Michael Allen

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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1981
  • Latest Book:
    December 2020
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Full Series List in Order

Ben Spence

Spence and the Holiday Murders (Jan-1981)
Spence at the Blue Bazaar (Jul-1981)
Spence at Marlby Manor (Jun-1982)
Spence in Petal Park (Aug-2016)

Book List in Order: 18 titles

  • Spence and the Holiday Murders

    Ben Spence

  • Spence at the Blue Bazaar

    Ben Spence

    The gorgeous blonde stripper at the Blue Bazaar nightclub had something more than entertainment on her mind. Blackmail, to be exact. But someone decided to silence her forever. Was her murder linked to a gruesome seventeen-year-old unsolved crime?...

  • Spence at Marlby Manor

    Ben Spence

    Lady Dinnister of Marlby Manor was elderly, but there was a lot of life in her yet. When a barbed bouquet of red roses pierced her palm, she thought it was a nasty accident. When the front wheel fell off her Rolls-Royce, she thought it was a mechanic...

  • A Danger to Society

    How one extraordinary man with the unfortunate case of mistaken identity shook an entire town...and the Good Ol' Boy network waging war against him!

    It's an hysterical look at the notions of law, crime and criminal behavior. After a brush with...

  • King Albert's Words of Advice

    Put down that blockbuster novel, 500 pages long, and pick up instead this collection of short stories by a master of the storyteller’s art; for these seven tales will provide you with much more fun and enjoyment in half the time.In these pages you ...

  • Tales from the Retirement Home

    Looking for the best in modern fantasy? Look no further. Tales from the Retirement Home contains two short stories from the award-winning English writer Michael Allen â€" 'a master of the weird and wonderful'.Mr Wilberforce, aged 108, discovers that ...

  • Topp Family Secrets

    Ernest Marshwood is on his way to a funeral. And, like everyone else attending it, he is asking himself a question â€" who will get the money, now that the old man’s dead?Ernest certainly hopes that he and his wife will end up rich. But he’s in f...

  • Triumphs and Failures

    Here are seven more extraordinary short stories from a master of the weird and wonderful. Michael Allen’s previous fiction has been warmly acclaimed: ‘Absolutely first class’ (Bookseller), ‘Solidly constructed’ (New York Times), and ‘Fasc...

  • Mr Fenman's Farewell to His Readers

    Who was the mysterious Madame de Mentou? A mature and cosmopolitan woman, she seemed to have been everywhere and met everyone of note. In 1786, so Thomas Fenman tells us, Madame de Mentou took him under her wing; and during that winter, in the ci...



  • Clifford Wendell, Daydreamer Extraordinaire

    The funniest thing about life is that children can’t wait to grow up and become adults, sharing in all the permissions and wonders of age. Adults pine away at how wonderful it would be to be young again before responsibility set its mortar into the...

  • The Journal of an Eternal

    How would your life be if you had special gifts that with training allowed you to become both immortal and eternal? Would you behave or consider yourself to be a god? Follow Chalon as he writes his journal about his life starting from the beginning f...

  • Passion Vignette

  • A River in the Ocean

    When a near fatal accident separates a single father from his daughter, fate has a way of finding her a good home. While Chris fights for his life in a coma for nine years, his daughter Krista is raised by a couple with good intentions who have no id...

  • More Love At Last Bite

    A historical fiction, set in Canada post Confederation 1867 ~ 1900's, Book II of the Chronicles of Vance Wingrove. A much awaited sequel of Love At Last Bite.Explore the hardships, triumphs and love affair of a displaced Vampire. Vance Wingrove strug...

  • Spence in Petal Park

    Ben Spence

    Can a case be solved in just three days?Roger Parnell is a rich, good-looking young man, living in the plushest suburb of a South Coast resort.When he is found dead in his driveway three days before Christmas, Detective Superintendent Spence immediat...

  • The Deeper Dark

    A fighter pilot endures years in a POW camp in Afghanistan after his jet experiences equipment failure while on a routine mission. By some strange miracle one day after years of incarceration, Captain Haven Kayd finds a way to escape.Meanwhile, his w...

  • How I Survived The Coronavirus

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    A sense of humor is required to enjoy the story of a man who finds out about the coronavirus while in a very compromising situation. Follow him as he navigates a world of misinformation and mistaken assumptions....

  • Love At Last Bite ePub Version

    • / Fantasy
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    Based on the chronicles of Vance Wingrove, "Love at Last Bite" is centered in Canada. Book I deals with the mid-1500's through to the 1860's. The stories are written from the perspective of a third person narrator, who is privy to the th...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michael Allen has published 18 books.

Michael Allen does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Deeper Dark, was published in December 2020.

The first book by Michael Allen, Spence and the Holiday Murders, was published in January 1981.

Yes. Michael Allen has 1 series.
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