A01=Michael Underwood
Author_Michael Underwood
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crime books set in London
crime fiction
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murder
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Simon Manton series
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The Murder Room
thriller
Product details
- ISBN 9781471907661
- Weight: 41g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 14 May 2013
- Publisher: The Murder Room
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A crime-thriller that strikes the heart of the legal world.
QC Christopher Henham is poisoned during the hearing of a divorce case. His wife, her son and ex-husband, not to mention a High Court judge, his wife and a secretary all come under suspicion.
Detective-Superintendent Simon Manton takes charge of the investigation. What is the truth behind Mrs Henham's motor accident? Who doctored her husband's cough sweets? But, before he can solve the case, another murder is committed.
Michael Underwood (the pseudonym of John Michael Evelyn) was born in Worthing, Sussex and educated at Christ Church College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1939 and served in the British army during World War Two. He returned to work in the Department of Public Prosecutions until his retirement in 1976, and wrote almost 50 crime novels informed by his career in the law. His five series characters include Sergeant Nick Atwell and lawyer Rosa Epton, of whom it was said by the Washington Post that she 'outdoes Perry Mason'.
