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  • Post And Perfidy
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    When Nick Storey visits the Overseas Parcels Office (OPO) at the Royal Agricultural Hall, to check whether the Temporary Charge on Imports is being collected, the arrangements look wide open to fraud. After this is confirmed by two postal workers, Nick is threatened by a local trade union official and his thugs. The local C&E manager is sacked after an argument with Post Office...
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    11,25 €

  • Misfits And Miscreants
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    1965. Starting work in Customs & Excise HQ in London, Nick Storey comes across some strange people, including a bully and a very tall rude man with a violent friend. He strikes up a friendship with a colleague, who is subsequently stabbed to death in an alley near the Monument. Though the police believe it was a robbery, only his briefcase was taken. Helped by Rosemary and a pu...
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    11,27 €

  • Death On The Volga
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    1996. Nick and Rosemary Storey are enjoying a river cruise from Moscow to St Petersburg when two British passengers from their excursion group are murdered, apparently on return from a visit to Yaroslavl. The cruise line ask them to get statements from relevant British passengers before the ship docks in St Petersburg. Facing a curtain of lies and half-truths, tales of hidden ...
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    12,64 €

  • The Body in the Marine Buildings
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    A hundred-year-old body is discovered walled up in the flat above one owned by the daughter of Nick and Rosemary Storey. How did he get there and why? Deal was a notorious smuggling town and, as a former Customs Commissioner, Nick thinks it might be a smuggler or an exciseman. As a former Chief Inspector in the Fraud Squad, Rosemary prefers to find evidence. From censuses and o...
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    15,36 €

  • It?s All Over Now, Baby Blue
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    1994. Customs & Excise staff in Dover find revolting pornography being imported by a Cabinet Minister. Various underhand attempts are made by the Minister to retrieve the porn or get the case heard before a compliant magistrate. But how does this link with the ?Hades Club? many of whose members are ?the great and the good? and whose initiation rite appears to be to take a woman...
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    10,64 €

  • End Of The Road
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    1993. Concerns about former Soviet bloc weapons falling into the wrong hands leads to Nick Storey becoming a member of a Cabinet Office committee and a special committee of the World Customs Organisation (WCO). Having seized harmless ex-Soviet weaponry at Felixstowe, Nick?s belief that such materials would be imported into the UK is shaken. Claims made by his Russian opposite ...
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    12,21 €

  • Market Forces
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    Along with the rest of the Civil Service, Customs & Excise are required by Government to market test some of their activities in competition with private sector firms. As the majority of market tests are in the Outfield, Nick Storey keeps a careful eye on how they are proceeding, especially ones where he believes Collectors may be trying to fiddle the results. He also suspects ...
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    10,92 €

  • Ghosts In The Machine
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    Just promoted to the Board of Customs & Excise, Nick Storey is asked to help a Metropolitan Police enquiry into illegal arms sales to Morocco. Military hardware for 'rockhopper' missiles misdescribed as telephonic equipment and destined for Morocco has been seized at Avonmouth. The exporters claim that they had Ministry of Defence approval, which the Ministry denies. Investigat...
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    12,18 €

  • Eight Miles High
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    Smugglers of a powerful methamphetamine, nicknamed Òdilithium crystalsÓ , by speedboat and light aircraft kill themselves rather than be caught by Customs. Nick Storey, Collector London Port, identifies patterns of evidence and smuggling routes by small ships and light aircraft, which lead to several dubious businesses in South Essex, a City investment company and a Belgian sec...
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    12,31 €

  • Medicine Man
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    Despite Nick StoreyÕs reservations, London Port Collection are ÒtwinnedÓ with the port of Bordeaux in an EEC project. NickÕs counterpart in Bordeaux is equally suspicious, but examination of their trade reveals a lot of medicines and drugs being exported from London to Bordeaux for an international charity called ÔSantŽ MondialeÕ, but also many which are supposedly exported t...
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    12,28 €

