Account Settled: A Science Fiction Murder Mystery

ISBN-13: 9781479401352 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 200 str.

John Russell Fearn

Opis

When financier Emerson Drews hired killer pushes scientist-inventor Rajek Quinton down an abandoned mineshaft, Drew and his conspirators believe that the ways clear to exploit Quintons amazing new invention, which will make them millions. But he reckons without Larry Clark of the C.I.D.--plus Quintons uncanny scientific genius. The police detective, aided by Drews secretary Joyce Sutton, forges a chain of evidence to send Drew and his cohorts to their doom. But who is Joyce Sutton, really? And what about Quinton himself: did he actually die in the deep, mud-filled pit shaft, or has he somehow survived to exact a horrible vengeance on those who exploited him? A thrill-a-minute mystery, capped by an astonishing denouement!