One cocked hat, one red robe trimmed with black rabbit and one silver-gilt chain with a gold and enamel knobbly bit at the end... Eddathorpe's mayoral regalia has disappeared in the possession of Councillor William 'Klondike Bill' Lynch, a colourful drunk who has devised the perfect revenge on Eddathorpe's new mayor, his much-detested second wife Muriel. But the joke's not funny when Muriel Lynch turns up dead, with the regalia - and Klondike Bill - carefully arranged in the next room. And less funny still when Robert Graham's least-loved superior officer arrests Bill for a murder he probably didn't commit...
Bill Kelly, a Cape Cod fisherman and former priest, receives a clear revelation that God is calling him to serve the church again. The next day the deadlocked College of Cardinals elects him the first American pope.
The corpse in a plastic sack is the perfect climax to Detective-Inspector Graham's bank holiday weekend: the east coast is sweltering under the August sun, the town is full of trippers and the deceased has been dumped on the busiest part of the beach. Vince Lowther, ponce, welfare scrounger and theif, was the kind of promising young low-life no-one at Eddathorpe nick will miss. But Graham and his colleagues are unprepared for the many shocking revelations surrounding he death of this busy entrepreneur. As the enquiry develops, a discredited psychological profiler from the Midlands sniffs a connection with a series of sec crimes committed elsewhere. But, as Graham sees it, he's overlooking on inescapable fact: Lowthe was undoubtedly a boy, the other victims were girls...
Someone disliked Eddathorpe's distinguished industrialist Sir Jeremy Blatt enough to bash him on the head, pack him into a lorry and despatch him on a North Sea ferry... Detective Chief Inspector Robert Graham has too many suspects: several wives, one of them Sir Jeremy's own; the exploited employees of his frozen- chicken empire; a son who despised him; even a policeman...And that is without taking into account the animal rights protests and the unwanted help from Ron Hacker, Graham's favourite ex-detective superintendent, newly installed as Blatt's security chief. Graham picks his way through a sorry story of cold-blooded murder, warm blooded love and unchecked greed to uncover a solution that surprises even him.
Alice Draper was everyone's sweetheart. She was fun-loving and pretty and the wasn't fussy about her lovers: they included middle- aged businessmen and teenage tearaways. Years after she died, her murderer is still unpunished. Six of her lovers still have lives blighted by unspoken suspicion. Exiled to seaside Eddathorpe in November, Detective Inspector Robert Graham expects to have lots of time to brood about his failed marriage and his formerly promising career. Instead, he finds himself drawn into the Draper case, and unwittingly taking the lid off a suprising variety of old scandals. Some of which involve senior policemen...
Someone is blackmailing a local supermarket chain. And getting away with it, thanks to a very clever payoff method involving hole-in-the-wall bank machines and a bit of glaring police incompetence. When the blackmailers descend on Eddathorpe, Robert Graham is called in. He thinks it's an inside job - and sets out to prove it. He doesn't know the case is going to escalate from fraud to murder; or that its unravelling could change his life...
Robert Graham is mugged when he's mistaken for a stalker instead of a law-abiding detective chief inspector. His loyal but over-enthusiastic dog inflicts an embarrassing wound on Graham's atacker. a peeping tom outsmarts the police force. and a fast-talking barmaid disappears just like her one-time husband, the paroled rapist. But it's someone quite different who dies. Shirley (alias Davinia) West had hoped to make her fortune as a beauty queen. Instead she makes the headlines when she's brutally murdered right under the noses of the police, who were supposedly trying to thwart the stalker, the peeping tom and the missing rapist at the time...
Finally, an inside look at mob warfare in St. Louis by one of the men who actually lived it - shaped it. It's an explosive, first-person account - for the first time! Mike Flynn fulfills his father's dream to have the memoirs made public. And, Mike shares some touching insight into a side of gangland history we seldom see. In doing so he proves that, no matter what, there is always something worthwhile in every human being. That, it appears, is Ray Flynn's true legacy!
Drawing on years of personal interaction with the pope, and on his unique understanding of the intersection of religion and politics, former U.S. ambassador to the vatican and mayor of Boston Ray Flynn shows how John Paul II changed the papacy, perhaps forever.Unlike any other pope, and indeed, unlike any other person, John Paul II has reached out, creating dialogue or creating uproar, but always striving to unite the human community. Flynn (with co-authors Robin Moore and Jim Vrabel) gives an intimate, compelling, and comprehensive portrait of John Paul II's controversial papacy, from his origins in Poland to his impact on the American people and their politics, and his travels to the far corners of the world.AUTHORBIO: Ray Flynn served as U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican from 1993-1997, and as the Mayor of Boston from 1984-1993. He hosts a daily, nationally syndicated political television talk show and lives in Boston with his wife and six children.Robin Moore is the bestselling author of The French Connection and The Green Berets, as well as more than thirty other novels and nonfiction books. He lives with his wife in Concord, Massachusetts.Jim Vrabel is a former newspaper reporter and speechwriter. He lives with his wife and daughter in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Someone is blackmailing a local supermarket chain. And getting away with it, thanks to a very clever payoff method involving hole-in-the-wall bank machines and a bit of glaring police incompetence. When the blackmailers descend on Eddathorpe Robert Graham is called in. He thinks it's an inside job - and sets out to prove it. He doesn't know the case is going to escalate from fraud to murder. And that its unravelling could change his life . . . Once again, sleepy, seedy Eddathorpe hides its secrets well - and once again, East Anglia's magnet for murder, Robert Graham, teases them out with his own unique combination of solid policework and brilliant intuition.
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