Dorothy Simpson, Author Scribner Book Company $14.95 (265p) ISBN 978-0-684-18885-0
This mild and methodical mystery unfolds in a picturesque English village where gentlemanly detective-inspector Luke Thanet is hard-pressed to discover who pushed beautiful but unpleasant Nerine Tarrant over the second-story balcony of her manor ""Hi
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Dorothy Simpson, Author Scribner Book Company $16.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-684-19026-6
The eighth in Simpson's series featuring Detective Inspector Luke Thanet typifies the British author's award winners. Events in Kent are related in a measured fashion, keeping pace with the dogged investigation of a case by Thanet and his partner,...
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Dorothy Simpson, Author Scribner Book Company $16.95 (277p) ISBN 978-0-684-19123-2
Simpson's ( Suspicious Death ) mastery of the police procedural will again dazzle devotees as she sends Inspector Luke Thanet of Sturrenden CID out on his ninth investigation. After an absence of more than 20 years, Leo Martindale returns to his...
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Dorothy Simpson, Author Scribner Book Company $19.95 (245p) ISBN 978-0-684-19381-6
Inspector Luke Thanet and sidekick Sergeant Mike Lineham ( Dead By Morning ) score another hit in Simpson's 10th English procedural. Artist Perdita Master's critically ill mother is in the hospital when Perdita tells her jealous husband that she is...
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Dorothy Simpson, Author Scribner Book Company $14.95 (242p) ISBN 978-0-684-18732-7
Simpson's sixth story about the admirable British Inspector Luke Thanet involves the murder of Steven Long, possibly by Harry Carpenter, whose wife and child have died after Steve caused their car to crash. But the detective's methodical habits lead
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Dorothy Simpson, Author Scribner Book Company $19 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19507-0
For every Ruth Rendell or P. D. James, Britain also can boast a lesser-known crime matron like Simpson, the extremely capable creator of the Inspector Luke Thanet series. In his 11th puzzle (after Doomed to Die ), Thanet's beat remains the town of...
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Dorothy Simpson, Author Scribner Book Company $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19626-8
``. . .Unlike the living, the dead have no means of safeguarding their secrets,'' thinks detective inspector Luke Thanet in his 12th case, while viewing the corpse of vintner Zak Randish. The victim's jugular vein was severed when he was shoved...
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Dorothy Simpson, Author Scribner Book Company $20.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-81568-8
In his 13th appearance, following No Laughing Matter, Inspector Luke Thanet has ample opportunity to display the sympathetic and acute investigative technique that has earned a Silver Dagger award for the author of this British series. Dead is Max...
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