Joan Lock

Detective Ernest Best

1 - Dead Image (2000)
2 - Dead Born (2002)
3 - Dead Letters (Jun-2003)
4 - Dead End (Aug-2004)
5 - Dead Fall (Sep-2005)
6 - Dead Loss (Mar-2006)
7 - Dead Centre (Jan-2008)

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  The Birdman Of Bow Street
  

  in 3rd Culprit (Worldwide)

  • Aug-1996
  • / Mystery
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  Crime in all its devious incarnations is presented in this treat of murderous morsels dished out by old ppros and promising newcomers. Artfully crafted and impossible to put down, each story bountifully demooonstrates why these authors are la creme d...

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  Give Us A Clue
  

  in 3rd Culprit (Worldwide)

  • Aug-1996
  • / Mystery
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  Crime in all its devious incarnations is presented in this treat of murderous morsels dished out by old ppros and promising newcomers. Artfully crafted and impossible to put down, each story bountifully demooonstrates why these authors are la creme d...

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  Dead Image
  

  • 2000
  • / Mystery
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  Detective Ernest Best - 1
  

  The explosion was heard twenty miles away. It killed boatmen and wrecked the exotic villa of Lawrence Alma-Tadema, the fashionable St John's Wood artist. But what caused the 1874 Regents Park explosion? Fenian bombs? Sabotage by rival railways or oth...

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  Dead Born
  

  • 2002
  • / Mystery
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  Detective Ernest Best - 2
  

  When the bodies of a number of babies are found scattered around Islington, Detective Sergeant Best is sent undercover to lodge next door to a suspected baby farm. He shadows an alleged 'child dropper' onto a Thames pleasure steamer and finds himself...

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  Death in Perspective
  

  • Aug-2002
  • / General Fiction
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  Berry Hill seemed the perfect place to house-sit.  Jenny would be able to put the past behind her as she painted some watercolours of the beautiful garden, while Robin sought that elusive job.  But the house proves very isolated and all is not righ...

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  Dead Letters
  

  • Jun-2003
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  Detective Ernest Best - 3
  

  The third book featuring Inspector Best is a dramatic murder mystery set against a historic 1880 tragedy
  It is a beautiful warm August day in 1880: perfect weather for the annual Metropolitan Police Annual Fête held at Alexandra Palace. Inspect...

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  Dead End
  

  • Aug-2004
  • / Mystery
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  Detective Ernest Best - 4
  

  When Phoebe Threapleton is found dead on a four-poster bed in Bainbridge’s department store with six long-stemmed white roses next to her, Inspector Best is baffled...

  How does the death in Newcastle of this young woman fit in with the ot...

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  Dead Fall
  

  • Sep-2005
  • / Mystery
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  Detective Ernest Best - 5
  

  ‘The characters are believable but even more so is the setting.’ - Historical Novels Review

  A real murder occurs on the stage of the London theatre where Detective Inspector Best and his wife are enjoying a night out. The Victor...

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  Dead Loss
  

  • Mar-2006
  • / Mystery
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  Detective Ernest Best - 6
  

  It is 1884 and London is gripped by fear after Fenian bombs explode on the underground railway and more are threatened. Detective Inspector Best is sent to Paris where these Irish Americans are plotting their next ‘outrage’ and obtaining arms ...

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  Dead Centre
  

  • Jan-2008
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  Detective Ernest Best - 7
  

  It is 1887, the year of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, and London is in turmoil - particularly at the dead centre, Trafalgar Square. Here,the angry unemployed gather daily to protest and nightly to sleep.

  The police are worn out by endles...

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  The Real Golden Age of Murder
  

  • Jun-2021
  • / Police Procedural
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  Many Golden Age detective novels, with their engrossing puzzles and attractive backgrounds were a comforting read – particularly after the horrors of the Great War. The murders often left the bumbling police without a clue but some aristocrats...

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