Recently-qualified Dr Roy Cartwright takes a temporary post as a locum in an established London practice.
Soon, he is falsely accused of the attempted rape of a middle-aged female patient—and the practice receptionist, Lilian, warns him that the same thing had happened to Dr Markson. Now, Dr Markson is reported to be on holiday; but his body is found in Southampton Water.
Dr...
Knowledge of man’s frailties and stresses has caused many doctors to become writers; Somerset Maugham, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A. J. Cronin and Warwick Deeping spring to mind. And there is Josephine Bell. Doctor, daughter of a doctor, married to a doctor, one son a doctor, she was a founder-member of the CWA in 1953, served as Chairman in 1959/60, and belongs to the Detection...
The man was very well known. To the police, that is. Though not to the local force. The crash occurred about five miles from the Wiltshire town of Brackenfield that lies between Salisbury Plain and the outskirts late evening in October, with a light mist swirling from wet ditches across the tarmac, a coach bringing a charter party back from a conference in Plymouth met head-on...
In a quiet English village, the Strongitharm twins met their fates almost simultaneously. One of the brothers was gassed in the garden hothouse; the other died in a hospital room. Their double doom was no mere accident; indeed, the lethal epidemic threatened to spread. The cause? A family fortune.
A number of suspects were readily noticeable, among them a mentally deficient...
Simon Fawcett, handsome, charming and clever, is also mean, elusive and somehow strange. When Penelope Dane falls in love with him he tells her he is permanently in love with a married woman. Into this uneasy triangle of love and rejection enters blackmail, murder and madness—to bring to a superb climax an ambitious, intelligent and skilfully plotted crime novel by one of the...
In the early afternoon of a bleak first of November, the San Angelo, with a mixed cargo from the East, and after a voyage remarkable in its latter part for almost continuous storm and gale, steamed thankfully into the wide mouth of Thames river. She was British-owned, and most of her crew of eleven, including her captain, were also British. There had been moments off the coast...
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