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The Mannequin House
R. N. Morris
In this intriguing historical mystery, Detective Inspector Silas Quinn investigates one of the strangest cases of his career . . .
London, 1914. Called out to investigate the murder of a fashion model employed by the House of Blackley, a prestigious Kensington department store, Detective Inspector Silas Quinn of Scotland Yard's Special Crimes Department is thrown into the bizarre: the chief murder suspect is a monkey. He may be sceptical, but how will Quinn ever get to the truth when faced with the maelstrom of seething jealousy, resentment, forbidden desires and thwarted passion that is the Mannequin House?
The Mansions of Murder
Paul Doherty
A murdered priest, a missing body, stolen treasure: Brother Athelstan tackles his most challenging investigation to date.
October, 1381. Brother Athelstan is summoned to the church of St Benet's in Queenhithe to investigate the murder of a priest. Parson Reynaud has been found stabbed to death inside his own locked church. Other disturbing discoveries include an empty coffin and a ransacked money chest. Who would commit murder inside a holy church? Who would spirit away a corpse the night before the funeral - and who would be brave enough to steal treasure belonging to the most feared gangleader in London?
Marbeck and the Double-Dealer
John Pilkington
From the author of the successful Thomas the Falconer mysteries comes a new historical series featuring Elizabethan intelligencer Martin Marbeck...
1600. A new century dawns. War with Spain has dragged on for fifteen years, the conflict in Ireland for six. Unease stalks England in the dying years of Elizabeth I's reign, and Elizabethan intelligencer Martin Marbeck is bored. Then a message from his spymaster, Sir Robert Cecil arrives: the existence of a spy has been discovered, code-named Morera, and Marbeck must uncover the true identity of this traitor quickly, before rumours of the young King Philip III forming a new Armada prove themselves to be true.
Marbeck and the Gunpowder Plot
John Pilkington
Government spy Marbeck uncovers a deadly conspiracy against Parliament and the King of England
1605. With the new King James on the throne, England is still fiercely divided between Catholic and Protestant. Ordered to keep watch on a well-known Papist, Marbeck's assignment takes on a greater urgency when rumours reach him of a terrible danger aimed at the King.
By the time he uncovers the terrifying truth, Marbeck has only a few days to expose the conspirators. The safety of the realm is at stake; but so is his own, and Marbeck needs eyes in the back of his head.
Marbeck and the King-in-Waiting
John Pilkington
Elizabethan intelligencer Marbeck must prove his loyalty to a dying queen and a country in turmoil...
Spring, 1603. Elizabeth I is dying, and her cousin James, King of Scotland, is her successor, but will the transition be peaceful? Marbeck helps a friend find her son, but events move fast and he soon finds himself in a maelstrom that threatens the peace of England.
Marbeck and the Privateers
John Pilkington
Marbeck must keep the peace at all costs...
Marbeck is charged by King James with the task of keeping the peace with England's new ally Spain. Yet there are those who profit from the war, but even Marbeck hasn't foreseen that the task will pit him against double agents and corrupt noblemen who will stop at nothing to wreck the treaty, forcing him to face his biggest challenge yet.
