Death At Deepwood Grange

Author : Michael Underwood
Publisher : Murder Room
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471904707

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Death at Deepwood Grange by Michael Underwood Pdf

Deepwood Grange is no longer what it was in the thirties: the beautiful old house has been converted into luxury apartments, and the original family is long gone. But on a rare visit to her godmother, solicitor Rosa Epton finds herself quite entertained by the eccentric residents of the other flats. Until, that is, one of them turns up dead in the chimney of an empty apartment, and her godmother becomes a prime suspect. Then her godmother disappears, and Rosa's involvement becomes even more personal ...

Author : Michael Underwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : England
ISBN : OCLC:939615011

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Death at Deepwood Grange by Michael Underwood Pdf

Deepwood Grange is a beautiful old house converted into flats. There are murders, a puzzle, several suspects, a police detective and an amateur detective in the person of pretty young solicitor Rosa Epton. Rosa's godmother is a resident at the Grange and becomes a suspect when a body is found in the chimney of an empty flat.

Author : Michael Underwood
Publisher : Murder Room
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471907692

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Death on Remand by Michael Underwood Pdf

A whodunnit in the best blood-tingling tradition, which keeps the reader gasping and guessing till the last page. Although Julian Prentice is a small-time crook, his theft of a car hardly seems to warrant someone's very deliberate attempt to kill him on the day he is released from prison. The final roll-call of suspects comes to six, with six apparently foolproof alibis. Yet someone is lying. It falls to Detective-Superintendent Simon Manton to work out who ...

Author : Michael Underwood
Publisher : Murder Room
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471907753

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Cause of Death by Michael Underwood Pdf

When Mrs Sophie Easterberg is found dead on her bedroom floor in the picturesque village of Five Meadows, it is apparent she has been murdered. The obvious suspect is Dave Lucas, an ex-borstal boy recently employed by her, who has since disappeared. Detective-Superintendent Simon Manton of Scotland Yard is despatched to take charge of the case. He soon tracks Lucas down. But is he guilty? And, even if he is, would a jury convict him?

Author : Michael Underwood
Publisher : Murder Room
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471904660

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Death in Camera by Michael Underwood Pdf

A prominent judge is murdered on the opening day of the new Runnymede Crown Court, and Rosa Epton become doubly involved, both as a witness to the murder and the solicitor in a drugs trial over which Judge Ambrose was to have presided. His replacement, Judge Holtby, seems unduly upset by the death of his colleague - and then two more deaths occur. But was Judge Ambrose the real target in the first place? And what involvement does Rosa's client in the drugs case have in the whole business? Eventually Rosa is able to deduce the likely sequence of events, but there is still a final secret to be revealed ...

Author : Michael Underwood
Publisher : Murder Room
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471904622

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Goddess of Death by Michael Underwood Pdf

In the fourth Rosa Epton mystery, Underwood's protagonist, whom Mystery Magazine declared 'one of mystery fiction's most talented attorneys', is called upon to defend the scapegrace younger brother of an acquaintance. Then the acquaintance himself is murdered, his skull crushed with a statuette of the Indian goddess Lakshmi, and Rosa must divide her time between manipulating a magistrate smitten with her charms and divining the culprit's identity.

Author : Michael Underwood
Publisher : Murder Room
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471907777

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Death by Misadventure by Michael Underwood Pdf

A police officer needs the quickness and guile of a bookmaker, the ingenuity of a psychiatrist and the physical reserves of a Marine, or so it seems to Detective Chief Superintendent Manton, who is called in to investigate a huge bullion robbery and its possible link with the death of a solicitor in a car crash. But even when a supposed double murderer is charged and tried there is still a taunting question mark over the case. Whose was the brain that planned the audacious gold robbery and does Manton know enough about the criminal mind to find out?

Author : Colleen Barnett
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781615950089

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Mystery Women, Volume One (Revised) by Colleen Barnett Pdf

Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women as sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs as well as for the mystery hound.

Author : Janet G. Husband,Jonathan F. Husband
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838909676

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Sequels by Janet G. Husband,Jonathan F. Husband Pdf

A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.

Author : Michael Underwood
Publisher : Murder Room
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471907838

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Girl Found Dead by Michael Underwood Pdf

'Her scarf had been knotted tightly around her neck and it was obvious she had been killed with great determination ...' Susan Andrews has been murdered and her body found near a disused airfield. The case is now in the hands of Detective-Superintendent Simon Manton, but Susan's father, a former detective-inspector, decides to investigate himself. Important questions soon emerge - what part has a philandering salesman with a scratched cheek, or the dreamy undergraduate son of the local gentry played in Susan's final hours? And, how much evidence must you have against a suspect before you can charge them with murder?

Author : Colleen A. Barnett
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
ISBN : 9781459612327

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Mystery Women by Colleen A. Barnett Pdf

Author : Michael Underwood
Publisher : Murder Room
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471907654

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Murder Made Absolute by Michael Underwood Pdf

A crime-thriller that strikes the heart of the legal world. QC Christopher Henham is poisoned during the hearing of a divorce case. His wife, her son and ex-husband, not to mention a High Court judge, his wife and a secretary all come under suspicion. Detective-Superintendent Simon Manton takes charge of the investigation. What is the truth behind Mrs Henham's motor accident? Who doctored her husband's cough sweets? But, before he can solve the case, another murder is committed.

Author : Michael Underwood
Publisher : Murder Room
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471904646

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A Party to Murder by Michael Underwood Pdf

The appointment of a new Chief Prosecuting Solicitor has caused outrage and gossip, but no one could have imagined that murder would ensue. Nor that an arrogant and stubborn policeman would make a premature arrest and then set about gathering the evidence to substantiate his arrest. Then a second murder throws the case into even more confusion. Meanwhile, Rosa Epton has appeared on the scene to defend the accused, and she is soon locked in battle with the police and increasingly determined to get to the truth.

Author : Michael Underwood
Publisher : Murder Room
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471904820

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The Seeds of Murder by Michael Underwood Pdf

No one knew what finally prompted a shy young schoolboy to walk out of Warren Hall School never to return. The discovery of some of Stephen Willett's bloodstained clothing in an overgrown ditch throws suspicion on Wally Price, a local odd-job man, and his suicide is seen as an admission of guilt. Over fifty years later another tragedy strikes Warren Hall when the body of a stranger is discovered in the school grounds. The local postmaster is charged with murder and solicitor Rosa Epton is summoned from London to advise him on his defence. Then a second murder at the school - and the discovery of some damning evidence against her client - makes Rosa determined to investigate leads that the police have overlooked. So she embarks on the most challenging assignment of her career: one that involves long-held secrets and dangerous confrontations. For a killer stands between Rosa and the truth.

Author : Michael Underwood
Publisher : Murder Room
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471907951

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The Unprofessional Spy by Michael Underwood Pdf

Barrister Martin Ainsworth is sent to West Berlin by British Intelligence to make contact with his former lover, a suspected Communist agent, and it's up to him to find out the truth and to spot her contacts. As he travels through a divided Berlin, his dual role becomes emotionally tortuous, his lack of training an unforeseen hazard, and he turns more reckless than his peers had ever bargained for ... 'A more or less conventional spy story is suddenly turned inside out by a most ingenious twist' Guardian