DICKINSON, Peter - One Foot in the Grave - (1st British Edition Hardcover in Wrapper)

Used to belong to a library and they rebound it in red but kept the jacket - Book and wrapper still presentable.  >>>   CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson is back: Now-retired Scotland Yard superintendent James Pibble isnt about to go quietly into the nightnot when theres a murder case or two (or three) to solve  -   At Flycatchers, a well-to-do nursing home watched over by no-nonsense nurse Jenny, one-time detective James Pibble shuttles between his nothing-to-live-for present and memories of the crimes he's solved or failed to. He's roused from his listless existence when he discovers a dead body on top of the water tower.   -   Security guard George Tosca isn't the only one at Flycatchers who has met his maker a bit too abruptly. There have been other suspicious deaths in the last three years, including those of military man Sir Archibald Gunter and Bertie Foster-Banks, an inveterate gambler and shareholder in the home. The arrival of a woman in black sets off a sinister chain of events, and before he knows it, Pibble is on the case.   -   As he travels down a twisting path of blackmail and escalating violence, Pibble finds that his life is suddenly filled with purpose again. He will bring a cunning killer to justiceor die trying. But the real reason he went up to the tower on that stormy winter night is linked to a secret he would carry to his grave.    (Goodreads)    >>>    Former detective James Pibble now lives at Flycatchers, a very nice nursing home.  He has little to occupy his time and is rather listless.  That is until he discovers a body atop the water tower.  It was a security guard named George Tosca and he is not alone in having met an untimely death at Flycatchers.  There was a former military man and a gambler.   -   Pibble cant resist and he is on the chase once more.  He discovers blackmail and as more violence occurs, things get very dangerous.    -   This is a very good addition to the James Pibble series.  I truly enjoyed it.  (Joyce on Goodreads)