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Original Essays | December 12, 2009

Alexander McCall Smith: IMG The Courage of Others

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I have recently written a novel about life in England during the Second World War. I felt some concern before I tackled this theme — the War... Continue »
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Dead Man's Shoes

by Richard Hunt

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ISBN10: 0727822551
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Danger comes too close for comfort for Walsh and Lambert in their new murder inquiry

Mr Labinski is the newly appointed managing director of an ailing British shoe company, and he has plans to bring the company back into profit: weed out incompetent managers, sack half the workforce and transfer most of the production to sweatshops in India.

The shocking news means bankruptcy for a small local supplier and a heart attack for its manageress, Tina Grimston. Enraged by Labinski's refusal to talk about the situation, Tina's husband threatens violent revenge on Labinski. When the executive is run down and killed by Grimston's Land Rover, Cambridgeshire's DCI Sidney Walsh and his team hope for an open and shut case — only to discover that Grimston has a cast-iron alibi. And the deeper they delve, the more suspects with motives they uncover...

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ISBN:
9780727822550
Author:
Hunt, Richard
Publisher:
Severn House Publishers
Location:
Sutton :
Subject:
Murder
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Police
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - General
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Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
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Detective and mystery stories
Subject:
Businessmen
Publication Date:
May 1999
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
224
Dimensions:
8.75x5.61x.89 in. .96 lbs.
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