Magda Jozsa

Neptune King and the Murdered Children Magda Jozsa

Little nine-year-old Carole Beaumont goes missing in Bournemouth and disappears without a trace. Her parents come to K& J Investigations to hire them to find her. Shark thinks it will prove a hopeless case but Neptune is more optimistic. After reading Detective Inspector Olsen's account of the investigation immediately following her disappearance Neptune notes a few points of interest and he and Shark run with them. It also occurs to Neptune that the perpetrator handled the abduction professionally and deduces that young Carole wasn't his first. With painstaking research he and his wife Rachel discover that over the past ten years one hundred and forty-two children had gone missing under similar circumstances. They plot their disappearances out on a map and are awed to see a pattern emerge. Neptune is still slightly incapacitated after having broken his arm and leg a few months before, so Shark does most of the running around, while Neptune continues his investigation from the office. With a fair bit of hard work they narrow in on the perpetrator and learn he owns a farm in the country. They go there and with Fang's (Shark's dog) help make a grisly discovery of several small bodies buried in shallow graves. They call in the police to take over and more and more bodies are uncovered. They think their work is over as they also give the police the name of the man responsible for this wholesale slaughter. Only they hadn't counted on DI Olsen's stupidity. The culprit gets away and so they are back to the drawing board trying to locate the killer who has become the most hated man in England. Will they triumph? Read on and find out.