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Step in the Dark

(1976)
(The eighth book in the Pollard and Toye series)
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Pollard & Toye return for another village mystery! Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, M C Beaton, Sophie Hannah and Faith Martin.

Expect the unexpected...


The peace of the sleepy English town of Ramsden is disturbed when a corpse is discovered in highly peculiar circumstances.

The victim - a young woman - was found at the bottom of the library stairs where she worked with a fractured skull.

But did she fall or was she pushed?

As the local constabulary delve deeper into history of the library at the Ramsden Literary and Scientific Society they begin to suspect a larger conspiracy could be at work.

They enlist the help of Scotland Yard and Detective Superintendent Pollard and Detective Sergeant Toye are put on the case.

What secrets are being hidden by Ramsden's leading families? Could missing books from the library hold the key to the case?

Or are Pollard & Toye on the wrong track altogether... ?



Step in the Dark
is the eighth cosy village mystery in the Pollard & Toye crime series: an intriguing police procedural set in rural England.

'the classic British mystery novel lives and flourishes' - New York Times

'the mistress of misdirection' - The Telegraph

'In the best Agatha Christie tradition' - Argosy

THE POLLARD & TOYE INVESTIGATIONS SERIES
Book One: Death of an Old Girl
Book Two: The Affacombe Affair
Book Three: Alibi for a Corpse
Book Four: Death on Doomsday
Book Five: Cyanide With Compliments
Book Six: No Vacation From Murder
Book Seven: Buried in the Past
Book Eight: Step in the Dark
Book Nine: Unhappy Returns
Book Ten: Suddenly While Gardening
Book Eleven: Change for the Worse
Book Twelve: Nothing to Do with the Case
Book Thirteen: Troubled Waters
Book Fourteen: The Wheel Turns
Book Fifteen: Light Through Glass
Book Sixteen: Who Goes Home?
Book Seventeen: The Glade Manor Murder


Genre: Mystery

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