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Spain. An ex-con breaks into a villa by the sea to steal something very precious from a safe. He will not leave without hurting someone. England. Tycoon Simon Chan asks Eric Ward to find a missing businessman. And Ward is also involved in a case involving his arch-enemy, the shady lawyer Charles Davison. Then a body washes up on a Spanish beach … Eric Ward will face the fight of his life against a professional killer inside and outside the courtroom.

A mystery adventure for younger teenagers When Joanna visits her cousin Megan in Spain the girls hardly expect to become involved in a dangerous adventure. Meg and Jo soon detect suspicious behaviour from a mysterious stranger and assisted by Meg's spaniel Maxie they decide to investigate. The twelve-year-old girls are each called upon to use their own special personal talents and skills when, aided by Maxie, they follow the stranger to Skull Island and discover its dangerous secret - and have to run the gauntlet of a terrifying murderous chase to safety and justice, in which Maxie himself ...

At fourteen years of age Carlo de Rudio fought in the war for independence of Italy, the Risorgimento. With the collapse of the revolution he was persuaded to join in an attempt to assassinate Emperor Louis Napoleon. When the attempt failed he was arrested, sentenced to death, then sent to Devil's Island. The story of his escape from the brutal conditions of the French penal colony demonstrates that de Rudio was a survivor - and this was further demonstrated by his later career as an officer in the 7th Cavalry - and his escape from the Battle of the Little Bighorn. In his 68th novel Roy ...

The story had all the elements of melodrama so loved by mid-Victorian readers: a beautiful widow of poor background, a disputed will, betrayal by lawyers, adultery and sexual scandal and the involvement of some of the leading lawyers of the day in a long-running, sensational dispute. It could have been the stuff of a melodramatic novel but in fact it was all true, and it held the public riveted in the 1850s as the scandalous events unfolded in the courtrooms and the newspapers. Roy Lewis traces the story of the ex-parlourmaid who fought for years for her inheritance, and became a heroine in...

There's an old saying that the lawyer who defends himself has a fool for a dient. Alan Armitage, rising young QC, hoped it wasn't true when he decided to defend himself on a murder charge. It had seemed harmless enough to take Jean Westlake home from a party. Harmless enough, when he discovered she was a struggling law student, to allow her the use of his flat and library while he was in chambers and his beautiful actress wife in America. And then, on the night of his wife's return, Jean is found dead in compromising circumstances. Worse still, her apparent suicide is quickly shown to be ...

Ten short stories of murder, mystery and adventure from a master of suspense.

Murder, fraud, violence and mayhem in 10 short stories of adventure and intrigue.

Newly appointed parish constable, Charles Fresnay, finds on his first day in office he has to deal with a brutal murder. But his investigation is bedevilled by local indifference after the mob hangs a Romany suspect. Undeterred, Fresnay continues his enquiries and gradually uncovers the reason for the killing of Colonel Tom Symonds, rooted in a past scarred with betrayal, murder, rape, and revenge. It is a story that ranges over the London underworld riddled with forgers, the desperate life on the ‘hulks’ in the Thames, the dangers and battles in Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. But as...

Andrew McDonald had a Highland farm and three sons to inherit it. But the eldest was tragically killed and the second enlisted as a mercenary soldier in the Congo. It was left to the youngest to take over the farm - and to marry attractive Sandra Wise. For some reason the marriage aroused the disapproval of the family solicitor - something his nephew, Harry, could not understand, especially as he himself was more than half in love with Sandra. And then the second brother, Grant McDonald, returned home. Soon an act of vengeance for an incident in Grant's mercenary past had shattered the ...

Crime was the last thing Durham solicitor Frank Hales had ever expected to be embroiled in, yet from the moment he got the news that his senior partner had vanished after milking a trust fund, he was plunged into an unfamiliar world. He found his missing partner dead in a secret love¬nest, and there were indications that the prostitute he had been associating with may have been murdered too. In an effort to save his firm, his career and his marriage, Frank engaged a private eye, but his troubles did not diminish and he realised he was being framed ...

