Adverse Report
By Gerald Hammond
In Adverse Report, Hammond adds a new twist to the series
This time, the story is told by a bemused Londoner who meets Calder, and a host of other local characters, when they all become embroiled in a Highland whodunit.
When Englishman Simon Parbitter journeys to Scotland to view a piece of property he has inherited from a recently deceased relative, he learns that the “shooting accident” that killed his uncle may not have been quite so accidental.
Picking up the unpleasant scent of murder, Parbitter turns to Keith Calder for help in investigating the incident; but when Calder himself is injured in another such mishap, he and Parbitter are forced to throw themselves into a full-fledged hunt for the killer.
What follows is a taut, complex mystery, a true test of Keith Calder’s mental resources.
Born in 1926, Gerald Hammond lived in Scotland, where he retired from his profession as an architect in 1982 to pursue his love of shooting and fishing and to write full time. After his first novel, Fred in Situ, was published in 1965, Gerald became a prolific author with over 70 published novels. Most of his novels were published under his own name, but he also wrote under the pseudonyms Arthur Douglas and Dalby Holden.
