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George Goodchild
Full Series List in Order
An Inspector McLean Mystery
McLean Disposes (Dec-1994)Yes Inspector McLean (Jul-1995)
McLean Investigates (Sep-1995)
McLean at the Golden Owl (Jan-1997)
The Triumph of McLean (Jun-1997)
McLean to the Dark Tower Came (Oct-1998)
Double Acrostic (Nov-1998)
McLean Sees It Through (Sep-2000)
Follow McClean (Jan-2002)
McLean Carries On (Jun-2003)
McLean Knows the Answer (Aug-2003)
McLean Scores Again (Oct-2004)
Book List in Order: 32 titles
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Next of Kin
- 1957
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A millionaire dies soon after he has partaken of an evening meal. When a verdict of murder is returned, Inspector McLean finds himself confronted with a case of quite unusual complexity. One by one the suspects are eliminated until McLean is left wit...
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The Danger Line
- Oct-1994
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Marcia Tempest was visiting her father's grave in a Dorset village when she met Bill Trenton, a young Canadian, who was searching for the tombstone of an ancestor. Marcia's plans to train herself for a job were shattered when she accepted Bill's offe...
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McLean Disposes
- Dec-1994
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In this selection of Inspector McLean's varied cases, each story presents a baffling problem to the police and the reader. McLean, however, solves the mysteries by brilliantly unexpected methods of investigation and deduction. Such cases as the charr...
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The Last Redoubt
- Mar-1995
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The kidnapping of a young doctor leads to some puzzling developments, which have their origin in a small island in the Adriatic. The doctor's sister, Valerie, tormented by the disappearance of her brother, decides to act independently of the Police. ...
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McLean Investigates
- Sep-1995
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Connoisseurs of the detective story have long appreciated the crisp, economical style of George Goodchild and the ingenuity of his plots. Here, for his many admirers are sixteen typical examples of his art showing his inimitable creation - Inspector ...
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Savage Encounter
- Oct-1995
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Donald Montague, a young archaeologist, comes home from a North African digging site, bringing with him an old friend whom he had not seen for some years, to stay with the family for a few days. However, within a fortnight, Montague's friend is bruta...
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False Intruder
- Jan-1996
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Tina lives in a shack near the Yukon River with her uncle, Peter Slade. When she finds a half-frozen, wounded man huddled outside their door one day, she realises he is the wanted bank robber Neale Kentish. She nurses Neale back to health, and they f...
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Dear Conspirator
- Feb-1996
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The conspiracy in this story has deep roots, and the young hero is launched into it hot upon his discharge from the Army while he is trying to adjust himself to a world which is strange to him, and in which, so far, he has little more than a precario...
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Tiger, Tiger
- Apr-1996
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Why did 'Tiger' Osgood plan his disappearance? What really happened in that remote cottage on the night when one of his close associates also vanished, until his body was dug up in the cottage garden a year later, with no sign of injury? Inspector Mc...
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Lady Take Care
- Jun-1996
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From the moment when the glamorous 'lady in red' dropped her handbag at Nice Carnival and Angus Fergusson discovered that it contained counterfeit notes, the chase is on. Angus and his pal Tony, to say nothing of his sister Nancy, are involved in a t...
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Double Acrostic
- Nov-1998
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When two passengers from a liner homeward bo und from India die in suspicious circumstances, Inspector Mc Lean is assigned to the case. His main clue is a sketched cr yptogram, torn from a diary that was found with one victim''s body. '...
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The Barton Mystery
- Feb-2003
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Having been found guilty of the murder of Gerald Barton, Harry Maitland faces the gallows. It had been proved that Maitland had gone to Barton's flat at about the time at which Barton had met his death. The revolver used in the shooting had been foun...
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Stout Cortez
- May-2003
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When Colin Fairbright finds himself in a snowbound train a short distance from home, he befriends a young lady called Rosita. She tells him she is on her way to visit her father who lives at a nearby Country Club. Battling through deep snow, Colin an...
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McLean Carries On
- Jun-2003
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This classic collection of crime stories follows the lines of its many forerunners. They have all the quick and vivid action associated with the famous detective's exploits, and will not disappoint McLean fans....
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McLean Knows the Answer
- Aug-2003
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The famous Inspector McLean of Scotland Yard is in action again, solving sixteen cases including murder, kidnapping and fraud. They have all the quick and vivid action associated with the detective's exploits and will not disappoint McLean's many fan...
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Tall Timber
- Oct-2003
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The madcap plan of three penniless girls that one of them shall marry a rich husband and support the others, brings Susan Lessing into her first contact with husky Canadian Douglas Tearle. Susan works with him as a trapper's assistant and later cooks...
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Brave Interlude
- Nov-2003
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Bruce Marshall, a young mining engineer working in South America, decides to return to England to play his part in the war. The Captain of a small British tramp steamer agrees to take him, and so he sets sail with a few other passengers, one of whom ...
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McLean Scores Again
- Oct-2004
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Once again, the indefatigable Inspector McLean proves his ability as a sleuth who is both human and ingenious in a series of intriguing cases. Among many baffling crimes are the murder of the pretty artist's model who collapsed while posing in a Chel...
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Behind That Door
- Feb-2005
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After his father's death, Gerald Lavering returns to England to sort out the family's estates - Hartford Manor and Nancrannon in Cornwall. The houses bring only heartache to Jerry. His dear mother had died in Cornwall when he was a child and his fath...
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Colorado Jim
- Feb-2009
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George Goodchild (1885-1969) who wrote under the pseudonyms Alan Dare; Wallace Q. Reid and Jesse Templeton, was the prolific British author of: Killigrew (1922), The Alaskan (1924), The Isle of Hate (1924), Jake Canuke (1924), The Woollen Monkey (192...
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England, My England
- Aug-2014
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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...