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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2005
  • Latest Book:
    July 2013
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Full Series List in Order

A Jack Scott Mystery

1 - A Confusion of Murders (Mar-2005)
2 - A Bewilderment of Crooks (Jan-2006)
3 - Clutches of Death (Aug-2006)

Book List in Order: 9 titles



  • Amateur private eye Jack Scott is fascinated by an accidental death that could be murder, and a man's disappearance that suggests something more sinister. Scott's investigating uncovers a simmering paternity feud stretching back 18 years, and a cryp...



  • Private Eye Jack Scott gets a new case. On a rainy night in a Liverpool suburb, glass shatters as a thief breaks into a private garage, steals the stereo from a Mercedes, and makes his escape. When a neighbor runs out to apprehend the thief, he is st...



  • This title talks about children who vanished without trace. When photographer Frank Danson took his wife Jenny to the theatre, they had two beautiful baby boys at home. But, when they returned, the boys had gone, having vanished without a trace and p...



  • When the police break into Joe Creeney's Liverpool house, his dead wife is hanging by a rope form the banisters and Joe is walking away holding the ladder. Lorraine Creeney has been dead just seconds, and there is nobody else in the house, yet Joe's ...



  • A tragic road accident on a bleak moorland road lures PI Jack Scott to the Isle of Mull, and into a web of intrigue stretching back more than 30 years. Only hours after arriving on the island, talks with motor mechanic Jim Gorrie and the elegant sex...



  • When freelance photographer Penny Lane trips over a dead body on Hoylake beach she makes a terrible error of judgement. Now she must put matters right. Her transformation from photographer to amateur private eye is the easy bit but as the body count ...



  • When photographer and amateur PI Penny Lane calls at estate agent Larry Galleywood's house for a routine magazine interview, she is caught up in a locked room murder. A few hours later, a second death brings further complications. Are the murders lin...



  • When Jack Scott sees Nick Skaill walking out of Gibraltar's Lagoon Deep nightclub with a gun in his hand, then finds a corpse, he naturally reports the sightings to the police. From that moment his life is in danger. Nick Skaill is the son of crimina...



  • Jack Scott and Sian Laidlaw are forced to remain in Gibraltar with Jack’s mother when she breaks her ankle -- Eleanor believes she was pushed. When a chance meeting with a young photographer, Pru Wise, leads them into the path of trouble and up aga...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Paxton Sheriff has published 9 books.

John Paxton Sheriff does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Death Warmed Up, was published in July 2013.

The first book by John Paxton Sheriff, A Confusion of Murders, was published in March 2005.

Yes. John Paxton Sheriff has 1 series.