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      Hook or Crook

      by Gerald Hammond
      Published
      Jan 1994
      Main Genre
      Amateur Sleuth Amateur Sleuth
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      Pages
      154
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      Series
      Keith Calder Book 20

      About This Book

      In this latest novel in Gerald Hammond's acclaimed Keith Calder mystery series, it is Calder's friend Wallace James who plays the (at first) reluctant sleuth.
      James, a master fisherman, and his young pupil Eric Bell are fishing for salmon when they trip over the body of a man lying face-down in the river, a fish hook embedded in his cheek. What at first appears to be an accidental death starts looking fishier when Wallace James and the police cast their nets for clues.
      To their confusion, the dead man turns out to have had suspicious dealings in the Middle East, bringing to the wild Scottish Highlands a sinister international element - and another confounding mystery to be untangled.

      Series Placement

      Book 20
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      Genres & Themes

      Genres

      Suspense

      Subgenres

      Amateur Sleuth

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      First Edition Jan 1994 St. Martin's ISBN13 9780312118259 ISBN10 0312118252
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      Apr 2009 Berkley ISBN10 B0026Q7ZX6
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      Jan 2019 Endeavour Media ISBN10 B07MX8FGZK
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      Jan 1994 G.K. Hall & Company ISBN13 9780745125503 ISBN10 0745125506
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      Apr 1995 G.K. Hall & Company ISBN13 9780783811741 ISBN10 0783811748
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      Feb 1996 Chivers ISBN13 9780745125510 ISBN10 0745125514
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