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Murder in Blue
Häftad, 2021
120 kr
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John Rutherford, bookseller and fiction writer, discovers the bludgeoned corpse of a policeman. He takes the policeman's overturned bike to rural Paulsfield police station, two miles away, to report the crime. There he finds Sgt. Martin who initiates calls to a doctor, a photographer and Inspector …
Measure for Murder
Häftad, 2021
120 kr
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The novel is in two sections. In the first, the narrator, Vaughn Tudor, describes the formation of the small amateur theatre group, in a sleepy village on the South Coast in the period leading up to the Second World War. But then in the second half, after the revelation of the identity of the …
Catt Out of the Bag
Häftad, 2020
132 kr
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How, where and why did a man disappear from a group of carol singers on that cold December night in Paulsfield? It hardly seemed likely that he had absconded with the collecting box. But the more that Inspector Charlton found out about the missing person, the less certain he became that he would …
Midsummer Murder
Häftad, 2022
132 kr
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It is a market day in Paulsfield, and there is much noise and bustle. A bull decides it is time to liberate itself and goes on the rampage. As this is happening, a cleaner working on the statue in the middle of the square is shot dead, straight through the head. Inspector Charlton has very few …
Subject: Murder
Häftad, 2023
145 kr
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Subject-Murder (1945) is a detective novel by Clifford Witting based on his personal experience as a bombardier in an anti-aircraft detachment. Peter Bradfield, the detective constable colleague of series character Inspector Charlton, is the narrator. We follow him from basic training in Wales to …
Let X Be the Murderer
Häftad, 2023
145 kr
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Let X be the Murderer was published in 1947. It is a bleak November morning when Sergeant Martin, Inspector Charlton s stalwart sidekick, receives an agitated phone call from Sir Victor Wallingham claiming that a ghost attempted to strangle him in the night. When Inspector Charlton follows this up, …
Case of the Michaelmas Goose
Häftad, 2023
145 kr
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Detective-Sergeant Martin christened him 'Whiskers', but nobody could be certain who he really was. That was not the only question that confronted Inspector Charlton of the C.I.D. How, for instance, did young Courtenay Harbord die? And why? Who was Number 106 and in what way did Mr. Ninian …
Bullet For Rhino
Häftad, 2024
145 kr
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Detective Inspector Harry Charlton finds himself invited to a reunion at Mereworth School at which a particularly unpleasant, but very famous and accomplished old boy, Colonel Bernard Garstang -VC, DSO and MC... aka 'Rhino' will be present. The Colonel is attending this event in order to persuade …
Case of the Busy Bees
Häftad, 2024
145 kr
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Work was mounting up, Detective Inspector Charlton did not feel too well and he could have done without Mr Otto Bajornsen. Yet had not this untidy, smiling man come on his fact-finding trip to Downshire, the affair of the Busy Bees might have had a very different conclusion. Even as he sat talking …
Silence After Dinner
Häftad, 2025
145 kr
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It was a far cry from Communist China to the peaceful village on the South Downs, but to be a self-confessed murderer, keeping his agonized diary, it could buy no peace. But then who was the writer of the diary? 'I feel the net drawing in around me even closer and closer. Dufydd has appeared …
Villainous Saltpetre
Häftad, 2026
145 kr
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In 1930, Guy Brangley, an unsuccessful playwright, stages his own disappearance in order to provoke publicity. Twenty-five years later his body was recovered from the sea, three days after he was last seen by anyone. Was this the tragic result of yet another publicity stunt? Or had Brangley been …
There Was a Crooked Man
Häftad, 2026
145 kr
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The tall, distinguished gentleman in the bowler hat who drove down from London one October evening must have had some compelling reason for seeking out old Charley Keldrick, woodworker and handyman, in his lonely wooden shack on the summit of Painswick Hill. Before that night was out, Crooked …
Dead on Time
Häftad, 2022
139 kr
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The scene is The Blue Boar in the High Street, Lulverton. The occasion: the stag party planned to celebrate Sergeant Bert Martin's retirement after thirty years' service. But Bert had still until midnight before Bradfield was due to step into his shoes. At nine twenty-five Jimmy Hooker was still …
