A Mystery of Cross Women: A Timberdick Mystery

The year is 1937. Ned Machray has been a policeman for only a few weeks when he finds his first murder. But five nosy housewives think he is too much of a tenderfoot to solve the crime on his own... When Ned Machray, an out of work policeman, is dispatched to help an old soldier flee the country, he finds that the old tavern has been bombed, Ma Shipley is working her girls from a smutty tearoom, and the manor is controlled by an embittered Chief Inspector who works from the back of a taxi office. When the local CID loses interest in the murder of a young prostitute, Timberdick takes the case on. Not that she was a detective - it was none of her business really. She did it because no-one else thought a dead whore was important, and that made her angry. Sequel to "Timberdick's First Case", a thriller set in the seedy back streets of a south coast town. This detective story provides a thrilling prelude to The Timberdick Mysteries .