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Three crimes, three mysteries...
A Korean seaman travelling by rail to Liverpool to take up his berth on a Japanese ship the Oki Maru, was murdered en route, and his identity assumed by his killer. Then after the ship sailed, it disappeared, presumed lost in a storm.
In the depth of the Welsh countryside, the owner of a remote country house, was not only pressured into selling his idyllic property, but was then subsequently brutally attacked and murdered.
Meanwhile, secret documents relating to a draft treaty with Japan went missing from the Foreign Office in London. In the wrong hands, the international repercussions would be disastrous, so top agent Dene of the Secret Service was assigned to their recovery.
What was the connection between these three disturbing but disparate events?
Gerald Verner (1897-1980) was the pseudonym of British writer John Robert Stuart Pringle. Born in London, Verner wrote more than 120 novels that have been translated in over 35 languages, and many of his books have been adapted into films, radio serials and stage plays.
Genre: Mystery
A Korean seaman travelling by rail to Liverpool to take up his berth on a Japanese ship the Oki Maru, was murdered en route, and his identity assumed by his killer. Then after the ship sailed, it disappeared, presumed lost in a storm.
In the depth of the Welsh countryside, the owner of a remote country house, was not only pressured into selling his idyllic property, but was then subsequently brutally attacked and murdered.
Meanwhile, secret documents relating to a draft treaty with Japan went missing from the Foreign Office in London. In the wrong hands, the international repercussions would be disastrous, so top agent Dene of the Secret Service was assigned to their recovery.
What was the connection between these three disturbing but disparate events?
Gerald Verner (1897-1980) was the pseudonym of British writer John Robert Stuart Pringle. Born in London, Verner wrote more than 120 novels that have been translated in over 35 languages, and many of his books have been adapted into films, radio serials and stage plays.
Genre: Mystery
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