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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
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.
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
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 3
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
1916. As thousands of Brits are fighting on the Front Line, a new breed of women emerges to hold the Home Front together. Fiercely independent and fiery-spirited, the munitionettes, or 'canaries', are easily recognizable with their chemically-stained yellow faces. Among the raucous group of women is Florrie Duncan, who plans to celebrate her birthday in style at the Golden Goose publishing But the celebrations are cut short when all but one are killed...
14) Points of danger
Author
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...
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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Description
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...
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