Monkey Puzzle Author:Paula Gosling Even Lt. Jack Stryker had to admit it was a particularly gruesome murder. It wasn't so much the dent in the left temple, or the ten stab wounds in the chest - whoever had killed professor Aiken Adamson had cut his tongue out. Why all the anger? — Stryker soon found out. Adamson was a vicious man, a blackmailer and a homosexu... more »al, detested and feared by is colleagues in the English Department. and as his notebook revealed, each one of them had a very good reason for wanting him dead. Including Kate Trevorne, who was beginning to have quite an effect on Stryker, in more ways than one.
It all seemed like pretty straightforward detective work. Until suddenly, one by one, Stryker's suspects become victims, and he is trapped in a tangled web of conflicting motives, emotions and clues. and at the centre of the web waits - a monster.« less