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  • And A Bottle of Rum
    Bruce Graeme
    Stretched across the road was the body of a policeman.On the way home one evening in the Romney Marsh, Bookseller Theodore Terhune and friend Julia are caught in heavy coastal fog. A passing lorry provides some guidance on the narrow country roads, but the night ends with intentional mishap and a dead body. It becomes clear that the constable’s death was not accidental, but wha...
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  • A Case of Books
    Bruce Graeme
    In the beginning was the Word-When Theodore Terhune’s wealthy client Arthur Harrison is found stabbed and his library ransacked, the police suspect the murderer was looking for a book. Harrison collected rare early printed books called incunabula, but as the provenance of such titles is well documented in the book world it would make little sense to steal one. Terhune is hired ...
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  • Ten Trails to Tyburn
    Bruce Graeme
    ’But Pierre could never know that in death Fame was his, for his was the second corpse.’ When a well-known local vagrant nicknamed 'Peter the Hermit' dies of seemingly natural causes, the police uncover an old Bulgarian newspaper and a beautiful bejewelled comb worth substantial money in his ramshackle hut in the Kent woods. Not long afterwards, bookseller Theodore Terhune begi...
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  • Work for the Hangman
    Bruce Graeme
    'What I read in your hand is tragedy-a horrible tragedy that doesn’t come to one in a million people.' Bookseller Theodore Terhune buys the substantial library of the recently deceased James Strudgewick, a wealthy Yorkshireman who fell and drowned at a local beauty spot. Though his death was deemed accidental by the coroner, the locals remain suspicious and dislike Strudgewick’...
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  • Seven Clues in Search of a Crime
    Bruce Graeme / TBD
    'Are you a detective, Mr. Terhune? If you will forgive my saying so, you do not look like one.'Theodore Terhune, bookseller in the tranquil Kent village of Bray-in-the-Marsh, interrupts the attempted robbery of Helena Armstrong, secretary-companion to Lady Kylstone. Someone was trying to steal the key to the Kylstone burial vault, which will shortly be open to the public for th...
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  • The Undetective
    Bruce Graeme / TBD
    'It was my own fault, of course. I realized that when it was too late.'Crime writer Iain Carter has recently married and is struggling to make a decent living as an author. His brother-in-law is a likable but slightly indiscreet constable, and Iain decides to use this inside knowledge to write a satirical series featuring a pompous dictatorial police superintendent. To protect ...
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  • House With Crooked Walls
    Bruce Graeme / TBD
    'So you know House-on-the-Hill, Mr. Terhune?'Local bookseller and amateur detective Theodore Terhune is asked to investigate the history of an ancient Kentish manor house for its new owner, Dr. Vincente Salvaterra. Recently arrived from Panama, Salvaterra wants to know why the house was shunned by the locals and abandoned for nearly a century, despite commanding the best views ...
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  • A Case for Solomon
    Bruce Graeme / TBD
    'Frank Hugh Smallwood was first murdered on the 15th of April, 1927' Bookseller Theodore Terhune investigates an old homicide case after he stumbles on the freshly murdered corpse of seaman Frank Smallwood, a man thought to have been murdered nearly twenty years previously during a houseboat party on the Thames. Smallwood’s alleged killer Charles Cockburn was convicted and serv...
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