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David Mallin #9
This Murder Come to Mind
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.
Praise for Roger Ormerod
"Eclectic, underrated Ormerod can be relied upon to come up with the startling goods" Sunday Times
"I am glad to announce that the detective novel is still alive and well in Mr Ormerod's skillful hands " The Spectator,
"Fast-moving, with well-orchestrated jiggery-pokery; not unlike an early Dick Francis in tone and method” Times Literary Supplement
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.
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.
Praise for Roger Ormerod
"Eclectic, underrated Ormerod can be relied upon to come up with the startling goods" Sunday Times
"I am glad to announce that the detective novel is still alive and well in Mr Ormerod's skillful hands " The Spectator,
"Fast-moving, with well-orchestrated jiggery-pokery; not unlike an early Dick Francis in tone and method” Times Literary Supplement
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.
153 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 7, 2017
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Roger Ormerod
87 books9 followersRoger Ormerod was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. He worked as a county court officer, an executive officer in the Department of Social Security, a postman, and a shop loader in an engineering factory.
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June 20, 2025
Not a David Mallin book, so dunno why it's classified under that, but still a fairly decent read.
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