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Jack Treby
"Your predecessor was sitting in that chair when he shot himself. You can still see the blood stains on the wall behind you."
Central America, 1931. Hilary Manningham-Butler is settling…
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"You'll never get me up in one of those things. They're absolutely lethal."
Seville, 1931. Six months after the loss of the British airship the R101, a German Zeppelin is…
"It's a bomb!" some fat idiot yelled, as I was heading for the exit. "They've found a bomb!" New York 1932. A letter bomb campaign throws the city into a…
His dad was a legend. He doesn't have a clue. Everyone has heard of the Stiletto, the infamous assassin who strikes without warning. He has been running rings around the…
"Hurrah for the Blackshirts!" the headline screams on 15th January 1934. Hilary Manningham-Butler is less than impressed. She has inveigled her way into the January Club, an elite debating society…
"I've been a scoundrel, a thief, a blackmailer and a whore, but never a murderer. Until now..."
The year is 1929. As the world teeters on the brink of a…
Belize, British Honduras. 10th September 1931. As good a place as any to die...
Whatever you do, don't eat the paella! Simon Turing is on holiday in southern Spain and things are not going at all well. The hire car breaks down on the…
The corpse was snoring softly behind the sofa. It is early November and the Wynmouth Fire Festival is in full flow. A dozen or more giant statues are about to…
A long forgotten book conceals a dangerous secret. James Faraday is about to turn eighty and his daughter has organised a gathering of friends and family at Woodford Grange to…
