The Wrong Man

Elva Shi

Title： The Wrong Man

Author: Kris Anderson

Genre: 'Whodunit'

Date Started: 11.7.2010

Date Finished:11.7.2010

The book tells about Uluru. It’s a big rock in Australia. It’s very hot there. There is a big hotel near Uluru .A lot of people come to the

hotel on holiday. But two men aren’t on holiday . They want to kill

the Police Commissioner. A person knows one of the men and writes a

letter to the police. Then one man wants to find the killer. His name

is Steve Malone. He talks to his boss. The boss says the killer’s

name stars with “M.” So they get the news. The hotel has three men

named “M.” They’re Eric Manton, he’s a doctor, Micky Munro, he’s a

singer, and William Mortimer, he’s got a lot of big shops. Steve has their

photos and he knows about them. He writes about them in his book. But

he only has two days。So he hasn’t a long time.

On Saturday Steve arrives in Uluru. The weather is very hot, So Steve

wants to have a swim. He puts his bag under the bed .The photos and

his book are in his bag, but he comes back to his room. He finds a

young woman looking at his things. He’s very angry, so he comes up and

arrests the young woman. But the young woman talks to him about the

Police Commissioner and the killer, because she wants to write a story

about it for her newspaper. Then they consulted for a long time, at the mealtime. They watch these three people. But William Mortimer is looking at

them too. They catch sight of Eric Manton and his daughter, but his

daughter isn’t happy. They look at Micky Munro but Micky Munro’s manager is angry with them, so they walk back to the hotel room. They find a letter on the floor:"'M' is the wrong man." They don’t know who is writing these letters, but they’re know the killer.

On Sunday morning , Steve and Sally aren’t going in the bus to

Uluru. But they look at Micky Munro going to climb the rock. His

manager isn’t going. The other two people are going to go. They

take the chance of going to the three people's rooms. At Micky Munro’s room his manager impedes them. But Steve hits the manager, and knows information.Micky Munro knows the killer, because Micky Munro talked to Manton and his daughter. But Manton doesn’t know Micky so Manton has a

problem. Then they’re going to his daughter’s room. She can’t move.

She talks to them about the man. Two men kidnapped her father. He has

a gun. Steve understand the things. He goes by helicopter straight

away to help Micky Munro and catch the killer going to Uluru. And a

climber helps him climb up the rock. They look at the killer who wants to

kill Micky Munro. Steve leaps and hits and captures the

killer. At this time Sally and police bring off the “right” Manton,

he’s OK. Later, Micky Munro thanks them for their help. He is going

to send them tickets to his concert. Steve and Sally go

together to Micky’s concert.