A Necessary End: Gallows View; A Dedicated Man; A Necessary End (Inspector Banks #3)

By: Peter Robinson

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Synopsis: A policeman is murdered--stabbed during a nuclear protest march in the rain drenched streets of the northern English town of Eastvale. Any of a hundred or more demonstrators could have plunged the knife into Police Constable Edwin Gill, an unlikable man, by all accounts. But who had the motive? Who among the crowd even knew the unfortunate Gill? Was the knife meant for Gill the person, or Gill the policeman? Banks, who loves a good meal, the opera, and his wife, not necessarily in that order, may wish for the classic locked-room case, with just a few suspects under controlled circumstances, but he's confronted with a situation of quite a different kind. And to make matters worse, he's not even in charge of the investigation. A former colleague from Banks's London days, Superintendent Richard "Dirty Dick" Burgess, comes north to direct the inquiries for supposedly political reasons. A selfish and ambitious man, of whom Banks has unpleasant memories, Burgess seems at times almost more intent on destroying Banks's career than on solving the murder.