away to join the army at the age of fifteen. In 1927 he joined the police in Yorkshire and served in the force for nineteen years before his writing was published and he was able to write full-time. He was credited with an ability to write exciting stories while using his experience to create authentic detail. His procedural novels are set in Granchester, a fictional 1950s Manchester, and he is best known for his series characters, Detective Superintendent Philip Hunter and DCI Harry Martineau. Throughout his career, Procter's novels increased in popularity in both the UK and the US, and in 1960 Hell is a City was made into a film starring Stanley Baker and Billie Whitelaw. Procter was married to Winifred, and they had one child, Noel.

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