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  • Bibliography:
    45 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1974
  • Latest Book:
    March 2017
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Full Series List in Order

David Mallin

1 - Time to Kill (1974)
2 - The Silence of the Night (1974)
3 - Full Fury (1975)
4 - A Spoonful of Luger (1975)
5 - Sealed With a Loving Kill (1976)
6 - The Colour of Fear (1976)
7 - A Glimpse of Death (1976)
8 - Too Late for the Funeral (1977)
9 - A Dip into Murder (1978)
10 - The Weight of Evidence (1978)
11 - The Bright Face Of Danger (1979)
12 - The Amnesia Trap (1979)
13 - Cart Before the Hearse (1979)
14 - One Deathless Hour (1981)

A Richard and Amelia Patton Investigation

1 - The Hanging Doll Murder (1983)
2 - Still Life With Pistol (Sep-1986)
3 - An Alibi Too Soon (1987)
4 - An Open Window (1988)
5 - Guilt on the Lily (Dec-1989)
6 - Death of an Innocent (1989)
7 - No Sign Of Life (1990)
8 - Mask of Innocence (1994)
9 - Stone Cold Dead (1995)

Book List in Order: 45 titles

  • The Silence of the Night

    David Mallin - 2

    When Hillary Keane realised that the only way to preserve Hillington Towers was for the public to share the expense, he decided to open the Grand Hall as an art exhibition. But this involved security, and the security involved David Mallin. The fact ...

  • Time to Kill

    David Mallin - 1

    Detective Sergeant Dave Mallin accepted the invitation for a few frames of snooker, although the challenge came from Eldon Kyle, the man who had threatened murder. However, his opponent was more deadly than even Mallin could have guessed, and when mu...

  • Full Fury

    David Mallin - 3

    Monday is not a day to take on a case if you're getting married on the Friday. As Neville Gaines had been hanged twelve years before and there was never any doubt he had done it, why was somebody suddenly interested? Dave Mallin can work fast, but wh...

  • A Spoonful of Luger

    David Mallin - 4

    When you’re broke you’ll go for anything, and the case did provide interest in the form of a murder which might be connected with a little girl who had gone missing. Private eye George Coe finds himself plunging deeper into a problem that seems i...

  • The Colour of Fear

    David Mallin - 6

    There should have been no difficulty in frightening a young lady into changing her evidence about a hit and run accident. However, David Mallin finds that too many people are interested in what may not have been an accident after all, and the young l...

  • A Glimpse of Death

    David Mallin - 7

    The gap in the curtains was narrow, but ex-policeman George Coe could see that Larry needed an alibi - but for robbery or murder? The robbery had involved drugs and the body was that of Henry Saturn, hit-man for Sarturo. Sarturo demanded revenge - an...

  • Sealed With a Loving Kill

    David Mallin - 5

    It seemed a simple case for David Mallin - to find a missing wife, with all the clues handed to him. However, the second part of the assignment proved more difficult - to find out why she went missing. Then the case crumbled away into tragedy, and th...

  • Too Late for the Funeral

    David Mallin - 8

    David Mallin and George Coe are approaching the same case from opposite directions, each unaware of the other's interest. Carol Turner, seventeen, and a mystery, is very close to a murder, and she has in her possession a weapon that could prove a nu...

  • A Dip into Murder

    David Mallin - 9

    To Elsa Mallin an ageing assassin with an eye for the ladies is pathetic - but when the eye falls on Elsa herself, it is time to run, especially as murder and kidnapping are in the background. However, too many people are relying on Elsa, including b...



  • The Weight of Evidence

    David Mallin - 10

    Fred Wallach was not so much a missing person as a disappeared one. It held all the elements of an illusionist's trick. There he'd been, shut away in bare shed with no way out by window or door -- and yet he had gone. To David Mallin it was not an i...

  • The Amnesia Trap

    David Mallin - 12

    Investigator David Mallin is faced with a new challenge he’s not likely to forget any time soon…When actress Karen Dale comes to him with a problem, he is immediately sucked into her world of film sets and directors. But it’s her case that capt...

  • The Bright Face Of Danger

    David Mallin - 11

  • Cart Before the Hearse

    David Mallin - 13

  • One Deathless Hour

    David Mallin - 14

    When the time indicated by the clock shattered by a fatal bullet is the same as the time the victim was apparently committing a murder somewhere else, detectives David Mallin and George Coe are acutely suspicious. They find themselves at opposite end...

  • The Hanging Doll Murder

    A Richard and Amelia Patton Investigation - 1

  • Seeing Red

    When Angela Holleson's nondriving father dies in an auto crash in a small Welsh town, detective Sergeant Harry Kyle travels from London to help Angela investigate and both become involved in a complex mystery...

  • Dead Ringer

  • Still Life With Pistol

    A Richard and Amelia Patton Investigation - 2

    While attending a two-week painting course at a rural English mansion, detective Richard Patton and his friend Amanda investigate the murder of one of the artists whose last painting contains the clue to the murderer...

  • An Alibi Too Soon

    A Richard and Amelia Patton Investigation - 3

    When Richard Patton decides to give his old friend ex-Chief Superintendent Llew Hughes a call out of the blue, little does he expect Llew to answer sounding frantic. He desperately begs Richard to visit him, and reveals that he believes there have b...



  • A Death to Remember

    Fifteen months ago Cliff Summers was brutally assaulted.Recovered, although still suffering from memory loss, Cliff returns to his hometown with no job, no home and no prospects. Also newly returned is Tony Clayton, a local garage owner who’s just ...

