Murder Needs Imagination by Roderic Jeffries

Roderic Jeffries was born in London in 1926 and attended the School of Navigation in Southampton. In 1943, he went to sea with the New Zealand Shipping Company, and in 1949, he returned to London and was called to the Bar. He practiced law for a short time before dedicating himself to writing full-time. His writings have been adapted for film, television, and radio and have been published in a variety of countries. He and his wife have two children and live on the island of Mallorca.