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GET *FOUR* CLASSIC CRIME MYSTERIES IN THIS GREAT-VALUE BOX SET.
Discover traditional whodunits from a golden age of crime writing that includes opera-loving, puzzle-solving Cambridge tutorial Dr Davie.
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PRAISE FOR V.C. CLINTON-BADDELEY:
‘For intelligence, humour, observation and unforced charm, Mr Clinton-Baddeley is splendid value.’ Sunday Times
‘College setting described with loving care and plenty of humour.’ Observer
‘Admirable detective story. . . Fully recommended.’ Guardian
‘Mr Clinton-Baddeley’s first thriller is as likeable as his old style newbie detective.’ Times Literary Supplement
‘The pleasure lies in the literacy and intelligence of the narrative and of the dialogue.’ Tablet
‘Those whose tastes rise above beatings-up and nudes, please note. Oh! yes: and it’s a very good detective story too.’ Francis Iles, Guardian
‘The most likeable of elderly don-detectives.’ Maurice Richardson, Observer
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IN THIS FOUR-BOOK BOX SET:
BOOK 1: DEATH’S BRIGHT DART
Brilliant minds collect at St Nicholas’s College, Cambridge, for a convention. But the very last thing they’re anticipating is homicide. Dr Brauer is three sentences into his lecture when he out of the blue collapses. His loss of life is pronounced as being from a coronary heart assault, however Dr Davie isn’t so certain . . . With loads of suspects, our newbie sleuth Dr Davie will want all his wits about him to resolve this thriller.
BOOK 2: MY FOE OUTSTRETCH’D BENEATH THE TREE
Morris Brent has all of it: attractiveness, a phenomenal mistress, and a membership on the unique Chesterfield Club in London. Then one morning, fellow club-member and newbie sleuth Dr Davie stumbles throughout Brent mendacity face down beneath a tree within the well-kept, members-only backyard. Beaten and suffocated. Davie’s investigation leads him from the membership to a girls’s faculty and at last to the opening evening on the opera the place Davie is about to witness the efficiency of a lifetime . . .
BOOK 3: ONLY A MATTER OF TIME
Dark dealings are afoot at Bexminster Electronics. Company secretary Robert Coppleston discovers secrets and techniques are being leaked to their Japanese rivals. But by whom? Then a physique is found in a hedge in Combe Court. The sufferer has a big bruise on the facet of his neck, the contents of his pockets scattered round him. A second physique is discovered with bruising to the neck. The city thinks it has a killer in its midst. It’s time for Dr Davie to start his investigations, even when it means placing his personal life on the road.
BOOK 4: NO CASE FOR THE POLICE
Dr Davie arrives in his hometown of Tidwell St Peter’s for the funeral of his childhood buddy Robert Cassillis. As Robert’s literary executor, Davie wastes no time going by means of Robert’s voluminous papers after the funeral, and makes a stunning discovery. One of Robert’s journals comprises notes on the current loss of life of Adam Merrick, who drowned in a quarry. The police consider his loss of life was a tragic accident, however Robert thought in any other case . . . Robert’s widow implores Davie to destroy the journal. But Davie needs to search out out what actually occurred.
YOU GET ALL FOUR OF THE ABOVE BOOKS IN THIS EDITION. DON’T MISS OUT ON THIS SERIES OF CHARMING MURDER MYSTERIES FEATURING THE ELDERLY DON-DETECTIVE, DR DAVIE.
Fans of Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Anthony Horowitz, Dorothy L. Sayers and Faith Martin might be charmed by this sequence of absorbing traditional homicide mysteries.
ALSO BY V.C. CLINTON-BADDELEY
THE CAMBRIDGE CLASSIC MURDER MYSTERIES
Book 1: DEATH’S BRIGHT DART
Book 2: MY FOE OUTSTRETCH’D BENEATH THE TREE
Book 3: ONLY A MATTER OF TIME
Book 4: NO CASE FOR THE POLICE
Book 5: TO STUDY A LONG SILENCE