Persons Reported (LIN)

by Robert Charles

Despite every effort of the Fire Brigade, and of Woman Detective Sergeant Judy Kane, who had been first on the scene, Helen Douglas had died. But it was not the fire that had killed her - she had been murdered. Helen was the wife of Mike Douglas, an Assistant Divisional Officer at Granchester Fire Station. Judy is married to Granchester's Station Officer, Ben Kane. The four had become close friends, and so for Judy the case becomes a double nightmare, with Ben and Mike heading the list of suspects...

472 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2000

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

Robert Charles is a pseudonymn of Robert Charles Smith.

He also writes under the pseudonymn 'Charles Leader'.

His first book as Robert Charles was 'The Faceless Fugitive' (1963) and up to 2010 he had written 33 novels as such with Blood and Sangria (2010) being the last one.

As Charles Leader he first published 'Frontiers of Violence' (1966) and wrote 17 books under that pseudonym up to 1978, the last being 'Kingdom of Darkness' (1978).

Gerry Wolstenholme
September 2010