A Day on the River

<p>James Connaught and William Berger meet in a rehabilitation clinic after major surgery. One day pedalling side by side on their exercise bikes they began talking as strangers do who think they will never meet again.</p><p>William learns that James is being ruined by his high-maintenance wife Phyllis and James learns that William's flourishing business is about to be destroyed by his ruthless sex-mad boss Cory Wisdom.</p><p>Then James makes the suggestion; you murder my wife and I'll murder your boss ... hardly an original plan.</p><p>Imagine their surprise when the two intended victims are murdered ... but not by them.</p><p>Those of you who have already met Edgar Hodgkiss in the many volumes of The Hodgkiss Mysteries now available will recognise the main players in A Day On The River; Detective Inspector Donald Burke his pedantic assistant Sergeant Sanderson and Donald's wife Esme Hodgkiss' daughter.</p><p>In this first Hodgkiss novel the sharp no-nonsense senior devises some highly original ways of helping his son-in-law solve the two murders without damaging his frail ego.</p>