Short and sweet--and oh, boy, doesn't it make you want to read more!They found the body in the Thames--the head, weeks later, in a string bag hanging on a tree.
Mind you, the blurb makes the book appear more hardboiled and gritty than it is. And if it had been published in America, and started with the discovery of a headless corpse floating in the Hudson or San Francisco Bay, this book probably would be that kind of detective story. One would expect the hero (either a jaded PI or a world-weary cop) to track the murderer through the mean back streets of the city, encountering various underworld types along the way. However, Head of a Traveller was written by a British author, and the detective is a gentleman amateur who tracks the murderer to the country estate of a poet!
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