Angel
4 primary works • 6 total works
Book 1
London in the late 1980s - the era of Thatcherism and Loadsamoney - is an exciting but sometimes dangerous place to live. Fitzroy Maclean Angel gets by partly through gigging as a jazz trumpet player, partly through taking illegal fares in his de-registered black taxi cab, and partly through ... well, just being in the right place at the right time.
Book 2
In the late 1980s London - the era of Thatcherism and Loadsamoney - Fitzroy Maclean Angel tries to be in the right place at the right time. As he says, it's better to be lucky than good. When he comes to the aid of his neighbor, the sexy financial analyst Salome, he finds himself carrying out an undercover investigation into an insider trading scam amongst the coked-up whizkids and mega-rich wheeler-dealers of the City.
Book 5
Book 13
Streetwise hero Roy Angel, faced with parenthood, has to do the unthinkable and get a job. But becoming a Private I in an all-female private detective agency isn't as easy as it sounds, especially when he has an impossible case to solve and numerous unexpected distractions along the way. But that's not the main problem. Which brave soul is going to tell Angel's fearsome hippy mother that she's soon to be a grandmother?
Roy Angel is slowly adjusting to the pressures of working at Rudgard & Blugden Confidential Investigations, although his Raymond Chandler 'training manuals' still haven't reconciled him to going to work every day. It would seem that Angel could take it easy with his latest case however; finding the retired Mr Ellrington's long-lost love shouldn't be too demanding, should it? Handling his partner Amy May, fashionista turned fearsome nesting mother-to-be, as well as his ailing father and his Page 3 girlfriend, might be another matter though. From meeting Huddersfield's very own Double-O-Seven, to getting entangled in a shootout where the OAPs are acting like kids, Angel's latest caper boasts a cast of unforgettable characters and the indefatigable humour that rightly makes Mike Ripley the King of Comedy Crime.
