NIGHTS CLOAK

&ldquo,I&rsquo,ve got to hurry,&rdquo, Bobby said. &ldquo,Mr Weston has been found dead from a knife-wound in his study.&rdquo, It&rsquo,s not easy for a county police Inspector to handle prominent local citizens diplomatically, while getting on with the real work of crime detection. But it&rsquo,s particularly hard when Bobby Owen finds himself the victim of a sinister swindle worked by a millionaire business executive. Not to mention the machinations of a radical political movement, a secretary with a puzzling alibi, and a young scientist-inventor, willing to do anything, even murder, to put his schemes into action &hellip, Night&rsquo,s Cloak was first published in 1944, the nineteenth of the Bobby Owen mysteries, a series eventually including thirty-five novels. This edition features a new introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans. &ldquo,What is distinction? &hellip, in the works of Mr. E.R. Punshon we salute it every time.&rdquo, Dorothy L. Sayers &ldquo,[The] very best British brand &hellip, deftly portrayed &hellip, air-tight&rdquo, Saturday Review_,