Bill James
Author
Series
Publisher
Cr��me De La Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Following the murder of his wife and son, tycoon drugs dealer Mansel Shale is determined to get vengeance--and he wants another drugs baron, Ralph Ember, to help him. Having heard of the movie Strangers on a Train, in which two men agree to undertake each other's murders as a way of preventing detection, Shale suggests he and Ralph should have a similar arrangement--and Ralph is in no position to refuse. When he learns of the plan, Assistant Chief...
4) Split
Author
Series
Publisher
Do-Not
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
British spy Simon Abelard is sent to "bring back" a colleague who has turned to crime.
Author
Series
Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles mysteries volume 19
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
6) Pix
Author
Series
Publisher
Countryman Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Superintendent Harpur and Assistant Chief Constable Iles try to prevent their jurisdiction from collapsing amidst escalating drug violence, a score of missing paintings, and a upper-class murder, all of which may be related.
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Part social satire, part police procedural, Bill James returns with the stunning prequel to Tip Top - In the drug-ridden Whitsun and Temperate housing estates a connection, once made, is only ever one thing: trouble. Trouble for the journalist whose investigation into the estates leads to his murder; trouble for policewoman Esther Davidson, whose job it is to arrest the killer; and trouble for TV producer Larry Edgehill, who becomes more involved...
9) Disclosures
Author
Series
Publisher
Créme de la Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When a local villain, with a past entwined with a London copper, is being targeted by a gunman, Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles take the case to protect him.
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Set during an alternative version of 1938. England,1938. War looms, but the Prime minister{u2019}s talks with Hitler in Munich seem to result in a pact of peace. Now Mount, a secret service officer, is sent on an undercover mission to Berlin. But with all this talk of peace he starts to wonder whether his mission has any point. All until a meeting with Toumlin and two good-time girls from the local bar results in a broken chair. Could this chair...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Tensions in the community are mounting following the gruesome deaths of two men, both of whom were accused yet acquitted of the murder of an undercover police officer. It looks like vigilante justice, but who is responsible? Alarmingly, suspicion falls on Assistant Chief Constable Iles. Matters escalate when a TV show investigating the murders is aired, further implicating Iles. Iles seems at ease with the accusations, as are his superiors in the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When Harpur and Iles are called in to investigate an undercover investigation gone wrong, they can sense dark, hazardous times ahead . . . - After a gang shooting involving an undercover police officer, Colin Harpur and his boss Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles are called to another Forces ground to investigate what the Home Office see as spectacular failings. Harpur can imagine the pressure the officer would have been under. If a gang decided...
13) Play dead
Author
Series
Publisher
Crm̈e de la Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
An investigation into an incident in another Force led Colin Harpur and his boss, Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles, to uncover corruption in the ranks and arrest a fellow policeman who murdered an undercover officer. But there are still many questions that remain unanswered.