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Fifty years after the disappearance of a young boy ended in a closed case, a series of murders prompts London Solicitor Rosa Epton to reopen the case. By the author of A Dangerous Business.
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Rosa, however, is not the only person on the dead man's trail. Everyone from inquisitive journalists to MI5 appears to be taking an interest - and none so much as the dead man's mother, a cockney matriarch with a score to settle. 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'.
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A 50-year-old mystery surfaces in a contemporary investigation as solicitor Rosa Epton finds herself representing murder suspect Adrian Pickard, the new and much younger husband of her octogenarian godmother, Margaret. The victim, a petty criminal and a stranger in the village of Greenborough, where Adrian has signed on as postmaster, had been heard threatening Adrian; later that day he drowned on the property of nearby Warren Hall School. The crime stirs memories of the 1932 disappearance of 11-year-old Stephen Willett, whose blood-stained jersey was found on school grounds. Rosa and her lover, Peter Chen, begin an investigation that leads them to the unsolved mystery, which involved people still living in the area: Sir Denzil Cuckfield, a Warren Hall student at the time and now a highly disliked local squire, and handyman Joe Atherly. When Atherly is found murdered, Adrian's strange interest in Warren Hall and Stephen Willett's death strengthen the case against him, requiring Rosa to call upon her ingenuity to save her godmother's happiness. In each successive outing, Underwood ( Rosa's Dilemma ) has endowed his appealing detective with more humanity.
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- PublisherPyramid, 1959
- Publication date1959
- ISBN 10 1471904830
- ISBN 13 9781471904837
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