The Casebook of Inspector Armstrong – Volume 3 by Martin Daley (Paperback) An unknown American tourist, who will one day achieve greatness, visits Carlisle to research his family history. His arrival coincides with Inspector Armstrong’s investigating of a macabre series of grave-robbing incidents in the city. The detective’s enquiries inadvertently lead him into investigating a […]
The Casebook of Inspector Armstrong – Volume 2 by Martin Daley (Paperback) ‘The Bells and Plate Fix’ is set against Cumberland’s biggest horse races, the Carlisle Racing Bells and the Cumberland Plate. When a bookie’s clerk is found face down in the River Eden, Inspector Armstrong believes there is more to his death than meets […]
The Casebook of Inspector Armstrong – Volume I (Paperback) ornelius Armstrong is a Detective Inspector in Edwardian Carlisle. In the first of these two adventures, Armstrong investigates the brutal murder of a young Italian immigrant on the corner of West Walls and Dean Tait’s Lane in November 1903. In doing so, Cornelius uncovers a far […]
Top Ten Civil War Mysteries The Civil War novel is a cottage industry unto itself: library and bookstore shelves sag under the weight of battlefield chronicles brimming with pageantry, gun smoke, valor, and carnage. But within the mystery and thriller genres, the War Between the States has received fairly scant treatment. Which is a shame, […]
September Reads Even though fall doesn’t start officially until September 23, it’s not too early to begin thinking about what books to gather round you in front of the fire as the days grow shorter and the nights longer. It’s no longer beach-read season but that doesn’t mean you can’t still find a thrill or […]