Tony Nash: 20 books

In this first sequel to 'A Handful of Dust', Joshua Nash, the bastard son of Thomas by an aborigine woman, opts for a sailor's life on one of this father's ships; his ambition is to become Commodore of the Fleet. He earns his right of passage, enduring gales, mutiny, disaster and...

One of Tony Dyce's friends is viciously maimed by a gang of international crooks in the first move by them to obtain the second half of an antique Chinese chess set, which when complete gives the location of one of the hoards of Nazi gold. After years spent trying to decipher the clues from their...

SEQUEL TO ‘BLOCKBUSTER’Jane, DI John Hunter’s wife, was abducted and killed during the Blockbuster affair and at last John and Jane’s father, Sir Henry Bliss, Minister for Internal Affairs in the present Government, go to recover her body from the well down which the criminal Harry Haggar...

So you want to be a stand-up comedian? Well, here it is, folks. With the jokes you find in this little book you can be guaranteed far more rotten eggs than accolades. You might get away with it with the family, but not in public!

A sometimes lighthearted, sometimes serious overview of one man’s twenty years of spying for GCHQ, as a member of the then highly secret ‘Y’ Service, beginning with his cloak and dagger recruitment after training as a telegraphist.The first posting is Cheadle, in Staffordshire, where the Polish...

DI John Hunter is not every day confronted with the corpse of a senior Government minister, nor that of an extra-terrestrial noble lord. This one seems to be both. John knows what problems the political implications will bring to the case. There are no marks on the body apart from the 'ALIEN' inscription...

Maya Curtis, a Philippino with a long history of sexual abuse, kisses her new husband as she leaves for work in Oncology Wing of St Margaret's Hospital, blissfully unaware that she is destined to be the first mutilated member of the cast in a series of theatrically staged murders, her death at...

A detective’s genius comes back to bite him.Harry Mann’s Saturday afternoon is disturbed by his boss, DCI Dyce, with a request to investigate what has been reported as a suicide. A retired major, now an hotelier, has been shot, and Harry has drawn the short straw.The major did not take his own...

Harry Page, the hero of TRIPLED EXPOSURE, recovered from his gunshot wound, is enjoying a quiet, peaceful life with not a cloud on his horizon. Hah! He thinks!The one person in the world to whom he owes a favor, his friend, Trevor Gale, asks it of him.Trevor's father, the magazine magnate, whose...

harry page, junior, a very successful fashion photographer, receives a telephone call from his sister. She tells him that his father, who threw him out of the house sixteen years before, has mysteriously disappeared, having cleared out all the bank accounts. when harry arrives at the family home,...

Womaniser Klaus Kinser, conducting the West Midlands Philharmonic Orchestra, falls headlong into the orchestra pit, very dead. What looks like a heart attack is anything but - his body has surprisingly stopped producing proteins. Forensic scientist Jane Keller is hard pressed to identify the source...

DI John Hunter is back again. Faced with one of his 'Thursday' murders - a young girl dressed in police uniform fished out of the Thames - he knows he is on a hiding to nothing, but that one goes on the back burner while he investigates the murder of a senior police officer, Commander Freddie Sloane,...

With a Thursday murder, DI John Hunter always expects something odd, but this one is a first. The dead woman was calling herself Rosalind Howard-Baker, but that is the name of a much older senior High Court judge who has disappeared from her home. Is the woman who she says she is? There is nothing...

Caroline Carter's corpse is sitting upright by one of the kitchen cupboards, its head smashed in by the heavy iron skillet lying artistically posed next to the body, the ring finger of the left hand missing. DI John Hunter automatically reads the murder as a domestic, particularly since the husband,...