David Dickinson
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Death Comes to Lynchester Close
Lord Francis Powerscourt is visited at home in London by the Bishop of Lynchester who wants his advice about the suspect for the death of…
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Death of an Elgin Marble
The British Museum in Bloomsbury is home to one of the Caryatids, a statue of a maiden that acted as one of the six columns…
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Death Comes to the Ballets Russes
London, 1912, and the famed Ballet Russes have come to London to perform. Anticipation is high, for Diaghilev’s troupe is renowned throughout Europe. At the…
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The Lord Francis Powerscourt Omnibus (Books 1-4)
Goodnight, Sweet Prince Mystery surrounds the death of Queen Victoria's grandson England, 1892. Victoria, Queen and Empress, is in the 54th year of her reign,…
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Death at the Jesus Hospital
The first man murdered was Abel Meredith, a resident at the Jesus Hospital Almshouse near London.The second victim, Roderick Gill, was burser at the Allison's…
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Death in a Scarlet Coat
Master of the Hunt, the fifteenth Earl of Candlesby, has come to lead his riders once again. But this time he comes as a corpse,…
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Death on the Nevskii Prospekt
1904: Powerscourt comes out of retirement for one last time, heading for Russia in one of the strangest cases of his career. A British diplomat…
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Death of a Pilgrim
1905. A young man called James Delaney is dying in a New York hospital. The doctors and the nuns cannot save him. When his life…
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Death of a Wine Merchant
An unwelcome guest - Death - gatecrashes a society wedding and Lord Francis Powerscourt is summoned by his barrister friend, Charles Augustus Pugh, to investigate…
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Death of a Pilgrim
1905. A young man called James Delaney is dying in a New York hospital. The doctors and the nuns cannot save him. When his life…
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Death on the Holy Mountain
The year is 1905 and Powerscourt is sent to Ireland to investigate a series of art thefts from stately houses. Motive troubles Powerscourt; were these…
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Death of an Old Master
In May 1901 the Salisbury Galleries announce the biggest exhibition of the Old Master Paintings ever seen in Europe. Excitement is intense. But before it…
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Death of a Chancellor
A case of murder in the cathedral Compton Minster is preparing to celebrate a very special anniversary in the year 1901 - a thousand years…
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Death and the Jubilee
Find a murderer - and save the Queen's Jubilee! It is 1897 and the London is preparing for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. But a corpse…
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Death Called to the Bar
Queen's Inn is London's youngest and most fashionable Inn of Court. On 29th February 1902, at a Feast, senior barrister Alexander Dauntsey collapses into his…
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Goodnight Sweet Prince
Mystery surrounds the death of Queen Victoria's grandson England, 1892. Victoria, Queen and Empress, is in the 54th year of her reign, when her grandson…