How research on the Island of Portland inspired two crime novels
I
first fell in love with the Royal Island of Portland in Dorset while
researching for one of my Art Marvik mystery thrillers, DANGEROUS CARGO,
no. 2 in the series, which is set on the Jurassic coast of Dorset. I
was so taken with the island's rugged coastline, its wild beauty,
scarred landscape of abandoned quarries and isolated bays that I felt
compelled to set another crime novel there, this time Portland of the
past. DEATH IN THE COVE, the first in the 1950s set Inspector Ryga
mysteries is therefore set on the island, when Scotland Yard detective,
Ryga, is sent there to investigate the death of a man wearing a pin
striped suit found on the secluded Chuch Ope Cove. Here he meets war
photographer, Eva Paisley.
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