A classic murder mystery by acclaimed crime writer Bernard Knight. The elusive Tyneside criminal and club owner Jackie Stott seeks to evade the Newcastle police as he stumbles from one dodgy deal and troublesome gang to another. When Jackie gets involved in a murder, the police have a reason to try to get him locked up for good. A rip-roaring ride through the nightlife and underworld of a bustling city.

Author Biography

Professor Bernard Knight, CBE, (born 1931) became a Home Office pathologist in 1965 and was appointed Professor of Forensic Pathology, University of Wales College of Medicine, in 1980. He has been writing since before 1963, when his first crime novel was published. Since then, he has written about thirty books, including contemporary crime fiction, historical novels about Wales, biography, non-fiction popular works on forensic medicine, twelve medico-legal textbooks and the Crowner John Mysteries series of 12th-century historical mysteries.