Bernie Mostyn, vice racketeer, is being retried. At his first trial a jury had failed to agree - but this time around two jurors are threatened and a third is killed.The most obvious suspects are Mostyn's strong-arm men, still at large. But the police are not convinced...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-21
Collection : Murder Room ePub

Joseph Berg was due to meet his 'contact' at a pub in London one rainy Friday evening. Unfortunately for Berg and the contact, someone got to the spy first and cut his throat - and Berg both witnessed the murder and became the chief suspect.In his desperation Berg...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-21
Collection : Murder Room ePub

A woman is murdered in a London suburb and the police investigation into her death is meticulously undertaken. Trying to solve the riddle is Detective Chief Inspector Chudd, newly appointed and still trying to find his feet in. When the truth finally emerges, the...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-21
Collection : Murder Room ePub

Richard Monk was on holiday in Japan. He didn't expect to get involved in the theft of £50,000, blackmail and murder ...But that was what happened when the good-looking young man came up to him on a Japanese mountainside and said: 'I'm in deep trouble, Mr Monk. Will you...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-21
Collection : Murder Room ePub

A police officer needs the quickness and guile of a bookmaker, the ingenuity of a psychiatrist and the physical reserves of a Marine, or so it seems to Detective Chief Superintendent Manton, who is called in to investigate a huge bullion robbery and its possible link...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-21
Collection : Murder Room ePub

Clive Donig is on trial for the murder of Stanley Fulmer, a senior partner in a very shady firm of solicitors. The prosecution contend that he is a professional killer, hired by one of Fulmer's clients whom Fulmer has cheated. Detective Sergeant Nick Atwell is a key...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-21
Collection : Murder Room ePub

John Farndon, a teacher at a public school, is bored with his French wife Monique and infatuated with the assistant matron Belinda. He plans to kill Monique, but from the momentJohn is about to pull the trigger the action jumps to a trial. But the trial is not John's -...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-21
Collection : Murder Room ePub

On trial is young tearaway Ian Tanner, accused of the accidental but reckless hit-and-run killing of his own buddy. What really happened? The answer involves a ruthless gang, a gang that nearly disposes of yet another victim before Detective Constable Patrick Bramley...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-21
Collection : Murder Room ePub

Chris Laker is what you might call a layabout. He has drifted from job to job and when he's been out of work his loyal girlfriend Janey has supported him. NowChris is in real trouble. He is on trial for the murder of a rich businessman - and the evidence is piled up...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-21
Collection : Murder Room ePub

Detective Sergeant Nick Atwell has been suspended, accused of soliciting a bribe from a murder suspect. His wife, and former cop, Clare sets out to prove his innocence, which involves delving in the family affairs of politician and TV personality Sir Guy Frensham....

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-21
Collection : Murder Room ePub

Three dazzling sisters are suspects in the killing of their own mother. If only Viola could have predicted the potential for danger when she drafted the will that prevents any of her daughters from being married strictly for her fortune.But no case of murder and...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-21
Collection : Slim Callaghan ePub

No one asked Slim Callaghan to investigate - he just did it - and they had to like it. A £40,000 insurance claim, two beautiful women and possibly a fake suicide were at stake. Slim Callaghan, private detective, reckoned the situation looked very interesting indeed, but...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-21
Collection : Slim Callaghan ePub

It's wartime London. Inspector Gringall of the Yard, long-time friendly rival of private detective Slim Callaghan, sends Slim on a mission to meet Doria Varette, a torch singer at Ferdie's Place.Callaghan knows Gringall has something up his sleeve. And when, backstage,...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-21
Collection : Slim Callaghan ePub

Rene Burg, one-time Chicago gunman, finds himself mixed up in the Norwegian underground movement during the war. As well as gunning for the German Army in general, Burg is out to get one person in particular: a beautiful deadly woman who has brought the technique of...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-21
Collection : Dark Series ePub

Slim Callaghan is called to Devonshire to investigate a burglary at Margraud Manor, where valuable jewels - heirlooms of the Vendayne family insured for £100,000 - have disappeared.With his assistant, Windermere Nikolls, he discovers some startling facts - particularly...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-21
Collection : Slim Callaghan ePub

Agent Michael Kells is in pursuit of Nazi spies in London, who have been tasked with the job of pinpointing the actual landing places of V1 bombs to improve their accuracy.Through the strange byways of Kells's sinister errand flit the mysterious 'Auntie', the alluring...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-21
Collection : Dark Series ePub

Slim Callaghan, private detective, is drawn into a particularly dubious case - even for him. A Mrs Paula Denys says she paid a man to steal the priceless Denys Coronet from her husband's safe. Now the thief won't hand over the goods and is attempting to blackmail...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-21
Collection : Slim Callaghan ePub

'The British, once they take the gloves off - once they forget to play cricket, to be English gentlemen - they are the toughest things on earth,' says one German espionage agent to another in Dark Duet. And the trouble with Michael Kane, hero of this spy thriller is...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-21
Collection : Dark Series ePub

Quayle, the master of a British spy ring in World War II, is faced with the task of dealing with a man who has come from Morocco with what he says is important information about German troops there. But is the man what he seems?Quayle puts his agents into action, not...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-21
Collection : Dark Series ePub

A dame has to have more than beauty and breeding to stop Slim Callaghan doing things his way. Mrs Riverton has plenty of both, but when she begins to interfere in Slim's search for her stepson, things start to hot up.Slim's motto is: 'We get there somehow and who the...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-21
Collection : Slim Callaghan ePub