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The Litmore Snatch

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The Litmore Snatch
First edition (UK)
AuthorHenry Wade
LanguageEnglish
GenreDetective
PublisherConstable (UK)
Macmillan Inc. (US)
Publication date
1957
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

The Litmore Snatch is a 1957 detective thriller novel by the British writer Henry Wade.[1] It was his final novel.[2] Like much of Wade's work it takes the form of a standard police procedural. A review in The Guardian by fellow crime writer Anthony Berkeley considered the "book is a quiet and almost factual account of the police procedure following the kidnapping of a small boy for ransom, and personally I found it fascinating"

Synopsis

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The owner of a newspaper in a seaside town in the North East of England receives threatening letters. Soon afterwards his ten-year-old son is kidnapped and a £10,000 ransom demanded.

References

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  1. ^ Cooper & Pike p.132
  2. ^ Reilly p.1422

Bibliography

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  • Cooper, John & Pike, B.A. Artists in Crime: An Illustrated Survey of Crime Fiction First Edition Dustwrappers, 1920-1970. Scolar Press, 1995.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.