The Big Grouse

Chief Superintendent George Master's famous detective team receives a severe shock when Detective Sergeant Reed is selected for promotion. Masters is told that a replacement must be found: someone who, the Yard hopes, can rise to the challenge of Master's demanding standards of meticulous and brilliantly logical analysis of evidence. Their choice is a woman, Detective Sergeant Tippen.Her first case with Masters is characteristic in that, as so often happens, he is called upon to make bricks without straw. As far as the Yard knows, there isn't even a dead body. But the Assistant Commissioner's wife is worried about a missing relative. The man is a sales rep. he has a large territory and he might be anywhere. He might have lost his memory; he might have run off with someone else's wife. But slowly, with the skill and perseverance of a jigsaw master, the Yard team uncovers a murder, a motive, a method, and a murderer. And Seargeant Tippen learns a great deal in the process.