The motorist who killed Martie Cairns did not stop. His father Frank is devastated but finds something to live for, a plot to discover and murder the person who caused him so much grief. Frank used to have a desk job but retired to the country to an idyllic cottage in Gloucestershire with his wife where he began to write detective stories under the pseudonym of Felix Lane. His wife died in childbirth and Martie became his world until he was cruelly taken away. He needs to succeed where the police have failed and starts to piece together the facts that are known. Taking a shortcut from the Cirencester to the Oxford Road he inadvertently comes to a halt in a ford. A local, leaning on a nearby gate, remarks that the same thing had happened a few months before. This chance encounter gives Frank the lead that he requires; a sports car, a driver named George and a female passenger who has appeared in films. Frank contrives to meet and become friends with the supposed hit and run driver and his family. All this is recorded in the form of a diary but just as Frank is planning to make his move during a boat trip the victim, George Rattery, announces that he has discovered the diary and has sent it to his solicitors as a precaution against anything happening to him. Later that day a crime does take place and Cairns is suspected. Nigel Strangeways is called upon, as a well respected private detective, to get him off the hook.
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19 April 2008