
Monkey Puzzle
#1275 of 8,085 books · #375 in Crime & Thriller
Won the Gold Dagger Award (CWA Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year) (1985).
In his investigation of the murder of Grantham University's most unpopular professor, Aiken Adamson, Lieutenant Jack Stryker discovers some possible motives—Adamson was the illegitimate son of a local millionaire and he was also a blackmailer.
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- Doubleday Books
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- 9780385199636
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