A Ripple of Murders

Superintendent Gillant #4

by John Wainwright

"It is my intention to kill a pedestrian on the streets of Lessford on Friday 29th July.the anonymous note, initialled J.D. went on to explain that the delivery of 10,000 pounds in used and unmarked Bank of England notes under conditions carefully arranged would prevent this murder taking place. The note went to the local paper. The editor showed it ot the police. Between them it was decided to do nothing. On Friday the 29th a young man was shot dead in the streets of Lessford. So when the second threat arrived the police behaved quite differently. Very senior policemen, among them Gilliant and Sullivan, put their minds to it and between them arranged a very complicated trap. The trap exploded in their faces.

191 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1978

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.