Annal:1982 John Creasey Memorial New Blood Dagger for a Debuting Author

Caroline Minuscule

Andrew Taylor

• 1982 New Blood Dagger winner
• Score: 10.32

A medieval script launches a modern treasure hunt lightly dusted with black humor…

William Dougal is a postgraduate student of history with expensive tastes and low moral fibre. He is the sort who is as likely to commit murders as to solve them. Thus it is that when he stumbles on the garotted corpse of his detested tutor, he doesn’t call the police. Instead, he slips away, intent on avoiding a row with his girlfriend. Naturally, his actions don’t go undetected. Enter the suave James Hanbury with the reminder that the dead man was an authority on Caroline…