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Drama comes to the quiet town of Newton Lauder when the canal overflows, flooding streets, houses and the surrounding countryside. The drama is intensified when there is found, in the emptied canal, a skeleton, soon identified as that of a canal employee, absent for over a year and missed, but not lamented, by his colleagues.
Keith Calder - gunsmith, hunter and more-or-less reformed Casanova - is only interested in the flood as it affects the movement of the local wildfowl, until he is interviewed by the police in connection with certain anomalies in the dead man's firearms certificate. During the interview, Keith gets word that his shop is on fire; and there starts a horrific chain of events which involves him deeply and personally.
As assault and attempted murder are added to homicide and arson, Keith's inbred instinct as a hunter comes to the fore and what follows is a tremendously exciting and tautly-plotted whodunnit.
As in The Reward Game, Gerald Hammond has once again produced an authentic and tantalising mystery set against the evocative background of the Scottish Lowlands.
'With his expert knowledge of guns and his love of the Scottish countryside, Gerald created marvellous backgrounds against which he set puzzling, credible, and thoroughly entertaining whodunits. His books were not long, tedious, over-padded, thrillers. Instead they are almost of another age, ingenious plots, characters with whom you want to spend time, and a world to which you eagerly anticipate returning.' - Paul Bishop, author of Deep Water
Born in 1926, Gerald Hammond lived in Scotland, where he retired from his profession as an architect in 1982 to pursue his love of shooting and fishing and to write full time. After his first novel, Fred in Situ, was published in 1965, Gerald became a prolific author with over 70 published novels. Most of his novels were published under his own name, but he also wrote under the pseudonyms Arthur Douglas and Dalby Holden.
Genre: Mystery
Keith Calder - gunsmith, hunter and more-or-less reformed Casanova - is only interested in the flood as it affects the movement of the local wildfowl, until he is interviewed by the police in connection with certain anomalies in the dead man's firearms certificate. During the interview, Keith gets word that his shop is on fire; and there starts a horrific chain of events which involves him deeply and personally.
As assault and attempted murder are added to homicide and arson, Keith's inbred instinct as a hunter comes to the fore and what follows is a tremendously exciting and tautly-plotted whodunnit.
As in The Reward Game, Gerald Hammond has once again produced an authentic and tantalising mystery set against the evocative background of the Scottish Lowlands.
Praise for Gerald Hammond
'With his expert knowledge of guns and his love of the Scottish countryside, Gerald created marvellous backgrounds against which he set puzzling, credible, and thoroughly entertaining whodunits. His books were not long, tedious, over-padded, thrillers. Instead they are almost of another age, ingenious plots, characters with whom you want to spend time, and a world to which you eagerly anticipate returning.' - Paul Bishop, author of Deep Water
Born in 1926, Gerald Hammond lived in Scotland, where he retired from his profession as an architect in 1982 to pursue his love of shooting and fishing and to write full time. After his first novel, Fred in Situ, was published in 1965, Gerald became a prolific author with over 70 published novels. Most of his novels were published under his own name, but he also wrote under the pseudonyms Arthur Douglas and Dalby Holden.
Genre: Mystery
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