George Winterton was known to throw a killer New Year's Eve party, and this year's was no different. The wealthy and prominent citizen of the seaside town of Redbury is found at the foot of a cliff near the ocean after having been apparently pushed. ...
A LOVELY CORPSE Vera Jackman was a lively young woman--daring enough to pose nude for a local artist, ambitious enough to have big plans for leaving the quaint village of Cort Abbas. Then her plans--and her life--came to a violent end. But Vera...
The ravaged, waterlogged body of a beautiful, rich widow brings Superintendent Roper into a convoluted case with as many facets as the human psyche. Hannah Blezzard is a mystery. Behind the doors of her elegant home, no clues to the real woman exis...
Stella Pumfrey had fallen down the stairs and fractured her skull. From all appearances, she had interrupted a common burglar, caught her slipper on the carpeted landing, and fell to her death. Inspector Roper immediately realizes the investigatio...
Roy Hart's Inspector Roper series is building a following of readers who enjoy classic cozy English village mysteries. In Final Appointment, what appears to be a gruesome traffic accident is revealed to be murder.When the headless body of ex-cop Gera...
THE LONG ARM OF MURDER During a much-needed idyll on Crete, and with instincts honed by twenty years of police work, Inspector Douglas Roper discovers the body of a well-to-do Englishwoman, bludgeoned to death in his hotel. Roper reluctantly le...