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A twelve year old girl, Minnie Fowler, is missing from school, which is not unusual, except that PC Henry Hoare finds her murdered body on his beat. His superiors are more concerned with the forthcoming election, an impending royal visit from Queen Victoria, and the need to preserve an illusion of ordered tranquility.

Dr Jackson is taking a sabbatical from his career as a Classics lecturer to run the Living Museum at the Manor House. They live out the Civil War period for the benefit of tourists, school parties and other visitors. As the summer progresses Jackson throws himself more and more into the role of Colonel Bagot.

Bonfire night celebrations on the village green in Hascombe are going with a bang, until the guy catches alight and is found to contain the body of Diana Sanderson. Jack Cade is the investigative reporter on a national Sunday tabloid working on a story about a rogue IRA group who are in England with the alleged intention of disrupting the Ulster peace process by an act of terrorism. But when the story from Hascombe comes into the newsroom he abandons the IRA story and goes to Lancashire in search of this more human story. He uncovers a background of rural witchcraft and ritual, which the ...

Sam Shane is a teenager, working at the local theatre operating the spotlight on the Christmas pantomime when a dead body is found in the roof space. Against a background of theatre history and pantomime production this is a gently humorous novel about life in theatre. It is aimed at teenagers but would also appeal to adults with an interest in theatre production.

Billy Baldock is one of the last comedians of the old school, a graduate of the music halls and the Windmill. He is playing summer season when he reads a report in the local newspaper that he has been murdered. Detective Chief Inspector Lawrence has two days in which to investigate the crime and prevent it.

"The staff Christmas party. Five hundred people enjoying themselves with suitable restraint. Incongruous with the colourful streamers and paper chains, coloured lights and Christmas trees, bottles and mince pies, popping corks and barks of laughter. The ventriloquist climbs onto the stage in a trance. He scarcely hears the polite clapping or the lull in conversation. He launches into his routine automatically, as if he is already dead." In post war 1970s London when everything stable has been blown away by the blitz and all that's left are parties and ever changing trends, Marsh discovers ...

After a lengthy and sensational trial the last of the old style gang leaders Joe King has been sent down for 30 years. His London centred world of protection rackets, clubs and payroll robberies has long since given way to drugs and a European perspective. The ageing gangster has been found guilty of murder and arson following a press campaign by investigative journalist Jack Cade. Jack attends the party celebrating the end of organised crime in the metropolis but finds predictably that his life is in danger and that Joe’s lieutenant Sylvia Kahane was not in fact killed when a London vice...

Thursday evening. Inky Venables returns to his home town in the Midlands, sacked after ten years as a national journalist in London. It is the week before Christmas and he faces a bleak future, sustained by memories of past headlines and the hint of a job on a new Sunday regional paper. He still has his dreams. "On the principle that a writer should write about what he knows," John Garforth says, "I know about local government and local politics. This is a dull subject, but the people involved are as accident prone and interesting as the egomaniacs in any other walk of life." This novel is ...

On a Sunday afternoon in May 1592, Jane Mellor is raped on the village green by the comedian of a group of strolling players. Her husband is traumatised by the attack and Jane is forced to flee the village to escape being tried for witchcraft. She sets out disguised as a boy with her catatonic husband, in pursuit of the comic and intent on revenge. However Jane quickly finds that the dangers from marauding thieves and footpads, the savagery of the law and prisons are being compounded by more sinister activities.

Mo Maguire is a private investigator who aspires to be a comedienne. While performing on the Edinburgh fringe she learns that her father’s killer, Billy Harris, has been released from prison and is threatening her life. Confronting Billy leads Mo into the London and international underworld and she begins to discover more about the death of her father.

A comedy novella about big business in the late 90s. Four middle aged men have been victims of the mergers and restructuring which are the norm for multinational companies, and they join forces to subvert the system.