More Deaths Than One

Something about the case disturbs seasoned DCI Gil Mayo from the start. If freelance journalist Rupert Fleming's death was a suicide, why were his briefcase and portable typewriter missing from the Porsche where the body was found? Then there is the post-mortem examination with its startling revelation that Fleming had been drugged. Beyond the shadow of a doubt, this was no suicide. Delving deeper into Fleming's life, Mayo grows increasingly puzzled. The dead man lived several separate lives: he had one wife in town and another in the country, and still found time to frequent the town's amateur theatrea hotbed of jealousies and intrigues where nothing is quite what it seems. Methodically unravelling the tangled threads of Fleming's flamboyant and deceitful life, Mayo discovers that the lives of some people closely connected with him were touched by the murdered man. What does the sister of the woman he loves know about Fleming? Mayo asks himself. And what about the... "When the ostensible suicide of journalist Rupert Fleming turns out to have been murder, British detective inspector Gil Mayo probes the lives of the victim's relatives and lovers. He learns that Fleming was disliked in his hometown; observes that his widow, a successful businesswoman, seems little affected by his death; notes that her father is jubilant; finds out that Fleming had stolen from one lover, the sister of a police sergeant. The only person who seems grieved is naive young Bryonyok Harper, with whom the victim occasionally lived