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BROKEN BOY
by John Blackburn (Essex): Ian Henry Publications, 1982. Spine ends crimped, else near fine in black boards with gilt-spine titles; in a near fine, lightly rubbed green pictorial dust jacket. "When a dead prostitute is found floating in the river, the local police assume it's just another routine murder. But when it turns out the woman may have been a notorious East German spy, General Charles Kirk and his assistants, Michael Howard and Penny Wise, are called in from the Foreign Intelligence Office to investigate. Kirk is baffled: the evidence of numerous impeccable witnesses proves the murder could not possibly have happened, and yet there's a dead body in the morgue to show that it did. The only clue is a wooden idol in the form of a hideous, misshapen boy, found in the dead woman's room. Soon Kirk realizes that this is no case of espionage: what he is up against is an evil centuries old and long thought vanished from the earth. And when Kirk and his colleagues get close to the truth, can they unravel the mystery before they become the next victims?"--Fantastic Fiction. "A real chiller. . . . The book moves rapidly from beginning to end and Hitchcock ought to be advised. It would make a heck of a movie." - Evening New. By the former antiquarian bookseller and British novelist who wrote horror novels that are often structured as thrillers, with detective story plots involving international espionage, but leading to a supernatural resolution. PLEASE VIEW FOR MORE GREAT BOOKS THANKS! |