Dean Street Press: 169 books
The Case of the Second Chance
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
‘Anything doing?’
‘Maybe,’ he said guardedly, and then as a kind of afterthought: ‘Just slipping along to Hampstead. Charles Manfrey’s dead.’
Ludovic Travers is on army leave in London when actor and theatrical impresario Charles Manfrey is murdered, so it is not surprising...
The Case of the Missing Men
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
““This is something desperately secret,” she said. “Something I want you to do for me . . . But I can’t tell you now. It’s something I’m frightened about.”
Ludovic Travers, consulting specialist for Scotland Yard, receives two invitations at once to visit Beechingford. One comes...
The Case of the Green Felt Hat
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
“George Wharton said he hoped I’d have a nice murder for you.”
Ludovic Travers and his wife choose to spend part of their honeymoon in the quiet town of Edensthorpe—one place where they can be sure of peace and quiet, and where an eminent author and his famous wife might not be recognised.
Unfortunately...
The Case of the Happy Warrior
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
“At first it may seem an astounding coincidence that two members of a family should have considered it necessary to ask for the services of the same detective agency. I think I can prove otherwise, and even if I can’t, the facts remain. Alice Stonhill and Peter Wesslake did precisely what I have...
The Case of the Fourth Detective
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
He was deader than last year’s hit-song. At the side of the skull was where the bullet had done its work.
Four detectives? Surely things must have come to quite a pass if the well-tried team of Ludovic Travers and George Wharton has to be doubled in order to crack even the most baffling case....
The Case of the Running Mouse
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
“Is he bad, sir?”
“Worse than that,” I said. “In fact, he’s dead.”
Ludovic Travers, consulting specialist for Scotland Yard, is on a fortnight’s well-earned leave in London from his military posting. Anticipating relaxation, he is instead thrown into a fresh mystery by...
The Case of the Magic Mirror
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
“Good God!” I was staring like a lunatic. “Murdered, you say? When?”
“Less than half an hour ago, sir.”
TRAVERS: “I don’t know why I should call this case that of the Magic Mirror for there’s nothing in it reminiscent of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” even if...
The Case of the Platinum Blonde
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
“It’s about a murder. . . . Here. Five Oaks, they call it. . . . A man, he’s murdered. . . . Oh, no, it isn’t a joke. I wish it was. . . . I said I wished it was. . . . You’ll send someone at once?”
Ludovic Travers, still in the army, is obliged to combine his military duties with...
What Dread Hand?
A Benvenuto Brown Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Before she could touch him she saw it—the handle of a weapon sticking out between his shoulder-blades. Playwright Martin Pitt’s acclaimed new play, The Lily Flower, is having its London premiere. When the curtain rises, in attendance are the lovely Julia Dallas; Lord Charles Kulligrew; absent-minded...
by Euron Griffith
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
In September 1967, the Beatles came to Tonypandy, South Wales, and spent six days with Tom Morris of 23 Upper Chemical Terrace … In August 1967, the Beatles were stunned by the death of their manager and mentor Brian Epstein. In the immediate aftermath, John, Paul, George and Ringo sought...
Brought to Book
A Simon Bognor Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Bognor tries to understand how a publishing magnate could have been crushed by smut. Before retiring for the night, Vernon Hemlock pours a brandy, lights a cigar, and takes a look at his cache of pornography. Far more than a wad of dirty magazines stashed under a mattress, this is a collection of...
Just Desserts
A Simon Bognor Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
When a restaurateur dies suspiciously, Bognor is forced to eat his way to the truth.Dinner service is over, the staff has left, and Escoffier Savarin Smith is about to tuck into a couple of bottles of champagne. He seals the windows with electrical tape, fiddles with a canister of gas, and begins...
Ministering Angels
A History of Nursing from The Crimea to The Blitz
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
In the eighteenth century professional nurses were often written off as drunk, slovenly, or cruel. In the Crimea, under Florence Nightingale's direction, they had become known as 'Ministering Angels'. By the Second World War they wore battledress and worked on the front lines, on Hospital ships and...
Robert Shaw
The Price of Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Robert Shaw is most celebrated today as the Oscar-nominated star in movies like From Russia with Love, A Man For All Seasons, The Sting and - most memorably of all - as Quint in the record-breaking Jaws. His breakthrough came when Hollywood was experiencing something of a British Invasion. Sean Connery,...