Last Respects — Catherine Aird

MURDER AT EBB TIDE

"Found drowned, my foot," said the pathologist two minutes after looking at the body. The unidentified young man pulled from the salt water near the fishing village of Edsway hadn't drowned after all. And he hadn't been a bather either, observed Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan. One simply didn't go swimming in a shirt and trousers. Not voluntarily. And what about the mysterious copper weight stuffed in the dead man's pocket... and the sunken ship offshore? The answer was murder, and Sloan set out in a dinghy to net the killer before another victim went to a watery grave.