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Alex Gray (born 27 May 1950) is a Scottish crime writer. She has published 19 novels, all set around Glasgow and featuring the character of Detective Chief Inspector Lorimer and his psychological profiler Solomon Brightman, the earlier novels being published by Canongate and Allison & Busby and later books by Little Brown.
George Bellairs was the nom de plume of Harold Blundell (1902–1982), a crime writer and bank manager [1] born in Heywood, near Rochdale, Lancashire.He began working for Martins Bank at the age of 15, and stayed there in escalating roles of seniority until his retirement.
Most of these books feature her main series character, Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald, a "London Scot" and an avowed bachelor with a love for walking in the English countryside. In 28 of these books, he has the help of his assistant, Detective Inspector Reeves. The Murder on the Burrows (1931) The Affair on Thor's Head (1932)
The book includes extracts taken from Lorimer's journal The Book of Transfiguration, in which he philosophizes on his situation and quotes from Gerard de Nerval. [ 2 ] Hogg, Lorimer's overbearing boss, describes his profession thus: "people turn to insurance to remove uncertainty from areas of their lives.
The series, in published order: Black Out (1995), ISBN 978-0-670-85767-8; The story begins during the last stages of the London Blitz in 1944. Sergent Troy is assigned to find out who's murdering German scientists who've been secretly smuggled out of Germany and into Britain. Later, Troy tracks his suspect to Berlin in 1948, during the Berlin ...
The main character, Van Veeteren, is in his sixties. In the first five novels he is still a Detective Chief Inspector; in the last five novels he is retired, but sometimes he leaves his antiquarian book store to help out with investigations. In his youth, he was a student at the university of Maardam.
Richard Jury is a fictional character in a series of mystery novels written by Martha Grimes. [1]Initially a chief inspector, later a superintendent, Jury is invariably assisted in his cases by Melrose Plant, a British aristocrat who has given up his titles, and by his hypochondriacal but dependable sergeant, Alfred Wiggins.
Scales of Justice is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh.It is the eighteenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1955. [1]With a classic 'Golden Age' crime novel's setting, in the idyllic, self-contained, rural English community of Swevenings, the suspects are all members of a tight-knit social group revolving around the local baronet and his family, the Lacklanders.