Private investigator Harry Thompson becomes involved with a mysterious woman whose unknown connection with London gangs brings murder and mayhem to his quiet hometown of Rogate-on-Sands
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.