Inspector Walter Day has been missing for a year now, but few people
miss him. One is his former sergeant, Nevil Hammersmith. Hammersmith
now operates his own private detective agency. His assistant Hatty Pitt
helps him in his investigations without him really knowing it because
he is so consumed with finding Day. Hatty has a prospective client in
the office, who wants the agency to locate his missing brother.
Walter is alive, but he has list his memory. Having survived some time
with Jack, and now on his own, Walter has developed a somewhat lucrative
tobacco business with young boys helping him. One of the lads,
Ambrose, sees a double murder; a man has slashed two women to death.
Can Walter keep the lad safe from the slasher?
Walter's wife Claire, sees him in the huge emporium of Plumm's with
Jack. But the shock of seeing him causes her to faint. She tells
Hammersmith of her sighting. It isn't long before Scotland Yard is back
on the case. However, Walter comes to his senses shortly afterwards
and attempts to corner Jack. The ensuing meeting results in a disaster.
Author Alex Grecian's thriller keeps the reader involved throughout.
What will happen to Walter and Jack is the question foremost in the
reader's mind right up to the last page. A very good read.
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