The Dark Lady - Hardcover

Spencer, Sally

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0727856219 ISBN 13: 9780727856210

Publisher: Severn House, 2001

Synopsis

Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend will have to rely on his observational gifts to have a ghost of chance in solving his latest murder case.
The night after the mysterious appearance of the legendary Dark Lady on the road outside Westbury Park, a German efficiency expert, Gerhard Schultz, is found battered to death in the woods and Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend is faced with his most puzzling case yet. Why did Schultz seem so frightened when on his colleagues mentioned the legend of the Dark Lady? Did the workers at the BCI chemical factory―many of whom are known to hate the Germans―have anything to do with his death? How could Fred Foley, the tramp whose bloodstained overcoat was found close to the scene of the crime, have completely disappeared? And is this murder connected with one which occurred in Liverpool nearly twenty years earlier?

About this title

From the Author:

THE DARK LADY is the fourth in the Chief Inspector Woodend series, and like its predecessors - THE SALTON KILLINGS, MURDER AT SWANN'S LAKE and DEATH OF A CAVE DWELLER - is set in the north of England in the early 1960s. The fifth book in the series, THE GOLDEN MILE TO MURDER, will be published later in the year.

From the Inside Flap:

The night after the mysterious appearance of the legendary Dark Lady on the road outside Westbury Park, a German efficiency expert, Gerhard Schultz is found battered to death in the woods, and Chief Inspector "Cloggin'-it" Charlie Woodend is faced with his most puzzling case yet. Why did Schultz seem so frightened when one of his colleagues mentioned the Dark Lady? Did the workers at the BCI chemical factory - many of whom are known to hate all Germans - have anything to do with his death? How could Fred Foley, the tramp whose bloodstained overcoat was found close to the scene of the crime, have completely disappeared? And is this murder connected with one which occurred in Liverpool nearly twenty years earlier?

About this edition

• Publisher: Severn House
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0727856219
• ISBN 13: 9780727856210
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192