This image is the cover for the book Terror by Day, The Patrick Dawlish Mysteries

Terror by Day, The Patrick Dawlish Mysteries

An explosion of violence sends British sleuth Patrick Dawlish on the trail of a criminal empire that threatens the very foundations of crown and country.

Recruited by Scotland Yard to secretly investigate the ever-expanding substance abuse among London’s upper echelons, Patrick Dawlish is once again ready to risk life and limb doing a job that isn’t his. With two nightclubs to focus on, he gets entrée into one of the suspected drug dens when he offers to meet a friend’s former fiancée, actress Chloë Farrimond.

When his meeting is highjacked by armed goons, Dawlish narrowly escapes, learning that the whole murderous affair was set off by the search for a set of silver-backed hair brushes, a gift from Chloë to her former love. Dawlish could never expect that such a simple accessory could draw a secret organization out of the shadows with machine guns blazing—in a spree of crime and corruption on a level never before seen . . .

John Creasey

John Creasey, born in 1908, was a paramount English crime and science fiction writer who used myriad pseudonyms for more than six hundred novels. He founded the UK Crime Writers’ Association in 1953. In 1962, his book Gideon’s Fire received the Edgar Award for Best Novel from the Mystery Writers of America. Many of the characters featured in Creasey’s titles became popular, including George Gideon of Scotland Yard, who was the basis for a subsequent television series and film. Creasey died in Salisbury, UK, in 1973.