The Dragon ManMeet Hal Challis, Detective for the Mornington Peninsula police force in Southeast Australia, in the first investigation in this prize-winning crime series A serial killer is on the loose in a small coastal town near Melbourne, Australia. Detective Inspector Hal Challis and his team must apprehend him before he strikes again. But first, Challis has to contend with the editor of a local newspaper who undermines his investigation at every turn, and with his wife, who attempts to resurrect their marriage through long-distance phone calls from a sanitarium, where she has been committed for the past eight years for attempted murder--"his." |
Contents
Section 15 | 142 |
Section 16 | 153 |
Section 17 | 163 |
Section 18 | 168 |
Section 19 | 177 |
Section 20 | 185 |
Section 21 | 198 |
Section 22 | 208 |
Section 9 | 85 |
Section 10 | 115 |
Section 11 | 118 |
Section 12 | 122 |
Section 13 | 127 |
Section 14 | 131 |
Section 23 | 213 |
Section 24 | 220 |
Section 25 | 226 |
Section 26 | 228 |
Section 27 | 234 |
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