When John Broome commits suicide by cutting his throat, he leaves behind a large number of people with an obvious motive for desiring the death of Sir Wylie Hawkweed, the unscrupolous moneylender generally held to have driven him to this terrible action. So when Hawkweed's body is discovered in a smashed up car, it isn't long before Charlie Ryan and his wife Belle begin to suspect that this may not have been an accident, but a cleverly staged murder...
Originally published posthumously in 1944, this is the final novel by J.C. Lenehan - a forgotten master of British detective fiction!
Originally published posthumously in 1944, this is the final novel by J.C. Lenehan - a forgotten master of British detective fiction!
