A claustrophobic story set around Jane and Graham Drummond; two of their friends, Tom and Ellie; and a couple, Mr and Mrs McGregor, who come to help with the house and garden. There are children, too Jane's two and the McGregor child: around these three an explosive jealousy and hatred begins to condense and the long, wet summer gives rise to murder …

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The new Sir Geoffrey Buller is working in an office when he unexpectedly inherits the title and Forde Manor with its collection of priceless art. Widow, Betty Stanton, takes the post of housekeeper and is surprised when she finds Sir Geoffrey is having paintings cleaned. The house is empty and Sir Geoffrey in Italy when disaster strikes. Inspector French reconstructs the cunning and complex crime from a mosaic of detail.

While Sir Geoffrey Butler is earning his living in an American office he unexpectedly inherits Forde Manor, with its collection of priceless paintings. The housekeeper is quite surprised when he decides to have some of the paintings cleaned. But disaster occurs while Sir Geoffrey is in Italy.

By the author of The Cask.

To the members of the Everest Club, the man who called himself Kincaid was a disturbing phenomenon; a man who had returned from the grave. For the Kincaid they had known had perished without a trace, twenty-two years before, making the final assault on Everest with the expedition's leader, Arthur Fleece. But into the Everest Club's annual meeting stalks this all-too-solid ghost…

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Somewhere in the Indian Ocean a coup d'état threatens a country to which Britain has treaty obligations. The Foreign Secretary has been killed in an aircrash; rather than remodel his government on the eve of an election the Prime Minister has promoted a senior and much-respected backbencher; a rising TV commentator, feeling that he is not rising fast enough, sees his chance. An old love affair and forgotten jealousies catch alight, providing the perfect trigger for a scintillating dénouement.

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Warwick Easton is a cop - a movie cop, that is. When this solemn, slightly pompous vaudevillian lands in California, his screen prospects look bleak. But an extraordinary bathtub meeting with the King of Comedy, Mack Sennett, lands him a stunts-and-chases job. Danger is to be expected in the rough-and-tumble world of Keystone Cops - but murder is quite another thing …