Too Late for the Funeral — Roger Ormerod

David Mallin and George Coe are approaching the same case from opposite directions, each unaware of the other's interest. Carol Turner, seventeen, and a mystery, is very close to a murder, and she has in her possession a weapon that could prove a number of things. Dave probes most of them, and is still far from the truth. George simply allows matters to develop, unable to control events. But it is Elsa Mallin who suffers most before the truth of Carol Turner releases her.