A Dedicated Man (an Inspector Banks Mystery) - Hardcover

Robinson, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684192659 ISBN 13: 9780684192659

Publisher: Scribner, 1991

Synopsis

Chief inspector Alan Banks returns in a new English countryside mystery that features Banks looking into the past to find a clue to a tragedy and murder of today

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From the Back Cover:

A dedicated man—a former university professor, wealthy historian, and archaeologist who loved his adopted village—is dead in the wild outdoors.It is a particularly heinous slaying, considering the esteem in which the victim, Harry Steadman, was held by his neighbors and colleagues—by everyone, it seems, except the one person who bludgeoned the life out of the respected scholar and left him half-buried in a farmer's field.

Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks left the violence of London behind for what he hoped would be the peaceful life of a country policeman. But the brutality of Steadman's murder only reinforces one ugly, indisputable truth: Evil can flourish in even the most beautiful of settings. There are dangerous secrets hidden in the history of this remote community that have already led to one death. And Banks will have to plumb a dark and shocking local past to find his way to a killer before yesterday's sins cause more blood to be shed.

About the Author:

Peter Robinson spent six years as a speechwriter in the Reagan White House. Among his speeches was the celebrated "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" speech, which Reagan delivered in Berlin in 1987. Robinson is the host of the PBS television program, "Uncommon Knowledge, " and the author of two previous books, "It's My Party: A Republican's Messy Love Affair with the GOP" and "Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MBA." A fellow at the Hoover Institution, he lives in Stanford, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0684192659
• ISBN 13: 9780684192659
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272