The Heel of Achilles: A Golden Age Mystery

It was at that moment that Jack knew he had to kill.The trouble began during a holiday in Paignton. When Jack met Mary his future wife he also met James Sprogson a charming villain bent on destroying the couples happiness. Mary distrusted Sprogson but Jack regarded him as a good fellow who drank and gambled a little too much perhaps but was harmless and likeable. However Jacks association with Sprogson was to lead to robbery blackmail and at last murder.This is the eighth of the Doctor Manson mysteries first published in 1950. A classic example of the inverted murder story it is in the best tradition of the golden age detective novel. It further enhanced the reputation which E. and M.A. Radford established for themselves as writers of ingenious whodunits.