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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Jim Henderson is one of six guests summoned by the mysterious Edwin Carson, a collector of precious stones, to a weekend party at his country house, Thrackley. The house is gloomy and forbidding but the party is warm and hospitable except for the presence of Jacobson, the sinister butler. The other guests are wealthy people draped in jewels; Jim cannot imagine why he belongs in such company. After a weekend of adventure, with attempted robbery and...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Several local residents have disappeared in suspicious circumstances at the Hog's Back ridge in Surrey. When a doctor vanishes, followed by a nurse with whom he was acquainted, Inspector French deduces murder, but there are no bodies. Can he eventually prove his theory and show that murder has been committed?
Author
Series
Francis Oughterard mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2007
Description
The Reverend Francis Oughterard merely longs for a quiet life far from his bishopś overview. Instead, he becomes entangled in a nightmare world of predatory female parishioners, officious policemen, and accidental murder. It is up to Maurice, the cat, and Bouncer, the dog, to save him.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
"Constance Harding's comfortable corner of Surrey is her own little piece of heaven. She lives in a chocolate box house complete with an Aga and a parrot, her bell-ringing club is set to dominate the intercounty tournament, and she is sure she can get her son, Rupert, to settle down if she just writes the perfect personal ad for him. Naturally, things turn disastrous rather quickly. And she's about to learn that her perfect home conceals a scandal...