Eddathorpe Mystery S.

1 primary work • 5 total works

Over My Dead Body

by Raymond Flynn

Published 11 September 1998

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.

Busy Body

by Raymond Flynn

Published 22 February 1998

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.

The Body Beautiful

by Raymond Flynn

Published 5 November 1998

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...

A Fine Body of Men

by Raymond Flynn

Published 10 February 1998

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...

A Public Body

by Raymond Flynn

Published 12 August 1998

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...