Die-Cast

'Steed's debut ... won the John Creasey Memorial Award for the best first crime novel of 1986; his second consolidates this promise.' - The Times

Peter Marklin enjoys a quiet life on the tranquil Dorset coast with his beautiful girlfriend Arabella and his Toy Emporium to keep him busy.

When Hollywood starlet Lana-Lee Claudell moves nearby and invites Arabella and Marklin to her home one evening, they are both looking forward to what promises to be an occasion tinged with glamour.

But then Lana-Lee's former lover Adam Longhurst arrives at the party in a drunken rage, and it seems the rich and famous have their problems too.

Things take an even darker turn when Lana-Lee's semi-estranged husband Ben Maxwell is found dead on the beach, and Longhurst is in the frame for his murder.

Desperate to free Longhurst, Lana-Lee enlists the help of amateur sleuth Marklin to find the real murderer.

His old friend from Scotland Yard, Inspector Blake, has turned up to offer encouragement, and Marklin's investigations soon start to unearth a seedy tale of drugs and smuggling - a far cry from the superficial gloss of Hollywood.

Can Marklin prove Longhurst's innocence?

Just what is the mysterious white ghostly apparition that everyone involved in the mystery starts to see?

If Longhurst didn't kill Maxwell, who did?

Die-Cast is a light-hearted crime romp with a sinister underbelly, from a master of the genre. Die-Cast is the second book in the Peter Marklin mystery series, following Tinplate.

Praise for Neville Steed:

'Steed's debut ... won the John Creasey Memorial Award for the best first crime novel of 1986; his second consolidates this promise.' - The Times

'Mr Steed's sense of humour endears ... all the details about model-making are fascinating.' - Punch

Neville Steed lives in South Devon, where the main action of his books take place. He read Law at Oxford and has travelled extensively. His interests include anything and everything connected with the motor car, aviation, the cinema and the Art Deco world of the 1930s. Steed is also the author of Black Eye and Black Mail which form the Johnny Black Mystery series .

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Genre: Mystery