Download or read book Death at Deepwood Grange written by Michael Underwood and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deepwood Grange is no longer what it was in the thirties: the beautiful old house has been converted into luxury apartments, and the original family is long gone. But on a rare visit to her godmother, solicitor Rosa Epton finds herself quite entertained by the eccentric residents of the other flats. Until, that is, one of them turns up dead in the chimney of an empty apartment, and her godmother becomes a prime suspect. Then her godmother disappears, and Rosa's involvement becomes even more personal ...

Download or read book Death at Deepwood Grange written by Michael Underwood and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deepwood Grange is a beautiful old house converted into flats. There are murders, a puzzle, several suspects, a police detective and an amateur detective in the person of pretty young solicitor Rosa Epton. Rosa's godmother is a resident at the Grange and becomes a suspect when a body is found in the chimney of an empty flat.

Download or read book Death on Remand written by Michael Underwood and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A whodunnit in the best blood-tingling tradition, which keeps the reader gasping and guessing till the last page. Although Julian Prentice is a small-time crook, his theft of a car hardly seems to warrant someone's very deliberate attempt to kill him on the day he is released from prison. The final roll-call of suspects comes to six, with six apparently foolproof alibis. Yet someone is lying. It falls to Detective-Superintendent Simon Manton to work out who ...

Download or read book Cause of Death written by Michael Underwood and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mrs Sophie Easterberg is found dead on her bedroom floor in the picturesque village of Five Meadows, it is apparent she has been murdered. The obvious suspect is Dave Lucas, an ex-borstal boy recently employed by her, who has since disappeared. Detective-Superintendent Simon Manton of Scotland Yard is despatched to take charge of the case. He soon tracks Lucas down. But is he guilty? And, even if he is, would a jury convict him?

Download or read book Death in Camera written by Michael Underwood and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prominent judge is murdered on the opening day of the new Runnymede Crown Court, and Rosa Epton become doubly involved, both as a witness to the murder and the solicitor in a drugs trial over which Judge Ambrose was to have presided. His replacement, Judge Holtby, seems unduly upset by the death of his colleague - and then two more deaths occur. But was Judge Ambrose the real target in the first place? And what involvement does Rosa's client in the drugs case have in the whole business? Eventually Rosa is able to deduce the likely sequence of events, but there is still a final secret to be revealed ...

Download or read book Goddess of Death written by Michael Underwood and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fourth Rosa Epton mystery, Underwood's protagonist, whom Mystery Magazine declared 'one of mystery fiction's most talented attorneys', is called upon to defend the scapegrace younger brother of an acquaintance. Then the acquaintance himself is murdered, his skull crushed with a statuette of the Indian goddess Lakshmi, and Rosa must divide her time between manipulating a magistrate smitten with her charms and divining the culprit's identity.

Download or read book Death by Misadventure written by Michael Underwood and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A police officer needs the quickness and guile of a bookmaker, the ingenuity of a psychiatrist and the physical reserves of a Marine, or so it seems to Detective Chief Superintendent Manton, who is called in to investigate a huge bullion robbery and its possible link with the death of a solicitor in a car crash. But even when a supposed double murderer is charged and tried there is still a taunting question mark over the case. Whose was the brain that planned the audacious gold robbery and does Manton know enough about the criminal mind to find out?

Download or read book Mystery Women Volume One Revised written by Colleen Barnett and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women as sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs as well as for the mystery hound.

Download or read book Sequels written by Janet G. Husband and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.

Download or read book Girl Found Dead written by Michael Underwood and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Her scarf had been knotted tightly around her neck and it was obvious she had been killed with great determination ...' Susan Andrews has been murdered and her body found near a disused airfield. The case is now in the hands of Detective-Superintendent Simon Manton, but Susan's father, a former detective-inspector, decides to investigate himself. Important questions soon emerge - what part has a philandering salesman with a scratched cheek, or the dreamy undergraduate son of the local gentry played in Susan's final hours? And, how much evidence must you have against a suspect before you can charge them with murder?

Download or read book Mystery Women written by Colleen A. Barnett and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1997 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Man Who Killed Too Soon written by Michael Underwood and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Monk was on holiday in Japan. He didn't expect to get involved in the theft of £50,000, blackmail and murder ... But that was what happened when the good-looking young man came up to him on a Japanese mountainside and said: 'I'm in deep trouble, Mr Monk. Will you help me?'

Download or read book The Unprofessional Spy written by Michael Underwood and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barrister Martin Ainsworth is sent to West Berlin by British Intelligence to make contact with his former lover, a suspected Communist agent, and it's up to him to find out the truth and to spot her contacts. As he travels through a divided Berlin, his dual role becomes emotionally tortuous, his lack of training an unforeseen hazard, and he turns more reckless than his peers had ever bargained for ... 'A more or less conventional spy story is suddenly turned inside out by a most ingenious twist' Guardian

Download or read book Murder Made Absolute written by Michael Underwood and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crime-thriller that strikes the heart of the legal world. QC Christopher Henham is poisoned during the hearing of a divorce case. His wife, her son and ex-husband, not to mention a High Court judge, his wife and a secretary all come under suspicion. Detective-Superintendent Simon Manton takes charge of the investigation. What is the truth behind Mrs Henham's motor accident? Who doctored her husband's cough sweets? But, before he can solve the case, another murder is committed.

Download or read book A Party to Murder written by Michael Underwood and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The appointment of a new Chief Prosecuting Solicitor has caused outrage and gossip, but no one could have imagined that murder would ensue. Nor that an arrogant and stubborn policeman would make a premature arrest and then set about gathering the evidence to substantiate his arrest. Then a second murder throws the case into even more confusion. Meanwhile, Rosa Epton has appeared on the scene to defend the accused, and she is soon locked in battle with the police and increasingly determined to get to the truth.

Download or read book The Seeds of Murder written by Michael Underwood and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one knew what finally prompted a shy young schoolboy to walk out of Warren Hall School never to return. The discovery of some of Stephen Willett's bloodstained clothing in an overgrown ditch throws suspicion on Wally Price, a local odd-job man, and his suicide is seen as an admission of guilt. Over fifty years later another tragedy strikes Warren Hall when the body of a stranger is discovered in the school grounds. The local postmaster is charged with murder and solicitor Rosa Epton is summoned from London to advise him on his defence. Then a second murder at the school - and the discovery of some damning evidence against her client - makes Rosa determined to investigate leads that the police have overlooked. So she embarks on the most challenging assignment of her career: one that involves long-held secrets and dangerous confrontations. For a killer stands between Rosa and the truth.

Download or read book The Crime of Colin Wise written by Michael Underwood and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crime is murder - cold blooded, pre-meditated and motivated by sheer greed. Colin Wise, a television repair man, is a well-mannered youngster. Among the homes he visits is that of Geoffrey Goodwin, whom he befriends. And while Goodwin is preparing for an extended business trip to Australia, Colin Wise is also making plans: plans to ensure Goodwin will not be seen again, and will never be missed ...