Miles Burton

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books
  • First Book:
    December 2009
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • Death Leaves No Card

    Trade paperback. WHEN DEATH PAYS A CALL he generally leaves a card behind ... even if it sometimes takes a pathologist to find it. But on the morning that he visited the bathroom at Forstal Farm, he did it incognito. It took a man with a crowbar to b...

  • Death Leaves No Card

    WHEN DEATH PAYS A CALL he generally leaves a card behind . . . even if it sometimes takes a pathologist to find it. But on the morning that he visited the bathroom at Forstal Farm, he did it incognito. It took a man with a crowbar to break down the b...

  • A Smell of Smoke

    A distinctive smell of smoke presages a series of murders in the village of Lamsford, and it proves a puzzling case for Inspector Arnold and Desmond Merrion. 'Miles Burton' was one of the two famous pseudonyms used by Major Cecil John Charles Street ...

  • Death Takes a Detour

    Originally published in 1958. Never before, within living memory, had such a thing happened in the little hamlet of Brensford. That the river Turtle, here in its upper reaches no more than a brook, should misbehave itself so devastatingly, was unhear...

  • The Chinese Puzzle

    Bradford's first instinct was to blow a resounding blast on his whistle, hoping that one or more of his colleagues on adjoining beats would hear it. Then he pounded up Swanton Street until he reached the source of the clamour, which came from the are...

  • Death in a Duffle Coat

    Two old ladies, Miss Price and Miss Marsland, lived together in the Lodge Cottage. Old Miss Price's death looked like a tragic accident: she must have slipped and fallen in the icy yard of the cottage when, wearing a duffle coat against the cold, she...

  • Death Paints a Picture

    After the corpse of George Hawken had been found on the rocks near his Cornish home the coroner's jury brought in an open verdict. Hawken had been a respected but financially unsuccessful artist whose death benefited no one except one of his nephews,...

  • Look Alive

    How can an elderly lady, discovered lying dead in a hammock by her great-niece and companion, be sitting up and calmly giving an interview with reporters only minutes later? That is the perplexing question that comes to the ears of debonair sleuth De...

  • Beware Your Neighbor

    Five men were gathered together in The Swan. They were representative of any small country community in England. It was an ordinary enough occasion-a quick drink after a council meeting-but it was the prelude to strange happenings. That very night on...



  • Death Takes the Living

    The Rev. Jonathan Denby, a young clergyman with influential connections but humble aspirations, secures the quiet country parish of Clynde as his first living. On the night of his arrival at the ramshackle old rectory he mysteriously disappears. Scot...

  • Devil's Reckoning

  • Found Drowned

    Sleuth Desmond Merrion is holidaying with wife Mavis at the seaside resort of Greycliffe-on-Sea, close to the site of his former junior school. When he and a local fisherman find the body of Arthur Harpole-brother of one of the schoolmasters-floating...

  • Heir to Lucifer

    Esmond Merrion, late of Nava Intelligence, and his wife Mavis go to the little seaside town of Croylehaven to spend a holiday. The place is practically owned by the wealthy Croyle family, who live in the large, ugly Castle Croyle. The present head o...

  • Heir to Murder

  • The Milk-Churn Murder

    "I'll give you an outline of this affair, Mr. Arnold," said the Chief Constable. "Then I'll leave you and Bradlaw to talk it over. There is a concern in this town known as the Park Lane Dairy Company. Their business is to collect milk from the farms ...

  • Death in the Tunnel

    On a dark November evening, Sir Wilfred Saxonby is travelling alone in the 5 o’clock train from Cannon Street, in a locked compartment. The train slows and stops inside a tunnel; and by the time it emerges again minutes later, Sir Wilfred has been ...

  • The Secret of High Eldersham

    ‘They’re terrible mistrustful of strangers in these parts.’ Samuel Whitehead, landlord of the Rose and Crown, is a stranger in the lonely East Anglian village of High Eldersham. When the newcomer is stabbed to death in his pub, and Scotland ...

  • Beware Your Neighbour

    Five men were gathered together in The Swan. They were representative of any small country community in England. It was an ordinary enough occasion-a quick drink after a council meeting-but it was the prelude to strange happenings. That very night on...

  • The Hardway Diamonds Mystery

    On a foggy night in London, an expert cracksman steals the Hardway diamonds; yet when he is discovered by the police, the diamonds aren't with him. One of the diamonds is found on a corpse in the marshes. Where are the rest? And who is this criminal ...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Miles Burton has published 19 books.

Miles Burton does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Hardway Diamonds Mystery, was published in January 2024.

The first book by Miles Burton, Death Leaves No Card, was published in December 2009.

No. Miles Burton does not write books in series.
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