Red Herring (Chief Inspector Woodend Mysteries, 7) - Hardcover

Spencer, Sally

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 072785707X ISBN 13: 9780727857071

Publisher: Severn House, 2002

Synopsis

The new Inspector Woodend mystery
The discovery of the body of a young, red-haired school mistress, lying in a pig-pen with her face half-eaten away, is the beginning of a new investigation for Charlie Woodend. But it is to be an investigation he is soon ordered to abandon when Helen Dunn, the daughter of Wing Commander Dunn - and a pupil at the school where the dead woman taught - suddenly vanishes into thin air. While Woodend and Rutter race against time in the desperate hope of finding the girl alive, Woodend's bagman, Monika Paniatowski, continues to work on the murder, under the supervision of the mysterious Chief Inspector Horrocks, a Scotland Yard man who seems to have only a mild interest in finding the killer. Are the two cases connected? Woodend begins to wonder. And if they are, who is it who seems to be blocking both investigations at every turn?

About this title

About the Author:

Spencer was born and brought up in Cheshier. She has been a teacher in England and Iran.

From Publishers Weekly:

It's one false lead after another for readers of The Red Herring by Sally Spencer and it's not easy for Chief Insp. Charlie Woodend to figure out what's going on in this well-plotted British police procedural set against the backdrop of the Cuban missile crisis. Woodend is investigating the murder of a sexy young teacher when he's called off the job to search for a missing student, but this so-called "provincial bobby" senses that the cases are connected, and that someone on the inside doesn't want them solved.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Severn House
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 072785707X
• ISBN 13: 9780727857071
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256