Prize murder
By: Nicholas Rhea
Series: A DI Montague Pluke mystery -- no. 6; DI Montague Pluke mystery -- no. 6.
Publisher: Constable
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781845293758
Subjects: Montague Pluke (Fictitious character); Fiction; Police
Description: While seeking the legendary Holy Trough of Blackamoor, D I Montague Pluke comes across a corpse; the dead man, Pluke discovers, has been shot. It is soon established that the victim was a suspect in a murder investigation, and so the eccentric Pluke is pitched headlong into an investigation, which spans both sides of the Pennines, leading him from the beauty of the great outdoors to the seamy backstreets of Manchester.