Billingsgate Shoal - Hardcover

Boyer, Rick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395320410 ISBN 13: 9780395320419

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1982

Synopsis

When a fishing boat is found stranded on Billingsgate Shoal, Dr. Charles Adams, oral surgeon, is drawn into a hair-raising adventure that introduces him to sea-faring arms smugglers

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

is up there with the best." The Boston Globe
A Doc Adams Thriller, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Novel of the Year.
First, a fishing trawler runs aground on the Massachusetts shore. Then a young scuba diver sent to investigate the wreck is found dead in the water. Doc Adams, a friend of the dead diver, sets out through the stormy seas and blood-flecked sands of Cape Cod to plumb a murder he should have prevented. There he uncovers a hidden treasure in illegal arms and is nearly killed in the process. Doc lets the world think he's dead, the better to hunt for the killers of his friend. But if he makes a single mistake, he'll be clam chowder.

From AudioFile:

Doc Adams becomes a self-styled investigator in this mystery, which leads him from a murder on Billingsgate Shoal to an arms-smuggling ring. Christopher Lane's unceremonious voice duplicates the persona of Dr. Adams's cool, calculated personality as he stumbles upon the pieces of this puzzling tale. Lane collects the additional characters we meet, wife Mary and sons, missing people rediscovered, and possible suspects, giving each voice a refined contrast. His storytelling supports the listener throughout this fast-moving novel. B.J.L. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0395320410
• ISBN 13: 9780395320419
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272