Coming soon...SILLY SEASONThe first Crampton of The Chronicle mystery
Brighton. August, 1962. Arnold Trumper, proprietor of the seafront's miniature golf course, disappears mysteriously. The police don't know where he is. Or whether he's still alive. Enter Colin Crampton, crime correspondent of the Brighton Evening Chronicle. Crampton is a journalist who combines lofty ideals with low cunning. It's the silly season - when hard news never happens - and Crampton is desperate for a story. So when he discovers that Trumper's disappearance is linked to a 22-year-old murder, he can almost taste the banner headline. But there are powerful people who don't want Crampton poking his nose into their affairs. Crampton discovers Trumper vanished days after turning down an offer for his golf course from violent property racketeer Septimus Darke. Then Trumper's assistant, Robert Barnet, is beaten and strangled. When a cache of old letters comes to light, Crampton realises that he has a race against time to right a terrible injustice. If he's to see the true culprits in the dock, he has to put his high ideals on hold and use every dirty trick in the journalists' book to trap them. And if he's to land his scoop, he must face dangers which they never mentioned at journalism school.
Silly Season, the first of the Crampton of The Chronicle mysteries, races through the louche streets of nineteen sixties Brighton in an intrepid tale of murder, corruption... and press cuttings.
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