The China GovernessTimothy Kinnit is rich, handsome and well-bred. He seems to have everything. Then, on the eve of his elopement, he learns that he was adopted, and he is desperate to know who he really is. Someone seems no less keen to stop him finding out. Violence, deception and death bedevil the post-war housing estate that has grown from the ashes of the notorious Turk Street Mile, and the shadow of a long-forgotten murder hangs over it all - until Luke and Campion are finally able to dispel the darkness. By Margery Allingham
Oz Blackstone didn't go looking for fame: it jumped out of an alleyway and mugged him with a fist full of high denomination notes. Movie stardom, wealth, a successful marriage - Oz is standing on the brink of the Seriously Big Time and life just seems to keep lining up the cherries... He should have known it couldn't stay that good for that long - don't the juiciest fruit always go sour?
An armed robbery trial takes a dramatic turn at Edinburgh's Parliament House. While the lawyers tussle over a policeman's evidence, the judge collapses in agony. As the wave of robberies continues, it seems that Lord Archergait is not the only judge under threat.
The good people of Pickax are agog with anticipation: Not only is the new bookstore, The Pirate's Chest, about to open, but the Theatre Club is set to perform Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. The play does not continue past opening night, however, for a member of the cast is killed in a car accident . . . or was it an accident? Koko seems to suspect otherwise, and Qwill and his clever cats have their work cut out for them.
The Cat Who Went Into the Closet by Lilian Jackson Braun
Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese companions, Koko and Yum Yum, move into Junior Goodwinter's grandma's home. Everything goes well until the discovery that this apparently happy and healthy 88-year-old seems to have commited suicide.
