Perry Trethowan — by Robert Barnard

• Mar-1982
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Inspector Perry Trethowan reads in the obituaries that his estranged father has died under peculiar circumstances: he was fooling around with a form of self-torture called strappado. At the request of his supervisor, Peter returns to his ancestral ho...

• Sep-1982
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THE QUEEN WAS NOT AMUSED. Murder and royalty didn't mix. Princess Helena had only a distant claim to the throne, but when her friends and lovers began turning up dead, Buckingham Palace demanded to know why. The princess appeared to have a wildly wi...

• Jul-1983
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MURDER BY THE BOOK Meeting an elderly spinster in a cozy Yorkshire pub seemed a harmless bit of serendipity for vacationing Scotland Yard Superintendent Perry Trethowan. But what Miss Edith Wing carried about in her large blue leather handbag turn...

• Oct-1986
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FATAL PHOTOS Police superintendent Percy Trethowan found London's Soho as colorful and full of life as ever--except for the four corpses in a seedy photography studio. Shot doing a layout for Bodies, a soft-porn "health and fitness" magazine, the ...

• Jul-1987
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ROMANCE IS MURDER Passionate, inflamed, searing -- the vocabulary of the trade. But the words also described the irritation felt by Scotland Yard's Perry Trethowan when he was persuaded to attend the World Association of Romantic Novelists' conventi...