num_pages: 214
description: There is a saboteur hiding in plain sight at the publishing house of Wenham &amp; Geraldine. An incendiary and wildly libellous passage has been slipped into a book somewhere between the final check and the printing press a seemingly impossible task. Desperate to avoid a scandal the partners call in Nigel Strangeways to uncover the meddler.Is it Stephen Protheroe defunct poet curmudgeon and the last known person to access the manuscript? Or Mr Bates the production manager recently forced reluctantly into retirement? Miss Millicent Miles the romance novelist hoping to reinvigorate her ailing career with a steamy autobiography or the now libellous author himself General Thoresby?With so many suspects Strangeways struggles to identify a motive let alone a culprit. But when an employee is found slain in the office it seems the case may be more personal than it first appeared
language: English
title: End of Chapter
publisher: Perennial Library