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George Douglas
Book List in Order: 25 titles
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The House with the Green Shutters
- Dec-1986
- / General Fiction
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Double-Cross
- Feb-1999
- / Suspense
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When Miss Norah Allet, aspiring novelist, disappears from Colonel Crayle's guest house in the Yorkshire Dales, Detective Chief Superintendent Grant of the Hexford CID finds himself pressurised into a full-scale investigation. One of the other guests ...
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Dead Reckoning
- Apr-1999
- / Suspense
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After a large-scale post office robbery, expert peterman Edgar Mulley's fingerprints are found on a safe and he lands in jail. The money has never been recovered, and three years later Mulley makes a successful break for freedom. The North Central Re...
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Death in Retreat
- May-1999
- / Suspense
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On a day of retreat for clergy at Overdale House, a resident guest, Martin Pender, is foully murdered. The primary task of the Regional Homicide Squad is to track down the bogus parson who joined the retreat. Subsequent events show that serious polit...
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Crime Most Foul
- Aug-2006
- / Mystery
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When a teenager attacks an old lady, her best friend, Detective Constable Sheldon, wants revenge. Chief Superintendent Bill Hallam of North Central Regional C.I.D. forbids Brenda Sheldon to get involved in the case. Ignoring the ban her investigation...
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Gunman at Large
- Sep-2006
- / Law Enforcement
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In the height of its summer season Whitsea is suffering from an outbreak of robberies; Chief Inspector 'Jack' Spratt wonders whether more than one gang is involved. Sergeant Dick Garrett gets into the act when a gunman cuts loose on a caravan site, a...
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Through a Darker Eye
- Jan-2017
- / Historical
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Scotland 1746
In 1746 the Jacobite rebellion is over, Charles Stewart (Bonny Prince Charlie) is a fugitive, and British soldiers are overrunning the West Highlands. Seventeen-year-old John Wallace, son of a prominent cattle dealer, kills a B...
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Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales
- Sep-2021
- / Fantasy
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Treasury of fanciful, picturesque narratives???assembled by noted folklorist and recounted in their native vernacular???tell of brownies, kelpies, mermen and other supernatural creatures that assist, annoy and otherwise meddle in the lives of simple ...
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Dead on Delivery
On his paper round one morning, Ted Blake finds two of his favourite customers battered to death. Suspicion immediately falls on him, but when Detective Superintendent Trott and his Homicide Squad take over they find that characters from the criminal...
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Dead on the Dot
It appears to have been an accident when old Henry Vane falls to his death from his office window, but Detective Sergeant "Bonny" Lee isn't satisfied it happened that way. A seemingly-senseless kidnapping appears to Lee to have a connecti...
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Death in Darkness
When Detective Sergeant Lee of the Benfield City Police investigates a possible murder, his enquiries centre on the inhabitants of Pycroft Lane and jailbird James Nixon. But Lee is suddenly faced with a bank robbery and the manager is a resident of P...
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Death in Duplicate
Bill Hallam, newly appointed as Detective Chief Superintendent of the North Central Regional Crime Squad, is faced with an outbreak of thefts from stately homes in the district. The loot from one of these is promptly returned to the police, but this ...
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Death of a Big Shot
When the squire of Thursby is found shot in Roydon Wood, the question arises, was it accident or murder? The local police are convinced it was the latter, as the squire had many enemies in the village. Detective Superintendent Grant has a personal ...
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Death on the Doorstep
Who is the man ex-schoolmaster Holder finds dead on his doorstep on a November morning? This is the first problem Dl Mallin and DS Lee have to solve. Lee's search for the answer takes him into the dubious affairs of a university professor, whilst ove...
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End of the Line
There had to be a good reason why old Miss Harvill, of the Dower House, Fenton, was killed. The trouble was there were too many suspects. Detective Inspector Lynn, the officer in charge of the case, finds complications arising when some of the girls ...
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Final Score
Benfield United's home match ends with a bang - when a bomb explodes in the goalkeeper's car and hurls the manager to his death. Who had it in for Edward Jenner - or was it for David Price - and why? And who was the mystery man who was present at the...
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Luckless Lady
An art robbery at a London gallery and the disappearance of a resident of a small West Yorkshire village seem, on the face of it, to have nothing in common. For nobody in Thornley liked Mrs Mellor - few of them had escaped her domineering manner, her...
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Murder Unmourned
When Carl Slesser, organiser of big-time crime, moves into the area, the North Regional Crime Squad know they'll have to keep a close eye on him. But Slesser joins forces with James Barton, an insurance surveyor who has ambitions to use his professio...
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Odd Woman Out
Chief Inspector Bill Hallam and Sergeant 'Jack' Spratt of the Deniston C.I.D. are investigating the death of Madge Adkin. The dead woman had peculiar habits and claimed to be a bird-watcher, but knew nothing about birds. The trail they follow leads t...
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One to Jump
When Detective Sergeant Dick Garrett spends his leave in Wellesbourne Green to persuade ex-crook Molly Bilton to marry him, he is faced with a mystery. Ace criminal Flint, previously known to Molly, is found dead with no clues to the killer. Then Ben...
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Unholy Terror
The young policeman called to the scene of a traffic accident managed to catch a few broken words from the victim's dying lips. These set the Hexford CID on the cold trail of a crime committed some years previously. Detective Constable Adrian Hill fi...
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Unwanted Witness
Edmund Bradley, archivist at the University of Deniston is found murdered in his office. His expected visitor cannot be found, nor can Dr. Lewis Peel, with whom Bradley had quarrelled. Investigating, Hallam and Spratt confront missing "top secret" pa...