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A Little Learning (Inspector Peach Mystery)

2 reviews
J M Gregson

Severn House Publishers, 2002

Masterful Police Procedural
When the Director of the University of Eastern Lancashire is discovered dead with a bullet in his head, the relentless and intimidating figure of Detective Inspector Percy Peach jumps into action. His interviewing technique is pure genius as he gleans every possible scintilla of information from his subject. This is a classic police procedural as DI Peach visits suspect after suspect and slowly ...

Dusty Death
J M Gregson

Severn House Publishers, 2005

Chief Inspector Peach finds the memories of squatters hard to budge Everyone in Brunton is happy to see the decaying, uninhabitable terraced houses of the old cotton town finally demolished to make way for a new industrial development. Happy, that is, until the clearance reveals a grisly secret. As the bulldozers level the site and the old walls are toppled, a decaying arm appears among the debris, raised aloft to the heavens, as if beseeching ...

A Good Walk Spoiled (Lambert and Hook Mysteries)
J M Gregson

Severn House Publishers, 2008

The Witch's Sabbath (Peach and Blake)

1 review
J M Gregson

Severn House Publishers, 2006

Sorry, doesn't quite work
Is Gregson the incompetent bungler in the Holmes novels? No, I am confusing with someone else. But why does that come to mind? No matter how many books have been written by the author, and this one has been published on both sides of the Atlantic, it is not a very well written, researched or original book. The characters are the same, the dialogue similar and the mystery who cares? Doesn't ...

An Academic Death (Lambert and Hook Mysteries)
J M Gregson

Severn House Publishers, 2001

Close Call (Lambert and Hook Mysteries)
J M Gregson

Severn House Publishers, 2006

Gurney Close doesn't seem like an exciting place--just four new houses, nicely built and tucked away beside the river Wye. As the owners move in, it looks like it will be a friendly neighborhood. Just to celebrate, they stage a moving-in street party. All goes well until one of them is found dead the next morning.

Pastures New (Peach and Blake)
J M Gregson

Severn House Publishers, 2008

Peach and Blake investigate a new case of family motives and secrets - Successful but lonely Geoffrey Aspin takes the desperate step of advertising for female company, and meets divorcee Pamela Williams. But their happiness is shattered by a brutal murder. DCI Peach and his team are brought in, and the finger seems to point at the Aspin family. Suddenly both Geoffrey and his new love are suspects and without alibis . . .

For Sale - With Corpse
J. M. Gregson

Thorndike Press, 2005

Lydon Hall is a house full of character. But one of it's features should not include a corpse in the elegant drawing-room. Is this death the suicide it appears to be? The investigation centers on a tight-knit village community. Both the glamorous French widow and the man who lives rough on the moor after a mental breakdown seem to know more about this death than is first apparent.

Something Is Rotten: A Lambert and Hook Mystery
J. M. Gregson

Severn House Publishers, 2007

A Lambert and Hook mystery - DS Bert Hook is cajoled into auditioning for a local Shakespearean play. Desperate to get out of it, he expects his boss, John Lambert, to forbid him from performing. No such luck. Hook meets a rather surprising and sinister cast of characters. And when the director is found murdered, Hook needs to find the truth and fast. Who is innocent, who is just playing a part and who is really rotten to the core?

Wages of Sin (Severn House Large Print)
J M Gregson

Severn House Publishers, 2004

A new investigation for DCI Peach that leaves a bad taste in everyone's mouths When a novice young prostitute is killed in the town of Brunton after only her first night, Inspector Peach sets out to solve the crime by interviewing some of the other local prostitutes and their customers. Discovering that these include a divorced policeman from a nearby station, and a Catholic priest at odds with his beliefs, Peach realises he must tread carefully ...

Death on the Eleventh Hole
J. M. Gregson

Severn House Publishers, 2002

For Lambert and Hook, golf was always a serious game. Now it's just become deadly serious. For Superintendent John Lambert, a round of golf is the perfect diversion, especially when he's beating, and offering patronizing tips to, his sergeant, Bert Hook. Hook isn't having much fun, but when he mishits a ball horribly, he comes across something far, far more horrible - in a ditch. The young woman lying there, it turns out, was not only a drugs ...

Sherlock Holmes and the Frightened Golfer (Sherlock Holmes)

2 reviews
J. M. Gregson

Breese Books, 2000

Professionally done pastiche
This may have had the best sales of any recent pastiche from Martin Breese--- at any rate, it is the only one I've seen that is in its 2nd printing. J. M. Gregson is a professional writer of mystery novels, at least one of which has also involved golf. He gets Holmes and Watson, and the 1896 milieu pretty much bang-on. Alas, he uses Standard Pastiche Plot B (more recently seen in Val Andrews' ...

Just Desserts
J M Gregson

Severn House Publishers, 2004

Lambert and Hook find there's no one to foot the bill Camellia Park Golf Club had completed its first ten years and its owner, Patrick Nayland, felt it was time to splash out. Determined to give his employees a good time, he booked the entirety of Soutters Restaurant. A riotous evening was had by all. In fact they were making so much noise, the screams from the lavatory could easily have gone unnoticed. Chief Superintendent Lambert usually finds ...

Murder at the Lodge
J M Gregson

Severn House Publishers, 2003

Description Peach is up for promotion, so this ought to be a time for treading carefully ... Eric Walsh is found strangled in the car park after the North Brunton Masonic Lodge Ladies' Night. Walsh being a ladies' man, suspicion falls on many cuckolded husbands - one of whom, Peach is entertained to discover, is the Master of the Lodge. Equally suspicious is Cartwright the loan shark, Afzaal the waiter who seems to have something to hide, ...

Remains to Be Seen (Peach and Blake)
J M Gregson

Severn House Publishers, 2007

Peach and Blake take on the drug-dealing underworld Following months of undercover work, a drugs raid at a large manor is successful, but several hours after numerous arrests are made, there's a fire at the same house. A body is found and all the signs indicate it will be a simple case. However, after Chief Inspector Percy Peach and Detective Sergeant Lucy Blake are called in to investigate, an unusual case of murder unfolds . . .

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