A Clear Case of Suicide

by Michael Underwood

'Underwood's novels are insidiously hard to put down' Independent

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Laurence Deegan, QC, had just won his latest case. At fifty, already a distinguished and famous barrister, he seemed set to become a judge at an early age. A few hours later Deegan ran the bath installed in his Chambers, got into it and slit the veins in both wrists.

Why had he done it? His son, a Special Branch police officer, takes it upon himself to find out ...

'Underwood couldn't write a bad book if he tried' Oxford Mail

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About the author

Michael Underwood (the pseudonym of John Michael Evelyn) was born in Worthing, Sussex and educated at Christ Church College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1939 and served in the British army during World War Two. He returned to work in the Department of Public Prosecutions until his retirement in 1976, and wrote almost 50 crime novels informed by his career in the law. His five series characters include Sergeant Nick Atwell and lawyer Rosa Epton, of whom it was said by the Washington Post that she 'outdoes Perry Mason'.

ISBN: 9781471908170

Format: eBook

Publication Date: 21/01/2014

Imprint: The Murder Room