Inspector Tibbett – serie

Inspector Henry Tibbett is taking a much-needed holiday from his job at Scotland Yard with his wife Emmy. Headed for a spot of skiing in the Italian Dolomites and some first-class people-watching, Tibbett’s worries blissfully melt away.That is, until a fellow guest who boards the ski lift alive at the top of the mountain is found dead when the lift touches bottom. Another dead body turns up, and then another, and it becomes clear that murder has come to the mountain.Dead Men Don't Ski reveals Patricia Moyes as one of the great mystery writers of her generation.

Inspector Henry Tibbett and his wife, Emmy, are enjoying a holiday on a friend's yacht, lazily sailing from one little English sea-town to the next.It should all be delicious indolence... except that Tibbett can't stop thinking about death. Well, one death in particular. The death of a local sailor.And he really can't stop thinking about it when it starts looking as though the drowned sailor is somehow connected to the robbery at a nearby manor house.

In the plush Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, law officers are assembled to discuss the control of drug smuggling. Among them is the intrepid Inspector Henry Tibbett, using the occasion to combine business and a holiday with his wife, Emmy.But when an important official is found slumped across his desk, a dagger in his back, the investigation becomes uncomfortably intimate. The suspects are Henry’s colleagues, acquaintances, and dinner companions – and Tibbett finds himself unable to account for his whereabouts.

The staff of Style magazine in London are in the feverishly exciting period just before the latest Paris fashion news is to break. They have debated late into the night about which photographs to feature, but only one of them knows that the stakes are so high that an employee will be dead by morning …Inspector Henry Tibbett must act quickly to save the life of his niece, a beautiful Style model, who is in danger of becoming the next victim of a crime as ingenious as the creations of haute couture itself.

When the handsome actor Bob Meakin was cast in the latest Northburn Films movie, he couldn’t believe his lucky stars.  But with the crew in position and the camera rolling, Meakin trips on more than his lines, falling directly beneath the wheels of an oncoming train.The producers claim this to be no more than an appalling accident, but subsequent events convince Inspector Henry Tibbett that murder was added to the script.

Inspector Tibbett joins his wife Emmy for the twentieth reunion of her Royal Air Force squad. It’s a bittersweet trip for Emmy: she loved her work with the RAF, and she was in love with one of the pilots, but their happiness ended abruptly when he killed himself, crashing his plane into the North Sea.At the reunion, Emmy is surprised to realise that she may have been the last person to see her former sweetheart alive. And she’s more than startled to discover that virtually everyone connected with that fatal flight had something to hide…