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  • Dead Image

    A Detective Sergeant Best Mystery 1

    de Joan Lock ...
    The explosion was heard twenty miles away. It killed boatmen and wrecked the exotic villa of Lawrence Alma-Tadema, the fashionable St John's Wood artist. But what caused the 1874 Regent's Park explosion? Fenian bombs? Sabotage by rival railways or other firms? Or was it something personal? And whose was the other body found in the canal? An artist's model? The missing King's Cross barmaid? Or ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Real Golden Age of Murder

    Pistols, Bombs and Motor Bandits

    de Joan Lock ...
    Many Golden Age detective novels, with their engrossing puzzles and attractive backgrounds were a comforting read – particularly after the horrors of the Great War. The murders often left the bumbling police without a clue but some aristocrats and Oxford Graduates found them a piece of cake to solve.Meanwhile, real life was painting a different picture. Guns were left over from the war and many ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Please, Nurse!

    A Student Nurse in the 1950s

    de Joan Lock ...
    Joan Lock's warm and nostalgic account of her three years of training as a young student nurse in the early 1950s. Perfect for fans of CALL THE MIDWIFE.When Joan Lock began her formal training as a young nurse in the 1950s, she was unprepared for the strict discipline and long hours which were to follow and quickly realised she was no Florence Nightingale. Her honest and humorous account of the ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Tales From Bow Street

    de Joan Lock ...
    Narrado por Richard Fox ...

    Completo

    7 hora 7 minutos

    Bow Street Magistrates Court is justly famous as the birthplace of an efficient system of summary jurisdiction. Less well-known are some of the fascinating characters who have taken part in the court's dramas over the years. Most people know of the early pioneer stipendiary magistrates, Henry and John Fielding. But what of Nicholas Bond, the ambitious and devious Bow Street Runner, who (under John ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Scotland Yard Casebook

    de Joan Lock ...
    Narrado por Richard Fox ...
    Series series Scotland Yard

    Completo

    7 hora 36 minutos

    In 1878 the Criminal Investigation Department replaced Scotland Yard's corrupt and discredited Detective Branch. In this classic story of the early days of detection, Joan Lock tells the fascinating story of the creation of the CID, the scandal which preceded it, and the successes and failures of the new organisation, including early cases such as the four murders by Ernest Southey, the ferocious ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Scotland Yard's First Cases

    de Joan Lock ...
    Narrado por Richard Fox ...
    Series series Scotland Yard

    Completo

    7 hora 12 minutos

    When Scotland Yard’s first detective branch was set up in 1842, crime was very different from today. The favoured murder weapon was the cut-throat razor; carrying a pocket watch was dangerous; the most significant clue at a murder scene could be the whereabouts of a candlestick or a hat; large households (family, servants and lodgers) complicated many a case and servants sometimes murdered their ... Leer más

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  • Deeds of Darkness

    Series Libro 4 - Home Front Detective
    In June 1916, a young woman named Charlotte Reid is found murdered in a cinema. Harvery Marmion and Joe Keedy are assigned the task of finding the killer who so elusively fled in the dark. Before long, two more victims, of striking similarity but differing backgrounds, are found dead around the city. Meanwhile, miles from home, Marmion's son Paul prepares for life on the front line as he marches ... Leer más

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  • Mystery at the Station Hotel

    The bestselling Victorian mystery series

    Series Libro 23 - Railway Detective
    Shrewsbury, 1866. When staff at the Station Hotel try to rouse Julian Lockyer, they are horrified to discover his bloodied corpse, a knife still in his hand. Inspector Robert Colbeck, the Railway Detective, is called to investigate and soon begins to question whether it was really suicide.Lockyer was on the verge of being named Chairman of the Great Western Railway, the pinnacle of his career, why ... Leer más

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  • Murder on the Great Northern Railway

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    Series Libro 24 - Railway Detective
    'Full steam ahead' Daily MailApril 1867. Amid the usual bustle at King's Cross, a large wooden box is loaded onto a train bound for Lincoln, its watchful escort insistent it remain in sight. But a daring robbery derails those plans, leaving behind a dead man and a vanished treasure.Detective Inspector Colbeck is called in after a plea from the Dean of Lincoln Cathedral to find the killers and ... Leer más

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  • Death at the Terminus

    The bestselling Victorian mystery series

    Series Libro 21 - Railway Detective
    York, 1865. A passenger train stands ready to depart amid the bustle at the station. The flurry of passengers and porters, the swooping pigeons and barking dogs are thrown into a state of turmoil when an explosion rips through the brake van of the train, killing guard Jack Follis.In response to a summons from the North Eastern Railway, Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming are sent to ... Leer más

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  • Slaughter in the Sapperton Tunnel

    The bestselling Victorian mystery series

    Series Libro 18 - Railway Detective
    'A master storyteller' Daily MailA goods train speeds through the Sapperton Tunnel, but disaster strikes before it can reach the other side as it collides with an unusual blockage on the tracks: seven sheep penned in place. Specially requested to investigate the carnage in Gloucestershire, Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming are confronted with a bizarre case unlike anything they've encountered ... Leer más

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