Dead Letter

Masters and Green #21

by Douglas Clark

Detective Chief Inspector Bill Green of Scotland Yard receives an anonymous letter from a former army comrade who has inadvertently witnessed a murder. The reason has good reason to maintain anonymnity because one of the accomplices happens to be a local policeman. Green and his partner, Detective Chief Superintendent George Masters, face one of the greatest challenges of their careers as they launch a sublte investigation without arousing the suspicion of a corrupt colleague who is dangerously adept in using his professional police skills for evil purposes.

Genres: Mystery

384 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Douglas Malcolm Jackson Clark was a British author.

He was also known by the pseudonyms James Ditton and Peter Hosier.

Reviews

[P. · Rating 1 out of 5]

Interesting premise falls by the wayside. M&G are sent on a hush-hush case involving extremely dangerous drug dealers/ killers. They decamp to the killers locale, taking their wives and a 2 year old child!!! Exclamation points mine!! Add to this huge huge huge info dumps re mobile gun batteries during WW2, and there seems to be no reason to read this one.

[John Sargent · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good plot with interesting insight into Green's history. A pleasure

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

DCI Green has received a letter from he presumes is an old war colleague. It details a murder. Can the team trace him, the victim and the murder.
An enjoyable mystery

[Barry Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent

DCI/SSCO Bill Green received a letter from an old war comrade, he had seen a murder take place, the letter also stated that a senior police officer was present at the execution and the old comrade was in fear for his life. The letter was written in such a way that if it hadn't reached Bill then whoever the reader was they would not know who it was from, the only problem being that 40 years had passed since the war and Bill didn't know who it was from either. DCS Masters was approached by Bill Green about the letter and believed the story, they then had to approach AC (Crime) Anderson and convince him and to let them investigate the case.