Webb Carrick Murder Mystery S.
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Since Webb Carrick, of the Scottish Fishery Protection Service, had had trouble before with the crusty master of the Tecta, he isn't surprised that the Norwegian trawler has once again sliced through another boat's fishing nets. But among the masses of struggling fish in the Tecta's nets is a larger, darker, ominously motionless form...the body of a diver. And Carrick knows without looking that this is the body of the marine biologist who had been missing now for ten days. Is this a case of accidental drowning? Carrick thinks not, in view of the scientist's connection with Crosslodge, the local nuclear power station - and then an attempt is made to deliver Carrick to that same watery grave...
On board the Marlin, Chief Officer Webb Carrick squints across Scottish waters in search of the missing lobster boat. What he sees is the 40ft Thrift, the floating branch of the Bank of Central Scotland - and what he finds is tragedy.The Thrift is adrift in Hebridean waters, her decks awash, her three main staff missing. Carrick finds all the hallmarks of an apparent robbery - only the ship's safe is untouched, and a large sum is still on board the ravaged cruiser. Carrick instinctively feels the answer lies somewhere in the islands off the Hebridean coast.