There Was A Crooked Man

The tall, distinguished gentleman in the bowler hat who drove down from London one October evening must have had some compelling reason for seeking out old Charley Keldrick, woodworker and handyman, in his lonely wooden shack on the summit of Painswick Hill. Before that night was out, Crooked Charley died suddenly and violently, and it was a crooked mile that Detective-Inspector Peter Bradfield had to cover step by step, before he ferreted out the secret of the man in the bowler hat and unmasked a murderer of peculiar ruthlessness and cunning. AUTHOR: Clifford Witting (1907-68) was an English writer who was educated at Eltham College, London, between 1916 and 1924. He wrote 16 novels between 1937 and 1964, all of which are currently being republished by Galileo, to the delight of many thousands of Golden Age readers.