Lips White As Snow
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-The third extract from the casefiles of D.I. Hawes and D.S. Gray-
Edmund Gray was supposed to be on holiday. Well-if a beautiful American private detective invites you to accompany her on a cruise of the Mediterranean, you don't exactly refuse, do you?
But after a sequence of unfortunate events involving a paper napkin, a magnifying glass, and a bad sense of direction, Edmund Gray was back in Oxford, and back on another case.
One attempt had already been made to discover the location of the biggest drugs hideout in Southern England. But after an organised raid on an empty manor house resulted in embarrassment for Oxfordshire Police, the case is turned over to Hawes and Gray to see if they can make any sense of it.
Previous Hawes&Gray cases:
#1.Two Heads
#2. Tom Thumb
Later Hawes&Gray cases:
#4. Watch Your Back
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