When a previously unknown Whistler painting is discovered and its elderly owner is murdered, art expert Tim Simpson and his girlfriend Sue Westerman begin a frantic search for the masterpiece and the killer...
Set in the artworld, this thriller involves Moreton Frewen who was once linked with financial disaster on both sides of the Atlantic. On his track is art investment specialist Tim Simpson, for Frewen apparently owned a treasure worth a fortune....
In France to advise Bellevie, a large cosmetic corporation, on its business strategy, Tim Simpson finds his suspicions about the company confirmed when the Bellevie matriarch falls to her death beneath a subway train...
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...
To suggest that the Pimlico murder of a dubious lady calling herself Bassington has anything to do with Tim Simpson makes him extremely indignant. He is far too busy tracking down paintings by Sir William Nicholson and his abstract son Ben Nicholson ...
Johnny Barber is a coffee connoisseur. He is also a sharp businessman with South American connections - his lover, Katie is the wide of an extremely powerful and ruthless South American capitalist. When a machine that can detect a potentially fatal c...
A busy merchant banker at White’s Bank and a member of an Art Fund, Tim Simpson does not relish the thought of having to give a speech at a small art gallery in the tiny village of Highton under the pretext of helping out the ‘boss’s mate’. H...
Justin Harrington, controversial television presenter of the antique show How Old Is It? Is found dead in his car in Yorkshire, in suspicious circumstances. Old school friend and antiques dealer Bill Franklin is bemused by Harringtonâs death, wonderi...
The lady called Bassington murdered in Pimlico had written Tim Simpson's name in her diary. So Tim, called to breakfast by his fellow Rugby-player and friend Chief Inspector Nobby Roberts, finds himself deeper and deeper enmeshed in a complex pursuit...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...