The beast must die
By: Nicholas Blake.
Series: Hogarth Crime
Publisher: Hogarth
Published: 1989
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Description: Respected crime writer Frank Cairns plots the perfect murder - a murder that he himself will commit. Cairns intends to murder the hit-and-run driver who killed his young son, but when his intended victim is found dead and Cairns becomes the prime suspect, the author insists that he has been framed.
Notes: First published 1938.