From Library Journal Sixteen years after the end of World War II, a German is murdered near a stately English manor now owned by a chemical plant. Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend of Scotland Yard (The Salton Killings) refuses to arrest the convenient suspect or bow to plant pressure and jail a Polish, Italian, or German worker. Instead, he relies on his own gifted observations to unearth the real killer and clues to a much earlier murder. An ambitious journalist, meanwhile, complicates matters with seeming nonsense about a legendary ghost whose ride supposedly foretold the murder. A very successful British procedural, nicely complicated by leftovers from both local lore and the war. Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. From
