- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Collins Crime (18 Aug 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0002325187
- ISBN-13: 978-0002325189
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.2 x 2.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,517,529 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A motorist's accident uncovers a corpse in the shrubbery outside an unoccupied house in suburban Glasgow - a corpse without head or hands, dead at least six months. A cold trail, then? Not for Sgt. Ray Sussock and his indefatigable colleagues of P Division (Long Day Monday, 1993, etc.), who waste no time in identifying the dead woman as dislikable social worker Pam McArthur, a born stirrer of hornets' nests, missing since last June 7. "Annoying but not dangerous," Thomasina McArthur offers for her sister's eulogy - a description that seems all too accurate when the P Division uncovers a fatal meeting on June 6 between the inquisitive Pam McArthur and the men who made an appointment with her shortly after she got onto the trail of an unspecified 30-year-old scandal. One of those three men is improbably eager to talk, but the second man he identifies is found dead hours later at the hands of someone who fits the description of the third man. With so much corroboration, the case seems open and shut, but knowing isn't proving, especially under the Scottish law requiring corroborative evidence, and Turnbull keeps the tension ratcheted up until the end. Rock-solid procedural work by all hands, enlivened by Turnbull's usual trenchant snapshots of every hand but the corpse's. (Kirkus Reviews)
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An error by a motorist leads to the discovery of a decomposed headless and handless corpse in the garden of a house in one of Glasgow's prestigious suburbs. For Glasgow's P Division, the first task is to identify the body - an indentification which reveals a person with a talent for making enemies.
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Excellent Police Procedural
14 Nov 2003
Format:Paperback
After many years of enjoying Peter Turnbull's stories in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, I finally sought out his longer works. This is the first one I found and I enjoyed it tremendously. As always, his characters are superbly drawn and the story is well-plotted. There is no one better at showing how the police work from the first discovery of the crime, through gathering clues and information, to the final apprehension of the criminal. The enjoyment lies in the details of the case and the actions of the characters, and in the interaction of chance and purpose. Be warned: this is by no means a "cozy" mystery - the story is gritty and stark, but balanced with humanity, and quite believable from start to finish.
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Unbelievably flawed. NOT RECOMMENDED
23 Sep 1999
Format:Paperback
Why didn't they immediately check out missing persons? DAH! Might have been able to save us the displeasure of this whole book if they had. NOT RECOMMENDED! Hard to believe this was written in 1994.
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