Commando #5239: The Final Hunt

Commando #5239

by Colin Watson, Ian Kennedy (Cover Art), Morhain (Artist)

Police Sergeant Dick McKay had long retired after the glory of hunting down an escaped SS POW from a sleepy camp in the Scottish Highlands. Now he was more interested in carrots than criminal capers, as he tended his cosy allotment. But when a body is found buried under one of the Nissen huts in the camp, Dick is called in to find the culprit. With the war over, little evidence, and sparse suspects, will Dick be able to catch the crook in his final hunt?

66 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 27, 2019

About the author

Colin Watson was educated at the Whitgift School in South Croydon, London. During his career as a journalist he worked in London and Newcastle-on-Tyne, where he was a leader-writer for Kemsley Newspapers.

His book Hopjoy Was Here (1962) received the Silver Dagger Award. He was married, with three children, and lived in Lincolnshire. After retiring from journalism he designed silver jewellery.

As well as a series of humorous detective novels set in the imaginary town of Flaxborough, featuring Inspector Purbright, Watson also wrote and later revised a study of detective stories and thrillers called Snobbery with Violence.

Reviews

[Glenn · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was an average story, without a lot of depth. 2.5 Stars