M K Jacobs: 17 books

Inspector Ralph McGinniss and Professor Claire Lane are sent to investigate the link between the murder of a Police Constable on a lonely road, and the presence of German Zeppelin Commander Ludwig Mathieu, left behind in England after the War. Inspector Ralph McGinniss is the victim of a pickpocket...

Ralph and Claire have conceded defeat and married. Then war is declared, and both are called on to help defend the Empire. Ralph to his Uncle's regiment and Claire invited to Bletchley Park. A shift in the government's plans for both results in the discovery of a German Spy embedded in an old...

Claire Lane Mystery Series Books 1-3 The End of the Lane A Turn in the Lane Exit Lane Claire Perrigaux a clandestine SOE agent during WW2 operating from Saint Brieuc in Northern France,has a past life she doesn't like to talk about. In 1925, the world was a different...

The Assistant Registrar Emily Price, from the London Archives commits a crime of passion. Or is it? A man falls from the balcony. Was he pushed? And what is Emily Price hiding? Chief Police Inspector Ralph McGinniss from Scotland Yard investigates. He calls in his newly appointed assistant for help. Claire...

A body is found in a Trunk at Kings Cross Station in London. Nothing unusual, except Inspector Ralph McGinnis, is sent down from Scotland Yard to investigate. Recognized as retired Police Officer Casper Fellen, Ralph suspects he may have stumbled into the depths of gang warfare, and could there be...

Professor Claire Lane interrupted by a sudden telephone call to help in a murder investigation leaves the tranquility of Edinburgh for the country lanes of Oxford. Inspector Ralph McGinnis is puzzled. Unlike his colleague Miss Lane is adamant this is a copycat murder. Last seen in the seventeenth...

Claire Lane Mystery Series Books 4-6 The Slow Lane Dead End Lane Christmas Lane Claire Perrigaux a clandestine SOE agent during WW2 operating from Saint Brieuc in Northern France, has a past life she doesn't like to talk about. In 1925, the world was a different place. As a child pr … more

Claire Lane has joined the SOE- Special Operations Executive. Has she intentionally run away from Daroonga Castle and Ralph McGinniss? In France, Aunt Avery is running her brothel in Saint Brieuc. Next door to the German Radar Station. Ralph mounts an operation to rescue his wife from the beaches...

Inspector Ralph McGinniss returns to his ancestral seat at Daroonga Castle in Oxfordshire for his annual holidays, only be called upon to investigate the housekeepers’ death from his cousin’s estate. Agnes Tonbridge is found dead on the front lawn. Was this an accident, or a chance to cover...

Claire Lane’s students are always close to her heart. When one disappears into fells and becks of the Lake District in Northwest England, she is not convinced the woman has gone to meditate on Scafell Pike. A talented and gifted writer, Bo Huan, a Chinese National follows her dream.  Claire in...

Vera Lawson is embroiled once again in the Polt family saga. The two paintings discovered in the crypt in the garden of the Saint-Pois house, have come under scrutiny from The Louvre Museum's top investigator, Dr. Lucille Thompson-McLeay. Are they real or forgeries? Dr Thompson-McLeay's unusual...

British Scientist. Robert Jameson is wanted by NATO. His crime, trading illegal weapons and toxic serums to Chinese insurgents. An Archaeological team have unearthed the remains of a Viennese silversmith near Lake IssyKul. An ancient Cossack tribesman knows too much, but will he assist Jacques Barbosa...

Jacques Barbosa, now retired from the French Military, takes on more than he bargained for, returning to Ethiopia in search for two rogue militia who have shot his ex-wife, concert pianist Elizabeth Mallory.  Recruited by British MI6 boss Sir Braxton Jerret, Barbosa and his partner Hendrik’ Dutch’...

Vera Lawson accepts an offer of employment with the aristocratic Wellmont family in London as a tutor. But she has an ulterior motive. Could her mother the scatterbrained Caroline Montieff have fled to Paris in search of her lost freedom? Gunther Polt, a Waffen SS Tank Commander, aristocratic,...