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Full Series List in Order
Anthony Maitland
1 - They Love Not Poison (1972)2 - Bloody Instructions (1962)
3 - Malice Domestic (1962)
4 - Third Encounter (1963)
5 - Error of the Moon (1963)
6 - Trusted Like the Fox (1964)
7 - This Little Measure (1964)
8 - The Windy Side of the Law (1965)
9 - Though I Know She Lies (Mar-1998)
10 - Enter Certain Murderers (1966)
11 - Let's Choose Executors (1966)
12 - The Case Is Altered (1967)
13 - And Shame the Devil (1967)
14 - Knives Have Edges (1968)
15 - Past Praying For (Oct-1995)
16 - Tarry and Be Hanged (1969)
17 - An Improbable Fiction (1970)
18 - Serpent's Tooth (1971)
19 - The Knavish Crows (1971)
20 - Yet She Must Die (1973)
21 - Enter the Corpse (1973)
22 - Done to Death (1974)
23 - A Show of Violence (1975)
24 - My Life Is Done (1976)
25 - The Law's Delay (Feb-1977)
26 - A Thief or Two (1977)
27 - Exit Murderer (1978)
28 - This Fatal Writ (1979)
29 - Proceed to Judgement (1979)
30 - They Stay for Death (May-1980)
31 - Weep for Her (1980)
32 - Dearest Enemy (1981)
33 - Cry Guilty (1981)
34 - Villains by Necessity (Jun-1982)
35 - Enter a Gentlewoman (Apr-1982)
36 - Most Grievous Murder (Jun-1982)
37 - The Lie Direct (Aug-1983)
38 - Call Back Yesterday (Jun-1983)
39 - Where Should He Die? (Jun-1983)
40 - The Bloody Book of Law (Mar-1984)
41 - Murder's Out of Tune (Aug-1984)
42 - Defy the Devil (Dec-1984)
43 - An Obscure Grave (Mar-1985)
44 - Away With Them to Prison (Jul-1985)
45 - Put Out the Light (Dec-1985)
46 - Most Deadly Hate (Mar-1986)
47 - Nor Live So Long (Jul-1986)
48 - Naked Villainy (Feb-1987)
Book List in Order: 48 titles
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Bloody Instructions
- 1962
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MURDER IN CHAMBERS The elderly family solicitor preferred to take his four o'clock tea in chambers. But this afternoon, tea was served with sudden death. Any of the clients who consulted him that day had the opportunity to sneak back and do the de...
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Malice Domestic
- 1962
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A STATELY HOME... A STRANGE SLEEPWALKER... AN OLD SECRET... AND A NEW CORPSE Old Uncle William Cassell had come back to England after nearly twenty years. His return to the family home in Wimbledon brought a lovely reunion at tea time ... and a ...
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Error of the Moon
- 1963
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The General Aircraft company stood on the desolate Yorkshire moors. It was the perfect spot for a secret government project ... and deadly intrigue. Missing documents pointed to espionage, but a corpse added murder most foul to the high crime of trea...
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Third Encounter
- 1963
- / Law Enforcement
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Barrister Antony Maitland gets involved in what seems to be a straightforward case. But in no time at all, he finds himself plunged into a race for his life against a familiar opponent--the man who captured him during World War II. The man is now in ...
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Trusted Like the Fox
- 1964
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Anthony Maitland, barrister, is fully prepared to defend Michael Godson. After, all, it's twenty years since doctor Fraser was assaulted and his top-secret notes stolen. Maitland thinks this is a classic example of mistaken identity. But this belief ...
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Enter Certain Murderers
- 1966
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Antony Maitland is deeply involved in a case. He's looking forward to a little rest when he gets home. What he gets instead is a visit from good friend, Meg Hamilton. Meg is an actress by profession, but her visit is strictly personal--the man she wa...
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Let's Choose Executors
- 1966
- / Law Enforcement
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There hadn't been a murder in Chedcombe in over a hundred years until someone poisoned old Mrs. Randall. Her servants revealed that at Christmas the old lady argued with her grandson Hugo. Her servants testified that on Boxing Day she cut Hugo out of...
