The fun times are over...
Mike Torlin takes on the job of investigating the peculiar happenings at Pete Donati's carnival ground.
He figures it must be a straight forward case of somebody wanting to put Donati out of business, but through multiple strange occurrences, he soon realises it's going to take a lot more work to uncover the truth...
In the final act on stage, a peculiar chicken is produced out of an egg, when a dead girl, shot with slugs from her own shooting gallery is revealed instead.
The investigation is intensified when Torlin gets targeted twice and it is made clear that somebody must think he knows too much.
Whilst trying to save himself, discover the murderer and prevent anymore killings, Torlin is at high risk, feeling no closer to the truth.
Things are made even more difficult to understand when his attempted killer is revealed and it was not on his list of suspects...
It seems that no killer can sidetrack Torlin for long however, and when the final showdown comes, he is forced to stand his ground and face up to the killer...
'A thrilling read.' - Robert Foster, acclaimed author of The Lunar Code.
John Glasby was born in 1928, and graduated from University with an honours degree in Chemistry. He started his career as a research chemist for I.C.I, in 1952, and worked for them until his retirement. During the early 1960s, Glasby wrote dozens of paperback westerns, all of which were reprinted in hardcover and paperback four decades later. Following his retirement from I.C.I., Glasby produced a steady stream of new westerns, science fiction and crime novels, right up to his death in 2010.
Genre: Mystery
Mike Torlin takes on the job of investigating the peculiar happenings at Pete Donati's carnival ground.
He figures it must be a straight forward case of somebody wanting to put Donati out of business, but through multiple strange occurrences, he soon realises it's going to take a lot more work to uncover the truth...
In the final act on stage, a peculiar chicken is produced out of an egg, when a dead girl, shot with slugs from her own shooting gallery is revealed instead.
The investigation is intensified when Torlin gets targeted twice and it is made clear that somebody must think he knows too much.
Whilst trying to save himself, discover the murderer and prevent anymore killings, Torlin is at high risk, feeling no closer to the truth.
Things are made even more difficult to understand when his attempted killer is revealed and it was not on his list of suspects...
It seems that no killer can sidetrack Torlin for long however, and when the final showdown comes, he is forced to stand his ground and face up to the killer...
Praise for John Glasby...
'A thrilling read.' - Robert Foster, acclaimed author of The Lunar Code.
John Glasby was born in 1928, and graduated from University with an honours degree in Chemistry. He started his career as a research chemist for I.C.I, in 1952, and worked for them until his retirement. During the early 1960s, Glasby wrote dozens of paperback westerns, all of which were reprinted in hardcover and paperback four decades later. Following his retirement from I.C.I., Glasby produced a steady stream of new westerns, science fiction and crime novels, right up to his death in 2010.
Genre: Mystery
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