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After a break in at a bank, Scotland Yard’s top team is brought into investigate.
Detective Superintendent Richard Sherrey heads up the case, followed by Detective Sergeant Johnny Inch and Detective Sergeant Humphrey Nicodemus.
Johnny is a bit of maverick, and decides to take matters in to his own hands.
He uses his shady connections to sound out the suspects.
And soon he is sure he knows who the perpetrator is.
But then his suspect turns up dead.
And before long more murders are committed.
Are the murders connected to the robbery?
What is the motive behind them?
Can Johnny use his unorthodox methods to crack the case?
Or will he find himself in a world of trouble…?
At cracking pace, relieved only by moments of dry humour and startling insight into human motives, J F Straker reveals plot and counter-plot, cross and double-cross, until, with a mixture of luck, intelligence, and downright clumsiness, Johnny Inch and the team find all the answers.
Will Johnny uncover the terrible mystery?
Or will he find himself to be a Dead Man Walking?
Dead Man Walking is the first book in the thrilling Detective Johnny Inch series. It was previously published as Sins and Johnny Inch.
‘Like all Mr Straker's books, keeps the reader baffled with its unexpected twist and turns’ - The Daily Telegraph
‘Mr Straker is one of a comparatively small number of writers who produce what may be called 'the typical British detective story', strong in plot and character drawing and with a minimum of violence and brutality’ - Current Literature
‘J. F. Straker thinks up ingenious plots for his books and in the class of story which he writes (a mixture between the whodunit and the thriller) ingenuity of plot counts for a lot’ - Wolverhampton Express
'A gripping page-turner than kept me guessing to the last page.' - Tom Kasey, best-selling author of Trade Off
J F Straker was born in Farnborough, Kent and lived in Sussex. During the war he served with The Buffs and on the General Staff and then became a schoolmaster. His interest in writing began at an early age but it was not until the war when he had to spend long periods in the desert with very little distraction that he completed his first novel. He was the author of twenty-five novels including Murder of Miss Emily and Death on a Sunday Morning.
Genre: Mystery
Detective Superintendent Richard Sherrey heads up the case, followed by Detective Sergeant Johnny Inch and Detective Sergeant Humphrey Nicodemus.
Johnny is a bit of maverick, and decides to take matters in to his own hands.
He uses his shady connections to sound out the suspects.
And soon he is sure he knows who the perpetrator is.
But then his suspect turns up dead.
And before long more murders are committed.
Are the murders connected to the robbery?
What is the motive behind them?
Can Johnny use his unorthodox methods to crack the case?
Or will he find himself in a world of trouble…?
At cracking pace, relieved only by moments of dry humour and startling insight into human motives, J F Straker reveals plot and counter-plot, cross and double-cross, until, with a mixture of luck, intelligence, and downright clumsiness, Johnny Inch and the team find all the answers.
Will Johnny uncover the terrible mystery?
Or will he find himself to be a Dead Man Walking?
Dead Man Walking is the first book in the thrilling Detective Johnny Inch series. It was previously published as Sins and Johnny Inch.
Praise for J F Straker
‘Like all Mr Straker's books, keeps the reader baffled with its unexpected twist and turns’ - The Daily Telegraph
‘Mr Straker is one of a comparatively small number of writers who produce what may be called 'the typical British detective story', strong in plot and character drawing and with a minimum of violence and brutality’ - Current Literature
‘J. F. Straker thinks up ingenious plots for his books and in the class of story which he writes (a mixture between the whodunit and the thriller) ingenuity of plot counts for a lot’ - Wolverhampton Express
'A gripping page-turner than kept me guessing to the last page.' - Tom Kasey, best-selling author of Trade Off
J F Straker was born in Farnborough, Kent and lived in Sussex. During the war he served with The Buffs and on the General Staff and then became a schoolmaster. His interest in writing began at an early age but it was not until the war when he had to spend long periods in the desert with very little distraction that he completed his first novel. He was the author of twenty-five novels including Murder of Miss Emily and Death on a Sunday Morning.
Genre: Mystery
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