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The Case of the Dirty Verger
A Timberdick Mystery
Matador Paperback ISBN: 978-1-905886-31-9
The fourth title looks at Timbers' early life on Goodladies Road
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"Malcolm Noble promises an entertaining mystery with a good dollop of nostalgia"
(Harborough Mail)
"Noble has a fine knack of description, creating a sense of place and atmosphere. The denouement is nicely done with plenty of irony" (Portsmouth Post)
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1947 brings no peace to Goodladies Road. Men without a war and girls without homes is a cocktail for murder.
When Ned Machray, an out of work policeman, is dispatched to help an old soldier flee the country, he finds that the old tavern has been bombed, Ma Shipley is working her girls from a smutty tearoom, and the manor is controlled by an embittered Chief Inspector who works from the back of a taxi office. When a body is found beneath the railway arches, Ned realises that the Dirty Verger holds the key to the mystery, but who would deal with a man like that?
Well, Timberdick might. A teenage runaway, who can't escape the lies and treachery of her childhood. "Every grown up comes with a cakeload of cruelty," she says, and the Case of the Dirty Verger is no different.
The fourth Timberdick Mystery explores our protagonist's first nights on the Goodladies Road, and offers clues to many of the characters who have already appeared in her later murder cases.
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