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DCI Neil Goddard Cases #1-3
Serial Killers Never Win: A Trilogy of DCI Neil Goddard Cases
Between 1958 and 1966 Scotland Yard were faced with a succession of serial killings which were only halted when DCI Neil Goddard was put in charge of the individual investigations.
The Silent Butterfly :- January 1958.
During the past two and a half years a serial killer had been roaming the streets of London torturing his victims by slicing off their left ear before ritually disembowelling them but when another body is found to be the killer himself Goddard goes back to old haunts that revive memories of events that happened in occupied France in 1940. The situation is further complicated when a telephone call is received which states that the revenge killing was repayment of a debt owed to him from that time.
Full Moon Killer :- January 1960.
The murder of a man at the beginning of the year at first glance appears to be a simple case for Goddard even though inside the victims mouth is a slip of paper with strange markings and the letter A at its centre. When a month later another man is not only killed in the same manner but also has a similar slip of paper in his mouth, this time with a different letter he realises that there is a double murderer roaming the streets. The case suddenly becomes personal when a letter addressed to him is found at the scene which makes it known that the killer knows of him but more worryingly that there will be five more murders in the coming months when there is a full moon.
Time Doesn't Matter :- March 1966.
When a body is found viciously beaten to death in the grounds of Oddhams House where an important conference on Rhodesia and its Unilateral Declaration of Independence is scheduled to begin in a few weeks Goddard is tasked with solving the case as a matter of urgency especially as attached to the body was a metal plate marked with the number 2.
Fearing that there is at least one more body to be found he has to employ all of his investigative skills honed over many years but in a matter of days is confronted by a further three murders in the same vein with the dead men holding metal plates 1,3 and 4.
The Silent Butterfly :- January 1958.
During the past two and a half years a serial killer had been roaming the streets of London torturing his victims by slicing off their left ear before ritually disembowelling them but when another body is found to be the killer himself Goddard goes back to old haunts that revive memories of events that happened in occupied France in 1940. The situation is further complicated when a telephone call is received which states that the revenge killing was repayment of a debt owed to him from that time.
Full Moon Killer :- January 1960.
The murder of a man at the beginning of the year at first glance appears to be a simple case for Goddard even though inside the victims mouth is a slip of paper with strange markings and the letter A at its centre. When a month later another man is not only killed in the same manner but also has a similar slip of paper in his mouth, this time with a different letter he realises that there is a double murderer roaming the streets. The case suddenly becomes personal when a letter addressed to him is found at the scene which makes it known that the killer knows of him but more worryingly that there will be five more murders in the coming months when there is a full moon.
Time Doesn't Matter :- March 1966.
When a body is found viciously beaten to death in the grounds of Oddhams House where an important conference on Rhodesia and its Unilateral Declaration of Independence is scheduled to begin in a few weeks Goddard is tasked with solving the case as a matter of urgency especially as attached to the body was a metal plate marked with the number 2.
Fearing that there is at least one more body to be found he has to employ all of his investigative skills honed over many years but in a matter of days is confronted by a further three murders in the same vein with the dead men holding metal plates 1,3 and 4.
594 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 19, 2017
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