The fishing boat slipped into Whitby under cover of darkness but the Regional Crime Squad was waiting; after tracing the illegal cargo to Bradford it seemed that Detective Chief Inspector Cardinal's case was all but closed. But Chakundra Lal escaped the net and soon it was a case of murder. Cardinal is hampered in his investigations by an Urdu-speaking detective constable called Harry Grout, but he decides to use Grout to help trace the fugitive; racial tension arises, an escape from a court hearing follows and the ensuing search ranges from Bradford to Durham and Newcastle, where a woman ...

The murder of a pregnant girl in a Welsh mining valley, and the subsequent arrest in what the police considered an open and shut case, was a double blow to Taliesin Rees, who had been the local doctor for as long as many of the valley's inhabitants could remember. Both accused and victim were his patients. Rees, a widower, was a dedicated doctor, loved for his humanity. He blamed himself for having failed these two patients, and also for difficulties within his partnership, which a disputed decision was threatening to disrupt. Against this background, he found little comfort in the victory ...

The discovery of a dead man at Chesters Fort meant that CI Cardinal’s plans to smash the gang of his old adversary Clifford were thwarted. He assigns DS Grout to investigate the murder while he co-ordinates the hunt for gang-leader Clifford. The investigation begins at Hadrian’s Wall, leads to an University Archaeological department and a dealer in erotica in York, but a second murder—of a beautiful photographic model—sends Cardinal and Grout to the centre of an international art-smuggling organisation on the Bodensee. There Grout faces death at the hands of a professional killer, ...

Edwin James was among the most successful barristers during the mid-Victorian period: his rise to fame and success was meteoric and his name was known throughout the land. Queens Counsel, Recorder of Brighton, MP for the largest constituency in England, nothing seemed to be beyond him. He was on the point of becoming a Law Officer of the Crown, about to be knighted...when all collapsed around him. He fled to America but even there the disgraced lawyer found himself dogged by scandal and rumours of his disreputable behaviour. Roy Lewis traces the rise of Edwin James, the sensations he ...

Alan Fearnley stood apart from the mourners at his brother's funeral, uncertain of his welcome in the Welsh valley after an absence of fifteen years. Only Jeff's death in an accident had brought Alan back to the restrictive rule of Aunt Matty, from which Jeff had never escaped. Now, a successful accountant, at a crossroads in his professional and personal life, he had returned to his native Wales and found himself, almost immediately, cast in an unfamiliar role. Alan was used to scrutinizing figures; now he was asked to scrutinize facts, for someone was claiming insistently that Jeff's ...

Mel Chapman was a successful young business consultant, accustomed to operating smoothly and independently in a world of mergers, takeovers, rationalization and dog eating dog. He was also accustomed to the unexpected. But although he anticipated some boardroom opposition to his proposals when he was hired by QUARTA to advise them on the acquisition of a new television development technology, he hadn't expected the artificially created snags that soon occurred. Nor that his former girl-friend would be a member of the QUARTA board by virtue of having married the chairman as his second wife. ...

Everything was going well for Ben South and his partner. With the signed contract for the Cornelius hotel chain in their pocket, their future as building contractors looked bright. Then a letter arrived from Canada and overnight everything changed. Seven years earlier, South's young wife had died in Canada when her car skidded on a lonely road. The verdict was accidental death, but South now has reason to wonder: was it murder? He travels to Canada where he tangles with tycoon Grant Starling and his Fenokee Project - and realizes he is up against something much bigger than a single murder ...

The battle for the Western Desert is at its height when Arabic expert Trent, brings urgent information back to Alexandria – only to be sent into the 'Desert of Salt' where death awaits in violent storms and the threats of an assassin, headed with murderous intent, for British HQ at El Alamein.

Henry Jones ought to have been good for something more than working as a scaffolder on a building site. He had a degree, the offer of a job, a girl-friend only too eager to settle down to Welsh respectability. Yet he deliberately turned aside. Instead, he worked with O'Hara, violent and drunken; Davies, a drifter; Thomas, untrustworthy; Tommy Williams, deformed and universally disliked. And all of them in a state of running warfare with the foreman, a tough, hard¬working Tynesider with a special down on their group. When one of them was murdered, it soon became evident that there had been ...

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