Cover; Title Page/About The Book; Introduction by Curtis Evans; CHAPTER ONE The Burning Motor-Car; CHAPTER TWO Two Motor-Cyclists; CHAPTER THREE The 'Daily Announcer'; CHAPTER FOUR The Ealing Villa; CHAPTER FIVE 'Bobs-the-Boy' Appears; CHAPTER SIX A Question of Hair-Dressing; CHAPTER SEVEN Alarm Given; CHAPTER EIGHT Curtis Visits Howland Yard; CHAPTER NINE 'Bobs-the-Boy' Gives Good Advice; CHAPTER TEN Consultation; CHAPTER ELEVEN Among The Sun Bathers; CHAPTER TWELVE Mr Bryan Chats; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Sybil Visits Leadeane; CHAPTER FOURTEEN The A.A. Scout's Evidence.;Description The body of a brilliant woman journalist is recovered from the wreck of a burning car. It is soon discovered that the smash did not kill her; she was dead already, shot by a Browning automatic that was found near by. Superintendent Mitchell, with the help of Owen, a young University graduate turned policeman, follows the enigmatic clues backwards and forwards between a furrier, a picture dealer, and the establishment of a fanatical sunbathing enthusiast. Then dramatically the story begins to repeat itself, as the persistently recurring figure of an old lag who calls himself 'Bobs-the-boy' carries another body out into the night. Death Among The Sunbathers is the second of E.R. Punshon's acclaimed Bobby Owen mysteries, first published in 1934 and part of a series which eventually spanned thirty-five novels. This edition features a new introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.?What is distinction? The few who achieve it step? plot or no plot? unquestioned into the first rank. We recognized it in Sherlock Holmes, and in Trent's Last Case, in The Mystery of the Villa Rose, in the Father Brown stories and in the works of Mr. E.R. Punshon we salute it every time." Dorothy L. Sayers.