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Pentonville Prison, 1917. Wally Hubbard was meant to be serving a long sentence for arson, but when he makes an audacious escape, Inspector Marmion, who arrested him, is warned to watch his back. However, it seems that Hubbard has eyes for only one man: Ben Croft, who he blames for the death of his daughter. While Marmion struggles with heightened concerns for his problematical son Paul, the hunt to recapture Hubbard becomes entwined with a murder investigation where the identities of killer and victim become increasingly ambiguous. As complications mount up, Marmion tries desperately to untangle all the threads ...
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Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. A pseudonym used by Keith Miles AKA A.E. Marston Keith Miles (born 1940) is an English author, who writes under his own name and also historical fiction and mystery novels under the pseudonym Edward Marston. He is known for his mysteries set in the world of Elizabethan theatre. He has also written a series of novels based on events in the Domesday Book, a series of The Railway Detective and a series of The Home Front Detective. Series contributed to: . Malice Domestic . Crime Through Time . Perfectly Criminal