The Schoolgirl Murder Case
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
When the naked body of a young schoolgirl is discovered on a London common, Detective Chief Superintendent Gregory Saltfleet is drawn into an investigation that cuts through the grimy underbelly of the city's criminal world in Colin Wilson's gripping 1974 thriller, The Schoolgirl Murder Case. As Saltfleet methodically pursues each chilling lead, Wilson constructs a procedural narrative taut with psychological tension, painting a portrait of a detective whose keen intellect and philosophical curiosity set him apart from the conventional police hero. Wilson, best known for his groundbreaking non-fiction work The Outsider, brings to his fiction the same penetrating interest in the nature of violence and human consciousness that defined his literary career. The Schoolgirl Murder Case is no simple whodunit; it is a meditation on motive, obsession, and the darker impulses lurking beneath the surface of ordinary life. With crisp, authoritative prose and a deeply realized protagonist, Wilson crafts a mystery that lingers long after the final page — leaving the reader to wonder whether justice and understanding are ever truly the same thing.
Author: Colin Wilson
Format: Hardback
Published: 1974, Hart-Davis, MacGibbon
Genre: Crime fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
When the naked body of a young schoolgirl is discovered on a London common, Detective Chief Superintendent Gregory Saltfleet is drawn into an investigation that cuts through the grimy underbelly of the city's criminal world in Colin Wilson's gripping 1974 thriller, The Schoolgirl Murder Case. As Saltfleet methodically pursues each chilling lead, Wilson constructs a procedural narrative taut with psychological tension, painting a portrait of a detective whose keen intellect and philosophical curiosity set him apart from the conventional police hero. Wilson, best known for his groundbreaking non-fiction work The Outsider, brings to his fiction the same penetrating interest in the nature of violence and human consciousness that defined his literary career. The Schoolgirl Murder Case is no simple whodunit; it is a meditation on motive, obsession, and the darker impulses lurking beneath the surface of ordinary life. With crisp, authoritative prose and a deeply realized protagonist, Wilson crafts a mystery that lingers long after the final page — leaving the reader to wonder whether justice and understanding are ever truly the same thing.