Nothing Ventured

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My thanks for their invaluable advice and research to:

Simon Bainbridge; Jonathan Caplan QC; Gregory Edmund; Colin Emson; Eric Franks; Vicki Mellor; Alison Prince; Ellen Radley, Forensic Handwriting and Document Examiner (Ret.); Catherine Richards; Susan Watt and Johnny Van Haeften

Special thanks to Detective Sergeant Michelle Roycroft (Ret.) and Chief Superintendent John Sutherland (Ret.)

Dear Reader,

After I finished writing the last of the Clifton Chronicles, several readers wrote to tell me they’d like to know more about William Warwick, the eponymous hero of Harry Clifton’s novels.

I confess that I had already given the idea some thought before I began working on Nothing Ventured, the first in the William Warwick series.

Nothing Ventured opens when William leaves school and, much to his father’s dismay, decides he wants to join the Metropolitan Police, rather than become a pupil in his father’s chambers. William perseveres, and in this opening novel we follow his life on the beat with a cast of characters, some good, some not so good, who cross his path as he tries to become a detective and transfers to Scotland Yard.

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