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    Inspector Hadley The Foreign Office Murders

    By Peter Child

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    After a short leave, Inspector James Hadley returns to Scotland Yard in September 1882 and is summoned to the Commissioner’s office, where he is informed that Charles Barrington, a high ranking official at the Foreign Office, has been found murdered alongside the naked body of a young man. The Commissioner demands that the investigation should be conducted in secrecy as Barrington was involved in high level negotiations with the Russian Embassy regarding British troop deployments in Afghanistan. The fact that Barrington was unmarried and a sodomite adds to the need for utmost secrecy in the investigation. Suspicion falls on the Russian Nihilists, who murdered Countess Helena Petrovna in Hyde Park a year previously, but that is soon discounted as a mysterious young man called Roger Freeman, who visited Barrington at the Foreign Office, becomes the prime suspect. As the investigation proceeds, Countess Natasha Petrovna, the sister of the murdered Countess, arrives at Scotland Yard to report the disappearance of her fiancé, Dimitri Viralovski, who is identified as the naked man found murdered with Barrington. As Viralovski was a relation of the Russian Ambassador, the Embassy Chief informs Hadley that his Cossack security men will be searching for the killer, which complicates the investigation. After attempts to trace Roger Freeman fail, Sergeant Cooper has a lead to the suspect when he sees a male impersonator singing at a music hall. Hadley confronts the killer and is attacked before overcoming the assailant. At the trial, the killer pleads guilty, but insane and is sentenced to life imprisonment in a secure mental institution.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeter Child
    Release dateApr 12, 2018
    ISBN9781908760241
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    Peter Child

    Peter James Child commenced his writing career in 1969 when he contributed 60 ‘one line’ comedy gags each week to an American Radio show called ‘FUNNYBIRDS’, which starred Goldie Hawn and Phyllis Diller. After meeting Terry Nation, the creator of ‘DR. WHO’, at a Writers Meeting, he was introduced to Alastair Scott-Johnson, the BBC Producer, and as a result of this meeting, the BBC commissioned a Radio comedy series of 9 programs, which Peter co-wrote, called ‘THE MOTORWAY MEN’, starring Milo O’Shea. After this, he turned to writing books and produced three technical books on the subject of Automotive Paint Finishes whilst he was the Quality Control Manager and Chief Test Driver at Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd. The books were sold world wide and are used in many technical colleges, universities as well as major motor manufacturers such as Jaguar Cars Ltd for training. He then wrote ‘NOTES FOR GOOD DRIVERS’ for drivers of all abilities in the hope that this book would make a contribution to road safety. He used his training as a private pilot to carry forward his ideas of ‘safety style’ driving, which he believes has enabled him to drive safely for more than 3 million miles in the UK, Europe and the USA. Now a full time author he has written 32 books, 5 technical and 27 novels, all of which will be available in due course through Smashwords in E book form. Peter has also written 15 murder mystery crime novels set in Victorian London just before the Jack the Ripper murders in Whitechapel in 1888. Inspector James Hadley is assisted by Sergeant Robert Cooper and they are based in the newly formed detective department in Scotland Yard and together they solve the unusual crimes that confront them. He has finished writing a series of racy thrillers, which are entitled, ‘THE DISPOSER’ followed by ‘THE DEAD DROP’ and then ‘A FLIGHT WITH DEMONS’ and his latest racy thriller, ‘THE FEMALE TRIGGER’, which is now available as an E book through Smashwords. The story is about a glamorous, young American widow searching for her brother, who is a CIA Agent missing in Libya. Peter is now writing a sequel to ‘THE FEMALE TRIGGER’ which will be available as an E book through Smashwords.

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