An Inspector Pel Mystery - Mark Hebden's thirteenth crime novel starring the redoubtable, quirky Chief Inspector Evariste Clovis Desire Pel. An extravagant, big time gangland criminal is ambushed and assassinated; the only witness a ten-year-old-boy. Chief Inspector Pel is called in to investigate the killing, which spirals into an international investigation when a respected spinster is bludgeoned to death and some curious links begin to clink into place.