Alibi of Guilt — Philip Daniels

Cyril Bowers hadn't meant to kill the old man. It was a simple matter of relieving him of a bulging wallet. If the old fool hadn't put up a struggle Cyril wouldn't have hit him. He wasn't to know that his victim was Dandy Jack Westman's father, but Inspector 'Touchy' Miller knew. He also knew that Dandy Jack would be looking for his father's killer and wouldn't wait for a legal trial for, in Jack's circles, the death penalty had not been abolished...