A Deadly Schedule — Roy Hart

THE LONG ARM OF MURDER

During a much-needed idyll on Crete, and with instincts honed by twenty years of police work, Inspector Douglas Roper discovers the body of a well-to-do Englishwoman, bludgeoned to death in his hotel.

Roper reluctantly leaves the unsolved crime behind. It's back home to murder as usual: a man found murdered in his armchair, and an apparent suicide, the young lady's head resting on a pillow in her oven.

As an amateur archaeologist, Roper knows all about digging, but it takes a different sort of digging to link these deaths, from Crete to rainy Dorset, as the work of one diabolical killer.