A Walk Into Murder, first published in 1960 (is a fast-paced novel of crime and intrigue. While hiking along the scenic ocean shore of Devon, England, Martin Ridgway happens upon a corpse—and a tin of marijuana—in the waters off a deserted cove. His discovery leads him into the grips of a man named Summerson, and he wakes up ten days later in a private nursing home, drugged and suffering from memory loss. Given a new identity and kept prisoner on a farm, he manages to escape, only to fall back into the hands of his original captors. Meanwhile, the police intensify their search for Ridgway and begin to close in on a large narcotics operation.