It seemed that everyone in the bleak little village of Thornwich had been honoured with the most obscene poison pen letters imaginable. And they showed no signs of letting up. So off goes Chief Inspector Dover of Scotland Yard, his unfortunate young ...
When Mrs. Dover witnesses a young policeman's suicide and has the bad taste to report it, Dover's vacation ends abruptly at the seaside wasteland of Wallerton. As he sluggishly investigates the matter, an earlier case of murder and mutilation turns u...
The town of Pott-Winckle owes all its prosperity to Wimbley Ware and its head, Daniel Wimbley. Naturally when his daughter is brutally murdered, the call goes out for no less than Scotland Yard's finest-Inspector Dover....
Sully Martin had probably been a picturesque English village before the earthquake nearly destroyed it. And construction tycoon Walter Chantry might have been taken for another of the many casualties if it hadn't come out that he had been strangled.T...
This time, Scotland Yard sends Detective Chief Inspector Dover and his woeful assistant MacGregor off on the Stately Home circuit to look into murder. Since Lord Crouch, master of Beltour, can hardly make ends meet despite the hoards of tourists visi...
Fans of Scotland Yard's least competent detective take note: here for the first time in paperback in the United States is a surprising departure from the series--and the first to depart is none other than Dover himself. When the doubtful detective...
When word gets out that Pomeroy Chemicals is seeking to fill the lucrative position of Chief Security Officer, Dover is keenly interested. All he needs, he feels, is one smashing success and the prestigious title is his. When a young pregnant girl...
Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover is the most idle and avaricious hero in all of crime fiction. Why should he even be bothered to solve the case?The naked, burned and mutilated body of a middle-aged man has been found at the Muncaster Municipal...
She vowed to clear her dead friend's name Laura Gibson was convinced that her childhood friend, Joan Connor, would never have worked for an "escort service." Yet the police insisted that Joan was a call girl and had been murdered by a deranged cli...
She'd been betrayed by love . . . Years ago a spy had lured schoolgirl Ann Bennett into a false marriage, then callously ordered her death and fled to the Soviet Union. Ann had lived, but could not escape the shadow of her "husband's" espionage. ...
The Honorable Constance Morrison Burke -- known familiarly as the Hon. Con -- having already solved one murder which left the police baffled, is hardly likely to ignore a killing which occurs practically on her own doorstep....