This book takes us back to the Britain!
Synopsis:
Only Detective Robert Budd can crack this case...or can he?
The queer business of the Silver Saints and the tragic series events at Monk’s Ferry began in London when Lew Cator was deliberately struck by a speeding car and left for dead in the gutter.
When they picked him up he was unconscious, but on the way to the infirmary he recovered for a sufficient length of time to request that superintendent Robert Budd should be sent for, and there was so much urgency in his demand that the police telephoned to Scotland Yard at once.
Lew was on his deathbed, and only managed to gasp a cryptic message to Budd before he died:
“The Abbot’s Key. The feller...in the car wanted it...wasn’t no accident…”
“A million quid…the Twelve Apostles...”
Review:
Our second Mystery Monday book gives us another senior detective, but a jaded detective who hold more clues than he realizes, as he strives to see the connections between multiple cases, as he tried to solve the first mystery he's attached to. Budd is a detective that seem gruff and rough, but he grows on you, and by the end of the book, like the suspect, you realize you've underestimated how his brain works! It's a page turner that will keep your reading long into the night! This is the 7th book in the series, and I'm trying to edge out the time to go back and read the first 6 books!
About the Author:
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. Verner also wrote forty-four Sexton Blake tales.
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