Laurence Meynell

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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1975
  • Latest Book:
    February 2014
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Book List in Order: 26 titles

  • The Fortunate Miss East

    AN EXQUISITE NOVEL OF A VANISHED AGE AND A WOMAN'S INMOST HEART The time is the golden Edwardian summer of 1910. In the English country town of Brightsea, a mysterious arrives, seeking to rent an isolated cottage. Barely in her thirties, sti...

  • Lost Half Hour

    Oliver Seaton was an up-and-coming Labour MP when his mother committed suicide by gassing herself. Oliver had lived at his mother's house and the inquest judge was keen to know what time he got home to find his mother dying. He had called an ambul...

  • Don't Stop for Hooky Hefferman

    Worldwide Mysteries - 53

    A demented millionaire is convinced his awful son will be kidnapped for ransom. As the result of a bizarre chain of circumstances (There is a very beautiful woman involved.) the ebulliant Hooky Heffernan finds himself acting as companion and and gu...

  • Hooky Gets the Wooden Spoon

    Worldwide Mysteries - 77

    His passion for the fair sex and English pubs aside, he had been known to solve a crime or two as a private investigator, profiting from the idiocies of this comic adventure called life. Now he's been hired to find a rebellious poor little rich girl ...

  • The Fairly Innocent Little Man

    Worldwide Mysteries - 102

    BEAUTIFUL LADIES, FINE SCOTCH AND A CHANCE TO BEST THE POLICE-ALL IRRESISTIBLE TEMPTATIONS FOR HOOKY HEFFERMAN Hooky's life has had some rough patches. But then that's to be expected when one's playing the role of gentleman adventurer, traipsing u...

  • Danger Round the Corner

    Edward Rigby's sudden death in South America provides Hooky Hefferman, private investigator, with his first case. Rigby's employers, the San Lucca Railway Concession, have hinted that he committed suicide, which is enough to prevent his insurance com...

  • Death By Arrangement

    When Hooky Hefferman, playboy and private detective, does a chance favour for wealthy Waveney Rolffe, he is rewarded with a lucrative position as Rolffe's personal bodyguard. The job is easy: entertain Rolffe and live harmoniously with the other memb...

  • The Frightened Man

    Hooky Hefferman, private detective, is, as they say in the theatrical profession, 'resting'. So when the thin little man in the shabby blue suit calls to ask for professional advice, though he looks by no means promising as a provider of much-needed ...

  • The Thirteen Trumpeters

    Hooky Hefferman is commissioned by his formidable aunt to convey a 'brilliantly coloured, exquisitely detailed painting of young soldier blowing a trumpet' to Southern Italy, to her old admirer Sir Lucian Bryers-Fane. Two others are heading in the s...



  • Too Clever By Half

    When Lady Darley asks for Hooky Hefferman's help, he wonders what sort of trouble she can be in. She doesn't look the sort to have a very grisly skeleton in her cupboard, but you never can tell ... Hooky's insatiable curiosity is soon aroused by her...

  • Hooky and the Crock of Gold

    When Bunny, disguised as Major Beresford, fails to con a lady out of 500, his partner and bedmate becomes extremely discontented. Dolly was after a bigger game, and she sets out to enliven their partnership with a far more ambitious plan. She is go...

  • Hooky and the Prancing Horse

    Diana Gael, aged twenty-two, is the youngest cub reporter on the Barling Gazette . She's met Hooky Hefferman previously at a cricket match, so when she comes to Sayle Place she is able to recommend him as a player in the village's annual cricket gam...

  • Hooky and the Villainous Chauffeur

    Hooky arrives in the Sussex village of Sweeting by accident, the consequence of winning a bizarre bet and being nearly killed by a speeding limousine. Herbert Aston arrives there on purpose and in disguise, seeking revenge for a wrong done years ago ...

  • Hooky Goes to Blazes

    The man in the dock up on an arson charge considers that Sebastian Wrighton, who owned the building, is responsible for his daughter committing suicide. What he's done, he says, is an act of justice. Sebastian next turns up as an antiques dealer in ...

  • The Open Door

    Stella Brendan was accustomed to a comfortable unearned income and she was fifty-two years old when it vanished. How could she survive? She could survive by marrying Sir Loder Cholerton, tycoon and ageing bachelor. But Stella has skeletons in her p...

  • Papersnake

    When local beauty queen Virginia Vance goes to London, she becomes the mistress of the Hon. Charles Lasting, who runs a particularly venomous daily gossip column. Lasting is a callous, cynical brute, but Virginia has a real weakness for him. It is ...

  • The Breaking Point

    When does a man reach breaking point? Eric Winlatter is near it. For years he has been tormented by his hidden past, suffering the acute loneliness of being unable to confide in anyone, even his wife, whose life is also being made unbearable. One i...

  • The Creaking Chair

    Lou Steel is the owner of a pin-table saloon, frequented by questionable characters and kept under constant police surveillance. Barbara Gale is the neglected wife of heavy gambler Gerald Gale, and a woman Lou finds irresistible. When a body is fou...

  • Hooky Catches a Tartar

    Hooky Hefferman, amiable old Etonian, womaniser, layabout and occasional private eye is despatched by his formidable aunt to discover what a not-so-young woman, Monica, in Buckingham has been up to. When Hooky arrives at Cropover Farm he finds ecce...



  • Hooky Hooked

    Hooky Hefferman is commanded to spend his forty-first birthday with his aunt, the formidable Theresa Page-Foley. While there, the occasional private eye is directed to look into the affairs of the devastatingly beautiful Lois Girling, who appears to ...

  • Hooky on Loan

    A tiny Sussex village harbours a motley collection of inhabitants. Millerscroft, the big house, is now an expensive school, run by the flamboyant and promiscuous Raymond Montague. Hooky Hefferman is introduced into the community supposedly as a tempo...

  • The House in Marsh Road

    When Arthur meets the lovely but evil Valerie Stockley, after he and his new wife move into the house his wife has inherited, he soon becomes possessed by a force he cannot fight. Alongside Valerie, lust, greed and weakness led him deeper into deprav...

  • One Step From Murder

    Roger Fenton has achieved a lot since he left jail. At last he has a good job, a new name and he is beginning to overcome the ex-con's bitterness which has threatened to ruin him. But his new existence had the seeds of disaster in it, and on the day ...

  • The Affair at Barwold

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    Hooky Hefferman is ordered by his dominating aunt in Hove to visit the Cotswold village of Barwold, where the young daughter of an old friend is thought to be keeping bad company. Meanwhile, one of the newsagents in a nearby town is going dangerously...

  • Secret of the Pit

    • / General Fiction
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  • Silver Guilt

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Laurence Meynell has published 26 books.

Laurence Meynell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The House in Marsh Road, was published in February 2014.

The first book by Laurence Meynell, The Fortunate Miss East, was published in May 1975.

No. Laurence Meynell does not write books in series.
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