title: A Lively Form of Death (A Chief Inspector Morrisey Mystery)
author:  Kay Mitchell 
description: In this well-plotted, tersely scripted first novel, chief inspector John Morrissey has his work cut out for him. Three corpses, one horribly mutilated, and eight missing children--two seemingly separate cases that turn out to be linked--lead Morrissey along a twisted path into the darkest corners of Little Henge, a quiet English village rocked by sudden violence. "There were serpents in every paradise," the local vicar thinks to himself as he studies femme fatale Marion Walsh. After Walsh's housekeeper pilfers a quart of milk from her employer--milk unfortunately laced with cyanide--Morrissey is called in to investigate her death. His attention quickly focuses on Helen Goddard, whose husband was having a well-publicized affair with Walsh. Unaccountably drawn to the prim, proper Helen, the happily married detective must struggle with himself to do his job objectively. Before he's through, the chief inspector will encounter pedophiles, kiddy porn, blackmail, more adultery and a new appreciation for such serpent-free pleasures as home, family and hearth. <br />Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: A Red Badge
  Mystery Story
  McGIVERN
  
  Murder was in the air. A cop had killed him-
  self, and every crook in town knew that would
  be sure to bring on THE BIG HEAT.
  THE
  BIG
  HEAT
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  Why did they fear a dead man? Dave Bannion,
  homicide
  sergeant,
  fought
  for the answer to
  that
  question. He got
  it.
  .
  .
  . Then the big
  heat came.
  The dead man was a police clerk who shot
  himself for no obvious reason. That was Ban-
  nion's first judgment, until a girl named Lucy
  presented a quite different picture of the dead
  man from the one he had shown to the world
  —and to his fastidious, glacial wife.
  Bannion's
  chief, Lieutenant Wilks, wanted
  the'
  case
  closed
  and
  speculation
  ended
  quickly and
  tightly. So
  did Max Stone and
  Lagana who held the city in a sinister, under-
  world grip. Why did they fear a dead man?
  In this story of grim excitement, pathos and
  dramatic surprise, one of our foremost mystery
  writers presents the outstanding murder novel
  of the season.
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