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The
Bend Sinister
Was it the "Casket
of Alexander" (containing Alexander the
Great's copy of The Iliad with
annotations by his tutor, Aristotle) that was
discovered in the crypt of a Norman Crusader
in an Irish monastery? Both Sergei Kamaroff
and Oskar Hammerschmidt, shady antiquities
dealers, thought so- and that it was worth
millions. Sarah Grey, a post-graduate student
from Trinity College, stumbles on the tomb of
Count Odo deLacy and the relic. She didn't
know what the box was- only that deLacy
brought it back from the sack of
Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade. But
it was pinched from the dig by George Fowler,
a colleague from the dig, and he wound up
dead in the River Slaney. Sarah enlists the
services of renowned antiquitarian Dr.
Charlotte Benedict and her irrepressible
assistant, ex-Navy SEAL Dr. David Peete. A
twisted path of murder and deception leads to
Tidewater, Virginia, and the secrets of the
mysterious box.
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"Not
your everyday whodunit"
"Intriguing"
"Fascinating"
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Who
is Angela?
Angela Whyte, young
and pretty, is found murdered in the ruins of
a monastery on the lonley Isle of Charts in
the Irish Sea. The local Magistrate, Colonel
Devereaux, unfamiliar with murder
investigations, calls for Scotland Yard, and
Inspector Evan Briscoe arrives on the scene.
Briscoe knows that most murders are solved by
asking the question "who is" the victim and
what are her relationships with others, but
each time he thinks he understands Angela,
she slips out of focus. What were Angela's
relations with Davy Mullaine, who had once
tried to sexually assault her? ... with
Montcrief, the Bohemian artist? ... with the
irrepressible preteen Robbie Dowd? ... with
Headmistress Charlotte Redfern? ... with
Simon Blount, the writer? ... with her
parents and the other folks of Dundee? In the
process, Briscoe discovers and explores some
dark corners of Angela's mind. He finds
himself on a strange odyssey into a young
girl's life... and death. He solves the
murder, but the question "Who is
Angela?" lingers... you, the reader, will
have to decide that for yourself.
Who is
Angela? is the first of four Evan Briscoe
mysteries of the Edwardian Era, with settings
in the Isle of Charts, Cornwall, the Lake
District, and Malaya.
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"Fast-paced
and well-written, Who is Angela? will keep
readers entertained through the last
page."
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Pantheon
Charles Fellows-
mountaineer, national hero, and first class
bastard- is found dead in the sea near his
sailing yacht on the Cornish coast. Even
Briscoe is dispatched by Scotland Yard to
investigate and finds motives aplenty.
Fellows was disliked, if not hated by the
local populace... the male population at
least. Or was the root of the crime in the
"Pantheon of Heroes", of which Fellows was a
revered member? Sir Tony Castlefort, the only
human to climb higher than Charles Fellows,
insists along with other members of the
Pantheon that the death was a misadventure.
Only Celia Fellows, Charles's lonely and
unhappy sister, maintains that her brother
was murdered. As Briscoe ventures into the
Pantheon, he discovers that the gods that
dwell there have feet of clay... and, in
Celia, finds something more
personal.
As in the his first
"Who is Angela?", Doyle has succeeded once
again in taking his readers back to the rich
Edwardian Era and depositing us amidst strong
characters, each of whom may be capable of
murder.
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The
Spirit Garden
Malaya in 1905 was a
part of the vast British empire. Inspector
Briscoe felt his temporary routine assignment
there a wonderful opportunity for an exotic
honeymoon... until murder intervened and Evan
and Celia find themselves drawn into the
strange affair at French's station. What
appears to be simple but deadly dispute
between two Tamil laborers soon evolves into
a maelstrom of lust, greed, jealousy, and
hatred. The centerpiece of this drama rests
with the mistress of French's station, a
half-caste of exquisite beauty withe the
manipulative powers of a Delilah. The
Briscoes find that beneath the soft-petaled
hibiscus and frangipani the serpent lurks,
and the same gritty human passions exist in
this tropical Eden as in the slums of grey
London.
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