Harborough is a large seaside town on the north-east coast of England, whose local paper, the Harborough Post, mounts a campaign against the city's funfairs. Soon the proprietor of the newspaper, Herbert Litmore, gets two anonymous threatening letters, which he takes to the Chief Constable. Then Litmore's ten-year-old son, Ben, is kidnapped on his way home from the city Youth Club.
Another letter to Litmore follows, demanding a £10,000 ransom . . .
A search is begun to locate Litmore's mysterious enemy, and the police investigation starts to unravel a web of greed, jealousy, adultery and blackmail that has formed beneath Harborough's quiet surface.
| ISBN: | 9781471920004 |
| Publication date: | 14th May 2016 |
| Author: | Henry Wade |
| Publisher: | The Murder Room an imprint of Orion |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Genres: |
Crime and Mystery Classic crime and mystery fiction |