LIBROS DEL AUTOR: gavin macdonald

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  • Rendezvous With Death
    gavin macdonald
    DCI Ian Forsyth and DS Alistair MacRae are baffled as to why elderly people are being killed by being shot in the head while asleep in bed. They are also investigating the murder of the eldest son of a local landowner and business man. Forsyth is eventually able to work out why the old people are being murdered and to show that the two investigations are related. When a local v...
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  • Double Jeopardy
    gavin macdonald
    When Joseph Carrington kills a man for whose alleged murder he has just spent twenty years in prison, DCI Forsyth and DS MacRae are keen to find out who told him of the victim’s new identity. There are a number of suspects, but Carrington refuses to point the finger at any of them. When Carrington and a crony of his, Keith Edwards, are murdered, MacRae is astounded to find that...
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  • The Long Arm
    gavin macdonald
    When the two Merton brothers are tortured and murdered, there is no shortage of suspects. Principal among these are the Merton sister, the two Douglas brothers, whose family have been feuding with the Mertons for centuries and various inhabitants of the town of Auchenbland, which is controlled by the Mertons, who have suffered from the Mertons’ arbitrary decisions. After an ars...
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    14,08 €

  • A Family Affair
    gavin macdonald
    When an ex-army man is killed during a burglary, Chief Inspector Forsyth suspects that one of the family is involved. When another member of the household is found shot at close range in a room where entry by the window is impossible and no-one is found in the room after the shots are fired, it requires all Forsyth’s ingenuity to arrive at a solution of both murders by logical...
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  • Dishing The Dirt
    gavin macdonald
    When six professors are drugged at a dinner and then humiliated by being smeared with unpleasant substances, Sergeant MacRae is baffled, but Chief Inspector Forsyth forsees a related incident which turns out to be the murder of a lecturer notorious for seducing local wives and female undergraduates. When a campus wife, who was having an affair with the lecturer, is also murder...
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    15,69 €

  • Swallow Them Up
    gavin macdonald
    A young woman’s body is found in woodland near Edinburgh but no-one of that description is on a missing list. When Chief Inspector Forsyth solves that mystery, it becomes clear that the death is connected with an amateur theatrical company. The man who ran the company is found dead after being tortured and the death of one of the sponsors follows. It seems clear that someone...
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    15,62 €

  • My Frail Blood
    gavin macdonald
    DCI Forsyth and DS MacRae skive off from a course they are attending in Inverness to investigate the murder of the alcoholic wife of a professor. She appears to have been knifed after returning to their house up a glen from a drinking binge, her body being dumped in a nearby loch. When ome of her lovers is shot dead with an arrow in the back after attempting to blackmail the m...
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    14,73 €

  • The Crime Committee
    gavin macdonald
    Sergeant MacRae’s first case with Chief Inspector Ian Forsyth, explaining their odd relationship and giving a humorous insight into the Scottish university scene. A lecturer is murdered in Inverforth University and MacRae is appalled when Forsyth lets an academic committee loose on the investigation, making a bet with the University’s Principal on who will solve the crime. A ...
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    16,99 €

  • Death Is My Mistress
    gavin macdonald
    Another case for DCI Ian Forsyth. An Edinburgh wine and spirits merchant is found dead in a junk yard when he should have been on a sleeper train to London. Supposed regular trips to London appear to have been an excuse to visit a mistress. When it is found that all is not well in the business and the murders of a sleazy private detective and one of the merchant’s sons follo...
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    16,80 €

  • Publish and be Dead
    gavin macdonald
    A detective novel in the tradition of classic whodunnits. An Edinburgh publisher is murdered in an apparently motiveless crime in an office where the window is fastened and the door locked on the inside. Two possible clues are the wrong date on the desk calendar and the piece of plastic found in the dead man’s hand. When the firm’s accountant is killed at the wake, DCI Ian F...
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    15,80 €