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Jack Haldean murder mysteries

Author:
Gordon-Smith, Dolores
 
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Book cover for "A fête worse than death".
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"It's 1922, and Jack Haldean, young crime writer and former Royal Flying Corps pilot, is enjoying the local fete in the heart of Sussex. But the idyll is soon shattered when Jack's fellow officer, Jeremy Boscombe, is found dead in the fortune teller's tent and later on that same day Boscombe's shady friend, Reggie Morton, is also murdered at the village pub. Jack soon realizes that the roots of the crime go back to an incident during the Battle of...
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George Lassiter is destitute, ill and desperate. Desperate enough to break into the kitchen of a stranger's house for warmth, food and shelter. And there, on that bitterly cold night in 1922, he witnesses a murder, the murder of a beautiful girl. But where's the body? When the police search the house they find nothing.
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'A hundred thousand dragons lie, underneath an Arabian sky.' How do a few lines of poetry, a chance encounter in a London hotel, and a death in Sussex lead to a lost city of Arabia, and to the tombs of the Whispering Dead? Jack Haldean has evaded the truth for years, but now, enmeshed in the web of murder, theft and deception, he must find the answer and face up to the truth - a truth as deadly as any dragon.
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5.
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In 1924, Charles Otterbourne's New Century company should have been the perfect partner for Professor Alan Carrington's radical new gramophone. But when murder is the result of their meeting at a London hotel, Jack Haldean takes up the case, in a desperate bid to save a man from the gallows.
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"Mark Helston, the rising star of Hunt Coffee Limited, was successful and popular, with plenty of money and everything to live for. Yet at half past seven on the evening of the ninth of January, 1925, he walked out of his Albemarle Street flat and disappeared. Desperate to know what happened to Mark, his uncle, old Mr Hunt, appeals to Jack Haldean. Inspector Bill Rackham of Scotland Yard thinks it's a thankless task. Perhaps, says Jack, but why should...
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Haldean investigates the murder of an elderly aristocrat and the disappearance of her only heir, her nephew, along with the disappearance of her valuable sapphires.
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8.
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'Art, my dear boy,' said Mr Askern, 'especially sacred art, needs tradition. Tradition is the bedrock of our art . . .' He broke off, staring at the woman in front of him. Her face seemed to lose all definition and her skin turned an unnatural shade of putty-coloured grey. 'Art,' she said, her voice scarcely more than a whisper. 'Art! Oh my God, art!' She swayed dangerously. Jack leapt forward, catching her as she fell. Jack Haldean expected Lythewell...
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Series Volume:
9.
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When a mutilated corpse is discovered in the sleepy village of Croxton Ferriers, Jack Haldean finds an odd clue at the scene of the crime : a black marble chess knight with crystal eyes. Is murder just a game? It could be -- to a killer who calls himself The Chessman.
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Series Volume:
10.
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"Jack Haldean's newly-wedded bliss is disrupted by a series of shocking revelations in this gripping historical mystery. When an old schoolfriend of Jack's wife Betty witnesses a disturbing vision in the garden of a smart suburban house, Jack is intrigued. Just what did Jenny Langton see beneath the cedar tree at Saunder's Green that frightened her so much she fainted on the spot? Jack's subsequent enquiries stir up a hornet's nest of repressed emotions...
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Series Volume:
11.
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Jack Haldean's weekend entertainment at the country estate of Birchen Bower is cut short by the discovery of a body, mauled to death as if by a wild animal. Birchen Bower has a long and colourful history, and is rumoured to be haunted. Refusing to believe the wild tales of man-eating beasts prowling the grounds, Jack sets out to uncover the truth.