[Blake Hartley Mysteries 09] • 2 The Bradshaw Mystery

When a bandsman playing in the bandstand on Keighworth Gala Day one summer glances down through the gaps in the floorboards, he sees the face of a dead man staring back at him. So opens ‘The Bandstand Mystery’, a story of corruption in high places and crime in lowlier ones. A serial killer is caught in Keighworth by the Revd Det. Inspector Blake Hartley and his loyal Muslim sergeant, Ibrahim Khan; and a former High Commissioner in Europe is unmasked as the leader of an international crime syndicate. The climax of the novel tales place in his snake-house in Brussels, where Blake Hartley is at risk of being eaten by a Giant Anaconda python..