Piers Marlowe: 3 books

Whenever Wilma Haven decided to be wayward, she insisted that she was seen to be wayward. So perhaps she was merely being consistent when she hired a hearse before committing suicide, then proceeded to take her time over the act in a very public place. However, Wilma died not from her own act, but...

Following a late-night call during a power cut, Dr. John Cadman came upon a dead man - stabbed only minutes earlier - in an otherwise deserted house. Before he left, the doctor was disturbingly aware that his own family was involved in some strange way. Later, he recalled where he had previously seen...

A man is murdered outside a gambling club in London's West End after a journalist who had dallied to take a last drink has tried to stop a frightened girl from making a 'phone call. The journalist is kidnapped by a naked female croupier who is handling a gun instead of a roulette wheel. He comes to...