The Green-Inker: Another Shakeshaft Murder Mystery: Volume 1 - Brossura

Stern, Chester

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1475075456 ISBN 13: 9781475075458

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Riassunto

English eccentric Barrington Shakeshaft has retired from a colourful life of swashbuckling adventure to live in a caravan in the paddock of his daughter’s home in Sussex. He amuses himself by perpetrating benign hoaxes on gullible journalists and duping greedy art dealers with forged paintings done in the style of famous painters. When police announce a fresh appeal for witnesses on the first anniversary of the unsolved murder of a schoolboy, Shakeshaft decides to telephone a newspaper claiming to be the killer. But when he reveals the plan to Logan Hunter, chief crime correspondent of a Sunday newspaper, the journalist points out to him the foolishness of such an action and the effect the false claim would have on the bereaved parents. Filled with remorse at his own stupidity, Shakeshaft sets out to find the killer himself. The extraordinary investigation which follows breaches all the rules and accepted conventions of normal police work. He devises imaginative and bizarre methods of acquiring and examining forensic clues and draws on the experience of daring escapades and dubious enterprises he engaged in as a younger man to trick witnesses into telling him more than they should. Shakeshaft teams up with Hunter and their inquiries lead them into the murky world of a sinister secret society, which practises the ritual abuse of young boys. With the grudging co-operation, but often bitter opposition, of Detective Chief Inspector Paddy O’Shaughnessy - the policeman in charge of the murder investigation - they solve the crime. Or do they? There is an intriguing twist at the end of this tale. This is an old-fashioned whodunit with a distinctly modern flavour.

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L'autore:

CHESTER STERN has been a writer and broadcaster on crime and police matters for more than forty-five years. A former head of the Press Bureau at Scotland Yard, he has lectured extensively on terrorism and the media in Britain, Europe and the USA. He was Chief Crime Correspondent for The Mail on Sunday for nineteen years and is past President of the Crime Reporters’ Association. In 2001 he became Corporate Affairs Director for Fulham Football Club and Controller of Public Affairs for Harrods, acting as media adviser to Mohamed Al Fayed and advising on the investigation into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. He has published two true crime books: Dr Iain West’s Casebook – the investigations of Britain’s leading forensic pathologist, and The Black Widow – the story of Linda Calvey, the UK’s most notorious female gangster, (written in collaboration with Kate Kray, widow of Ronnie Kray). He has also written three works of fiction – a faction thriller about the death of Princess Diana called The Decoy, a terrorism thriller based in South Africa called Code Zulu, and a murder mystery detective novel based in the newspaper world of Fleet Street called The Green-Inker. Since the early seventies, he has also been a sportswriter and broadcaster on football, rugby and golf for the BBC, The Sunday Telegraph, The Mail on Sunday and the Sunday Mirror.

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• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1475075456
• ISBN 13: 9781475075458
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 266