The Tortured Boy — Howard Charles Davis

The law had finally caught up with big-business crook Tim Terson and put him away for five years. Then his son disappeared, presumed drowned. But Mrs Terson was convinced he was alive, and private eye Edward Tope found himself agreeing to take on the case. A chance remark with Terson drew Tope's attention to Philo Griffiths, who the disgraced tycoon blamed for his conviction, and soon Tope found himself caught in a maze of intrigue and double-dealing .