Dr Morelle and the Drummer Girl
By Ernest Dudley
A note is left in the girl’s flat by her kidnapper. Her father, Harvey Drummer, turns to Dr. Morelle and Miss Frayle to help him secure his daughter’s release. The case proves to be one of the most baffling and hazardous of the Doctor’s career.
Ernest Dudley ran away from home at seventeen to become an actor in a Shakespearean troop, where he would later meet his future wife on the set of Peter Pan. Dudley then turned his attention to writing, first as a journalist, then as a writer for radio, television and film, before embarking on historical and detective novel writing. He was a founding member of the Crime Writers Association, and a marathon runner well into old age.
