This Murder Come to Mind
By Roger Ormerod
A deadly pact, with terrifying consequences…
It was two years since Alan Crosby had survived from the suicide pact. Felicity had died, but Alan had suffered, and now he knew he was being watched. He felt himself being edged nearer and nearer to the cliff where Felicity had plunged to her death. Impelled to return to the place, it was uncanny to see Betty standing there, as Felicity had stood two years before.
Who was driving Alan once more to the brink? Was it Betty’s husband Conrad, or Felicity’s widower Grayson? Or was it one of the sinister watchers in that car that was forever shadowing him? Or was it indeed Betty herself? One of them had the scene for the final curtain so well set up, so very nearly perfectly planned. Very nearly, but not quite perfectly.
Roger Ormerod (1920-2005) was a prolific writer of ingenious and densely plotted crime novels – some 35 in all – which were published in the UK and the USA. He lived in Wolverhampton and amongst other things worked as a civil servant and as a Social Security inspector – backgrounds which he made full use of in his fiction.
