Barlow by the Book

Station Sergeant Barlow is back; but if he thought life was going to settle down after his last traumatic case, he couldn’t have been more wrong.

A brawl among youths escalates into a series of violent robberies; a pickpocket targets leading businessmen; local “hood”, Geordie Dunlop, is on the run and suspected of several murders; and the town drunk, Barlow’s friend and wartime commander, Major Edward Adair, GC, must be sobered up in time for his sister’s important visit.

Barlow’s problems mount when his wife is released unexpectedly from a mental institution, and his daughter, Vera, is shot during a robbery. His house is bombed and he is suspended from duty on suspicion of Perverting the Course of Justice.

Barlow is under strict orders not to interfere in the ongoing investigations, but shooting Vera has made it personal …