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"What impresses me most is the extraordinarilyxa0xa0vivid interplay between the police characters. Frostxa0xa0himself is splendidly drawn." -- Thexa0xa0Times, London. From the Publisher "Detective Inspector Jack Frost, Denton Division, is not beloved by his superiors. In fact, he's something of a pain in the brass: unkempt and unruly, with a taste for crude humor and a tendency to cut corners. They'd like nothing better than to bounce him from the department. The only problem is, Frost's the one D.I. who, by hook or by crook, always seems to find a way to get the job done. It's a high price to pay for a pak of smokes when Frost interrupts his vacation to filch some of Commander Mullett's cigarettes and finds himself pressed into emergency duty. Denton Division is shorthanded after a car crash involving several tipsy high-ranking cops, and on Guy Fawkes night there's more mischief abroad than just a few children making the rounds begging for pennies and lighting firecrackers. In the next few days, Frost will deal with a parade of miscreants, including a blackmailer, a shifty businessman, a not-so-greiving widow, a sexual pervert or two, a crazed housewife, and a cold-blooded kidnapper. The clock is ticking, and Frost is perilously short of clues... "What impresses me most is the extraordinarily vivid interplay between the police characters. Frost himself is splendidly drawn." -- The Times, London. From the Inside Flap spector Jack Frost, Denton Division,xa0xa0is not beloved by his superiors. In fact, he'sxa0xa0something of a pain in the brass: unkempt and unruly,xa0xa0with a taste for crude humor and a tendency to cutxa0xa0corners. They'd like nothing better than to bouncexa0xa0him from the department. The only problem is,xa0xa0Frost's the one D.I. who, by hookxa0xa0or by crook, always seems to find a way to get thexa0xa0job done. It's a high price to pay for a pak ofxa0xa0smokes when Frost interrupts his vacation to filchxa0xa0some of Commander Mullett's cigarettes and findsxa0xa0himself pressed into emergency duty. Denton Divisionxa0xa0is shorthanded after a car crash involving severalxa0xa0tipsy high-ranking cops, and on Guy Fawkes nightxa0xa0there's more mischief abroad than just a fewxa0xa0children making the rounds begging for pennies andxa0xa0lighting firecrackers. In the next few days, Frost willxa0xa0deal spector Jack Frost, Denton Division,xa0xa0is not beloved by his superiors. In fact, he'sxa0xa0something of a pain in the brass: unkempt and unruly,xa0xa0with a taste for crude humor and a tendency to cutxa0xa0corners. They'd like nothing better than to bouncexa0xa0him from the department. The only problem is,xa0xa0Frost's the one D.I. who, by hookxa0xa0or by crook, always seems to find a way to get thexa0xa0job done. It's a high price to pay for a pak ofxa0xa0smokes when Frost interrupts his vacation to filchxa0xa0some of Commander Mullett's cigarettes and findsxa0xa0himself pressed into emergency duty. Denton Divisionxa0xa0is shorthanded after a car crash involving severalxa0xa0tipsy high-ranking cops, and on Guy Fawkes nightxa0xa0there's more mischief abroad than just a fewxa0xa0children making the rounds begging for pennies andxa0xa0lighting firecrackers. In the next few days, Frost willxa0xa0deal After a successful career writing for radio, R.D. Wingfield turned his attention to fiction and created the character of D.I. Jack Frost, who has featured in the titles A Touch of Frost, Frost at Christmas, Night Frost, Hard Frost, Winter Frost and A Killing Frost . The series has been adapted for television as the perennially popular A Touch of Fros t starring David Jason. R.D. Wingfield died in 2007. Read more
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- Detective Inspector Jack Frost, Denton Division, is not beloved by his superiors. In fact, he's something of a pain in the brass: unkempt and unruly, with a taste for crude humor and a tendency to cut corners. They'd like nothing better than to bounce him from the department. The only problem is, Frost's the one D.I. who, by hook or by crook, always seems to find a way to get the job done. It's a high price to pay for a pak of smokes when Frost interrupts his vacation to filch some of Commander Mullett's cigarettes and finds himself pressed into emergency duty. Denton Division is shorthanded after a car crash involving several tipsy high-ranking cops, and on Guy Fawkes night there's more mischief abroad than just a few children making the rounds begging for pennies and lighting firecrackers. In the next few days, Frost will deal with a parade of miscreants, including a blackmailer, a shifty businessman, a not-so-greiving widow, a sexual pervert or two, a crazed housewife, and a cold-blooded kidnapper. The clock is ticking, and Frost is perilously short of clues...
