When Hamlet drags the body of Polonius on to the stage from behind a curtain at the Theatre Royal North London, the head of famous actor Sir Roger Nutley is lolling at a bizarre angle that can only mean he has REALLY been killed. Meanwhile, a ruthless dognapping gang are spreading misery, snatching valuable pets to sell on the internet; and when a teenage girl's boyfriend tries to resist the dog thieves, the girl is stabbed. And a series of armed raids on shops selling designer handbags worth up to Β£20,000 each is stretching DCI Keith Warren's resources.
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About the Author
Albert Clack was born in Brighton, England, in 1947; educated at Varndean Grammar School for Boys, Brighton; Bradford University (BA in French & Russian); and Sussex University (MA in International Relations). From 1969 to 2006 he was a journalist specializing in international reporting; working for Reuters News Agency for 17 years, and for ITN and other TV news companies for 20 years. As a foreign correspondent, he lived in France, Argentina, Yugoslavia, Cuba and Dubai. He is fluent in Spanish & French, and very rusty in Russian & Serbo-Croat. At the age of 59 he retrained as an actor, and has been working professionally as an actor since 2007. Stage credits include major roles in Shakespeare, Chekhov, Bernard Shaw & Oscar Wilde. In 2013 he appeared as Polonius in a four-week run of Hamlet at The London Theatre, which is what gave him the idea for this story. In 2014 he edited his late fatherβs WWII prisoner-of-war memoir, βMy Underground Warβ.