Despite the Evidence
By Roderic Jeffries
After a night at a pub, Detective Constable Kerr was driving back to Fortrow when he discovered a crashed Jensen. Slumped over the wheel, the driver was either dead or dying. At that moment, Kerr was knocked unconscious. Next morning, he was told that the driver of the Jensen was alive and relatively unhurt.
Despite all the evidence, Kerr refused to believe he could have been mistaken. It was this stubbornness which brought about a further investigation-an investigation which seemed to prove that Kerr’s story was quite impossible, but which uncovered a trail of robbery and murder…
Filled with an inventive plot, sharp characterisation, and accurate descriptions of police-work, as the fifth book in the C.I.D series Despite the Evidence shows why Jeffries has earned his high place among novelists who write about crime as it really could happen.
Roderic Jeffries was born in London in 1926 and was educated at Harrow View House Preparatory School and the Department of Navigation, University of Southampton. In 1943, he joined the New Zealand Shipping Company as an apprentice and sailed to Australia and New Zealand, but later transferred to the Union Castle Company in order to visit a different part of the world. He returned to England in 1949 where he was admitted to the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn and read for the Bar at the same time as he began to write. He was called to the Bar in 1953, and after one year’s pupilage, practiced law for a few terms during which time there to write full time. His first book, a sea story for juveniles, was published in 1950.
