High Tide for Hanging

At sea, the danger can''t be escaped...

Classic crime fiction from the 1960s set around a Thames mooring.

''Compton has been one of Britain''s most original and consistent novelists since the late Sixties, but he has never received the attention he deserves...Compton''s prose is fine-tuned, his human insights sharp, and his narrative pace filled with the weird synchronicities and dissonances of how violent things usually happen'' INDEPENDENT