Corkscrew - Softcover

Ted Wood

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0373260245 ISBN 13: 9780373260249

Publisher: Worldwide Library, 1989

Synopsis

While fending off a gang of surly bikers, Murphy's Harbour policeman Reid Bennett and his sidekick, superdog Sam, investigate the drowning of a teenage boy whose camera turns out some very interesting photographs

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About the Author

Ted Wood has been a flier, a beat cop, a pinboy, a soda-jerk, a freight porter, and an advertising hotshot. He has also written dozens of short stories, hundreds of magazine articles, including two long-running humor columns, television plays and one musical comedy. He has had fourteen books, thirteen of them novels, published in Canada, the Unieted States, Britain, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, and Japan. After being widowed, he married Mary in 1975. He is the father of three, stepfather to another three and granddad to a total of nine, counting steps and one step-step. He now runs Whitby's Ezra Annes House bed and breakfast in partnership with Mary. Jack Barnao is the pseudonym for Ted Wood, author of the acclaimed Reid Bennett mystery series. Barnao's novels are Lockestep, Hammerlocke, and Timelocke.

From Publishers Weekly

Reid Bennett is the sort of maverick cop whose unorthodox methods rile Canada's police authorities as much as they do its criminal element. Even when relegated by his superiors to the small fishing resort of Murphy's Harbour, he manages to stir up a lethal kettle of fish. The town's waters have yielded a grisly catch: the body of a teenage tourist and, later, that of his stepfather. Each has been murdered and, as the town's only lawman, it's up to Bennett to figure out how and why. The trail leads to a major confrontation with a motorcycle gang that has taken up temporary residence in the town. A group that lives "by and for terror," it is responsible for much of the drug and gun-running in Canada. Aided only by his specially trained dog, Sam, and a visiting actress girlfriend, Bennett manages once again to honor his oath "to protect the Queen's Peace." This is the fifth of Reid Bennett's adventures, each of which provides lots of action, a hero as canny as he is strong and believable, if harrowing, stories from an author who was himself a member of the Toronto police force.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Worldwide Library
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0373260245
• ISBN 13: 9780373260249
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256