  • Old Ghosts
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    1985. As the new Collector London Port, Nick Storey inherits a Collection with low morale and weak performance in a declining port. Among the changes he makes, flexible use of staff to massively increase controls at random times, leads to the discovery at Tilbury of large quantities of cash in a mattress and cocaine in furniture destined for a new hotel to be built by an Italia...
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    12,10 €

  • The Corridors Of Secrecy (AKA Chinese Whispers)
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    Nick Storey is asked to carry out a review of Cabinet Office security procedures, but learns from a contact in MI6 that the real purpose is to identify a mole leaking secrets to the Chinese. Making slow progress because of the defensive attitudes by Cabinet Office staff, he is diverted by a botched Investigation Division operation in Liverpool against a Chinese smuggling gang. ...
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    12,47 €

  • Ballad Of A Thin Man
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    1984/5. Nick Storey is seconded from Customs & Excise to review DHSS work to tackle benefit fraud. Ministers have received an anonymous letter alleging a large scale fraud involving National Insurance numbers. Nick and Rosemary go undercover in Newcastle as VAT inspectors to follow a trail of evidence linked to a series of companies owned by a Geordie ex-miner, Mick Sutton. As ...
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    12,62 €

  • On A Carousel
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    1979. Nick Storey is transferred to head up a new internal investigations unit required by Mrs Thatcher’s new government. His unit uncovers several illegalities including thefts of Government property and a false travel expense claim by an official who subsequently kills himself. Nick is alerted to a massive undercover operation which appears to be both leaking large sums of VA...
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    14,28 €

  • The Magic Clarinet
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    Shadowing an Excise officer in a tobacco factory, Nick Storey finds he is using incorrect procedures. When Nick carries out the right ones, he discovers that the company are importing large amounts of tobacco illicitly. But the evidence goes missing and Nick starts to feel the hand of Freemasonry protecting the firm and encouraging him to let matters drop. However, some unoffic...
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    12,45 €

  • Copper Kettle
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    1978. On holiday with their children in Oban, Nick and Rosemary Storey stumble across a stone hut filled with barrels of what seems to be illicit whisky. While on their way to walking nearby hills, they smell the unmistakeable smell of barley being fermented in a mash tun before distillation. But having overheard a conversation about the illegal whisky operation, Nick is unabl...
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    11,02 €

  • Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    1977/8. Informed by an Italian diplomat that English Wine producers are using foreign grapes, Nick Storey investigates, but within weeks, one of the English Wine producer’s equipment is blown up and his vines ploughed over. The possibility that this is retaliation for a refusal to cooperate with a local mafia in Calabria leads to information about imports through Avonmouth. Whe...
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    10,71 €

  • Fools’ Copper (not to be confused with Ghost Beer)
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    1977. Nick & Rosemary Storey’s help is sought by the EEC Commission to track down those responsible for fraudulently claiming money from the EEC’s Regional Development Fund to convert a former copper mine in North Wales into a tourist attraction. As they pursue their enquiries, they come across 'ghost beer', illicitly-produced beer which is being sold in North Wales and the Bor...
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    13,57 €

  • Out Of Sight 3
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    Having disposed of the bodies of the would-be informant and his killers, Rakvir and Arhilka Stagarnik try to unsettle the still largely unknown conspirators. Learning that a force of Borvmen soldiers are involved in some way, they discover their whereabouts and persuade them to depart. Shortness of time and the unhelpful intervention by a corrupt merchant mean that they have to...
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    16,09 €

  • Out Of Sight 2
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    Nocturnal excursions enable Rakvir Stagarnik to gain useful information about who killed the Kerkrander and how the two Thanians were involved. Tracking some of these people leads to an empty house in a wealthy quarter of Ralchis and the realisation that a huge conspiracy is taking place. Through the intervention of a corrupt merchant and an old friend, Rakvir and Arhilka are a...
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    15,95 €

