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Record Nr.

UNINA9910157452903321

Autore

Creasey John

Titolo

The Extortioners

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Looe, Cornwall, : House of Stratus, 2015

ISBN

0-7551-3728-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (130 p.)

Collana

Inspector West ; ; v.42

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page -- John Creasey - Master Storyteller -- Inpector West Series -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Chapter One: Rich Man -- Chapter Two: The Demand -- Chapter Three: Rosamund -- Chapter Four: Ugly Truth -- Chapter Five: West Listens -- Chapter Six: Near Unto Death -- Chapter Seven: Mandeville Street -- Chapter Eight: Lady Fellowes -- Chapter Nine: Truth? -- Chapter Ten: Second Victim -- Chapter Eleven: 'Battleaxe' -- Chapter Twelve: Hokki Club? -- Chapter Thirteen: Breathing Space? -- Chapter Fourteen: Grave Danger? -- Chapter Fifteen: Kevin Spray -- Chapter Sixteen: The Hokki Clubs -- Chapter Seventeen: More Arrests -- Chapter Eighteen: Accusation -- Chapter Nineteen: The Three Women -- Chapter Twenty: The Old Fossils -- Chapter Twenty-One: Confession -- John Creasey -- Gideon's Day -- Gideon's Fire -- The Creepers -- The House of the Bears -- Introducing the Toff.

Sommario/riassunto

Professor Clayton is happily married, but there is another woman and also a teenage son who learns that the person he calls 'uncle' is actually his father. Now, Clayton is being blackmailed. Chief Inspector ('Handsome') West has to battle a motorcycle gang and dodge danger to himself and others as he fights to prevent the truth being revealed.