Hard Frost Wingfield, R D

A young boy is found dead in a rubbish heap, suffocated and with one finger cut off. A boy of the same age, Bobby Kirby, is missing. Babies are being stabbed, not fatally, in their beds by a weirdo. Frost steps in, as scruffy, foul-mouthed, shambolic and somehow endearing as ever. The understaffed Denton force next have to deal with the abduction of Carol Stanfield, a fifteen-year-old who's later found naked by the roadside, her father having paid a ransom, her mother's jewellery and furs having been stolen. Carol's father is a dicey customer, and Frost has his doubts about this latest episode. A petty criminal, Lemmy Hoxton, is found dead, his corpse having lain for two months in a derelict property, the tops of three fingers chopped off. A carpet fitter returns home to discover his three small children suffocated; his wife's body is later found on the railway line. A supermarket owner is sent a ransom demand for the missing boy Bobby, accompanied by one of the child's fingers... ... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Hard Frost (Wingfield, R D)