Murder London Australia

There is a suicide at London Airport, an attempted murder in Kowloon, and a girl had been strangled. Then there is an ocean liner with its passengers under sentence of death. Roger (‘Handsome’) West of the Yard flies out to assist the Sydney Police prevent a madman unleashing destruction on an unprecedented scale.

Roger (‘Handsome’) West of Scotland Yard investigates from Chelsea, London to Miami. Sir David Marshall, a diplomat, is seemingly involved in a jealous brawl over a woman, but West believes there is more to the matter than meets the eye. His belief is soon vindicated and he sets off on a trail to find the truth.

A VIP mysteriously disappears, and a diamond smuggling ring appears to be operating out of South Africa. Chief Superintendent Roger (‘Handsome’) West of Scotland Yard is sent out to investigate, but is lead into difficult and dangerous situations.

A beautiful girl is found dead with her face slashed and an old man suffers a similar fate. These similar crimes bring together Roger West, Scotland Yard’s finest detective, and Lieutenant Goodison of New York's Homicide Branch, in a race to find the killer and deal with the twists and turns along the way.

Scores of men and women died daily in London, but on this day of days one of them had died in the very midst of a crowd and the cause of his death was a dagger piercing his heart. Death had become something very real.Charles Cameron Kingston PC (22 October 1850 - 11 May 1908) was an Australian politician. He was an early radical liberal Premier of South Australia serving from 1893 to 1899 with the support of Labor led by John McPherson from 1893 and Lee Batchelor from 1897 in the House of Assembly, winning the 1893, 1896 and 1899 colonial elections against the conservatives. He was a leading proponent of and contributed extensively on the Federation of Australia and was elected to the federal House of Representatives with the most votes amongst the seven elected in the single statewide Division of South Australia at the 1901 election, serving under the Protectionist Party, going on to represent the Division of Adelaide at the 1903 election.

Roger ‘Handsome’ West of Scotland Yard is pitted against a ruthless criminal network. They will stop at nothing in their pursuit of bribery, corruption, and theft. Amongst them is a cold-blooded killer whom West must capture. Against him is an organisation with money to spare and no compunction about murder if it is in their interests.

There have been two gruesome murders in a quiet Sussex seaside town and Roger ‘Handsome’ West of Scotland Yard is called in. Lefty, who kills without a thought for his victim, believes only one further victim stands between him and a small fortune. West struggles with the case, but he must solve it and quickly.

Once a murder is committed, the perpetrators have nothing to lose – they can murder again, although the chances of being caught rise, especially if Roger West, one of Scotland Yard’s finest detectives, is on their trail. But there are always three ways of viewing the crime: that of the hunter, the hunted, and the victim’s.