Roy Hart, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (205p) ISBN 978-0-312-63186-4
Throughout Hart's novel of espionage, the focus remains on the desperate, single-minded maneuverings of Jocelyn (Joss) Coast, a British intelligence agent. Relying on his studied charm, Joss has kept the trust of his superiors and co-workers through
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Roy Hart, Author St. Martin's Press $13.95 (189p) ISBN 978-0-312-01088-1
The author of the well-received A Position of Trust here inaugurates a series featuring British detective inspector Roper of the county police in rural England. Roper is called into a murder investigation in a seaside village by young constable...
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Roy Hart, Author St. Martin's Press $0 (191p) ISBN 978-0-312-01809-2
The pretty place is Cort Abbas, a small English village where the heirs of the local gentry have turned their ancestral home into an enclave for resident artists. The murder victim is a young woman of the town, an ambitious and spunky girl who found
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Roy Hart, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-02212-9
When Hannah Blezard's body is found off a boatyard dock in King's Minster, Dorset, the case is given by the County to Superintendent Roper. He faces a scarcity of clues in the apparent murder, but it's obvious from the start that the well-off widow...
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Roy Hart, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (222p) ISBN 978-0-312-02971-5
Detective Chief Inspector Roper (A Fox in the Night) investigates a 40-year-old murder in this meaty mystery set in the bucolic English village of Newby Magna--where Cassandra Murcheson, late of London, has just moved into a cottage with a gruesome...
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Roy Hart, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (206p) ISBN 978-0-312-04414-5
A case with too many suspects threatens to unsettle even suave, unruffled Inspector Roper in the latest of Hart's estimable British procedurals. When rich Stella Pumfrey is killed in a fall, Roper theorizes that the robbers infesting his bailiwick...
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Roy Hart, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (219p) ISBN 978-0-312-05393-2
Who would kill Zygmunt (Ziggy) Komarowski, a Polish ace in the RAF who for years has lived alone in a trailer on a farm in Upper Gorton in the English countryside? And what was the motive? The chess player and birdwatcher, a fighter for the...
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Roy Hart, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-312-08777-7
Intricate and grittily realistic, this sixth entry (after Blood Kin ) in Hart's consistently taut English procedural series featuring the compassionate, dogged Inspector Roper, centers on a bizarre murder. A motorcyclist is beheaded with what may...
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Roy Hart, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (233p) ISBN 978-0-312-10964-6
In his seventh appearance, Bournemouth's head copper, Superintendent Douglas Roper, meets a pleasant English lady while on holiday in Greece. He also finds another Englishwoman dead from a blow to the head in a hotel room; the two women were recent...
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