Gideon's River by J. J. Marric. Popular Library September, 1977. 143 pages. Condition is VG with creased cover.
Murder is afloat as Scotland Yard's best man investigates mayhem on the Thames. A band of dangerous jewel thieves plans to raid a posh riverboat. A teenage girl is snatched by a murderous kidnapper,right out from her mother's nose. A young man is beaten, tortured and drowned in the dark river. Commander Georges Gideon, Scotland Yard's genius at detection, wades through a swamp of baffling clues only to discover., with alarm, that he may, already, be in well over his head... Gideon at his best and the Thames at its most diversified.
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