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The Chalon Heads

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Format: Paperback, 336pp. ISBN: 0142000825 Publisher: Penguin USA Pub. Date: June 2002 "When Detective Chief Inspector David Brock and Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla of Scotland Yard are summoned to Cabot's, a venerable dealer in rare stamps on the Strand, they expect a simple case of theft and a pleasant digression from the usual sort of wrongdoing they encounter in the Serious Crime Branch of the Yard. But the matter they're presented is far more unsettling. An unsavory figure from Brock's past, crafty East-Ender Sammy Starling, aka Sammy China, is in deep trouble and is asking for Brock's help. It seems Sammy's pretty young wife has been kidnapped; but the strange part is that the ransom notes are decorated with rare and valuable Chalon Head stamps of the young Queen Victoria - to whom Sammy's wife bears an uncanny resemblance. Sammy thinks a corrupt cop he helped put in jail once is behind the kidnapping. The thing is, for all his innocent appearance, Sammy is a tough operator whose flair for business conceals a career of fraud and deceit. How can Brock and Kathy trust anything Sammy says?"--BOOK JACKET.