  • Out Of Sight 1
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    Suspicious visitors from across the ocean, who vanish once they reach Ralchis are followed by several untoward events, culminating in the brutal murder of a citizen of Kerkrand. Evidence suggests the Ralchis authorities wished to conceal it. Rakvir and Arhilka Stagarnik travel to Ralchis, in the guise of merchants from Kardakan attempting to sell ’ghan’. Negotiating with three ...
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    14,62 €

  • Our Friends in the South
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    1976. On return from the EEC, Nick Storey is working on excise duties. He comes across an export warehouse in Woolwich, which seems a little too perfect. Finding a suitable reason to check them out, he uncovers a large fraud, involving the diversion of duty-free exports to the home market. However, his investigation causes threats to himself, Rosemary and his family. But when t...
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    10,64 €

  • By Water 3
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    The crew of the 'Syarduyar Arhilka' depart from the island of the Turven, leaving one member behind. After a long journey across desolate seas, they come upon a ruined city which appears to have been where giant serpents ruled over men, as slaves.Travelling north after many weeks, they eventually reach Saldankandul, in Kardakan. Fadshi-qar Wafar wishes to raise an army to attac...
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    18,69 €

  • Heard It On The Grapevine
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    Still on secondment in an EEC counter-fraud organisation in early 1974, Nick & Rosemary Storey are asked to look at a case where wine has been adulterated by diethylene glycol. From their investigations, it appears that the problem is much wider: wine purportedly from one EEC 'appellation contrôlée' being adulterated or replaced by cheap wine from outside the EEC. From working ...
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    17,20 €

  • By Water 2
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    The crew of the 'Syarduyar Arhilka' travel south, past contrary currents, giant waterspouts and barren, poisonous lands.Finally reaching an island of plenty, they encounter huge and aggressive serpents, one of which kills a member of the crew.Many more are discovered elsewhere on the island.A storm drives the ship further south to an island with enigmatic objects and inhabitant...
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    27,68 €

  • By Water
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    'By Water' follows the exploits of Rakvir Stagarnik following on the events in 'Through Fire', as seen by his son Rako and eldest daughter, Asha. Wishing to embellish his capital, Zgar Zavzar manoeuvres to impose an extraordinary levy on his subjects. When Rakvir stands in his way, he attempts to get him killed. But his plot is foiled. However, triumph turns into disaster as Ar...
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    18,77 €

  • Something In The Air
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    Briefly seconded to a Purchase Tax office in London’s East End, Nick Storey comes across evidence of a criminal organisation which includes loan-sharking, extortionate insurance and huge rent increases on properties previously owned by West Docklands Council, but offloaded to a dubious property company in suspicious circumstances. Believing the local police and press to be boug...
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    14,70 €

  • Nothing Was Delivered
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    1969. Nick Storey is unexpectedly seconded to freight controls at Heathrow Airport. As no-one gives him a straight explanation about why he was chosen, he tries to find out about the sudden sickness of his predecessor. Assuming that something untoward had been going on, he tries to work out whether, and if so, how Customs staff could be helping criminals smuggle goods through t...
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    13,11 €

  • A Well-Respected Man
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    1966. Recently married, Nick and Rosemary Storey overhear two foreign exchange traders boasting that they can get secret information from Civil Servants about a possible devaluation of the Pound. A squash club/wine bar in the City is supposedly where this information is passed on. But when the two men are found dead in the squash club, leaving a suicide note, Nick and Rosemary ...
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    13,16 €

  • Murder at the Baltic Coast Hotel
    Richard Hernaman Allen
    1995. Nick and Rosemary Storey, recently retired, visit Riga and Jurmala, at the invitation of a former Latvian customs officer they met in 1974. At the hotel, Nick trips and breaks his ankle. Confined to a wheelchair, he indulges in people-watching, notably a fancy Russian wedding. But when the groom appears to have been murdered and the hotel want some independent witnesses t...
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    11,70 €


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