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Mark Hebden
Full Series List in Order
Pel
1 - Death Set to Music // Pel and the Parked Car (1979)2 - Pel and the Faceless Corpse (1979)
3 - Pel Under Pressure (Dec-1980)
4 - Pel is Puzzled (1981)
5 - Pel and the Staghound (1982)
6 - Pel and the Bombers (1982)
7 - Pel and the Predators (1984)
8 - Pel and the Pirates (1984)
9 - Pel and the Prowler (1985)
10 - Pel and the Paris Mob (1986)
11 - Pel Among the Pueblos (Jan-1988)
12 - Pel and the Touch of Pitch (Sep-1988)
13 - Pel and the Picture of Innocence (Jan-1989)
14 - Pel and the Party Spirit (Jan-1991)
15 - Pel and the Missing Persons (Dec-1991)
16 - Pel and the Promised Land (Jan-1993)
17 - Pel and the Sepulchre Job (Dec-1993)
Books in Order: 18 titles
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Pel and the Sepulchre Job
- Dec-1993
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A dead man is found floating in a canal, his wallet revealing a strange symbolic drawing, and a hostage drama unfolds at the Banque Credit Rural, where not only millions in francs and jewellery are at stake, but also lives. On the other side of town,...
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Pel and the Promised Land
- Jan-1993
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The twelfth title in the Inspector Pel Mystery series, this is a story of Pel’s beloved Burgundy as the Promised Land. Fires are breaking out all over the province, from small houses to woodland and when a local farmer’s flock of sheep is poisone...
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Pel and the Missing Persons
- Dec-1991
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A masked gang rob a supermarket at Talant, a home-made bomb is found at the local airport, and the body of an old man is found on the motorway near Mailly-les-Temps. Also, what is the connection between a fearful lawyer and the fatal stabbing of a Sc...
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Pel and the Party Spirit
- Jan-1991
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Brigade Criminelle is mobilised when a fatal stabbing, an anticipated delivery of lethal drugs from Marseilles, and the discovery of a thirty-year-old corpse in an ancient turreted tower in the town of Puyceldome all coincide with a frantic search fo...
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Pel and the Picture of Innocence
- Jan-1989
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An extravagant, big time gangland criminal is ambushed and assassinated; the only witness a ten-year-old-boy. Chief Inspector Pel is called in to investigate the killing, which spirals into an international investigation when a respected spinster is ...
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Pel and the Touch of Pitch
- Sep-1988
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When Chief Inspector Pel accepts a drinks invitation at the house of a big shot, Deputy Claude Barclay, he doesn’t realise how compromised he will become by his acceptance. Shortly afterwards, Barclay is kidnapped; the partially decomposed body of ...
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Pel Among the Pueblos
- Jan-1988
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A brief spell among the Pueblos, and a shoot-out under a moonless sky brings Pel his reward when the redoubtable Chief Inspector chases leads on a double shooting of two ageing crooks all the way to Mexico. This is Hebden’s eleventh novel in a seri...
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Pel and the Paris Mob
- 1986
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In his beloved Burgundy, Chief Inspector Pel finds himself incensed by interference from Paris, but it isn’t the descent of rival policemen that makes Pel’s blood boil â€" crimes are being committed by violent gangs from Paris and Marseilles. Pel...
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Pel and the Prowler
- 1985
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The irascible Chief Inspector Pel basks in the warm glow of his marriage until a series of young women are found strangled, with macabre messages left next to them. Pel breaks his idyllic life in honeymoon heaven and begins an investigation among a s...
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Pel and the Pirates
- 1984
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As Chief Inspector Pel honeymoons with his long-time love Mme Genevieve Faivre-Perret in St Ives, a local taxi driver is murdered on their first night. More puzzling is his attempts to reach Pel before the brutal killing and the fact his message is o...
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Pel and the Predators
- 1984
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There has been a sudden spate of murders around Burgundy where Pel has just been promoted to Chief Inspector. The irascible policeman receives a letter bomb, and these combined events threaten to overturn Pel’s plans to marry Mme Faivre-Perret. Can...
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Pel and the Bombers
- 1982
- / Law Enforcement
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When five murders disturb his sleepy Burgundian city on Bastille night, Chief Inspector Evariste Clovis Desiré Pel has his work cut out for him. A terrorist group is at work and the President is due shortly on a State visit. Pel’s problems with hi...
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Pel and the Staghound
- 1982
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Violence, the mugging of gay men, and the disappearance of a wealthy local business man trouble Chief Inspector Pel, who is baited by superiors in Paris clamouring for more teamwork, technology, and sociologists. What remains is a harrowing question ...
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Pel is Puzzled
- 1981
- / Law Enforcement
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New varieties of crime are popping up everywhere in Inspector Pel’s beloved Burgundy. Raids on a historical chateau and surrounding churches have led to the plunder of priceless treasures. But when theft becomes murder, Pel is called to uncover the...
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Pel Under Pressure
- Dec-1980
- / Law Enforcement
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The irascible Inspector Pel has failed to give up smoking. A Gauloise magically calms his nerves, in spite of his efforts, and good nerves are just what he needs when a student's mysterious death and the discovery of a corpse in the boot of a car sta...
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Death Set to Music // Pel and the Parked Car
- 1979
- / Law Enforcement
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The severely battered body of a murder victim turns up in provincial France and the sharp-tongued Chief Inspector Pel must use all his Gallic guile to understand the pile of clues building up around him, until a further murder and one small boy make ...
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Pel and the Faceless Corpse
- 1979
- / Law Enforcement
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An unidentified, faceless corpse is discovered near a memorial dedicated to villagers killed by the Nazis. Pel is on the case searching for a way to name the faceless corpse. The trail leads him from Burgundy to the frontiers of France, aided by a ca...