From Kirkus Reviews
The autopsy on Penny Winter shows that the poor, overworked young mother died from poisoned pƒt‚--not from the fall down the stairs that followed. When Detective-Superintendent Mike Yeadings and his Thames Valley police force catch up with Penny's ex- husband, no-account Ronnie Gardner, he seems to be implicated in another murder too--that of pregnant Anneke Vroom, found stuffed into an antique-dealer's van, whom he'd chatted up while pretending to be an insurance-company nabob at a hotel. Unfortunately for Ronnie, Di Angus Mott and his fianc‚e Paula were also at the hotel and witness to his lies. Is he a double-murderer--or merely a cad? While Mott travels to the Netherlands to track down Anneke's origins, Rosemary ``Z'' is sent undercover to the Colchester hotel, where she uncovers a money fiddle and a waitress on the game--and then is hospitalized after someone pushes her down the stairs. Meanwhile, Yeadings is sifting, sorting, and collating the facts- -and ultimately assigning blame to two different sources. Clever misdirection from the competent Curzon, whose Thames Valley coppers (Cat's Cradle, etc.) are always interesting if a shade too introspective. --
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Ingram
Investigating two seemingly unrelated murders, Superintendent Mike Yeading's teams search for answers between the Thames Valley and Amsterdam before uncovering additional deaths that point to an ongoing killing spree. Reprint.
PW. K.
