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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1967
  • Latest Book:
    September 2019
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Full Series List in Order

An Inspector Peckover Mystery

1 - The Elgar Variation (Nov-1980)
2 - The Man at the Wheel (Jun-1982)
3 - A Free-Range Wife (Jul-1983)
4 - A Healthy Way to Die (Oct-1986)
5 - Peckover Holds the Baby (Feb-1988)
6 - Kill the Butler! (1991)
7 - Peckover Joins the Choir (Mar-1994)
8 - Peckover and the Bog Man (1994)

Superintendent O'Malley

1 - The 100,000 Welcomes (1970)
2 - The Shooting of Dan McGrew (Sep-2014)
3 - A Sorry State (1974)

Book List in Order: 20 titles








  • Detective Inspector Harry Peckover of Scotland Yard must sort out the puzzle whose pieces consist of four dead Arabs, a missing chauffeur, one million pounds sterling, and disreputable born-again evangelist...




  • MR. KETTLE WOULD NEVER BE IN SHAPE... The members of the aerobics class at the exclusive SimpSon's SuperSpa were all gyrating breathlessly around the floor in the interest of cardiovascular improvement. All except Mr. Kettle, whose cardiovascular ...









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    A hit-and-run driver ends the life of Lou Langley, octogenarian millionaire and lawn freak, as he is mowing the verge beside his luxurious beachfront home in Dunehampton, New York. With $150 million at stake and several potential beneficiaries, the l...



    • / Police Procedural
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    Inspector Henry Peckover has cheerfully accompanied his wife Miriam to Inverballoch and the 170th Robbie Burns celebration in this wee corner of the Scottish Highlands. Little does he know what he's gotten himself into...Sir Gilbert Potter, Britain's...



  • Barely recovered from their death-defying adventures in Kill the Butler! (SMP, 1993), Detective Chief Inspector Henry Peckover, Bard of the Yard, and Detective Constable Jason Twitty are sent on undercover duty again. A spate of art thefts across Eur...



  • The letter bearing the news that William Foley, easy-going math professor at a Midwestern university, had become the owner of a castle in Ireland was certainly cause for celebration. But the legacy that made him king of a castle also turned him into ...



  • Rosa Pryznyk's harrowing escape from the Great War to America left her knowing that she was ordained for an extraordinary life. She didn't, though, see the aching beauty of it, nor did she see the wretchedness or hardship that would continually do...



  • A man wakes up in a hospital with one word in his head: Sapporo. He dimly recalls this as the place where he was raised, and it becomes his name and identity. Like an immigrant without language or memory, he relies on his young son as guide and inter...



  • Part intellectual mystery and part spiritual adventure, A Year at River Mountain tells the story of an aging actor from Vancouver who has immersed himself in monastic life inChina and is now examining his past as an actor, husband,and father. As his ...




  • Parallel Rivers is a collection of stories that were coaxed into existence from Kenyon’s interest in seeing what fiction might learn from film, particularly the German, French, Italian, and Japanese cinema of the 70s. While Kenyon’s fictions are ...



  • The author of The Man at the Wheel brings back Scotland Yard’s Inspector Peckover in this “valuable addition to the classic British detective” (The New York Times).   A femme fatale . . . or a female Jack the Rip...






  • A young couple escapes Vancouver and takes a meandering trip down to Panama. In a dreamlike tale, ambiguous in setting and period, a girl child is lost. And Charles Darwin, whose historical namesake found his life work’s inspiration in South Americ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michael Kenyon has published 20 books.

Michael Kenyon does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Travellers May Still Return, was published in September 2019.

The first book by Michael Kenyon, The Whole Hog, was published in January 1967.

Yes. Michael Kenyon has 2 series.