Why had a woman screamed in Knightsbridge? Anthony Slade, the Yard's popular Commander of X2, sets out to investigate. Furthering the same end is Ken Surridge, a PR executive from a Northern consortium. Like Slade, Surridge wants to know why financie...
In another Yard case for Commander Anthony Slade, there is blackmail at London's latest night spot. Ruth Graham, a journalist, and Stephen Blaine, a blackmail victim, pit their wits against unusual odds when sudden violence erupts. Then Slade has to ...
The Case of the Malverne Diamonds, first published in 1937, is a British ‘golden-age’ mystery featuring Inspector Anthony Slade of Scotland Yard. From the dustjacket: “In this unusual mystery tale, Mr. Gribble, one of the most successful writer...
An Inspector Anthony Slade MysteryWhen the submerged body of Harry Eklimalos, a theatre impresario, is discovered in Hyde Park’s Serpentine, the investigation is assigned to Detective-Inspector Anthony Slade of Scotland Yard’s X2 department, who ...
It was a very strange sort of a party at Tudor Arches, twelve guests, each masked, each unknown to the other, and each with a dark secret. Their host, if anything, was even stranger, a mysterious figure who had been blackmailing his guests for years,...
'No one had tackled Doyce. He had been alone when he fell. He had simply folded up like a jack-knife and slipped to the ground. What had happened?' The 1939 Arsenal side is firing on all cylinders and celebrating a string of victories. They appear...
Anthony Slade has become Commander of Scotland Yard's new Command Squad, which is to work as a crime-fighting team in liaison with police forces throughout the country. Sally Dean, who has had Ghost Squad experience, is invited to join the new Squad ...
When Anthony Slade, the Yard's popular Commander of X2, and his chief assistant, Inspector John Roxby, hear a gunshot at Shaylings Corfe around midnight it is the beginning of a mystery involving the lovely Samantha Carstairs and Mike Westwood, a jou...