{"product_id":"the-bad-detective-9781448200023","title":"The Bad Detective","description":"\u003cp\u003eJack Stallworthy is a bad detective just on the right side of corrupt. But now he's turning criminal... \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDetective Sergeant Jack Stallworthy has been accepting backhanders for most of his career. And why not? He's spent thirty years putting villains behind bars, surely he's entitled to a little nest-egg? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLily, the pretty wife he dearly loves, dreams of retirement on the tropical island Ko Samui, but Jack will happily settle for a bungalow in Devon. Until, that is, influential businessman Emslie Warnaby offers him paradise on a plate. All he has to do is steal one slim file from the Fraud Investigation office at police HQ. But soon Jack Stallworthy is dangerously out of his depth...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e H. R. F. Keating\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Reader\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.51d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781448200023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eH. R. F. Keating was born at St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, in 1926. He went to Merchant Taylors, leaving early to work in the engineering department of the BBC. After a period of service in the army, which he describes as 'totally undistinguished', he went to Trinity College, Dublin, where he became a scholar in modern languages. He was also the crime books reviewer for\u003ci\u003e The Times\u003c\/i\u003e for fifteen years. His first novel about Inspector Ghote, \u003ci\u003eThe Perfect Murder\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Gold Dagger of the Crime Writers Association and an Edgar Allen Poe Special Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Reader","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45115558789235,"sku":"9781448200023","price":25.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_ef74aa72-68be-4905-96e7-57ad531bd4b0.jpg?v=1781785761","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-bad-detective-9781448200023","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}