Missing, Presumed Dead
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Written by J M Gregson.
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Detective Inspector Percy Peach, as bouncy and as aggressive as a bantam cock, is feared greatly by the petty criminals of Lancashire - and not a little by his own chief, the feeble Superintendent Tucker. Peach finds to his disgust that his new detective sergeant is to be a woman. However the capable and resourceful Lucy Blake proves, as the tale proceeds, to be more than a match for the formidable Peach.Their initial assignment is a baffling one. A nineteen year old girl has disappeared without warning from her home. Two years later, her body is found at the bottom of a deep pond on the North Lancs golf course. Peach and Blake, in finding out about those who are close to her in her last months, begin to work out their own relationship and find it may after all be a rewarding one. The solution to the mystery is as unexpected as it is chilling and convincing.
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Dale Brayden thinks this book is Nothing Special.
This is the first Percy Peach novel, or at least the first featuring DS Blake. It sets the tone and conventions for the novels to follow: Peach joins the North Lancashire golf club, heaps scorn and mockery on his boss Tommy Tucker, is assigned a murder investigation in which the body has been found 2 years after the fact, and brings the investigation to a successful conclusion despite the lack of physical and forensic evidence. In this case there was essentially no evidence against the perpetrator, so Gregson had to invent a Perry Mason-like ending in which the accused simply confesses after being confronted with the suspicions against him.
Not one of the best in the series.