  • An Open Window

    A Richard and Amelia Patton Investigation - 4

    As Amelia Patton approaches a caravan parked in their usual spot, it explodes, killing the woman inside. As she recovers in a hospital near the Welsh coast, she learns that she is the residual legatee in her uncle’s will. As she cannot attend t...

  • The Second Jeopardy

  • Death of an Innocent

    A Richard and Amelia Patton Investigation - 6

    Retired Detective Inspector Richard Patton and his wife Amelia return to the world of crime when Patton is asked by his wife's old college friend to investigate a burglary that leads to a murder and threatens Patton's loyalty to Amelia's friend...

  • By Death Possessed

  • Guilt on the Lily

    A Richard and Amelia Patton Investigation - 5

    While traveling around Europe with his wife Amelia, retired detective Richard Patton receives an urgent message too late--its sender is found murdered and Patton, attracted to the mystery, uncovers the involvement of several of his former colleagues...

  • No Sign Of Life

    A Richard and Amelia Patton Investigation - 7

    The darkness is closing in… When ex-policeman Richard Patton’s prized Triumph Stag is stolen, he admits that he probably shouldn’t have left the keys in the car and the garage door unlocked.But what Patton hopes is a simple case of joy-riding t...

  • Farewell Gesture

    Ex-con Paul Manson fails to warn Philomena Wise of a murder plot against her, and when she is murdered he becomes the chief suspect, a situation complicated by the dead Philomena not being the Philomena that Paul knew...

  • Hung in the Balance

  • When the Old Man Died

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  • The Key to the Case

    Richard Patton, an ex-Detective Inspector, has been around the block when it comes to seemingly unsolvable crimes. So when a well-known crook, Ronnie Cope, asks him to help prove he is innocent of a burglary Richard sets aside his knowledge of Ronni...

  • Mask of Innocence

    A Richard and Amelia Patton Investigation - 8

    As Richard Patton, an ex-Detective Inspector enjoying early retirement, well knows, the reading of a will can arouse strong passions.When he and his wife Amelia escort their friend, Mary Pinson, to Penhavon Park to hear the reading of the will of Mar...

  • Double Take

  • Stone Cold Dead

    A Richard and Amelia Patton Investigation - 9

    There should have been nothing but pleasure involved in an eighteenth birthday party combined with a formal engagement to be married. But Richard Patton and his wife, Amelia, find themselves in an unusual environment, in which the word ‘flight’ t...

  • Landscape with Corpse

    A group of art students are enjoying a week's residential course, among them an ex-detective and his girlfriend Philipa. When there is a murder a young woman called Elise Harcourt appears to be the obvious suspect, but Philipa believes otherwise and ...

  • Parting Shot

    When fashion photographer and ex-cop Owen Tanner’s Scandinavian wife Karin vanished from his apartment, he assumes that she has left him and their marriage is over. But then his home is ransacked and he begins to wonder if he has jumped to the wron...

  • Final Toll

    The day Johnny gets out of Parkhurst Prison a truck driver offers him a lift. Johnny used to be a driver -- and that, together with Den's so-called masterplan to steal a load of Scotch -- was what put him in jail. The scam had gone badly wrong, but J...

  • And Hope to Die

    Philipa Lowe is asked to attend an auction sale to judge the authenticity of a watercolor painting by her late husband, Graham Tonkin. Being no art expert, she is concerned that her journey will be unproductive. But, where is the elusive birthmark? O...

  • Bury Him Darkly

    Newly rich, Philipa Lowe is returning home to England on the QE2. She need never work again, but already she is bored. Meeting Bella Fields, better known as the TV star Roma Felucci, is at least intriguing. There is an underlying tension about Bella,...

  • A Shot at Nothing

    Philipa Lowe is in search of a house, but her friend Oliver does not approve, particularly of the one she dearly wishes to see. In spite of his reluctance, she goes ahead, and on first sight of it is full of enthusiasm. Oliver’s reluctance is soon ...



  • The Vital Minute

    To Ken Beacham, Social Security Inspector, the question seemed quite simple: did Leonard Trent crash his car before or after contacting his Managing Director? On this simple fact rests the entitlement of Virginia Trent to an Industrial Death Pension....

  • The Night She Died

    Ten years on from closing the case, the name Connie Freeman means very little to Detective Inspector Richard Patton. But when Connie turns up on his doorstep, the memory comes flooding back. The memory of a brutal murder, of a woman bludgeoned to dea...

  • Shame the Devil

    George Tate, the former Chief Super, recently died in a car accident…Tragic as the death is, what bothers Richard Patton and his wife Amelia, is why George would leave him all his camera equipment…The will had read: “To Richard Patton, who will...

  • Curtain of Beads

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    Mystery Large Print Edition With both their parents dead, brothers Chad and Dennie had to reorganize their lives. Chad, with a good job, continued to work. Dennie looked after their home. Now, after years of staying home, Dennie claims to be unable...

  • The Seven Razors of Ockam

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    Mayor Bert ‘Slasher’ Harris was used to evading the opposition. As the legendary wing forward for Ockam Cutters, his was the victorious team which had brought home the FA Cup years before. His finest hour was spent on the old Town Hall balcony ab...

  • Third Time Fatal

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    It has all the elements of a quiet and dignified country wedding. Philipa Lowe’s friend, Heather, is at last taking the plunge, and Philipa is travelling there with her friend Oliver, who is reluctant to go. But not, apparently, as reluctant as the...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Roger Ormerod has published 45 books.

Roger Ormerod does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Shame the Devil, was published in March 2017.

The first book by Roger Ormerod, The Silence of the Night, was published in January 1974.

Yes. Roger Ormerod has 2 series.
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