The lie destroyer
By: John Russell Fearn
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Linford mystery library
Publisher: Thorpe
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781847829795
Subjects: Truthfulness and falsehood; Fiction; Discoveries in science
Description: Bobby Carson is proud of his lying expertise. His scientist father uses him as a guinea pig for a machine which destroys his ability to be dishonest, but has unhappy social consequences. Soon criminals begin exploiting the possibilities of a world without lies in a society built upon sham and pretence. And Scotland Yard, hampered by its own guilty secrets, cannot stem the tide of blackmail ... until Dr. Carson, the creator of the Lie Destroyer, again steps into the scene ...
Notes: Linford Mystery.

Adult.