When John Posthumous Lerici, decadent poet, black magician and unacknowledged son of Lord Byron, is murdered, the family hire Inspector Swain.His investigations lead Swain through the familiar hunting grounds of Victorian Brighton and Pimlico. But as the truth of...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-07-14
Collection : Inspector Swain
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Relating Sherlock Holmes's part in real-life crimes of the day, Donald Thomas brings the Great Detective to life once again in six narratives that display Holmes at his most determined, inventive and downright devious.What were Holmes's views on Dr Crippen? And what...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-07-14
Collection : Murder Room
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Robert Louis Stevenson's strange and sinister tale of the gentle Dr Jekyll and the sadistic Mr Hyde is filled with oddities suggesting a dark reality behind a classic fiction. That dark reality is laid bare in the casebook of Inspector Swain. The 'parliamentary murder'...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-07-14
Collection : Inspector Swain
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The sensational events of the summer of 1907 - the disappearance of the Ascot Gold Cup from the Royal Enclosure, and the even more astonishing theft of the Irish Crown Jewels from a locked and guarded strongroom in Dublin Castle - remain mysterious but apparently random...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-07-14
Collection : Murder Room
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In the slum alleys of Lambeth in 1891 a sinister silk-hatted figure lurks in the shadows - but trade is there for the taking and a girl must make a living. Now, one after another, the girls who work the Waterloo Road wake in the morning to feel the slow agony of the...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-07-14
Collection : Inspector Swain
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The man the world knew as Lewis Carroll, author of the adventures of Alice, was known to his colleagues in the Christ Church Common Room as the Reverend C. L. Dodgson, a middle-aged Oxford don. His hobby was photography, especially of pubescent girls 'in their favourite...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-07-14
Collection : Inspector Swain
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When ex-Detective Inspector John Raven goes on jury duty, the trial he attends is the prosecution of an Englishman and his German girlfriend for heroin smuggling. Raven is convinced the girl has been duped, but she is sentenced while Pelham, her 'lover' goes free.When...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-07-14
Collection : John Raven
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Steve and Helen Anderson move from their London flat into an isolated old house near the Lod River. Both are strangely drawn to the river, though stories circulate about its dangerously weak banks and powerful undertow. Helen is also drawn to neighbor Matthew Summers,...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-07-14
Collection : Murder Room
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Zaleski is a middle-aged philanderer determined to retrieve the Virgin's Dowry, a jeweled monstrance worth £500,000, which has reappeared for display in an art gallery in Conduit Street in London.This ageing Polish patriot carries out the crime but in doing so becomes...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-07-14
Collection : John Raven
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Mark Hawkins is an engineer and a loner, who has always resented his adventurer-archaeologist brother, Dick. But when Dick vanishes, allegedly dead in a climbing accident,Mark starts investigating the site his brother was excavating, a Cistercian monastery, and meets...

Editeur : The Murder Room
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Collection : Murder Room
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Mike Hurst, tormented by events that happened five years ago, returns to the cottage he still owns and the location of past revelations. The place hasn't changed, but the people have, and he finds himself involved in a fresh net of personal discoveries, all rooted in...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-07-14
Collection : Murder Room
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When Martin Mallory falls in love with a beautiful student, he has no idea the trouble it will cause. Suddenly Li Cho disappears from the secretive Wycherly Foundation for Religious Studies. The principal, Ludovic Lambert, says she has been transferred, but won't say...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-07-14
Collection : John Raven
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When Kate forsakes London to join her husband in the North of Scotland, it is more than a journey to an unfamiliar land. The spirit of the Highland village, invested with ancient clan warfare, works its magic on her; and the foundations of her matter-of-fact marriage,...

Editeur : The Murder Room
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Collection : Murder Room
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Struan Dunbar thinks he'll make his fortune with the sensitive Czech computer discs he plans to sell to an English media mogul. But when he travels to Prague to get them, he suffers a fatal heart attack. His effects are passed on to his daughter, Catriona, but when her...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-07-14
Collection : John Raven
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John Raven - the ex-cop with a taste for exotic adventures and voluptuous adventurers - is unexpectedly thrust into the thick of the action. His Andalusian holiday turns out to be no picnic when he finds himself at the crossroads of the snow-white heroin trail and the...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-07-14
Collection : John Raven
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Curtis had killed a man, and he had paid the price. Now free from prison and moving his way across England searching for a place to begin a new life,Curtis slowly realises he is being shadowed by mysterious pursuers and is entering a very dangerous, stealthy game of...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-07-14
Collection : Murder Room
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Ian MacKellar seeks out Julia. He discovers her on a farm she runs, where she maintains her younger brother and sister. But his obsessive pursuit of Julia becomes stymied by members of her dysfunctional family. The action unfolds in a West Country English village by a...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-07-14
Collection : Murder Room
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Two petrol bombs thrown on the Cakewalk promenade, a sports reporter and his bike rammed off a cliff, a policeman thrown through a plate-glass display window in the city centre and left to die. All this is 'a quiet summer weekend' in the dockland city of Canton and its...

Editeur : The Murder Room
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Collection : Murder Room
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Ainslie meets Mary Allison in an ancient Highland graveyard. It is a tantalising meeting that raises more questions than it answers. Later encounters with Mary and with other local people gradually involve him in a mystery that, as a newcomer to the glen, he is not...

Editeur : The Murder Room
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Collection : Murder Room
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George Drake, the former Commander at Scotland Yard and nemesis of John Raven, is out of prison having served a sentence for police corruption. In court, Drake vowed retribution on Raven, who was instrumental in his conviction, and now he's out to snare him.When heroin...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-07-14
Collection : John Raven
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