The Big Grouse

When Detective Sergeant Reed is promoted, the choice for his replacement in Chief Superintendent George Masters' inimitable detective team falls on a woman: Detective Sergeant Tippen. "Tip's" first case with Masters is a characteristic one: as so often, he is called upon to make bricks without straw. As far as the Yard knows, there isn't even a dead body. The Assistant Commissioner's wife is bothered about a missing relative, a sales rep. He has a large territory and he might be anywhere. He might have lost his memory; he might have run off with someone else's wife. But slowly, with the skill and perseverance of a jigsaw master, the Yard team uncovers a murder, a motive, a method and a murderer.