First fix your alibi / Bill James.

By: James, Bill, 1929- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: James, Bill, Harpur & Iles mystery ; Publisher: Sutton : Creme de la Crime, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 188 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781780295664Subject(s): Harpur, Colin (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Iles, Desmond (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Police -- Great Britain -- Fiction | Revenge -- Fiction | Drug dealers -- FictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery fiction. DDC classification: 823.914 Summary: Following the murder of his wife and son, tycoon drugs dealer Mansel Shale is determined to get vengeance - and he wants another drugs baron, Ralph Ember, to help him. Having heard of the movie 'Strangers on a Train', in which two men agree to undertake each other's murders as a way of preventing detection, Shale suggests he and Ralph should have a similar arrangement - and Ralph is in no position to refuse. When he learns of the plan, Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles fears that if things go wrong, the hard-won peace he and Harpur have established in the city will be seriously threatened. The two top policemen find they have their work cut out to limit the damage and restore tranquillity.
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Following the murder of his wife and son, tycoon drugs dealer Mansel Shale is determined to get vengeance - and he wants another drugs baron, Ralph Ember, to help him. Having heard of the movie 'Strangers on a Train', in which two men agree to undertake each other's murders as a way of preventing detection, Shale suggests he and Ralph should have a similar arrangement - and Ralph is in no position to refuse. When he learns of the plan, Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles fears that if things go wrong, the hard-won peace he and Harpur have established in the city will be seriously threatened. The two top policemen find they have their work cut out to limit the damage and restore tranquillity.

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