Edward Arno

Coronation Souvenir Edward Arno

It was a simple task of buying another house for Pidgley Properties. When two corpses are found, James Pidgley is inadvertently forced to solve the crimes against a background of police prejudices. The first body was buried under the road fifty years earlier at the height of the Queen's Coronation celebrations. The second body is found in the living room of the house while it was still dressed for an amateur film. The deceased was the estate agent who was selling the house. James' father is arrested for the murder only because he once lived in this house as a child. Brian Steel and Dave Lilly, the local wan-a-be drug dealers, fearing their consignment of prescription drugs would be found decide to kidnap James' sister. They hope to distract James from uncovering what really happened the night the Estate agent died. James befriends one of Brian and Dave's cohorts, Trevor. And together they rescue James's sister from near death. Trevor and James trap the drug dealers and get them to confess to the murder. At a family celebration James has second thoughts about the validity of their confession. A life-threatening chase ensues where James uncover a fifty-year-old secret and the identity of the real killers. Coronation Souvenir is the first novel in the James Pidgley series, and the debut of mystery crime author, Edward Arno.