This swift-moving story of murder and suspense culminates in an unexpected and dramatic climax that is the hallmark of a James Hadley Chase novel.
Chris Burnett - successful, wealthy and married to the daughter of a multi-millionaire - receives severe brain injuries in a car accident. While convalescing Burnett disappears for 24 hours, during which time a prostitute is brutally murdered and mutilated.
Evidence found by a private inquiry points to Burnett. His wife, blackmailed by the inquiry agent, sets out to prove her husband's innocence ...
- ISBN10 0552096024
- ISBN13 9780552096027
- Publish Date 9 August 1974 (first published December 1964)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Imprint Corgi Childrens
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 192
- Language English