Lennox Kemp
Created by M.R.D. Meek (1918 --)

According to one blurb, England's fat, balding fortyish LENNOX KEMP is a "struck-off solicitor turned inquiry agent." Er, disbarred shyster becomes a private peeper, anyone? Anyway, while waiting to be reinstated (the events leading up to his disbarment are related in the first book in the series), he earns his daily bread as an op for the London-based McCready's Detective Agency.

But he is eventually reinstated, and this spare yet often elegant series, full of rich characterization, and sharp writing, continues, with Kemp as a particular hands-on type of attornney, part Perry Mason and part Lew Archer.

M.R.D. Meek is actually Margaret Reid Duncan, a retired lawyer. She also writes under the pseudonym of Alison Cairns. Although born in Scotland, she now lives in London.

NOVELS

• With Flowers That Fell (1983)
• The Sitting Ducks (1984)
• Hang the Consequences (1984)
• The Split Second (1985)
• In Remembrance of Rose (1986)
• A Worm of Doubt (1987)
• A Mouthful of Sand (1988)
• A Loose Connection (1989)
• This Blessed Plot (1990)
• Touch and Go (1992)
• Postscript to Murder (1996)
• If You Go Down to the Woods (2001)..Buy this book