DARK DEALINGS IN THE CITY OF LONDON
Eric Ward is still uneasy on the board of merchant bankers Martin & Channing. Their defense against a hostile takeover is pushing the limits of the law.
But Eric soon has problems nearer home: his wife’s colleague is charged with the murder of his fiancée in his London flat. He asks Eric to represent him.
Eric discovers some very interesting facts about the dead woman. Then he’s called back to London to deal with the takeover gone wrong, where he finds his separate roles intertwining. Can he save his reputation and expose the dark side of London’s financial heart?
This book was originally published as The Salamander Chill.
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Roy Lewis (1933–2019) was a well-established crime writer with more than sixty novels to his name. He lived in the north of England, where he set many of his books. He was a former college principal and Inspector of Schools who ran business training programs and had business interests in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia. His three children are all lawyers. He also wrote books on law under the pen name J. R. Lewis.
John Lee is the winner of numerous Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration. He has twice won acclaim as AudioFile’s Best Voice in Fiction & Classics. He also narrates video games, does voice-over work, and writes plays. He is an accomplished stage actor and has written and coproduced the feature films Breathing Hard and Forfeit. He played Alydon in the 1963–64 Doctor Who serial The Daleks.