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Bill Knox
Full Series List in Order
A Colin Thane Scottish Crime Squad Case
1 - Deadline for a Dream // In at the Kill (1957)2 - Death Department (1959)
3 - Leave It to the Hangman (1960)
4 - Little Drops of Blood (1962)
5 - The Gray Sentinels (Jan-1998)
6 - The Man in the Bottle // The Killing Game (1963)
7 - The Taste of Proof (1965)
8 - The Ghost Car (1966)
9 - Justice on the Rocks (1967)
10 - The Tallyman (1969)
11 - Who Shot the Bull? (Jan-1977)
12 - To Kill a Witch (1971)
13 - Draw Batons! (1973)
14 - Rally to Kill (1975)
15 - Pilot Error (1977)
16 - Live Bait (1978)
17 - A Killing in Antiques (1981)
18 - The Hanging Tree (1983)
19 - The Crossfire Killings (Sep-1986)
20 - The Interface Man (1989)
21 - The Counterfeit Killers (1996)
Webb Carrick
1 - The Scavengers (1964)2 - Devilweed (1966)
3 - Blacklight (1967)
4 - A Figurehead (1968)
5 - Blueback (1969)
6 - Seafire (1970)
7 - Stormtide (1972)
8 - Whitewater (1974)
9 - Hellspout (1976)
10 - Witchrock (1977)
11 - Bombship (Jan-1980)
12 - Bloodtide (1982)
13 - Wavecrest (Jan-1985)
14 - Dead Man's Mooring (Jan-1988)
15 - The Drowning Nets (1991)
Book List in Order: 57 titles
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Death Department
- 1959
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In a big Glasgow department store, shoplifting is inevitable, but when the losses skyrocket, the managing director senses that a highly organized swindle is in progress and demands action from the police. But when the head buyer disappears and two sa...
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Little Drops of Blood
- 1962
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It might have been just another road accident - although the dead man had a criminal record. But a few little drops of blood pointed to murder and plunged Chief Inspector Colin Thane and Inspector Phill Moss into a full blown investigation.'...
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The Scavengers
- 1964
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Since Webb Carrick, of the Scottish Fishery Protection Service, had had trouble before with the crusty master of the Tecta, he isn't surprised that the Norwegian trawler has once again sliced through another boat's fishing nets. But among the masses ...
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To Kill a Witch
- 1971
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For the Glasgow police, fishing a corpse out of the Clyde always spells trouble. The woman had clearly been murdered, and inquiries revealed that she came from Monkswalk, the affluent suburb where police officers are as welcome as debt collectors....
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Draw Batons!
- 1973
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Project Community was supposed to be an occasion for goodwill: a police-sponsored exhibition of the handiworks of Glasgow's hobby clubs. However, someone used it as an occasion for murder, the victim being a used-car dealer with an unsavory reputati...
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Pilot Error
- 1977
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The pilot was still alive when they pulled him out, but his passenger was dead. Pieces of the single-engined four-seater Beagle Pup were scattered in and around Fortrose, yet, in spite ofall the mess, Chief Inspector Colin Thane expected it to be a ...
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The Hanging Tree
- 1983
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After a post office robbery, Detective Superintendent Thane’s interest is centered upon the apparently innocent motorcyclist victim, shot by the raiders, for on his corpse is discovered copies of an illegal video cassette of ‘The Hanging Tree’,...
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The Counterfeit Killers
- 1996
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A multi-million pound counterfeit fashion operation with money-making international connections has moved into the Scottish crime scene, and has prospered as it has spread. That is, until the arrival of a rival group calling themselves The Cutters, w...
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Lake of Fury
- Sep-1996
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Talos Cord was the second man from UN Field Reconnaissance to go to the East African republic of Moyalla. His predecessor, who had been investigating arms-smuggling, had been killed in a plane crash which looked like sabotage. But had the plane been ...
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Place of Mists
- Dec-1996
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The assassination in New York of an Arab U.N. delegate signals a crisis that could flare into war, and Talos Cord of the U.N. 'peacemaker' section is sent to Morocco to guard the visiting president of a strife-torn Arab republic. Once there, Cord fin...
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Salvage Job
- Feb-1997
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A storm has left the oil tanker S.S. CRAIG MICHAEL stranded and almost blocking the only channel to the bay at Cabo Esco and the Portuguese fishing village of Porto Esco. Sent to investigate, marine insurance inspector Laird hires a diver, who meets ...
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Nest of Vultures
- Jun-1997
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Talos Cord, the globe-trotting U.N. Field Reconnaissance agent, is sent to the South of France to locate and destroy an organisation recruiting mercenaries for an uprising in East Africa. On arrival in Cannes, he discovers the local U.N. agent newly ...
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Blood Proof
- Sep-1998
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Colin Thane of the elite Crime Squad, is sent north after a vicious arson attack at Broch Distillery, which left three men dead, and eight million pounds worth of prime stock destroyed. Finn Rankin, who runs the distillery with the aid of his three d...
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Cave of Bats
'Knox's general style and plotting seem to be firming up with each successive novel.' SAN FRANSISCO CHRONICLE. 'Anyone who cherishes books of strength and excitement and literary quality had better be collecting this author.' BOOK WEEK. 'Bill Knox wr...
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The Deep Fall
It was obvious they were dealing with a professional - the killing was vicious and clever. William Carter, managing director of a firm carrying out secret work for the Admiralty, was found dead in his factory's enameling oven. He left behind him a wi...
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Drum of Power
Robert Hartford's search for a sisal-growing area in the former British colony of Yabanza suddenly turned into a desperate expedition, endangering the lives of his small party of Africans and Europeans. Hartford's real task was to destroy the Drum of...
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Sanctuary Isle
Chief Detective Inspector Colin Thane and Detective Inspector Phil Moss are sent to a bird sanctuary off the coast of Argyll to investigate the murder of the warden. The one slender clue they have appears to be a problem in arithmetic, involving the ...