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British Police Mysteries


 

Authors R - Z

 

Series
(Titles below reflect the current collection. Other titles in the series or by that author may not be owned by library.)

Douglas Quantrill & Hilary Lloyd, police in East Anglia by Sheila Radley
     1.  Death in the Morning
     2.  A Talent for Destruction
     3.  The Quiet Road to Death
     4.  Fate Worse Than Death
     5.  This Way Out
     6.  Cross My Heart and Hope to Die
             Other titles in series
 
John Rebus, Detective Sgt. in Edinburgh, Scotland by Ian Rankin
     1.  Strip Jack
     2.  A Good Hanging: Short Stories
     3.  The Black Book
     4.  Mortal Causes
     5.  Let it Bleed
     6.  Black and Blue
     7.  The Hanging Garden
     8.  Dead Souls
     9.  Death is Not the End (novella)
   10.  Set in Darkness
   11.  The Falls
   12.  Resurrection Men
   13.  A Question of Blood
   14.  Fleshmarket Alley
             Other titles in series
 
Reginald Wexford, Chief Inspector in Sussex by Ruth Rendell
     1.  From Doon with Death
     2.  A Wolf to the Slaughter
     3.  A New Lease of Death
     4.  The Best Man to Die
     5.  No More Dying Then
     6.  Murder Being Once Done
     7.  Some Lie and Some Die
     8.  A Sleeping Life
     9.  Means of Evil
   10.  Death Notes
   11.  The Speaker of Mandarin
   12.  An Unkindness of Ravens
   13.  The Veiled One
   14.  Kissing the Gunner's Daughter
   15.  Simisola
   16.  Road Rage
   17.  Harm Done
   18.  The Babes in the Wood
             Other titles in series
   
Alan Banks, Eastvale detective inspector in Yorkshire by Peter Robinson
     1.  Gallows View
     2.  A Dedicated Man
     3.  A Necessary End
     4.  The Hanging Valley
     5.  Past Reason Hated
     6.  Wednesday's Child
     7.  Final Account
     8.  Innocent Graves
     9.  Blood at the Root
   10.  In a Dry Season
   11.  Cold is the Grave
   12.  Aftermath
   13.  Close to Home
   14.  Playing with Fire
   15.  Strange Affair
 
George Rogers, Detective Superintendent by Jonathan Ross
     1.  Murder Be Hanged
     2.  Murder, Murder Burning Bright
     3.  This Too, Too Sullied Flesh
             Other titles in series
 
George Macrae & Leopold Silver, burly London copper & his assistant by Alan Scholefield
     1.  Dirty Weekend
     2.  Never Die in January
     3.  Threats and Menaces
             Other titles in series
 
Luke Thanet, police inspector in Kent by Dorothy Simpson
     1.  The Night She Died
     2.  Six Feet Under
     3.  Close Her Eyes
     4.  Element of Doubt
     5.  Suspicious Death
     6.  Dead by Morning
     7.  Doomed to Die
     8.  Wake the Dead
     9.  No Laughing Matter
   10.  A Day for Dying
   11.  Once Too Often
   12.  Dead and Gone
            Other titles in series
 
Neil Paget, crotchety DCI from Shropshire by Frank Smith
     1.  Stone Dead
     2.  Thread of Evidence
     3.  Acts of Vengeance
             Other titles in series
 
Charlie Woodend, Chief Inspector in an English village by Sally Spencer
     1.  The Salton Killings
     2.  Murder at Swann's Lake
     3.  Death of a Cave Dweller
     4.  The Dark Lady
     5.  The Golden Mile to Murder
     6.  Dead on Cue
     7.  The Red Herring
     8.  Death of an Innocent
     9.  The Enemy Within
 
Alan Grant, Scotland Yard inspector by Josephine Tey
     1.  The Man in the Queue
     2.  A Shilling for Candles in Four, Five and Six
     3.  The Franchise Affair in Three by Tey
     4.  The Daughter of Time
     5.  The Singing Sands
             Other titles in series
 
Ian Rutledge, shell-shocked WWI vet at Scotland Yard by Charles Todd
     1.  A Test of Wills
     2.  Wings of Fire
     3.  Search the Dark
     4.  Legacy of the Dead
     5.  Watchers of Time
     6.  A Fearsome Doubt
     7.  A Cold Treachery
 
George Hennessey,  Chief Inspector in North Yorkshire by Peter Turnbull
     1.  Fear of Drowning
     2.  Deathtrap
     3.  The Return
     4.  After the Flood
     5.  The Dance Master
             Other titles in series
 
The "P" Division of Glasgow, Scotland also by Peter Turnbull
     1.  Deep and Crisp and Even
     2.  Big Money
     3.  Two Way Cut
     4.  Long Day Monday
     5.  The Killing Floor
     6.  The Man With No Face
             Other titles in series
 
Walter Purbright, policeman in Flaxborough Chronicles by Colin Watson
     1.  Coffin Scarcely Used
     2.  Hopjoy Was Here
     3.  Charity Ends at Home
     4.  Just What the Doctor Ordered
     5.  Six Nuns and a Shotgun
     6.  It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
     7.  Plaster Sinners
     8.  Whatever's Been Going on at Mumblesby?
             Other titles in series
 
Jack Frost, Detective Inspector in Denton by R.D. Wingfield
     1.  Frost at Christmas (audio book)
     2.  A Touch of Frost (Video Series-6 Seasons)
     3.  Hard Frost
             Other titles in series
 
Merle Capricorn, vaudevillian magician turned police by Pauline Glen Winslow
     1.  Death of an Angel
     2.  The Witch Hill Murder
     3.  Copper Gold
     4.  The Counsellor Heart
          Other titles in series
              
 

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Last updated June 14, 2006 by Courtney Moore (cmoore@wppl.org).