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And Shame the Devil
- 1967
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Two policemen were on trial because of a crime two other men swore they did not commit. Except for the attractive daughter and astrologist mother of one of the policemen, no one wanted to talk about it. What was not being said in the small English to...
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The Case Is Altered
- 1967
- / Law Enforcement
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FROM EMERALDS TO MURDER The silken-haired starlet who turned up one evening in Antony Maitland’s apartment was very young, very pretty, and very troubled. Her fiancé, it seemed, had been accused of stealing a famous emerald necklace from the...
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Knives Have Edges
- 1968
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DRAMA OF DEATH She was a tall, lissome beauty in love with an actor suspected of murder, and entirely too friendly with her ex-husband. She was tormented by nightmares she did not understand, driven to actions she could not control and desperate ...
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Tarry and Be Hanged
- 1969
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Only one witness could provide Dr. Henry Langton, family physician and horticultural addict, with an alibi for the time of his wife’s murder -- and the alibi was made of cast iron. However, a year after the death of the good doctor’s wife another...
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The Knavish Crows
- 1971
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She was the missing heiress to an immense fortune… Lawyer Antony Maitland had agreed to look for her while on vacation in the United States, but he didn’t know that his holiday would turn into a terrifying high-speed chase across the continent...
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Serpent's Tooth
- 1971
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To the citizens of Arkenshaw, Yorkshire, Mr and Mrs Alfred Baker and their twelve foster children represent the ideal family, respected for their closeness and mutual concern. When seventeen-year-old Joe Baker fatally assaults his father, barrister A...
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They Love Not Poison
- 1972
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It was just stomachache--but this time she died It was presumed she died of natural - causes--until the doctor refused to sign the death certificate. And when all the signs began pointing to murder, barrister-to-be Antony Maitland found himself ca...
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Enter the Corpse
- 1973
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The black sheep of the family Mr. Hubert Denning is being released from prison where he has been serving a term for robbery. He has nowhere to go and is taken in by his god-son Roger Farrell. Before Denning even reaches the home Roger and his actress...
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Yet She Must Die
- 1973
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Responding to an urgent call from friend and fellow lawyer Vera Lang Horne, Antony Maitland rushes to the town of Chedcombe only to find a client with a strong motive, but no alibi. Jeremy Skelron is accused of murdering his wife, Lydia, who had refu...
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A Show of Violence
- 1975
- / Law Enforcement
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Antony Maitland, barrister and very confidential detective, reluctantly journeys to a grey town in the English midlands to defend a young boy who is, on the face of it, guilty of murder and art theft. The boy's mysterious unwillingness to say anythin...
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A Thief or Two
- 1977
- / Law Enforcement
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Easy Learning For Kids. This book utilises colorful images and easy to read language to teach children about Amazing Australian Animals. The book is as much an educational book as a picture book for the younger children. Contains a Quick Facts Summa...
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The Law's Delay
- Feb-1977
- / Law Enforcement
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It’s a case of murder,’ said Horton. Antony Maitland sighed. ‘Your client, I suppose, being the murderer,’ he said. Well, I think so. It’s a woman… Ellen Gray.’ Ellen Gray is on trial for murder. She is defended by Antony Maitl...
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Exit Murderer
- 1978
- / Law Enforcement
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Six years ago, barrister-detective Anthony Maitland found himself in a dangerous encounter with the leader of a diamond smuggling organization that operated out of Northdean. Now he is called back to Northdean on another case involving diamonds: this...
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This Fatal Writ
- 1979
- / Law Enforcement
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The case against Harry Charlton was simple and strong. In his role as 'investigative journalist' he was alleged to have gained knowledge of a Top Secret project at the Fenton Laboratory, London, and to have sold this information to a Russian agent. T...
