At 38, Detective Mick Garvey had a career damned by a sexual indiscretion, a bitter ex-wife bleeding him dry and a job he didn't understand any more as computers took precedence over fundamental policing. Then there was Frank Cooper, still green and impressionable, just out of uniform, to be taught the age-old skills of the detective to carry on the tradition before it's too late. At times like this, Garvey could've used a breathing space but then came the murder at Blackenstone, the bungled investigation and the savage killings which were to follow. As the two detectives are drawn into a web of intrigue, politics and power struggles, only Garvey's stubborn streak can save them from being thrown to the wolves. And in the final desperate moves, with everything at stake, there's only one code - Garvey's code.
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Garvey’s Code: Roger Busby
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The fourth instalment in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency finds Precious running her business from her fiancé's garage as she juggles her life and intriguing cases with love, investigative talent and good old-fashioned common sense. Now that The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (the only detective agency for ladies and others in Botswana) is established, its founder, Precious Ramotswe, can look upon her life with pride: she’s reached her late thirties ("the finest age to be"), has a house, two children, a good fiancé - Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni - and many satisfied customers. But life is never without its problems. It turns out that her adopted son is responsible for the dead hoopoe bird in the garden; her assistant, Mma Makutsi, wants a husband and needs help with her idea to open the Kalahari Typing School for Men; yet Mma Ramotswe’s sexist rival has no trouble opening his Satisfaction Guaranteed Detective Agency across town. Will Precious Ramotswe’s delightfully cunning and profoundly moral methods save the day?
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Marilyn Mitchell, a pretty 18 year old, disappears from her exclusive New England College - apparently without trace. Her eminent architect father offers a big reward and the only response is an anonymous letter assuring him she's visiting friends and will be back in a few days. When she fails to appear, the police begin searching for her body. Chief of Police Frank Ford doesn't buy the family's assertion that Marilyn is a nice pure girl. He believes a boy is at the bottom of the disappearance. Marilyn left behind a diary that doesn't seem to give any clues - or does it?
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John Putnam Thatcher, senior vice-president of the world's third largest bank, the Sloane, is in Puerto Rico to set the affairs of Slax Clothing in order. The bank has lent them three million dollars and Thatcher soon discovers there's more wrong at Slax than a delay in delivery dates. There's sabotage, arson, murder, kidnapping and a political crisis! Slax's boss is kidnapped, the Government declares a state of emergency and a nation wide manhunt ensues!
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Paris in the age of gaslight and the fiacre: a fashionable French painter is found strangled. Highly embarrassing for the Establishment: the painter's wife, a lady of dubious morals, was very much in the news a year or so ago, when the President of France (no less) happened to die in her bed of a heart attack. Felix Hassler may even have been murdered by one of his wife's lovers. She may even be an accessory. But the powers that be don't want her in the dock, with all the old scandals revived. The police are advised to be discreet. But Inspector Gautier is more interested in justice. During his investigation, he uncovers some splendid new scandals.
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Hired to protect a beautiful but neurotic actress, Cordelia Gray soon becomes embroiled in a dangerous case. Clarissa Lisle hopes to make a spectacular comeback in The Duchess of Malfi to be played in Ambrose Gorringe's sinister castle at Courcy Island. Cordelia is there to ensure Clarissa's safety following a number of poison pen letters. But it's clear everyone's in danger. Trapped within the walls of the Gothic castle, the treacherous past of the island re-emerges and everyone seems to have a motive for sending Clarissa 'down, down to hell'.
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Set before WW I, Hugh Frobisher is a reverse remittance man - his wealthy family live in South Africa and he's paid an allowance to return to England. Now he's dead, apparently in a drunken fall from his horse, but an autopsy reveals poison. Suspicion falls on his wife Alice, since they've had quarrels about money, but she's cleared by the evidence of her housekeeper Beth Pottergill. The Frobisher family invite them to live in South Africa - where there's another murder and by poison again. Was the verdict at the inquest wrong? Is Alice a cold blooded murderess? Is Beth protecting Alice - or blackmailing her? -
D.C. Cameron of Yorkshire County is on his way through heavy snow, with a visiting D.I., to arrest one Charles Goodwin for his part in a bank robbery. Cameron is certain they'll find him in a remote abandoned croft, a tiny dwelling shared by several farmers for shepherds' shelter in bad weather. Goodwin is there and Goodwin's reaction is more bloody and ferocious, worse than Cameron had feared. There's a living hatred between Goodwin and Cameron, and this is the story of two ruthless and resourceful men trapped in an isolated croft - and trapped in mutual hatred.
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Actor Sheridan Hayne's life is transformed with his immense success as TV's Sherlock Holmes. He's been a passionate Sherlockian since his youth and he's thrilled when the studio suggests he live in rooms in Baker Street that contain plenty of Sherlock case relics. So naturally, when some mysterious karate killings take place, Sheridan is drawn to investigate.
