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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1976
  • Latest Book:
    November 2019
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Book List in Order: 10 titles



  • When a Belgian beauty dies in the Congo, “sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued Dr. Mary Finney” is on the case in this “witty, well-written” mystery from 1950 (The New York Times).It doesn’t take a lot to be the belle of the expat community in Leopold...



  • The author of The Devil in the Bush returns to Colonial Africa in a mystery that is “at once an absorbing whodunit and a distinguished novel of atmosphere” (The New York Times). World War II is over but US gofer Hooper Taliaferro is still in Afri...



  • Paris. The Flea Club. Denizens of the night gather to indulge their tastes. Older, wealthy American women and screechy men compete for the favors of handsome young gigolos. A prostitute plies her trade at the bar. Bored expatriates mark time over dri...



  • A missionary doctor is on the hunt for a killer in the Belgian Congo in this 1945 mystery series debut exploring WWII-era Colonial Africa. World War II is raging, but in this dusty backwater of the Belgian Congo, the biggest problem is finding a cold...



  • In the south of England, in the city of Monks-Lantern, events are starting to unfold which have the potential to threaten all of creation. Isaac Jacobs is a young university student with a haunted past who has long been fighting the supernatural mons...



  • In the south of England, in the city of Monks-Lantern, events are starting to unfold which have the potential to threaten all of creation. Isaac Jacobs is a young university student with a haunted past who has long been fighting the supernatural mons...



  • Have you ever seen an abandoned house in the countryside and wondered how it came to be in such a state of disrepair? Have you ever looked at such a house from a distance and felt, for some unexplainable reason, that you really don't wan...



  • "They're in the walls Jade, they're always in the walls, waiting. And now they're waiting for you." Have you ever been alone at home and heard a noise upstairs? Have you ever been alone in the dark but certain there's someone in the room with you? Ja...



  • Isaac and Ben are enjoying a boys' night out; drinking, bantering and confessing their love for one another. But the evening takes a sinister turn for the worse when all the women in the city of Monks-Lantern mysteriously disappear, and all the other...






  • The Accomplice, first published in 1947 as part of the Inner Sanctum Suspense Specials, is a psychological crime thriller in the mode of Ruth Rendell or Patricia Highsmith. The plot centers on Hank Bewley, studying at the Sorbonne in Paris, who meets...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Matthew Head has published 10 books.

Matthew Head does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Accomplice, was published in November 2019.

The first book by Matthew Head, The Congo Venus, was published in January 1976.

No. Matthew Head does not write books in series.