Error of the Moon - Woods, Sara

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Résumé :
He did not see the blurred lights that followed him, nor the shape of the car loomed at last out of the mist. But he felt the force of the impact and an eternity of pain... Something wicked is going on at the Carcroft Works of General Aircraft Limited, located on the lonely Yorkshire moors. Foul play and deadly espionage, by the looks of it. Under what is dubbed the Full Moon Project, research is being conducted into a new anti-missile missile. One of the project researchers is killed in a hit-and-run accident in the factory parking lot on a foggy November night and papers related to the missile design are compromised. On account of his activities with the Secret Intelligence Service in The Third Encounter, Antony Maitland is pressed by representatives from the company to investigate on the scene, in the guise of a new employee. His wife Jenny comes along to provide cover, but the case is no honeymoon for the couple. To the contrary, it proves to be positive murder. This gripping courtroom drama from 1963 features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans. The most durable and appealing series of English courtroom mysteries - Publishers Weekly...

Sommaire:
Sara Woods, the pen name of Eileen Mary Lana Hutton Bowen Judd, was bornin 1916 in Bradford, Yorkshire. She was the daughter of Francis Burton Hutton, a garage proprietor and Sara Roberta Woods, the daughter of a buyer for an engineering firm.In 1946 she married electrical engineer Anthony George Bowen Judd. Following a dozen years of farming in rural Yorkshire, the couple moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1958, where Sara began her prolific mystery writing career. She became well-known for her detective series featuring canny barrister Antony Maitland - a character inspired by her beloved older brother, Antony Woods Hutton, a promising young solicitor who was tragically killed in 1941 at the age of 33 when as a Royal Air Force pilot in the Second World War his plane was shot down during action in Egypt.Sara Woods' detective novels were celebrated for their intricate plots and the authenticity of their courtroom settings and they garnered a longtime, loyal readership. Sara passed away at the age of 69 on November 6, 1985, leaving behind her a rich legacy of four dozen Antony Maitland mysteries....