Dene of the Secret Service
By: Gerald Verner
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Linford mystery library; Linford mystery library
Publisher: Thorpe
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781444806496
Subjects: Homeowners; Intelligence officers; Sailors; Foreign Office Great Britain; Identity theft; Crimes against; Fiction
Description: Bound for Liverpool to board his Japanese ship, OKI MARU, a Korean seaman is murdered and his identity assumed by his killer. Then, after the ship sails, it disappears - presumed lost in a storm ... The owner of a remote country house in Wales is pressured into selling it - then brutally murdered. Meanwhile, when secret documents relating to a draft treaty with Japan go missing from the Foreign Office, agent Dene of the Secret Service has orders to recover them ...
Notes: Adult.