Download or read book The Ugly Man (Short Story) written by P.D. Viner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The summer of 1976. The whole country baking in a heatwave. And in a sleepy Derbyshire village a man, known locally as the Ugly Man, walks into his local with a claw hammer and in front of everyone brutally murders the young woman behind the bar. For Patricia Lancing, juggling the demands of being a wife and mother alongside her desire to get recognition as an investigative journalist, this could be the case that makes her career... If she survives it.