Avenging the dead
By: Guy Fraser
Publisher: Robert Hale
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780709090687
Subjects: Henry Jarrett (Fictitious character); Fiction; Police; Serial murder investigation; History
Description: Superintendent Henry Jarrett is under pressure from the Union Bank who are in the midst of a forgery scandal. Just as that inquiry gets under way, the murders begin. Each killing is claimed by a letter-writer calling himself the Scythe, who is in possession of the facts known only to the detectives.