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Josephine Bell
Full Series List in Order
Henry Frost
1 - The Upfold Witch (1964)2 - Death on the Reserve (1966)
Steve Mitchell & David Wintringham
1 - Murder in Hospital (1937)2 - Death on the Borough Council (1937)
3 - Fall Over Cliff (Mar-1997)
4 - The Port Of London Murders (1938)
5 - Death at Half-Term // Curtain Call for a Corpse (1939)
6 - From Natural Causes (1939)
7 - All Is Vanity (1940)
8 - Trouble at Wrekin Farm (1942)
9 - Death at the Medical Board (1944)
10 - Death in Clairvoyance (1949)
11 - The Summer School Mystery (1950)
12 - Bones in the Barrow (1953)
13 - Fires at Fairlawn (1954)
14 - Death in Retirement (1956)
15 - The China Roundabout // Murder on the Merry-Go-Round (1956)
16 - The Seeing Eye (1958)
17 - Easy Prey (1959)
18 - A Well-Known Face (1960)
19 - Room For A Body // Fiasco In Fulham (1963)
Book List in Order: 58 titles
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The Port Of London Murders
- 1938
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A suicide, a derelict barge, and floating pink chiffon nightdresses…When the San Angelo drifts into port in the Pool of London, telephones begin to ring across the capital and an intricate series of events is set in motion. Beset by dreadful storms...
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Death at Half-Term // Curtain Call for a Corpse
- 1939
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Murder is not considered an essential part of the curriculum--even at a modern English preparatory school; nor did Shakespeare intend Twelfth Night to have a tragic ending. But when the curtain falls after the performance on the first evening of the ...
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Death at the Medical Board
- 1944
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When his wife's friend, Rachel, writes to tell of the peculiar murder of a young woman in her sleepy market town, Dr. David Wintringham is intrigued enough to leave his usual top secret medical work for Her Majesty's Government to pay a visit to Shor...
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Death in Clairvoyance
- 1949
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Six masked and identically dressed clowns meet at a fancy dress ball. One of them is murdered. Was the claivoyante right in claiming that she foresaw the crime? The inspector believed that she recognised the dead man. Did she? Or was she herself to b...
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The Summer School Mystery
- 1950
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The summer music school at Falconbury proves to be more eventful than any of the students or the lecturers could have imagined. The school is in the country, but many of the pupils and their instructors have travelled from the Royal School of Music i...
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Stranger on a Cliff
- 1952
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TO LET: FURNISHED Why did Rosamund Townsend feel so strong an aura of evil around the house she had just rented -- and the man who owned it? It was a charming house, graceful and well kept, so like its owner. Yet, from the moment Rosamund saw h...
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Bones in the Barrow
- 1953
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Haltingly, a boy tolls his fearful story to Scotland Yard officials - how he alone had witnessed from the vantage point of his commuter train a scene of terror in a dingy room . . . a blood-chilling tableau framed in a lighted window, glimpsed for a ...
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Death in Retirement
- 1956
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Gillian and Max, young and deeply in love, are engaged at last, and nothing stands in the way of their future happiness. Nothing that is except for Gillian's aunt, retired missionary Dr. Oliver Clayton, the woman who Gillian has lived with for the pa...
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Double Doom
- 1957
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In a strange turn of events two twin brothers die within days of each other - both in suspicious circumstances.
Hilary and Hugh Evenett have led a seemingly quiet and uneventful life in the sleepy town of Farthing-on-Hone. Inseparable and devo... -
The House Above the River
- 1959
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Giles Armitage needed to get away from it all and a sailing holiday with friends was just the escape he needed.
Everything was going well until they became stranded in thick fog. Luckily they were invited to stay at a small chateau nearby, unt... -
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Adventure with Crime
- 1962
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When newly married young woman Frances Aldridge loses her husband in a freak car accident, friends persuade her that a holiday in the United States would help her to recover her vitality.
Deciding to travel by bus, she chooses a route which tr... -
The Hunter & the Trapped
- 1963
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College lecturer Simon Fawcett is seemingly witty, handsome, and irresistible to men and women alike; but underneath his charming and seductive demeanour is a cold and manipulative man with a terrible secret.When Simon begins pursuing student Penny D...
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The Upfold Witch
- 1964
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'There's something wrong in Upfold that ought to be put right.'
Who first cast Celia Wainwright in the role of Witch of Upfold, that little village in the Sussex Weald? And how and why did she disappear one night in 1953? What was the connecti... -
The Catalyst
- 1966
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In this modern-day Greek tragedy, the Fates play havoc with a middle-aged English trio who have planned a restful and much-needed holiday in Greece. Hugh Wilmot, his wife Florence, and her sister Beatrice have secretly loathed one another for years. ...
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Death on the Reserve
- 1966
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Fauldmere is a nature reserve on a lonely peninsula, and Doctor Frost and his wife planned a quiet summer holiday there. But it wasn't to be. For no sooner had they arrived than they heard of the strange disappearance of a local youth and his girl. W...
