The Local Lads

It was by lurid coincidence that Detective Inspector Rosher became personally involved in the case. Lots of matters to begin with, including a nasty bit of armed robbery, and then Mr. Dunfreet, solicitor for the robber, offered Rosher a lift in his plan (Dunfreet was known as a capable and seasoned pilot). On this particular trip, Dunfreet was killed, and Rosher, though he survived the accident, would up in a hospital bed. The accident occurred more or less at the time that two drunk and unpleasant young men murdered a young black man, for no particular reason. It so happened that Inspector Rosher's very capable and pretty young nurse, a West Indian, was a Miss Holness whose brother had been the victim of the quite unnecessary brutal murder. As he became further involved (some call it coincidence, others see it as the Hand of Fate) with even nastier matters when Elton Vennor, an entrepreneur known only too well to all the coppers, local and not so local, landed in the same hospital. Rosher, on his feet, sometimes found the criminal world a bit of a problem. Rosher bedded, or finally able to move only with the aid of crutches, should have had an even more difficult time. Book Dust Jacket


Genre: Mystery