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Weep for Her
- 1980
- / Law Enforcement
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Sir Nicholas' latest client is rather unusual, even for him. She's a medium--a trance medium being prosecuted under the Fraudulent Medium Act of 1951. She's accused of prompting a client to suicide when the message from her dearly departed isn't what...
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They Stay for Death
- May-1980
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Gossip is rife in the provincial town of Chedcombe. It seems there have been dark doings at the Restawhile Hotel, actually an exclusive nursing home. Three residents have recently died -- all of them very rich. When a fourth succumbs, it becomes clea...
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Cry Guilty
- 1981
- / Law Enforcement
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First edition. A thriller featuring the popular barrister-detective Antony Maitland, this time in the role of Prosecutor in the theft of a Rubens painting. Marginalia in pencil and address label of previous owner on front free endpaper. Small closed ...
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Dearest Enemy
- 1981
- / Law Enforcement
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Leonard and Victoria Buckley are a legend of the London stage; in their forth-three married years they have played opposite each other in countless plays, and not the least of their charms is their apparently idyllic marriage. It is a shocked Antony...
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Enter a Gentlewoman
- Apr-1982
- / Law Enforcement
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Barrister Antony Maitland doesn't require saints for clients, but he doesn't do divorce. So when he's asked to represent a client being sued for divorce, he unhesitatingly says no. But it's a lot more complicated than that, as the wife is accusing th...
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The Lie Direct
- Aug-1983
- / Law Enforcement
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Charged with espionage -- and bigamy to boot -- John Ryder didn’t have a prayer of a defense. His trial was beginning the next morning in the Old Bailey when his desperate barrister turned to Antony Maitland. Ryder swore that he had never laid eyes...
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The Bloody Book of Law
- Mar-1984
- / Law Enforcement
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When Maitland is called upon to defend a young man on a theft charge he stumbles on a coincidence that promises to be a decisive factore in a successful defence. But Maitland is walking into a trap. His old enemy, Detective Chief Superintendent Brigg...
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Away With Them to Prison
- Jul-1985
- / Law Enforcement
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While defending two constables accused of bribery and perjury in a murder linked to the mob, British barrister Anthony Maitland and his uncle, Sir Nicholas Harding, uncover a deadly plot to frame two policemen...
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Put Out the Light
- Dec-1985
- / Law Enforcement
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Anthony Maitland's good friend, Jeremy Skelton, decides to produce a restoration play by Sir John Cartwright. Another good friend, Meg Hamilton, is set to star. But before opening night, a series of mysterious warnings, ghostly voices, and accidents,...
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Most Deadly Hate
- Mar-1986
- / Law Enforcement
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MOST UN-MOTHERLY LOVE Antony Maitland rarely involved himself in "domestic" cases, but Robert Osmond's story intrigued him. Five years earlier, Osmond's wife Phillipa walked out on him and their little daughter Jennifer. Now she was demanding cust...
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Nor Live So Long
- Jul-1986
- / Law Enforcement
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The one thing Anthony Maitland needed was Holiday in the lovely village of Burton Cecil. The last thing the barrister sleuth needed was murder. Especially when the victim was an innocent young girl, gruesomely strangled! The police were ready to na...
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Naked Villainy
- Feb-1987
- / Law Enforcement
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A Black Mass held in the wine cellar of a staid London mansion? It seemed impossible, although Antony Maitland had proof: a scandalous snapshot and a scrap of paper scribbled with mysterious conjurations. Then the man who had complained of the blasph...
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Past Praying For
- Oct-1995
- / Law Enforcement
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The girl in the dock, Camilla Barnard, was almost beautiful; she was pale -- she was accused of having killed her husband. A bride at nineteen, she had been married for 7 years; she had a 6 year old son. -- Antony Maitland was acting as junior to B...
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Though I Know She Lies
- Mar-1998
- / Law Enforcement
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A beautiful redheaded model Barbara Wentworth was on trial for murder. All the evidence pointed to her guilt, but lawyer Antony Maitland was convinced otherwise. Furthermore, he was certain that no one concerned in the case -- not Barbara, nor her ...