Dorothy Bowers

• Mar-2005
• / Mystery
• 

This English author's first book, first published in England in 1937, introduces Inspector Dan Pardoe who looks into the death of an old lady in an English village. When this book first appeared, The Times of London said Miss Dorothy Bowers should ma...

• Jul-2005
• / Mystery
• 

“Oh, it’s you, is it?” said Archy Mitford, and laughed in a way that choked the breath in his throat…

Archy Mitfold had always loved a mystery, but he never expected to take the lead role in a thriller. Yet there was no doubt that ...

• Jul-2005
• / Mystery
• 

"It won't be much longer now. Keep your head and hold your tongue."In Shadows Before, events from the past are the catalyst for murder. In hope of a fresh start after being acquitted of the murder of his sister-in-law, Matthew Weir has move...

• Nov-2005
• / Mystery
• 

Emma Betony was living out her dignified, elderly, poverty-stricken life when an appeal for help from a former student brought her to the little town of Martinmas and a nursing home transformed into a girls' school. Set in 1940, he school had recentl...

• Aug-2006
• / Mystery
• 

It was not until the fifth death in Long Greeting that Miss Tidy made up her mind to go to the police. And then from no sense of civic duty but because she knew her own security imperilled. So opens the fifth and final book by Bowers, first published...

• May-2021
• / Mystery
• 

It was not until the fifth death in Long Greeting that Miss Tidy made up her mind to go to the police.It was not a sense of civic duty that compelled her, but the arrival of two letters that made it clear her life was in danger. The local villag...

• May-2021
• / Mystery
• 

Former governess Emma Betony is living in quiet and boring retirement when two unexpected letters arrive. The first is a lonely hearts magazine, with an entry ("Lonely Batchelor, age 49, good health, comfortable income, seeks friendship of unatt...