Yet Another- they've done it again!

Merely as a minor diversion I have from time to time recorded a note of Photographic references in Crime Novels. A glance at the shelves of most Charity Shops will reveal many thousands of these in tremendous diversity. Lady writers seem to lead the field in my favourites set in the period 1850 to date with concentration on the period immediately between the wars. The latest seen is 'A Woman Unknown' by Frances Brody being a 'Kate Shackleton' mystery involving not only a detective with a darkroom but her ill founded relationship with a press photographer. He carries his candids rather too far and ends up murdered in his darkroom. In a strange twist at the end the remains of a camera lens come to light saved from the shell burst that killed the Detective's husband on duty as a MO in the trenches. The pressman had devised a 'round the corner' lens on an Aldis Butcher but had spent the proceeds of blackmail on photographic equipment.The account of printing out paper seemed a little complex but no doubt processes that I am unaware of were involved. All in all a quite gripping tale lightened by photography! ISBN 978-0-7499-5492-5