Death of an Innocent
By Roger Ormerod
Richard Patton, an ex-Detective Inspector is enjoying early retirement. He is asked by his wife’s old college friend, a successful novelist, to unofficially investigate a suspected burglary at her house. Although the place is full of treasures, apparently there has been nothing stolen.Yet Patton, digging deeper, soon discovers evidence of an apparent murder, a young woman’s drowning which has been officially accepted as accidental.
As he starts to dig into the case, Richards tries to work out the motive for the crime, but he soon realises he faces conflicting loyalties. Reluctantly he withdraws, only to learn that another death has occurred. Realizing he might have prevented this second fatality, he returns to a final, angry and dramatic interrogation, which ultimately reveals the truth.
