[CID Room 12] • A Man Condemned

He re-read the night crime list. Three breaking-and-enterings, four cars stolen and not yet recovered, a couple of fights down at the docks, a domestic assault and battery with the brutally injured wife refusing to press charges, a spate of muggings between ten and midnight, an unusually high number of drunk-and-disorderlies, a missing girl of sixteen, a bad hit-and-run, an attempted suicide . . . Sometimes it was difficult to remember that for the majority of people the world was a reasonably orderly place.

Inspector Fusil of the Fotrow CID is assigned to protect an exiled Iranian oil millionaire from assassination, little does he know that he is walking into a sprawling web of crime and deceit. A series of seemingly unrelated crimes are hiding a much more sinister plot. Once again it is up to no-nonsense Detective Inspector Fusil to untangle the truth from the lies.

Praise for A Condemned Man...

'The tough, uncompromising Fusil comes through brilliantly, as always' - *The New York Times*

Roderic Jeffries was born in London in 1926. In 1943 he went to sea with the New Zealand Shipping Company and returned to England in 1949 where he practiced law before starting to write full time. His books have been adapted for film, television, and radio.