# The Delicate Ape

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- Authors: [Dorothy B. Hughes](https://www.bookquiver.com/dorothy-b-hughes)
- Publisher: the_murder_room
- ISBN: 978-14-7191-733-2
- Published: 2015-04-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Diplomatic corps man Piers Hunt watches the glittering lights of Broadway from his Hotel Astor room. The German girl's mocking voice returns to his mind yet again: 'More melodrama, Piers?' Yes: this time it's 'more melodrama', but with a vengeance. In New York incognito, only Piers knows that his superior, Samuel Anstruther, has been murdered, possibly to get him out of the way of a plan to withdraw a police force that governs post-Second World War Germany. Rumours abound that the Germans might be allowed free reign once again. Piers is a man of peace, but he may have to get his hands dirty if he doesn't want to be murdered - before telling the world what Anstruther knew . . .