Black Mail — Neville Steed

Award winning crime writer Neville Steed is back with his second Johnny Black mystery.

Lucy Merrydew is a young, attractive librarian about to marry into the wealthy Bolsover family.

But her fortune takes a turn for the worst when she receives a threatening, anonymous letter. Not only that, but it comes in a gruesome parcel, also containing a severed finger.

Terrified of revealing this grisly affair to anyone, she enlists the help of Johnny Black, of the Black Eye Detective Agency, to find out just who is behind this blackest of mail.

Black's enquiries lead him to the majestic Buckfast Hall, the Bolsover family seat - and to a seemingly seething broth of intrigue and emotions.

His astute investigations lead him to have a clear suspect in mind, someone who lives and works on the Bolsover estate ...

But when said suspect is found murdered, his body floating downstream on the river, the investigation takes an even darker turn, and Black finds himself up to his neck, not just in severed fingers, but in murder most foul ...

Praise for Neville Steed:

‘Steed's debut Tinplate ... won the John Creasey Memorial Award for the best first crime novel of 1986; his second consolidates this promise.'- The Times

‘Mr Steed's sense of humour endears ... all the details about model-making are fascinating.'- Punch

Neville Steed lives in South Devon, where the action of both Black Mail and Black Eye, the first in the series, takes place. He read Law at Oxford and has travelled extensively. His interests include anything and everything connected with the motor car, aviation, the cinema and the Art Deco world of the 1930s. He is married with four sons.

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