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Author

Eric Brown

Category

Crime & Mystery

Murder by Numbers

Eric Brown

And then there was one . . . can Donald Langham and Maria Dupré stop a killer who's picking off victims one by one?

December, 1956. Donald Langham's wife Maria Dupré, receives a chilling invitation to attend a death at the home of artist Maxwell Falwell Fenton. Upon arrival, they meet five strangers who have also received numbered invitations. They all had a reason to hate Maxwell, including Maria. And then, someone starts picking off the six, one by one . . .

UK edition Select Format
Publication Date: 30 Nov 2020
ISBN: 9780727890771
Price: £20.99
Dimensions: 222 x 141
Extent: 208 pages
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US edition Select Format
Publication Date: 2 Feb 2021
ISBN: 9780727890771
Price: $28.99
Dimensions: 222 x 141
Extent: 208 pages
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Murder Served Cold

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Murder Takes a Turn

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Murder Take Three

1950s Private Investigator Donald Langham discovers that truth is stranger than fiction when he investigates a murder on an American movie set.

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Murder at The Loch

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Murder at the Chase

Crime writer sleuth Donald Langham is faced with the classic locked-room conundrum in this engaging historical mystery.

July, 1955. Fellow writer Alastair Endicott has requested Donald Langham's help in discovering what happened to his father Edward, who has disappeared without trace from inside his locked study. The elder Endicott had been researching a biography of the notorious Satanist Vivien Stafford. Could there be a connection to his disappearance?

Murder by the Book

A historical mystery series from award-winning science fiction writer, Eric Brown.

London, 1955. When crime writer Donald Langham's literary agent asks for his help in sorting out 'a delicate matter', little does Langham realize what he's getting himself into. For a nasty case of blackmail leads inexorably to murder as London's literary establishment is rocked by a series of increasingly bizarre deaths. With the help of his literary agent's assistant, the delectable Maria Dupre, Langham finds himself drawing on the skills of his fictional detective hero as he hunts a ruthless and fiendishly clever killer - a killer with old scores to settle.


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