# A Body to Spare

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- Book: [A Body to Spare](https://www.bookquiver.com/maurice-procter/a-body-to-spare) ([A Body to Spare.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/maurice-procter/a-body-to-spare.md))
- Authors: [Maurice Procter](https://www.bookquiver.com/maurice-procter)
- Publisher: the_murder_room
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7190-274-1
- Published: 2013-03-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Classic police procedural by a 'born storyteller' (Sunday Times), who combined natural flair with his experience in the police to truly authentic effect. There was an extra body in the morgue - a body stripped of all identification and with its face badly battered. But when Inspector Martineau was called to the scene he had a pretty good idea whose it was. That was, however, just the beginning. A big payroll robbery, a group of out-of-town mobsters and some odd behaviour in a local night spot all attract Inspector Martineau's attention. While, at a funeral parlour, the quick are considerably more active and dangerous a problem than the dead.