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'My favourite American crime-writer' New York Herald Tribune
Sergeant Ivor Maddox of the Wilcox Street precinct has more crime on his hands than even he is accustomed to: murders, con-men, a dismembered corpse, runaway teenagers and a multiple rapist.
To catch the rapist, whose victims are always attractive and respectable women, Maddox persuades his true love, policewoman Sue Carstairs, to bait the trap . . .
Dell Shannon
Dell Shannon is the pseudonym of Elizabeth Linington. Barbara "Elizabeth" Linington (1921-1988) was an American novelist and mystery writer. She was one of the first women to write in the style of a police procedural. Linington wrote fiction under the pen names Anne Blaisdell, Lesley Egan, Egan O'Neill, and Dell Shannon as well as her own name. Her first mystery novel, Case Pending, was published in 1960, under the pseudonym Dell Shannon.
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