The Camden Murder: The gripping wartime murder mystery

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As dawn breaks on a chilly morning in November 1940, a car is found ablaze inan abandoned builder's yard a stone's throw from the Regent's Canal inCamden Town, north London. In the burnt-out vehicle police find the charredremains of a body. The victim is Les Latham, a commercial traveller for theBarings confectionery company. He liked to be known as Lucky Les, but itseems his luck has finally run out. DI John Jago discovers among Latham'sbelongings a mysterious photograph and some suspicious-looking petrol rationbooks that set Jago off on a murky trail of deceit, corruption and murder.

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Mike Hollow was born in West Ham and grew up in Romford, Essex. He studiedRussian and French at the University of Cambridge and then worked for theBBC. In 2002 he went freelance as a copywriter, journalist and editor. Mike alsoworks as a poet and translator.