# The Footsteps at the Lock

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- Book: [The Footsteps at the Lock](https://www.bookquiver.com/ronald-knox/the-footsteps-at-the-lock) ([The Footsteps at the Lock.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ronald-knox/the-footsteps-at-the-lock.md))
- Authors: [Ronald Knox](https://www.bookquiver.com/ronald-knox)
- Publisher: The Murder Room
- ISBN: 978-14-7190-049-5
- Published: 2013-01-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

At first sight the case looks simple enough to private investigator Miles Bredon. Two cousins on a boat trip on the River Thames: Derek with a £50,000 reason for surviving the next two months until he inherits a legacy; Nigel with a £50,000 reason for getting rid of him and inheriting the money himself. When Derek disappears, Nigel naturally falls under suspicion - not least because he has a train of alibis that is almost too perfect. But where is the body? And if this is not murder, whose is the photograph of a body slumped in a boat, and who left the wet footprints at the lock?