A killing in Malta
By: [by] Noah Webster.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Gaunt, Jonathan (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.; Government investigators -- Fiction.; Malta -- Fiction.
Table of contents: title: Jonathan Gaunt, a Scottish government civil servant,is sent to Malta to accompany a national treasure for display at an international trade fair.  He has a secondary task of tracking down an ex-pat pensioner.  It rolls into a mystery/suspense event involving smuggling, long a part of Malta's history.  This is written in the older British mystery style, set in 1960s(?), with interesting touches of Malta.  Good read for those who don't need intricate details of gruesome, gory, psychotic activities.