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Geoffrey Foster
Books in Order: 10 titles
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Exchange Is No Robbery
The scene is London, England, in the mid-nineteen twenties. Private detectives Melpomene and Alex are asked to investigate problems at a London stock-broking firm. Soon it becomes clear that certain officers of a prominent embassy are also involved i...
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An Academic Question
Melpomene and Alex Crabbe investigate what appear to be dubious practices at a new university. They soon discover that the key officials of Harpenden University are involved in criminal behaviour, ranging from demanding inducements from prospective s...
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A Medical Emergency
A further exploit of the Crabbe and Crabbe detective agency, set in 1920s England. The partners of the firm have unusual qualifications for detectives. Both in their twenties, Melpomene is a social anthropologist, and Alexander is a solicitor, a comb...
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The Problem with Janice
The partners of ‘Crabbe and Crabbe: Private Investigators’ have unusual qualifications for detectives. Both in their twenties, Melpomene is a social anthropologist, and Alexander is a solicitor, a combination that brings fresh approaches to a som...
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But Is It Art?
The partners of the firm of ‘Crabbe and Crabbe: Private Investigators’ have unusual qualifications for detectives. Both in their twenties, Melpomene is a social anthropologist, and Alexander is a solicitor, a combination that brings fresh approac...
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Trouble at the Mill
The partners of the firm of ‘Crabbe and Crabbe: Private Investigators’ have unusual qualifications for detectives. Both in their twenties, Melpomene is a social anthropologist, and Alexander is a solicitor, a combination that brings fresh approac...
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Beatrice's Birthday
A further account, set in the Middle Ages in England and parts of Europe, of some of the characters that may have already been met in "Vincent the Beeman" and other books in the series. Beatrice is just turning twenty-five, which is regarded as the t...
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Kit and the Beeman
In mediaeval England a community is threatened by an unseen force with magic powers. The King and his knights find they are powerless, but Vincent, the Beeman, and his young proteges join Stephen the Venturer on a voyage to places where the descendan...
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Kit the Venturer
Kit, now aged sixteen, is being trained as a venturer by Captain Stephen, and is in the employ of Lady Leticia and Lord Morgan. Setting out for Lisbon on his first real voyage, in Stephen's three-master, he and his crewmates first have to deal with a...
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Vincent the Beeman
How the young Vincent Crabbe meets and befriends Lady Beatrice de Gonville Musgrave in the Middle Ages in England, and how they discover their magical powers and embark on a series of adventures. They defeat a plot to overthrow King Adelbert, with th...