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Private Eye George Coe is staring at the end of his career.
He’s getting older, moving slower, and his bank account has seen better days.
But when nine year-old Dulcie Randall is reported missing, Coe can’t help but take the case – even though it will take him back to a town riddled with memories - memories he’d much rather forget.
Just as Coe starts looking for answers, he loses his biggest clue.
One of the main kidnapping suspects, Dennis Cleave, ends up murdered.
Soon Coe finds himself deep in the shady dealings of a car-breaking yard, sifting through false alibis and lies.
Can Coe use all of his cunning to extract the truth, in a town that’s filled with lies?
To find the answer, he must look to his own past...
A Spoonful of Luger is the fourth book in the David Mallin Detective series.
"Eclectic, underrated, Ormerod can be relied upon to come up with the startling goods: - Sunday Times
‘I am glad to announce that the detective novel is still alive and well in Mr Ormerod's skilful hands’ - The Spectator
Roger Ormerod (1920-2005) was a prolific writer of ingenious and densely plotted crime novels — some 35 in all — which were published in the UK and the USA. He lived in Wolverhampton and amongst other things worked as a civil servant and as a Social Security inspector — backgrounds which he made full use of in his fiction.
Genre: Mystery
He’s getting older, moving slower, and his bank account has seen better days.
But when nine year-old Dulcie Randall is reported missing, Coe can’t help but take the case – even though it will take him back to a town riddled with memories - memories he’d much rather forget.
Just as Coe starts looking for answers, he loses his biggest clue.
One of the main kidnapping suspects, Dennis Cleave, ends up murdered.
Soon Coe finds himself deep in the shady dealings of a car-breaking yard, sifting through false alibis and lies.
Can Coe use all of his cunning to extract the truth, in a town that’s filled with lies?
To find the answer, he must look to his own past...
A Spoonful of Luger is the fourth book in the David Mallin Detective series.
Praise for Roger Ormerod:
"Eclectic, underrated, Ormerod can be relied upon to come up with the startling goods: - Sunday Times
‘I am glad to announce that the detective novel is still alive and well in Mr Ormerod's skilful hands’ - The Spectator
Roger Ormerod (1920-2005) was a prolific writer of ingenious and densely plotted crime novels — some 35 in all — which were published in the UK and the USA. He lived in Wolverhampton and amongst other things worked as a civil servant and as a Social Security inspector — backgrounds which he made full use of in his fiction.
Genre: Mystery
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