
Call Back to Crime
By Roderic Jeffries
As the detective chief inspector was very quick to point out, the two cases were obviously quite straightforward…
The fire that had killed Mrs Selby must have been accidental, and the beating-up of an old lag had occurred during some perfectly ordinary strong-arm tactics.
But Detective Inspector Fusil of Fortrow C.I.D. refused to accept the obvious, and he and Detective Constable Kerr stubbornly sought proof that Mrs Selby had been murdered and that the beating-up was in some way connected with a one-time villain who was, they claimed, being blackmailed back into a life of crime…
Roderic Jeffries was born in London in 1926. In 1943 he went to sea with the New Zealand Shipping Company and returned to England in 1949 where he practiced law before starting to write full time. His books have been adapted for film, television, and radio.