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Publisher Description
Classic thriller fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder
"Sims proves to be an expert plotter..." —Booklist
Leo Selver, a middle-aged antiques dealer, is stunned when the beautiful and desirable Judy Latimer shows an interest in him. Soon they are lying in each other's arms, unaware that this embrace will be their last.
Popular opinion suggests that Leo murdered the girl, a theory Leo's wife—well aware of her husband's infidelities—refuses to accept.
Ed Buchanan, a former policeman who has known the Selvers since childhood, agrees to clear Leo's name. Selver and his fellow antique dealers had uncovered a secret and it is up to Ed to find the person willing to kill in order to protect it.
This exhilarating and innovative thriller was first published in 1976.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Silly melodrama wrecks the superior set-up of this reissue Sims's second Ed Buchanan novel, first published in 1976 in the British Library Classic Thrillers series. After lecherous middle-aged London antiques dealer Leo Selver dies in what looks like a tawdry sex scandal, his widow asks family friend Buchanan, a former policeman and boxer, to clear the dead man's name. Unfortunately, Buchanan immediately attracts the malevolent attention of the vicious masked fiend responsible for Selver's demise and for the deaths of several other people pursuing a blackmail-handy list of the would-be traitors who were willing to betray Britain to the Nazis during WWII. Fortunately, when it comes to carrying out his nefarious schemes, the masked man behaves like a blithering idiot. And so it goes until the story ends in a frenzy of wild activity and unresolved plot lines. To his credit, though, Sims (1923 1999) handles the initial characterization and setting well.
