Book Description

Love and need make unexpected bedfellows, and both are blind. As the grip of a long hard winter tightens on Lydmouth, a dead woman calls the dying in a seance behind net curtains. Two provincial newspapers are in the throes of a bitter circulation war. A lorry-driver broods, and an office boy loses his heart.

Britain is basking in the warm glow of post-war tranquillity, but in the quiet town of Lydmouth, darker forces are at play. The rats are fed on bread and milk, a gentleman's yellow kid glove is mislaid on a train, and something disgusting is happening at Mr. Prout's toyshop.

Returning to a town shrouded in intrigue and suspicion, Jill Francis becomes acting editor of the Gazette. Meanwhile, there's no pleasure left in the life of of Detective Chief Inspector Richard Thornhill. Only a corpse, a television set and the promise of trouble to come.

Call the Dying confirms Andrew Taylor, winner of three Crime Writers' Association Awards, as a master of suspense and subtlety and places him in the top ranks of Britain's crime writers.

Book Dimension

length: (cm)17.7 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)11.1