The Litmore Snatch

The Litmore Snatch is a 1957 detective thriller novel by the British writer Henry Wade.

[2] Like much of Wade's work it takes the form of a standard police procedural.

A review in The Guardian by fellow crime writer Anthony Berkeley considered the "book is a quiet and almost factual account of the police procedure following the kidnapping of a small boy for ransom, and personally I found it fascinating" The owner of a newspaper in a seaside town in the North East of England receives threatening letters.

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