H.R.F. Keating: The Rich Detective (USA 1994)

From the Publisher:
Fresh fom a holiday in Spain, Detective Inspector Bill Sylvester returns to his post in south Mercia and two surprises. The first is a pattern of events that to Sylvester's mind could spell murder. It seems that a series of elderly ladies have expired under less than thoroughly explicable circumstances, after willing their estates to prominent antiques dealer Charles Roanoke. The second surprise is no less jolting. The lottery ticket he'd bought while abroad has won Sylvester a million pounds.

Sylvester goes religiously by the book until he fails to convince his department that foul play may lie behind the deaths of the unfortunate dowagers. Suddenly master of his destiny, Sylvester indulges in the luxury of his own very private, very relentless investigation. He soon discovers that money may buy a snare for a killer, but at a tragic price that can't be measured in sterling.

H.R.F. Keating: The Rich Detective. Warner Books, ISBN: 0446403822 (June, 1994), 243 p., $5.50.

H.R.F. Keating: The Rich Detective (UK 1994)

From the Publisher:
Detective Inspector Bill Sylvester is hard at work on a very delicate enquiry. Someone has sent an anonymous letter to the South Mercia Police Constable which alleges that a prominent local antiques dealer has been pursuading old ladies to change their wills in his favour and then murdering them.

H.R.F. Keating: The Rich Detective. Pan, ISBN: 0330332988 (January, 1994), 208 p., £4.99.