Fourth novel in the highly-acclaimed harry devlin crime series. On Leap Year Day in 1964, an attractive teenager called Carole Jeffries was strangled in a Liverpool park. The killing caused a sensation: Carole came from a prominent political family and her pop musician boyfriend was a leading exponent of the Mersey Sound. When a neighbour confessed to the crime, the case was closed. Now, more than thirty years later, Ernest Miller, an amateur criminologist, seeks to persuade lawyer Harry Devlin that the true culprit escaped scot free. Although he suspects Miller's motives, Harry has a thirst for justice and begins to delve into the past. But when another death occurs, it becomes clear that someone wants old secrets to remain buried. At any price.
- ISBN10 0340794933
- ISBN13 9780340794937
- Publish Date 17 May 2001 (first published 24 November 1994)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 20 April 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Imprint New English Library Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 236
- Language English