Dimensions
111 x 18 x 179mm
The book that started Hetty Wainthropp investigating, 'Missing Persons' is the novel in which we first meet Hetty Wainthropp, supergran sleuth of the TV series, "Hetty Wainthropp Investigates". Hetty's success in tracing the long-lost son of an old friend gives her a taste for detection and almost overnight she sets up as a private detective. Thus we have Hetty patrolling the West End of London, holding a notice-board bearing the legend: "Have You Seen This Boy?"; sifting through cardboard boxes among the homeless in dark alleys; hobnobbing with a chiropodist who once trod the corridors of royalty; making the acquaintance of a python in a strip-club.
Hetty is a force for life: she saves the life of a little girl trapped in machinery and brings back to life her oldest friend, Edith, after the death of Edith's bigamous husband. The story comes to a happy ending among the pines of Tuscany.
'Missing Persons' presents the original Hetty Wainthropp, shows us her roots and her background, the genesis of her genius. Now by the magic of television a younger Hetty has emerged to take her rightful place alongside Poirot, Miss Marple, Lovejoy and Columbo. She is a woman of gumption; impulsive, rumbustious, going straight for the jugular of what she thinks is right and surprisingly often getting there.
