Denton
7 primary works • 8 total works
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
A murder close to home. A tangled web of murder and revenge. Can amateur sleuth Denton keep himself and London safe?
When a mysterious Polish woman is murdered next door, Denton suspects there is more than meets the eye. Could the murdered woman be the victim of some sort of political conspiracy?
As Denton gets drawn into the case, he realises that the life of Lydia Alken was more dangerous than he could have ever imagined. Encountering political unrest and falling victim to the fledgling British Intelligence Service, Denton discovers London is a hotbed of anarchist plotting threatening its future. And the real story behind Lydia's murder proves to be even more unsettling that he first thought.
Don't miss the other books in the gripping Denton Mystery Series:
1. The Frightened Man
2. The Bohemian Girl
3. The Second Woman
4. The Haunted Martyr
5. The Backward Boy
6. The Past Master
7. The Oxford Fellow
If you're looking for a gripping historical crime series look no further than the Denton Murder Mysteries. Perfect for fans of M.C. Beaton's Edwardian Murder Mysteries and Oscar de Muriel's Frey & McGray series.
Book 4
The fourth volume in the darkly brilliant historical crime series featuring American author-sleuth Denton in 1900s London.
The HAUNTED MARTYR plunges the American novelist Denton into the world of turn-of-the-century spiritualism, most of which is sham but which includes some very real death.
It is the winter of 1902 to 1903. Denton has brought his lover, Janet Stryker, to Naples, Italy, to recover from a near-fatal attack of typhus. Denton is using the advance from a book to pay his expenses: the book centres on spiritualism and the supernatural in Naples. (Several seances are with Eusapia Paladino, a real historical figure and object of study by England's Society for Psychical Research.) Denton intends to write a light travel book on spiritualists, ghosts, legends and horrors, and on Naples itself.
But when he tries to rent a newly renovated palazzo and is told by the agent that he can rent it for free if he dares first spend a night there, he knows the place must be haunted. He and Janet duly see an apparition of a tall, long-armed woman, an apparition which leads inevitably to the discovery of a real body, to the story of an eccentric English peer with a terrible secret and the involvement of the Camorra - the Neapolitan mafia.
Book 5
Can Denton clear a wronged man's name?
Denton has reluctantly taken on a new client - a woman whose husband is the chief suspect in a murder investigation. But why is the woman so keen for Denton's help? If the police don't have enough evidence to charge Arthur Snokes with the murder of Bella Wilcox, then what exactly can Denton contribute?
As he becomes involved in the unhappy affairs of the Snokes family, Denton discovers a darker and more intriguing mystery. The story of a musical prodigy, a childhood tragedy and a young boy whose imagination holds the key to a series of killings.
Don't miss the other books in the gripping Denton Mystery Series:
1. The Frightened Man
2. The Bohemian Girl
3. The Second Woman
4. The Haunted Martyr
5. The Backward Boy
6. The Past Master
7. The Oxford Fellow
If you're looking for a gripping historical crime series look no further than the Denton Murder Mysteries. Perfect for fans of M.C. Beaton's Edwardian Murder Mysteries and Oscar de Muriel's Frey & McGray series.
Book 6
Denton and Henry James, though they had met on a number of occasions on the London literary scene, would seem to have little in common either as men or writers. But when a Florentine box is stolen from James's house, it is Denton he calls on to retrieve it - perhaps relying on the fact that, unlike the police, Denton combines the ability to unravel difficult puzzles with the sensitivity of a fellow artist. For amongst other things, the box contained three letters whose publication James fears will ruin his reputation.
As Denton tries to discover the mystery of the box's contents and who might have stolen them, the trail leads him to Paris, and a bizarre family of aristocrats, to Italy, where it appears someone is offering money to have Denton killed, and back to London where a deadly shoot-out with a violent gang of East European anarchists pre-figures the Siege of Sydney Street. But eventually it is in the apparently genteel confines of the literary world that the publication of a new novel provides the final clues to a crime of truly Jamesian subtlety.
Book 7
Dream spires. A missing academic. A brutal murder?
Denton's latest case of a missing fellow takes him to Oxford. But he quickly realises all is not as it seems in the city of dreaming spires.
Delving into the tightly knit and intensely jealous world of academia, Denton discovers a fierce rivalry at the heart of the university. Could a tragic tale of suicide and a curious archaeological exhibit be the key to cracking this fiendishly difficult case?
Don't miss the other books in the gripping Denton Mystery Series:
1. The Frightened Man
2. The Bohemian Girl
3. The Second Woman
4. The Haunted Martyr
5. The Backward Boy
6. The Past Master
7. The Oxford Fellow
If you're looking for a gripping historical crime series look no further than the Denton Murder Mysteries. Perfect for fans of M.C. Beaton's Edwardian Murder Mysteries and Oscar de Muriel's Frey & McGray series.
The first three novels in the popular Denton mystery series featuring an amateur sleuth you'll never forget.
THE FRIGHTENED MAN
When a clearly disturbed man shows up one evening saying he has just seen Jack the Ripper, Denton dismisses him as a fantasist. But the same night, the mutilated body of a teenage prostitute is found. Could the two events be connected?
THE BOHEMIAN GIRL
Denton is used to getting unconventional mail but one letter in particular peaks his curiosity. A note from a young woman, Mary, saying she's in terrible danger and needs his help. But the letter is months old and was only forwarded to him when the buyer of a painting found it stuck behind the frame. Presumably whatever Mary was frightened of has already happened. So why did she hide the note behind this particular painting instead of he sending it?
THE SECOND WOMAN
When a mysterious Polish woman is murdered next door, Denton suspects there is more than meets the eye. Could the murdered woman be the victim of some sort of political conspiracy?
Don't miss the other books in the gripping Denton Mystery Series:
1. The Frightened Man
2. The Bohemian Girl
3. The Second Woman
4. The Haunted Martyr
5. The Backward Boy
6. The Past Master
7. The Oxford Fellow
If you're looking for a gripping historical crime series look no further than the Denton Murder Mysteries. Perfect for fans of M.C. Beaton's Edwardian Murder Mysteries and Oscar de Muriel's Frey & McGray series.