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The Glass Wall: A Superintendent Mike Yeadings Mystery (Superintendent Mike Yeadings Mysteries)

1 review
Clare Curzon

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2006

complex police procedural
Near London, Ramon, a Filipino bartender, watches in shock as nonagenarian invalid Emily Withers falls from her seventeenth floor penthouse apartment to the street. Once he realizes he is the sole witness he enters the building. He assumes someone, probably the killer or her caretaker, remains inside the apartment, but is soon sure no one else is there, so he enters. Ramon cleans up the place ...

Close Quarters (Worldwide Library Mysteries)

1 review
Clare Curzon

Worldwide Library, 1998

Great Mystery
Clare Curzon is an underrated mystery writer. She really is very good at the British Police Procedural. Interesting plot, three dimensional characters. I highly recommend this series.

Cat's Cradle
Clare Curzon

Worldwide Library, 1994

Detective Superintendent Mike Yeadings of the Thames Valley Police Force investigates the shooting death of Lorely Pelling, an elderly, eccentric recluse with a checkered past, who collected cats and left her entire estate to her neighbor's children. Reprint. AB. PW.

Payback: A Superintendent Mike Yeadings Mystery (Superintendent Mike Yeadings Mysteries)
Clare Curzon

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008

This latest from genre veteran Clare Curzon makes a thrilling addition to this entertaining series. Sandy Craddock witnesses his detested half brother deliberately mown down by a hit-and-run driver outside his place of work, and he guiltily assumes that he himself was the intended victim. Convinced the killers will strike again once they discover they?ve targeted the wrong man, Sandy goes on the run, leaving his boss to wrongly identify the ...

The Edge: A Superintendent Mike Yeadings Mystery (Superintendent Mike Yeadings Mysteries)

3 reviews
Clare Curzon

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2007

fabulous Thames Valley police procedural
In spite of the fury and noise of the horrific gale, farmer's wife Connie Barton hears what she assumes is something blown loose by the storm. She wakes up her husband Ned who grumpily listens and says it is Mr. Frederick Hoad's stable door. Knowing she will not allow him to go back to sleep, he grumblingly steps out into the torrent to simply shut the door tight. Instead of finding a bar to ...

First Wife, Twice Removed
Clare Curzon

Worldwide Library, 1995

Investigating two seemingly unrelated murders, Superintendent Mike Yeading's teams search for answers between the Thames Valley and Amsterdam before uncovering additional deaths that point to an ongoing killing spree. Reprint. PW. K.