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Author
Series
Bow Street rivals volume 2
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A scurrilous newspaper has built up a large following by publishing details of political and sexual scandals. It is remarkably well-informed and has therefore created a whole host of enemies. When the editor is killed and the printing press smashed to bits, the Invisible Detectives are hired by the man who financed the production of the paper. He wants the killer brought to justice and the scandal sheet revived. Peter and Paul Skillen find themselves...
Author
Series
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Following a string of successful performances, the Moscardi Circus is travelling by train to Newcastle for their next show. Yet a collision on the track with a couple of sleepers causes pandemonium: passengers thrown about and animals escaping into the night. When the body of a woman is discovered in nearby woodland, Inspector Colbeck is desperate to lend assistance, believing the two incidents might be connected. Who is the nameless woman and who...
Author
Series
Robert Colbeck mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Bow Street rivals volume 3
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
1817. Dawn breaks on a summers day in Chalk Farm, London, and the scene is set for a duel between a ladys two ardent admirers. Paul Skillen has been teaching Mark Bowerman how to shoot properly, and although he is not sanguine of his chances, stands as his second. Although the duel is broken up, the passions behind the duel seem to spill out into the full light of day when one of the two duellists is found dead, shot between the eyes. Paul and his...
Author
Series
Bow Street rivals volume 1
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this first instalment of the Bow Street Rivals series a riot breaks out in Dartmoor prison, enabling some American inmates to escape. The twin detectives Peter and Paul Skillen catch wind of a projected assassination but the target is unknown. Trouble ensues when a woman from the Home Office vanishes; a mysterious lady turns up at the archery shooting gallery; and Pauls gambling addiction worsens...
Author
Series
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"London, 1817. An impatient crowd is gathered outside the stage door of the Covent Garden Theatre, desperate for a glimpse of actress Hannah Granville after her latest performance as Lady Macbeth, amongst them the Prince Regent himself. But before she can appear a gunshot sounds, and a man lies dead on the ground amidst the ensuing chaos. Sir Roger Mellanby MP had been a spearhead for social reform, although his political leanings had made him many...
Author
Series
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
November 1907. George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield sail from Liverpool to New York on the maiden voyage of the luxurious Mauretania. Employed by the Cunard Line again as private detectives, they pose as passengers on what proves to be a very eventful crossing. Dillman is instrumental in rescuing a crew member from being washed overboard in severe weather, but he is unable to save one of the first-class passengers from the same fate. At first,...
15) The enemy within
Author
Series
Home front detective mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Alison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Pentonville Prison. Wally Hibbert is serving a long sentence for arson. But after befriending and tricking one of the officers, Hibbert makes an audacious escape. Inspector Marmion, the detective who arrested Hibbert, is warned to watch his back, but it seems that Hibbert has another target in his murderous sights. However, the investigation is mired in confusion, the identities of killer and victim become increasingly ambiguous. An inmate at an internment...
Author
Series
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
October 1854. As an autumnal evening draws to a close, crowds of passengers rush onto the soon to depart London to Brighton Express. A man watches from shadows nearby, grimly satisfied when the train pulls out of the station.
Author
Series
Bow Street rivals volume 4
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
1817. Upon receiving a letter from an old family friend, Catherine Van Emden returns from Holland to find her father dead. She refuses to believe the middle-aged man died of natural causes, and the suspicious circumstances of his life during the past few months compel her to ask Peter and Paul Skillen for help. Why would a successful engineer suddenly begin begging for alms on the streets? Had he refused to ask for help, or was he prevented from doing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
1859. St Mary's Church, Spondon. A little girl playing hide-and-seek jumps into a freshly-dug grave to find a dead man already occupying it. It is the body of a senior director of the Midland Railway. Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming travel to Derbyshire to investigate.
19) Dance of death
Author
Series
Home front detective mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The fifth book in the Home Front Detective Series. London, Autumn 1916. When he slips out of a house in the early hours of the morning, Simon Wilder is too preoccupied to realise that he is being stalked. As he walks along the street, lights begin to dim as a warning that there's another Zeppelin attack. Guns begin to pound away as British aeroplanes attack the Zeppelin. Suddenly, it bursts into flame and lights up the whole sky. The crowds cheer...
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