# Practice to Deceive

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- Book: [Practice to Deceive](https://www.bookquiver.com/dell-shannon/practice-to-deceive) ([Practice to Deceive.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/dell-shannon/practice-to-deceive.md))
- Authors: [Dell Shannon](https://www.bookquiver.com/dell-shannon)
- Publisher: the_murder_room
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7191-351-8
- Published: 2014-07-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'My favourite American crime-writer' New York Herald Tribune Sergeant Ivor Maddox of the Wilcox Street precinct has more crime on his hands than even he is accustomed to: murders, con-men, a dismembered corpse, runaway teenagers and a multiple rapist. To catch the rapist, whose victims are always attractive and respectable women, Maddox persuades his true love, policewoman Sue Carstairs, to bait the trap . . .