Dan Wheatcroft | Mystery
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Almost a decade after finding himself working for a shadowy Government department, ex-Detective John Gallagher is sent on a task that will become his most testing yet. Armed only with a two inch revolver, 12 bullets, some cryptic clues and a sense of humour, his mission is to assist a high ranking East German foreign intelligence operative to...
Frank V. Webster | Mystery
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The apartment was a small front one, and contained two sewing machines, and, from the cloth, patterns, needles and thread scattered about, it did not need a sign to tell that dressmaking was conducted in it.
Dan Wheatcroft | Mystery
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In what could be considered a prequel to the Leveller Trilogy, Special Branch Detective Constable John Gallagher is seconded to a British Home Office Statistical Unit for what he considers a minor violation of trust. He's not well pleased; he knows nothing of statistics and had been hoping for a much less boring end to his year. The summer of...
A. E. W. Mason | Mystery
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In The House of the Arrow we once again meet French Inspector Gabriel Hanaud. Hanaud is a towering figure in the history of genre mystery fiction as he is the obvious inspiration for Hercule Poirot. Hanaud is called in to investigate when the wealthy widow Mrs. Harlowe dies suddenly and her heiress, Betty Harlowe, is accused of murder.
Dan Wheatcroft | Mystery
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With death taking a break, DCI Thurstan Baddeley, with nothing to do and too much time to do it in, agrees to delve into a 'something or nothing' job for one of his team. What seemed like a good idea at the time is gradually shoved on the back burner as 'normality' returns to the streets of Liverpool and the jobs start to stack up but it's not...
John Oakley and Nancy Oakley | Mystery
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I became mixed up with the Clevedon case—the Cartordale Mystery, as it has been called—in curious fashion. True, it was to some extent in my line of business, though I do not actually earn my living by straightening out tangles. With me it is all a matter of “copy.”
Nicholas Carter | Mystery
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Nick Carter stands for an interesting detective story. The fact that the books in this line are so uniformly good is entirely due to the work of a specialist. The man who wrote these stories produced no other type of fiction. His mind was concentrated upon the creation of new plots and situations in which his hero emerged triumphantly from all...
Dan Wheatcroft | Mystery
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After losing his wife to cancer, Nicks tries to steadily drink himself to death and discovers it takes longer than he thought but then a mysterious encounter one evening sets his life on a completely unexpected path. Taking over his new desk at the Major Investigation Team, DCI Thurstan Baddeley was expecting the odd murder or two but not the...
Dan Wheatcroft | Mystery
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The last of the Leveller Trilogy, the MIT’s DCI Thurstan Baddeley reluctantly recognises the return of an old adversary but as if that wasn’t enough, there's a complication to their equation, an encrypted clue, a puzzle that leads to personal and professional dilemmas for them both.
