When Anthony Rathe Investigates
About this ebook
Prosecuting criminal cases, barrister Anthony Rathe convinced a jury to imprison an innocent man, who subsequently took his own life. Horrified at his mistake, Rathe abandons his glittering legal career, vowing to truly serve justice.
A series of cases come his way. These four stories, linked by how Rathe is racked with guilt over the suicide, explore crime from a different angle: determination to find the truth, no matter how inconvenient to the investigating officer, Inspector Cook.
The reader is invited to join Rathe in solving these complex mysteries. The first story, Burial for the Dead, exposes sordid family history that led to a murder in a church. In A Question of Proof, Inspector Cook needs Rathe to unravel an underworld murder; in Ties that Bind Rathe solves a crime of passion; and in The Quick and the Dead, modern slavery intrudes into his own personal life.
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About the author
Matthew Booth has appeared at numerous events, discussing topics such as Sherlock Holmes, crime and supernatural fiction, film noir, and Jack the Ripper. A member of the Crime Writers' Association, he is now Editor of its magazine, Red Herrings, and he is the co-host of the film podcast, Cinema Sleuths.
Sparkling Books have also published Further Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, by Matthew, the latter co-authored with the late David Stuart Davies. Matthew is also the author of the Everett Carr mysteries, novels inspired by the famous Golden Age of detective fiction, the latest of which is A Sudden Vengeance. He is also the author of the war-time noir thriller, The House of Skulls, featuring private eye, Alex Priest.
