Sealed with a Loving Kill

David Mallin #5

by Roger Ormerod

It seemed a simple case for David Mallin — to find a businessman’s wife who had been missing for 3 years… and with all the clues handed to him – even her last location.

He’d had more challenging tasks, but this case unsettled him.

It was the second part of the assignment that would prove difficult — to find out why she went missing.

However, the case soon crumbles into tragedy with the woman's untimely death, but this was only the beginning of the mystery.

Why did she die, and how could she come between David and his brand-new wife, Elsa?

Sealed with a Loving Kill is a thriller that will keep you guessing until the very last page.



‘The Characterization is splendid, the situations dramatic and compelling… What more can a book offer, or a reader ask?’ - Books & Booksmen

‘Eclectic, underrated Ormerod can be relied upon to come up with the startling goods’ – The Sunday Times

‘I am glad to announce that the detective novel is still alive and well in Mr Ormerod's skillful hands’ - The Spectator

Roger Ormerod (1920-2005) was a prolific writer of ingenious and densely plotted crime novels - some 35 in all - which were published in the UK and the USA. He lived in Wolverhampton and amongst other things worked as a civil servant and as a Social Security inspector – backgrounds which he made full use of in his fiction, as he did with his hobbies of painting and photography.

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

Roger Ormerod was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. He worked as a county court officer, an executive officer in the Department of Social Security, a postman, and a shop loader in an engineering factory.