High Crimes [Paperback]

William Deverell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 11, 2006

This high-seas romp from Deverell's Newfoundland to Colombia to Miami features undercover plots, double-dealings, and triple betrayal. This quirky murder mystery features an assortment of colorful characters, including a band of Newfoundland smugglers, an inspector obsessed with their capture, a day-dreaming police scientist infatuated with a voluptuous femme fatale, and a multimillion-dollar cargo of marijuana on a leaky freighter. Proving once again that fact is stranger than fiction, this novel is based upon one of the author's celebrated legal trials.

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About the Author

William Deverell is the author of Needles, Platinum Blues, and Trial of Passion.

Product Details

• Paperback: 260 pages
• Publisher: ECW Press (September 11, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1550226975
• ISBN-13: 978-1550226973
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #318,820 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars High Crimes on the High Seas, April 29, 2004

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cindy keezer (Halifax, NS, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: High Crimes (Audio Cassette)

High Crimes is the best of William Deverell's books, and they're all great. This one follows a couple of Newfoundlanders on a drug deal, and the flavour and personality of the true Newf comes straight through the text. Highly entertaining, exciting, funny and, I suspect, more accurate than most of us realize. A book to be read again and again.