All on a Summer's Day

by John Wainwright

The summer's day in question is the 24 hours of one June 26, as endured by a police department in the north of England. This masterful police procedural is more convincing than those of Joseph Wambaugh--because the events of June 26 are all too terribly believable.

Genres: Mystery

290 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

aka Jack Ripley

John William Wainwright was a rear gunner in World War II, after which he spent twenty years as a policeman in Yorkshire. He wrote eighty crime novels between 1965 and 1992, sometimes under the pseudonym 'Jack Ripley'. He also wrote some short stories (mostly uncollected in book format), 7 radio plays, and an indefinite amount of magazine articles and newspaper columns.

Reviews

[Marti · Rating 2 out of 5]

this book was interesting in that it was set in England, with all the differences of expressions, such as 'bobbying' for police work. Also, it takes place in a 24 hour span telling which policemen are involved in which incidents. the serious one is that two members of the force have the unlucky experience of having a small bomb go off, with less than lethal consequence.

[Jack Heath]

Synopis: a procedural about the events of June 26th in a police department in northern England.