Dead-Nettle

Thomas Brunt #3

by John Buxton Hilton

When a newcomer is brutally murdered on the moors of turn-of-the-century England, Police Inspector Thomas Brunt goes to work on the case and Lomas the miner is an obvious suspect

189 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1977

About the author

John Buxton Hilton was a British crime writer. After his war service in the army he became an Inspector of schools, before retiring in 1970 to take up full-time writing.

He wrote the Superintendent Simon Kenworthy series and the Inspector Thomas Brunt series, as well as the Inspector Mosley series under the pseudonym John Greenwood. Hilton died in Norwich.