FP 20,000(CDN) The 21st Inspector Banks novel, following WATCHING THE DARK. A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with ¹5,000 in his pocket on a disused railway line near his home. Since being dismissed from his job for sexual misconduct four years previously, he has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence in this isolated spot. There are many suspects, but Banks, much to the chagrin of Detective Chief Superintendent Gervaise, soon becomes fixated on Lady Veronica Chalmers, who appears to have links with the victim going back to the early '70s at the University of Essex. Canadian author - Toronto.

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