The Shy Traffickers (Professor Dobie Book 4)

With drug kingpin Dai Dymond safely incarcerated in one of H.M’s top-security penitentiaries, a promising market niche emerges in the lucrative narcotics business, invariably leading to straightforward thuggery, copious gratuitous violence and internecine gang warfare in South Wales.

Nothing that in normal circumstances would attract the attention of Olivia Bohun, journalist extraordinaire at the Daily Snipe, which specialises in the more scurrilous celebrity scandals. However, when Shy Trafficker Ronald Primrose is murdered in his office and Maths Professor and amateur sleuth John Dobie becomes unwittingly involved, Ms Bohun decides that this could be a career-defining story and decides to put her Essex intellect and more visible physical attributes to good use on her on-off and highly corruptible drug squad boyfriend, Peter Crumb.

As her investigation into the world of drugs and prostitution advances, the enigma of who murdered Rodney Primrose remains. Dim Smith, Pontin and Jackson, the Holy Trinity of Scotland Yard’s finest, believe they have the murder weapon... but do they really?

This is the fourth, hitherto unpublished novel in the Professor Dobie series. It’s written with the typical intelligence, elegance, humour and wit of Desmond Cory; each character is a perfect tessera, and all combine to produce an intricate and luminous literary mosaic.

Author - Critical Acclaim:
"Englishman Desmond Cory returns to the suspense genre as literate, intelligent, urbane, and stylistically clever as ever" - Buffalo News

"Desmond Cory is a delight - fresh, funny, and full of surprises" - Philadelphia Inquirer