A01=Michael Underwood
Author_Michael Underwood
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The Murder Room
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Product details
- ISBN 9781471907944
- 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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Agent or traitor? Killer or victim? Kurte Menke is a refugee from the East ... or is he?
Once they had been friends - long ago in Berlin before the wall was built. Now, for fifteen years, their friendship has totalled a card at Christmas. But, a late-night phone call brings Charles Ashmore, a respectable London solicitor, and Kurte Menke, an East German defector, together again.
Is it just chance that Kurt's reappearance coincides with the trial of an English spy - a trial that Charles is defending? And who sends the mysterious attackers to Charles's cottage? Is it the Germans, the British, or somebody else?
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'.
