Jeremy Silberston
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A young secretary of a multinational corporation falls to her death in London and a member of the Home Guard is shot to death in the south of England. Finding how these deaths are related and how business and politics can be deadly Foyle finds who killed these people and why.
Author
Series
Foyle's War volume 1
Language
English
Description
At a time when German nationals are being interned in British camps, the beautiful Austrian wife of a local magistrate is resented by locals. When she is found murdered, a swastika painted on a nearby tree, Foyle realizes the seemingly peaceful Sussex town harbors any number of suspects.
Author
Series
Foyle's War volume 2
Language
English
Description
The arrest of a young girl on a sabotage charge brings Foyle into contact with a group of English Nazi sympathizers. Shots are fired at the group's charismatic leader, but it is the hotel owner who dies. Foyle investigates the murder and uncovers a plot to smuggle a vitally important letter to the enemy.
Author
Series
Foyle's War volume 2
Language
English
Description
February 1941. Foyle investigates strange happenings at a manor house that has been converted into a burn unit for RAF pilots. The brilliant but unconventional surgeon who heads the unit has drawn the ire of his military superiors for disregarding regulations that conflict with patient welfare.
Author
Series
Foyle's War volume 2
Language
English
Description
September 1940. As Foyle's son Andrew takes to the skies for dangerous sorties over Germany, Sam goes undercover at a fuel depot to help crack an illicit fuel racket. Sexual indiscretions and racketeering plus links to Andrew combine to make this a delicate case for Foyle.
Author
Series
Foyle's War volume 4
Language
English
Description
In the course of investigating a murder, Foyle uncovers a plot to steal art treasures being moved from the local museum to Wales for safekeeping. Meanwhile, Foyle's son flies his first mission as a Royal Air Force pilot and is accused of passing top secret information to the enemy.
Author
Series
Foyle's War volume 4
Language
English
Description
October 1940. London is in the grip of the Blitz. In Hastings, the disappearance of a young boy and a break-in at a local food depot lead Foyle and his team to a "funk hole," a hotel catering to wealthy guests seeking a wartime retreat. There they discover a nest of cowardice, greed, and deceit.
Author
Series
Foyle's War volume 2
Language
English
Description
August 1942. Helping a colleague from a nearby town probe the murder of a war hero, Foyle confronts a deeper-and potentially deadlier-mystery. A top-secret experiment in biological warfare goes horribly wrong, claiming the victim's widow and threatening the life of Foyle's driver.
Author
Series
Foyle's War volume 3
Language
English
Description
April 1941. Foyle and Milner capture two German soldiers who survive the crash landing of their plane in the Hastings countryside. Nearby, two nights later, a farmer is discovered shot dead in his armchair. Two Land Army girls working on the farm come under suspicion.
Author
Series
Midsomer Murders volume 3
Language
English
Description
The peace of Ferne Basset is shattered, when the body of quiet animal lover Agnes Gray is bludgeoned to death and found floating in the nearby river. The case is far from easy, when her cousin, Esslyn Carmichael, inadvertently cuts his own throat on stage during the final act of a production of Amadeus. Many of the village and of the Causton Amateur Dramatics' Society loathed him. Barnaby is puzzled how someone could have tampered with the prop knife...
Author
Series
Midsomer Murders volume 1
Language
English
Description
When the body of a local beauty is discovered by the pool at her manor house, Barnaby and Troy uncover a seedy world of adultery and deceit within the affluent rural community.
Author
Series
Midsomer Murders volume 1
Language
English
Description
The death of Miss Emily Simpson in the sleepy village of Badger's Drift brings DCI Tom Barnaby and DS Gavin Troy to investigate. Her neighbour had seen her return from a walk in the woods, unnerved and shocked by something she had seen. When her death is confirmed as no accident, Barnaby and Troy start to question the many eccentric and quirky residents and discover a web of sex, blackmail, secrets and lies before another horrific death shatters the...
Author
Series
Midsomer Murders volume 5
Language
English
Description
Investment in a secret invention leads to an apparent suicide in Midsomer Magna, and a plan to steal valuable falcon eggs leads to another death.
Author
Series
Midsomer Murders volume 3
Language
English
Description
When a local thief and womanizer is killed with a pitchfork, the residents of Midsomer Mallow fear for their chances in the Perfect Village Competition.