John and David McKie leave their arduous lives on a small Scottish farm to win their fortune in the bustling town of Darlington, where their fates intertwine with that of a dedicated school teacher, in a story set in turn-of-the-century Britain...
EXCESS BAGGAGE It is impossible for the honorable G.D.H. Pringle to refuse his beloved Mavis Bignell anything that her heart desires. A trip to Australia--via Singapore in the Somerset Maugham fashion--would be so romantic. Since it's costing him ...
1989 St. Martins Press 1st American Edition hardcover with dust jacket as shown. Tight spine, clear, crisp pages, no writing, no tears, smoke free, light edgewear. Dust jacket shows wear/cuts/chips on corners/edges/spine. Fiction...
Ex-tax inspector G.D.H. Pringle starts a private tax advisory service, and when he visits Rainbow Television, his first client, he stumbles upon the body of actress Margarite Pelouse, the first in a series of murder victims he is to encounter...
Newly arrived in Parva, retired tax inspector G.D.H. Pringle encounters a town buzzing about misplaced corpses, sexual misconduct, and murder, and soon he and his companion, Mavis Bignell, are in the thick of it...
Hired as an accountant for what he later learns is a phony film company, G.D.H. Pringle, a retired tax inspector, uncovers a plot to steal the millions collected for charity at a telethon in Las Vegas...
It looked like a burglary gone wrong... And it left a harmless old-age pensioner dead. However, burns and gashes on the man's face told a different story: Ernest Clare had been tortured. As fear hangs heavily about the residents of Inkerman Str...
Two orphaned sisters are left to fend for themselves after the Great War. From Middlesbrough to the plains of Australia, this is a story of family feuds and years of bitterness. By the author of "The Land of Our Dreams", "The Far Side of the Hill", "...