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David Dickinson
Full Series List in Order
A Lord Francis Powerscourt Mystery
1 - Goodnight, Sweet Prince (Jan-2002)2 - Death and the Jubilee (Dec-2002)
3 - Death of an Old Master (Feb-2004)
4 - Death of a Chancellor (Dec-2004)
5 - Death Called to the Bar (Jan-2006)
6 - Death on the Nevskii Prospekt (Jan-2007)
7 - Death on the Holy Mountain (Jan-2008)
8 - Death of a Pilgrim (Feb-2009)
9 - Death of a Wine Merchant (Mar-2010)
10 - Death in a Scarlet Coat (Mar-2011)
11 - Death at the Jesus Hospital (Mar-2012)
12 - Death Comes to the Ballets Russes (Jan-2015)
Mycroft Holmes
Mycroft Holmes and The Adventure of the Naval Engineer (Feb-2012)Mycroft Holmes and The Case of the Missing Popes (Mar-2012)
Book List in Order: 18 titles
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Goodnight, Sweet Prince
- Jan-2002
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It is 1892, the fifty-fourth year of Queen Victoria's reign. Lord Salisbury serves as prime minister, Cavalleria Rusticana is the hit of the London season, and the Prince of Wales is embroiled in yet another scandal. Alexandra, the popular and much-a...
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Death and the Jubilee
- Dec-2002
- / Historical Mystery
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Find a murderer - and save the Queen's Jubilee!It is 1897 and the London is preparing for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. But a corpse is with no head or hands is dragged out of the Thames. The dead man was old and proserously dressed, but there ar...
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Death of an Old Master
- Feb-2004
- / Historical Mystery
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Original or fake, masterpiece or forgery: misadventure or murder? England 1899, and the Salisbury Galleries in London announce the biggest exhibition of “Old Master” paintings ever seen in Europe. Excitement is intense, but before the exhibition...
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Death of a Chancellor
- Dec-2004
- / Historical Mystery
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A sinister secret at the heart of Compton Cathedral leads to murder. England, 1901. The cathedral in the town of Compton in the west of England is preparing to celebrate a very special anniversary: one thousand years of Christian worship. But a few ...
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Death Called to the Bar
- Jan-2006
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Queen's Inn is London's youngest and most fashionable Inn of Court. On 29th February 1902, at a Feast, senior barrister Alexander Dauntsey collapses into his soup and dies. He has been poisoned. Soon after his friend Woodford Stewart is shot dead, an...
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Death on the Nevskii Prospekt
- Jan-2007
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In 1904, Powerscourt comes out of retirement to go to Russia in one of the strangest cases of his career. A British diplomat has been discovered, his throat cut, on one of the bridges spanning the Nevskii Prospekt in St Petersburg. It transpires that...
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Death on the Holy Mountain
- Jan-2008
- / Historical Mystery
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In 1905, Lord Francis Powerscourt investigates a series of art thefts from stately homes of the Protestant gentry in Ireland. Then people begin to vanish. As Powerscourt closes in on the killer, his own life is threatened and his patriotism is questi...
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Death of a Pilgrim
- Feb-2009
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In 1905, a pilgrim is killed in Le-Puy-en-Velay, France, and Lord Francis Powerscourt is summoned to investigate. More deaths plague pilgrims traveling to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, before Powerscourt solves the murders. ...
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Death of a Wine Merchant
- Mar-2010
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The scion of the Colvilles, who are wealthy wine merchants, is about to marry the daughter of the even grander Nash family. Immediately after the nuptials, the bridegroom’s uncle Cosmo is found clutching a gun, having apparently killed his own brot...
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Death in a Scarlet Coat
- Mar-2011
- / Historical Mystery
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Master of the Hunt, the fifteenth Earl of Candlesby, has come to lead his riders once again. But this time he comes as a corpse, wrapped in blankets across his horse, a corner of his scarlet coat visible in the morning mist. Only three people see the...
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Death at the Jesus Hospital
- Mar-2012
- / Historical Mystery
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Three men are found with their throats cut, and all are connected in some way to an ancient City of London livery company, the Silkworkers. Lord Powerscourt has no shortage of suspects or suspicions. The first victim had shadowy links with the Secret...
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Mycroft Holmes and The Case of the Missing Popes
- Mar-2012
- / Historical Mystery
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A mysterious burglary. Political intrigue. And another case for Mycroft Holmes.In the third of David Dickinson's brilliant series of Mycroft Holmes novellas, the brother of Britain's most famous detective is approached by a distraught young aristocra...
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Death of an Elgin Marble
- Jan-2014
- / Mystery
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The British Museum in Bloomsbury is home to one of the Caryatids, a statue of a maiden that acted as one of the six columns in a temple which stood on the Acropolis in ancient Athens. Lord Elgin had brought her to London in the nineteenth century, a...
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Death Comes to the Ballets Russes
- Jan-2015
- / Suspense
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London, 1912, and the famed Ballet Russes have come to London to perform. Anticipation is high, for Diaghilev's troupe is renowned throughout Europe. At the end of their famed performance of Thamar at the Royal Opera House, the Georgian queen stabs h...
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Death at Melrose Hall
- May-2017
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A night of dancing that ends with the mysterious disappearance of a stable-boy - and Lord Francis Powerscourt is summoned to investigate.
Spring 1914, and Jack Harper, current owner of Melrose Hall, has thrown a party for his eldest, Andrew, ... -
Death Comes to Lynchester Close
- May-2017
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People will kill for a desirable address...When the Bishop of Lynchester visits Lord Francis Powerscourt at home in London, seeking advice about the death of an aged parishioner, Powerscourt advises that discretion rather than accusation is the best ...
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Mycroft Holmes & The Adventure of the Silver Birches
- Jul-2019
- / General Fiction
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'The stories are atmospheric, fast-moving, ingenious and very enjoyable.' - Roger Johnson, The District MessengerInspector Lestrade was a worried man. He was facing the biggest case of his career. The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and the G...