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THE LONG ARM OF MURDER During a much-needed idyll on Crete, and with instincts honed by twenty years of police work, Inspector Douglas Roper discovers the body of a well-to-do Englishwoman, bludgeoned to death in his hotel. Roper reluctantly le...
Roy Hart's Inspector Roper series is building a following of readers who enjoy classic cozy English village mysteries. In Final Appointment, what appears to be a gruesome traffic accident is revealed to be murder.When the headless body of ex-cop Gera...
Stella Pumfrey had fallen down the stairs and fractured her skull. From all appearances, she had interrupted a common burglar, caught her slipper on the carpeted landing, and fell to her death. Inspector Roper immediately realizes the investigatio...
The ravaged, waterlogged body of a beautiful, rich widow brings Superintendent Roper into a convoluted case with as many facets as the human psyche. Hannah Blezzard is a mystery. Behind the doors of her elegant home, no clues to the real woman exis...
A LOVELY CORPSE Vera Jackman was a lively young woman--daring enough to pose nude for a local artist, ambitious enough to have big plans for leaving the quaint village of Cort Abbas. Then her plans--and her life--came to a violent end. But Vera...
George Winterton was known to throw a killer New Year's Eve party, and this year's was no different. The wealthy and prominent citizen of the seaside town of Redbury is found at the foot of a cliff near the ocean after having been apparently pushed. ...