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The Fennister Affair
- 1969
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'I cannot bear it any longer, ' the message read. 'If you love her more than me you must want to be rid of me. I won't stand in your way, my darling. I will simply disappear. Felicity.'Sally Combes has just finished a temporary job as a secretary to ...
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Death of a Poison Tongue
- 1972
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"Middlecombe buzzes with rumours. Like a wasp's nest," warned her odd train companion. "Slanders rather. Our poison-tongue. None of us is safe."When undergraduate Althea Swinford moves to sleepy Middlecombe to study, she quickly finds herself embroil...
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A Pigeon Among The Cats
- 1974
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Rose Lawler was a retired schoolmistress but, fortunately for her on at least two occasions, still in very good shape. The charter tour of Italy which was meant to be so easy and relaxing turned out quite otherwise. For the English party were being u...
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A Hydra with Six Heads
- Jan-2000
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Recently-qualified Dr Roy Cartwright takes a temporary post as a locum in an established London practice.
Soon, he is falsely accused of the attempted rape of a middle-aged female patient-and the practice receptionist, Lilian, warns him that t... -
A Flat Tyre in Fulham
- Apr-2012
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When the car of eminent sociologist Sir John Drewson is stolen from an airport car park, Detective Chief Superintendent Mitchell quickly links the theft to a failed wages snatch in south London. But only a few days later a body is found in the boot o...
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Compassionate Adventure
- May-2012
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It is summer in 1920s England and a group of friends are enjoying one of many weekends at Mayfield, the Wyndham family's country home. Amid the gaiety of punting on the river, tea on the lawn and lavish parties, a love triangle emerges: Caroline, tho...
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Hell's Pavement
- May-2012
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Sally Fulton is a hospital almoner, who left the job, for which she had a genuine vocation and aptitude, to marry a radiologist, Tony. The marriage was a failure and she has never understood that the chief cause of this was her deadly inclination, al...
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In the King's Absence
- May-2012
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A King flees for his life . . .
On a dark autumn evening in 1651, the young King Charles II escapes in beggar's rags to a life of exile in the European courts. In this time of great uncertainty, families are divided and friends are pitted agai... -
The Innocent
- May-2012
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Nobody ever bothered much with the girl who liked to call herself Lesley. She had spent all her life as a parcel being passed between children's homes and foster parents. Certainly no-one cared enough to report the fact when she finally walked out of...
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Jacobean Adventure
- May-2012
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The Queen is Dead! Long live the King!
On hearing of the death of Queen Elizabeth I, two young Scotsmen travel to London to seek their fortunes at the court of the new King, James I.
Alec Nimmo and Francis Leslie find themselves far fro... -
Over the Seas
- May-2012
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The dramatic sequel to Jacobean Adventure
Alec Nimmo, his life in danger, sets sail for America. By the time he reaches the New World, Alec is closely involved with three women.
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A Question of Loyalties
- May-2012
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Josephine Bell tells of the romantic and gripping early career of John Churchill, later to become the first Duke of Marlborough. His youth was spent in the Courts of Charles II and James, Duke of York; glittering, reckless Courts, with their gambling...
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Such a Nice Client
- May-2012
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The Lawrences were newcomers to the town. Nobody knew much about them. Old Mr Lawrence was seventy and had had a stroke which deprived him of his powers of speech, and he was being looked after by his daughter-in-law. This much Lucy Summers was aware...
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A Swan-Song Betrayed
- May-2012
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Anita Armstrong had once been a notable bestseller. But that was before the war, before her marriage, and before her impulse to write died with her husband. Now, as elderly widowed Mrs. Grosshouse, living peacefully and unknown in Devon, Anita begins...
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To Serve a Queen
- May-2012
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The Winter Queen in exile . . .
All England is in mourning for King James; First of England and Sixth of Scotland. In the days following the monarch's demise, the new King Charles grants an audience to a young man who wishes to serve his count... -
The Dark and the Light
- Jun-2012
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The third book of her Jacobean Trilogy, Josephine Bell's The Dark and the Light follows Sir Francis Leslie, a dedicated husband, father and scholar living in Seventeenth Century Oxford. Happy with his work and family life, Leslie determines to stay a...
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Safety First
- Jun-2012
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In these four stories, Josephine Bell traces the consequences of too great an adherence to the slogan 'Safety First': on Muriel and Arthur, who go to Cornwall on holiday with their sons Ronald and Barry; on Jim, who takes his yacht Seaspray on a crui...
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Tudor Pilgrimage
- Jun-2012
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St. Mary's Priory at Silfelde-on-Loddon is typical of the small religious houses which were the first to be dissolved by Henry VIII.
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A Hole in the Ground
AN OMINOUS HOLE IN THE MOORS OF CORNWALL AND A BLOODSTAINED SACK TANGLED IN THE BARBED WIRE Had she known about it, Drina Polesden would've considered the incident ancient history. Twenty years ago she was a baby in a pram! Martin Filton had seen he...
