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The Day of the Peppercorn Kill (Chief Inspector Lennox, Bk 5)
The Day of the Peppercorn Kill - Chief Inspector Lennox, Bk 5 Author:John Wainwright A man has been sentenced to eighteen years for rape. He is released after twelve, and returns to a wife who wants, in spite of everything, to stand by him and help him. But the man has other ideas. Men convicted of rape are not well-treated by their fellows in prison. This man, sensitive and civilized, had been treated very badly indeed. And he ... more »didn't consider that he'd committed rape at all. In his view he'd been framed -- "set up". The people he blamed for framing him play a large part in the story that follows. There are also the policemen. It is the fat, tough, kindly Superintendent Lennox who uses all his energy and acumen to try and sort things out as they head towards a multiple, disastrous climax.« less