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"I am in great danger..."

This letter is received by three eminent citizens of Flaxborough, including the Chief Constable. So when one of the town's charity workers is found the wrong way up in her pond, a connection seems likely.

Witty and wicked, Colin Watson's tales offer a mordantly entertaining cast and laugh-out-loud wordplay.

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In the respectable seaside town of Flaxborough, councillor Harold Carobleat is laid to rest. Cause of death: pneumonia.

But before longDetective Inspector Purbrightmust examine another death. This time it looks like foul play.

Witty and wicked, Colin Watson's tales offer a mordantly entertaining cast of characters and laugh-out-loud wordplay.

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Deep in the Burgundy countryside, a murder case is perplexing Inspector Pel.There are some obvious suspects, yet the clothes of none of them show any signs of blood. And what were the tensions that must have torn at this family It's only when a second murder takes place that the method of the first becomes startlingly clear.

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Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover is the most idle and avaricious hero in all of crime fiction. Why should he even be bothered to solve the case

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Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover is the most idle and avaricious hero in all of crime fiction. Why should he even be bothered to solve the case

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Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover is the most idle and avaricious hero in all of crime fiction. Why should he even be bothered to solve the case

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The gentle Miss Seeton A thief A preposterous notion-until she's accused of helping a pickpocket . . . and stumbles into a nest of crime.

Serene amidst every kind of skullduggery, this eccentric English spinster steps in where Scotland Yard stumbles, armed with nothing more than her sketchpad and umbrella!

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The sight of four policemen manhandling a bath isn't one the residents of Flaxborough see every day.

When the inhabitants of 14, Beatrice Avenue disappear and a couple of government spooks turn up, the drama acquires overtones of a Bond movie!

Witty and wicked, Colin Watson's tales offer a mordantly entertaining cast and laugh-out-loud wordplay.

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Whatever can have happened to Lil

When Lilian Bannister vanishes, a link is traced to a local lonely hearts agency. Flaxborough'sD.I. Purbrightand Sergeant Sid Love follow the trail to a rendezvous with Daisy Teatime...

Witty and wicked, Colin Watson's tales offer a mordantly entertaining cast of characters and laugh-out-loud wordplay.

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Long-listed for the CWA Historical Dagger Award 2018 Summer 1941. Four violent deaths, French double agents, daring fraud - DCI Frank Merlin sets out on his most complex case yet.

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Miss Seeton's every attempt at a portrait of little Effie Goffer has become a chilling picture of a corpse. Is sheactually drawing a clue to a series of child murders in rural England

Armed with only her sketch pad and umbrella, Miss Seetonis every inch an eccentric English spinster and the most lovable and unlikely master of detection.

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Lucky Miss Seeton! A modest Premium Bond win means a whole week in legendary Glastonbury. By coincidence, the kidnapped Heir to an industrial family may be hidden around there, and Chief Superintendent Delphick asks the ex-art teacher to create some of her famous, insightful sketches . . .

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Miss Seeton lends her talents to the village scheme to create a quilted 'Bayeux Tapestry' of local history. But her intuitive sketches reveal a startlingly different perspective - involving buried Nazi secrets, and links to a murdered diplomat and a South American dictator . . .

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When a flood of faked banknotes hits the market, retired art teacher Miss Emily Seeton is chosen to investigate a respected Geneva bank.Bamboozling both the crooks and the police, and innocently humming the fraudsters' musical password, she trips gaily along the dangerous trail, armed with nothing more than her sketchpad and umbrella!

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War-time England, and a young Miss Emily Seeton's suspicious sketches call her loyalty into question-until she is recruited to uncover a case of sabotage.

Faced with bombs, sabotage and murder, Miss Seeton must summon all her courage-it is after all her nature to Keep Calm and Carry On!

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Miss Seeton is off to Buckingham Palace on a secret mission-but to foil a jewel heist, she must risk losing the Queen's head . . . and her own neck.

Serene amidst every kind of skullduggery, this eccentric English spinster steps in where Scotland Yard stumbles, armed with nothing more than her sketchpad and umbrella!

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Morocco is a romantic place, but Wendy finds herself side-tracked by the antics of Rita Geddes and a few nuisances such as kidnapping, explosions, industrial espionage, murder and car chases across the High Atlas mountains.

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At the roulette table an elderly woman in diamonds is making a killing. Who would guess the bejewelled high roller is retired art teacher Miss Emily Seeton, in disguise to help capture a mysterious crime boss

Serene amidst every kind of skullduggery, Miss Seetonsteps in where Scotland Yard stumbles, armed with onlyher sketchpad and umbrella!

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When Sir Bart Edgecome, a British agent who has been poisoned with arsenic falls ill, Dr. B McRannoch becomes involved in a series of events beyond her wildest imagination. It is only the presence of enigmatic portrait painter Johnson Johnson on his yacht, Dolly, that saves the day.

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A double shooting of two ageing crooks leads Chief Inspector Pel on the trail all the way to Mexico. Pel and his detectives know how, when and by whom they were murdered; but they must discover why.

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When five murders disturb his sleepy Burgundian city on Bastille night, Chief Inspector Evariste Clovis Desire Pel has his work cut out for him. A terrorist group is at work and with the President due to make an official visit in a few weeks' time, the pressure is on to uncover them and stop them in their tracks.

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Inspector Evariste Clovis Desire Pel did not need another murder case added to his already Herculean workload, especially not this ghoulish business of a mutilated, headless corpse, the anonymous victim of a desperate and determined killer. Yet, if the murder was so deliberate, so well-planned, why was the identity of the dead man obscured

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Brigade Criminelle is mobilised when a fatal stabbing, an anticipated delivery of lethal drugs from Marseilles, and the discovery of a thirty-year-old corpse in an ancient turreted tower in the town of Puyceldome coincide with a frantic search for two murderous hitchhikers - all on Chief Inspector Pel's patch.