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Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2017.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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
Domesday books volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
In England, King William the Conqueror sends two agents to the village of Maldon to assess landholdings and taxes: soldier Ralph Delchard and lawyer Gervase Bret. They arrive just in time to investigate a murder in Blackwater Castle. By the author of The Wolves of Savernake.
Author
Series
Home front detective mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the murder of a conscientious objector during the height of World War I, Inspector Marmion and Sergeant Keedy find the case complicated by a lack of public sympathy and the popularity of a chief suspect.
11) Orders to kill
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Series
Home front detective mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"December 1917. Ada Hobbes has cleaned for Dr Tindall for many years and begins this frosty morning like any other day. But it turns out the house is not empty after all. The blood-covered George Tindall is sprawled across the floor. Detective Inspector Harvey Marmion and Sergeant Joe Keedy arrive to a horrific scene. Someone enjoyed killing Tindall, without a doubt. Their investigation takes them out of London and on the trail of three different...
12) The unseen hand
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Series
Home front detective mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"It is the autumn of 1917, and at the luxurious Lotus Hotel in Chelsea, a maid is disrupted from her morning rounds by a horrifying discovery: instead of the dignified older lady who has been occupying a room, she finds the dead body of a much younger woman. Harvey Marmion and Joe Keedy are dispatched from Scotland Yard to investigate, and learn that she seems to have been poisoned. But who is this woman? And what has happened to the previous occupant...
14) Points of danger
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Series
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
1861, East Anglia. Alone in a first-class carriage, the Swarbricks are robbed at gunpoint, but when the universally-admired Swarbrick fights back, the train robber takes more than money and jewellery, killing the man working to unify East Anglia's tangle of railway networks. Inspector Colbeck is brought in from London, as the only detective in Britain with enough expertise for the job. But as Swarbrick's glowing reputation begins to crumble, the line...
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Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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"Halloween 1861. A special train with two carriages steams across the Lake District at night on its way to a place notorious for its record of supernatural incidents. Most of those on board have been fortified by alcohol so the mood is boisterous. Lighting inside the carriages is poor and without warning, the lamp goes out in the last compartment of the second carriage, plunging it into darkness. When the special reaches the end of its journey, the...
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