
A Brace of Skeet
By Gerald Hammond
This time, it’s Calder’s daughter’s turn to tell the tale, as she takes her father’s place as resident gunsmith-and amateur sleuth-of Newton Lauder.
The last thing Deborah Calder thought she’d be consulted on during her parent’s vacation was a murder. Yet they’d hardly left when Inspector Munro called her to the Pentland Gun Club, where the steward’s body had been found lying by a skeet trap. Tullos wasn’t a popular man, but his grouchy moods were hardly a cause for murder.
Finding the cause becomes Deborah’s mission, as she is suddenly appointed the expert forensic witness-and, with her father’s curiosity, finds herself launching an investigation of her own.
Gerald Hammond’s Keith Calder mysteries, of which this is the thirteenth, include Stray Shot and Adverse Report. Hammond lives in Scotland.