R. T. Raichev, Author . Soho Constable $25 (224p) ISBN 978-1-56947-575-1
Mystery novelist Antonia Darcy and her husband, Maj. Hugh Payne, travel to India in Raichev's witty fourth mystery to feature the amateur sleuths (after 2008's Assassins at Ospreys
). The couple stay at Coconut Grove in Goa, the hacienda-style home...
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R. T. Raichev, Author . Soho Constable $25 (216p) ISBN 978-1-56947-633-8
Raichev's mannered sleuthing couple, Maj. Hugh Payne and his wife, mystery writer Antonia Darcy, tackle their fifth case (after 2009's The Little Victim
) in rather disappointing fashion. While dining at Claridge's in London, Captain...
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R.T. Raichev, Soho Constable, $25 (224p) ISBN 978-1-56947-914-8
In Raichev's middling sixth contemporary evocation of golden age whodunits featuring private detective Maj. Hugh Payne and his wife, mystery writer Antonia Darcy (after 2010's The Curious Incident at Claridge's), the couple reluctantly attend a...
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R. T. Raichev, Author . Carroll & Graf $26 (220p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1734-7
This auspicious first in a new mystery series from Raichev, a Bulgarian long resident in London, introduces a sympathetic sleuth, Antonia Darcy, an assistant librarian at London's Military and Naval Club, a divorced grandmother and aspiring...
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R. T. Raichev, Author . Soho Constable $22.95 (222p) ISBN 978-1-56947-505-8
At the start of Raichev’s stylish third novel to feature mystery writer Antonia Darcy and her husband, Maj. Hugh Payne (after 2007’s The Death of Corrine
), the couple attend a literary festival in Hay-on-Wye. There they reluctantly...
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R.T. Raichev. History/Mystery (IPG, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (252p) ISBN 978-0-7524-9244-5
Raichev's formulaic eighth homage to mystery fiction's Golden Age (after 2012's Murder of Gonzago) is an uneasy pastiche of the 1930s and the present. Maj. Hugh Payne and his wife, mystery writer Antonia Darcy, are inveigled by Payne's aunt to visit
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