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Author
Series
Publisher
Creme de la Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
June, 1870. The author Charles Dickens has been found dead in his summerhouse where he had been working on his final, unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Did he die of natural causes - or is there something more sinister behind his sudden demise. Private investigators Matthew Grand and James Batchelor have been hired to find out.
Author
Series
Kit Marlowe mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"April, 1590. The queen's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, is dead, leaving a dangerous power vacuum. His former right hand man, Nicholas Faunt, believes he was poisoned and has ordered Kit Marlowe to discover who killed him. To find the answers, Marlowe must consult the leading scientists and thinkers in the country. But as he questions the members of the so-called School of Night, the playwright-turned-spy becomes convinced that at least one of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Matthew Grand and James Batchelor leave London on commission to investigate the death of Lafayette Baker, head of the US National Detective Police, and find no shortage of people who wanted him dead.
5) Secret world
Author
Series
Kit Marlowe mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
June, 1589. Now a feted poet and playwright, Kit Marlowe is visiting his family in Canterbury. But it's not the happy homecoming he had hoped for. A long-standing family friend has been found dead in her bed, killed by several blows to the head. Convinced that the wrong person has been found guilty of the crime, Marlowe determines to uncover the truth.
Author
Series
Kit Marlowe mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
1591. The Queen is embarking on a Royal Progress, visiting some of the grandest homes in England, and Kit Marlowe has been sent on ahead to ensure all goes smoothly. When his reconnaissance mission is derailed by a series of alarming and tragic incidents, Marlowe suspects there's a conspiracy to sabotage the Progress. Who is pulling the strings - and why?
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Matthew Grand, a former captain in the Union army, arrives in London to track down the last conspirator behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and teams up with journalist James Batchelor to investigate a series of killings that may be connected to the assassination.
8) The island
Author
Series
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"1873. Matthew Grand and James Batchelor have arrived at Matthew's grand family home in Maine for the wedding of his sister Martha. But preparations are thrown into chaos when a body is discovered in an upstairs bedroom. And that's not the only skeleton in the family closet"--Publisher's description.
9) Crimson rose
Author
Series
Kit Marlowe mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Christopher Marlowe's play debut is marred by the death of an audience member by a shot fired from the stage by a bit-part player named William Shakespeare, he sets out to determine what really happened and prove the actor's innocence.
10) Dark entry
Author
Series
Kit Marlowe mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Creme De La Crime
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cambridge, 1583. When one of his friends is discovered dead in his King's College room, mouth open in a silent, black-edged scream, Marlowe refuses to accept the official verdict of suicide.
11) Last nocturne
Author
Series
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"London. May, 1878. Private enquiry agents Matthew Grand and James Batchelor have been hired by the artist James Whistler to dig into the past of outspoken critic John Ruskin, with whom he has an ongoing feud. Not particularly optimistic of success, the two detectives are sidetracked from the investigation by the murder of a prostitute in nearby Cremorne Gardens. Her body posed on a park bench, a book on birth control sitting on her lap, Clara Jenkins...
12) The Black Hills
Author
Series
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"March, 1875. Although he has never had much time for George Custer, hero of the American Civil War and Commander of the 7th Cavalry, Matthew Grand feels duty bound to respond to a call for help from his West Point contemporary. Arriving at Fort Abraham Lincoln, deep in Dakota territory, private enquiry agents Grand and Batchelor discover the fort to be a powder keg of rumour and suspicion, petty rivalries, resentments - and closely-guarded secrets....
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