It was Detective Superintendent Nick Bogardus, on holiday in a prosperous Northern town, who brought in Solo Malcolm to help a private investigator who was finding the case too much for him.

Who was it who had taken the attractive night-club singer from the luxury of the Torch Club to the bleak desolation of Brickett Wood to shoot her dead? This was the problem which confronted Solo Malcolm, the tough, rough and incorruptible private eye, when he made the long journey northward...

Death Of A Canary by John Cassells (a pseudonym of the bestselling Scottish author William Murdoch Duncan; * 18. November 1909 in Glasgow; † 19. April 1975 in Glasgow) was first published in 1969; Apex is publishing a new edition of this classic of crime literature in its ENGLISH CRIME NOVELS series.