Home front detective mysteries
Author
Author
Series
Home front detective mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
May 1915. While thousands of Britons fight in the trenches, a severely depleted police force remains behind to keep the Home Front safe. In London, the sinking of the Lusitania sparks an unprecedented wave of anti-German riots and arson attacks across the city. Among the victims is the immigrant tailor Jacob Stein, found dead in his burnt-out shop. Detective Inspector Harvey Marmion and Sergeant Joe Keedy must take on this case of cover-ups and contradictions...
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An instrument of slaughter , Home front detective mysteries volume 2
Author
Author
Series
Home front detective mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When five female munitions workers on the home front are killed in a suspicious explosion, Marmion and Keedy must get to the bottom of who is responsible for such a horrendous act.
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Deeds of darkness: a homefront detective mystery , Home front detective mysteries volume 4
Author
Author
Series
Home front detective mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The fifth book in the Home Front Detective Series. London, Autumn 1916. When he slips out of a house in the early hours of the morning, Simon Wilder is too preoccupied to realise that he is being stalked. As he walks along the street, lights begin to dim as a warning that there's another Zeppelin attack. Guns begin to pound away as British aeroplanes attack the Zeppelin. Suddenly, it bursts into flame and lights up the whole sky. The crowds cheer...
Author
Series
Home front detective mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Alison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pentonville Prison. Wally Hubbard is serving a long sentence for arson. But after befriending and tricking one of the officers, Hubbard makes an audacious escape. Inspector Marmion, the detective who arrested Hubbard, is warned to watch his back, but it seems that Hubbard has another target in his murderous sights. However, the investigation is mired in confusion, the identities of killer and victim become increasingly ambiguous. An inmate at an internment...
7) Under attack
Author
Series
Home front detective mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Allison and Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"June, 1917. While another daylight air raid batters London, the body of respected businessman and devoted family man Gilbert Donohoe is fished from the Thames, the victim of strangulation. Inspector Marmion struggles with the case alongside his anxieties for his now-missing son, Paul, but the pressure increases when the Metropolitan Police are the target of a series of vicious press attacks. As Marmion is pilloried in the press, he uncovers a seedy...
Author
Series
Home front detective mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It is the autumn of 1917, and at the luxurious Lotus Hotel in Chelsea, a maid is disrupted from her morning rounds by a horrifying discovery: instead of the dignified older lady who has been occupying a room, she finds the dead body of a much younger woman. Harvey Marmion and Joe Keedy are dispatched from Scotland Yard to investigate, and learn that she seems to have been poisoned. But who is this woman? And what has happened to the previous occupant...
Author
Series
Home front detective mysteries volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
December, 1917. Ada Hobbs has cleaned for Dr. Tindall for many years and begins this frosty morning like any other day. But it turns out the house is not empty after all. The blood-covered George Tindall is sprawled across the floor. Detective Inspector Harvey Marmion and Sergeant Joe Keedy arrive to a horrific scene. Someone enjoyed killing Tindall, without a doubt. Their investigation takes them out of London, and on the trail of three different...
10) Danger of defeat
Author
Series
Home front detective mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
February 1918. Detective Inspector Harvey Marmion and Detective SergeantJoe Keedy are pulled from their beds to attend a sinister siege involving threeburglars where one policeman has already been shot dead. Attempts at talkingthe men in the house into surrender are met with stony silence so the policeproceed to batter down the door and Keedy bravely leads the way. A gunshotis heard. Keedy is hit.As Keedy is rushed to hospital, Marmion is on the trail...