Margaret Alty

• Jan-2025
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When Callum Lorimer, the eldest son of Lorimer Fruits, an old established family firm, receives a letter from his brother Alan, telling him he was cutting short his overseas contract in Zambia and returning home, it effectively acted as a catalyst.Wi...

• Oct-2022
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Christina le Bouchon arrived in Meadowbank to take up a teaching post at Holly Lodge, a boarding school for girls, in good time for the start of the autumn term and in less than two months her daily help discovered her dead body in the house she was ...

• Nov-2020
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Once more Calder Bay, a seaside town on the north-east coast of Scotland, was in the media spotlight with the discovery of a man's body inside the garden of Hawthorn Cottage in Green Lane; the proximity of the property to where the gruesome remains o...

• Nov-2019
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The contents in a letter written by Valerie Abu on the night she was murdered promulgated a senior consular official at the British High Commission in Accra to contact the Foreign Office in London.

Simultaneously, Andrew Blake, in conducting...

• Jan-2019
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Almost as soon as Claire Walters moved into Tulip Cottage, she came to the conclusion after experiencing two disturbing incidents that the picturesque and tranquil surroundings could be misleading and when the body of a woman was discovered in an ...

• Jan-2017
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When Katherine Peters' body was found only metres away from the circus grounds, it didn't take long for the rumours to circulate around Meadowbank, implying they were responsible for the murder.  It made no difference there was no evidence to sup...

• Aug-2016
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Demolition work came to a temporary and abrupt standstill on the Henderson's old house with the gruesome discovery of a woman's body in one of the derelict outhouses.

Local interest soon began to wane when it transpired the body had been th...

• Mar-2016
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When John Brookes began asking questions ten years after his brother was murdered in Central Africa, a number of inconsistencies soon came to light to disprove the police verdict of the killing being a random attack carried out by a local gang. At th...

• Mar-2014
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When Martin Soutar's death was reported there was every indication he had committed suicide until Inspector Wishart of the Edinburgh constabulary found the name of Stephane Van Oost among the dead man's papers. He began to recognise a strong similari...

• Aug-2013
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The Miller-Croft family, much respected in and around London and further afield in the market town of Meadowbank where the matriarch, Catherine Miller-Croft, had made her home for over forty years, but like many families, the Miller-Crofts had their ...

• Feb-2013
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The report from New Scotland Yard of the escalating thefts of drugs from pharmacies in the south of England reached Chief Inspector Brenda Masters' desk in Meadowbank at the same time as she heard of Mark Astley's murder. Mark Astley, originally from...

• Oct-2012
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From the moment when Roddie first saw her among the fifty or sixty other passengers on the Star Ferry he was captivated, little realising how she would change his life, and even if he had, he would still have been powerless to alter the course of eve...

• Apr-2012
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News of Stephanie Collins' imminent arrival in Meadowbank preceded her. A number of people who had known her and had valid reasons to view her return, after an absence of ten years, with distaste and trepidation were quick to assume she was back for ...

• Jul-2011
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The predictable daily lives of the residents of Meadowbank, a bustling market town in the south of England, were shockingly disrupted by the brutal murder of Major Reginald Tilsly. Murder was virtually unheard of in Meadowbank. "Meadowbank will never...

• Mar-2011
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After her divorce, Geraldine Markham returns to England from The Gambia, believing her husband intends to remain in Africa and is not best pleased when he turns up, insistent on seeing her. Reluctantly, she agrees to meet him, but before this takes p...

• Aug-2010
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Jenny Graham, on the threshold of what she hoped would be a glittering acting career, had been easily impressed by the lavish and extravagant lifestyle of the man she had once known as Ben Standish. During two weeks' holiday in the idyllic surroundin...

• Apr-2010
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Philip Fernandez, ex-pilot with the Argentinian Air Force, traumatised by his experiences in the Falklands War and plagued by nightmares which would be with him for the rest of his life, changed his name and left Argentina to make a new life for hims...