Dead Man Upright

The fifth of the "Factory" series of bleak, atmospheric and subversive crime novels. An alcoholic ex-colleague of the nameless detective is suspicious of a lodger at his Chalk Farm bedsit. In 18 months six well-heeled middle-aged women have regularly visited the lodger, and then disappeared.
 
The fifth of the "Factory" series of bleak, atmospheric and subversive crime novels. An alcoholic ex-colleague of the nameless detective is suspicious of a lodger at his Chalk Farm bedsit. In 18 months six well-heeled middle-aged women have regularly visited the lodger, and then disappeared.