Blood Money — Roy Lewis

Charlie Rutland specialized in scandal-hunting. As a journalist on a smart magazine, his job was to search out anything that could be turned into a good smear story. Then, while carrying out some 'investigations' in
Yorkshire, his career came to an abrupt and violent end. Had he this time carried his investigations that bit too far? Had somebody decided that Rutland wasn't going to get his story - at any cost? Or had his affair with
the wife of a local licensee been the cause?
Inspector Crow, skeletal as ever, arrives from Scotland Yard to find a formidable task awaiting him. He uncovers some strange facts connected with Rutland's death - a Nazi war criminal, an old vagrant of the
dales, and in the dead man's diary the number of a stolen car belonging to an attractive and wealthy widow.
Yet the solution to the mystery seems no nearer.
In Blood Money Inspector Crow is involved in one of his most intriguing cases, one that will baffle and absorb the reader until the very end.