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A Man Condemned is the 12th in the C.I.D. Room serie by Roderic Jeffries. It is free right now at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Man-Condemned...dp/B07F43X77F/

Spoiler:

He re-read the night crime list. Three breaking-and-enterings, four cars stolen and not yet recovered, a couple of fights down at the docks, a domestic assault and battery with the brutally injured wife refusing to press charges, a spate of muggings between ten and midnight, an unusually high number of drunk-and-disorderlies, a missing girl of sixteen, a bad hit-and-run, an attempted suicide . . . Sometimes it was difficult to remember that for the majority of people the world was a reasonably orderly place.

Inspector Fusil of the Fotrow CID is assigned to protect an exiled Iranian oil millionaire from assassination, little does he know that he is walking into a sprawling web of crime and deceit. A series of seemingly unrelated crimes are hiding a much more sinister plot. Once again it is up to no-nonsense Detective Inspector Fusil to untangle the truth from the lies.