Pel and the Predators - Hardcover

Bedeviled by an unidentified murdered woman, a long-dead corpse found in a cave, a gangster bent on killing him, and a promotion that doubles the number of quirky detectives he must deal with, Pel, at long last, proposes to his lady love

John Harris, who also wrote under the pen names of Mark Hebden and Max Hennessy was born in 1916. He authored the best-selling The Sea Shall Not Have Them. He was a sailor, an airman, a journalist, a travel courier, a cartoonist and a history teacher. During the Second World War he served with two air forces and two navies. After turning to full-time writing, Harris wrote adventure stories and created a sequence of crime novels around the quirky fictional character Chief Inspector Pel. A master of war and crime fiction, his enduring novels are versatile and entertaining.