Inspector Faro S.
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Another Case for Inspector Jeremy Faro, Edinburgh's Victorian Detective The frantic arrival of PC Dean at Inspector Faro's door one winter morning brings news of the first killing in Coffin Lane. Accompanied by his step-son Vince and Vince's partner at the surgery, Dr Conan Pursley, Faro rushes to a horrific scene. For a trail of blood through the snow leads to the body of a young woman, a knife wound in her chest. Molly Blaith had been on her way to post a letter for her employer Miss Errington. Or had she? For such a journey should not have taken her down Coffin Lane. Did she have an assignation? Was she the victim of a crime of passion? Or was her death just the beginning of a reign of terror that will hold Edinburgh in its grip? For only two days later Faro is woken by another hammering at his door. PC Dean has come to report the second murder in Coffin Lane. Alanna Knight is a novelist, playwright and biographer whose writings were; first published in 1969. She is the author of more than 30 novels, as well as non-fiction works on Robert Louis Stevenson. Alanna Knight is a member of the Crime Writer's Association and of the Society of Authors in Scotland.
A New Case for Inspector Jeremy Faro, Edinburgh's Victorian Detective; Jeremy Faro is hoping for a pleasant break from the demands of his job when he takes a trip across Germany with his writer-companion Imogen Crowe, but it is not to be. The life of the heir apparent of Luxoria is threatened, and Faro has no choice but to become involved. The boy is at boarding school in Scotland and Faro is delegated, by no less than royal command, to restore him to his troubled kingdom. Dangers abound in the hazardous journey back. And to make matters worse, the Inspector knows a secret concerning the boy's birth, a secret relating to the time of the Grand Duchess's brief refuge in Edinburgh, a secret that could destroy them all.
Mystery Large Print Edition After an evening of listening to a splendid rendering of Beethoven sonatas by young pianist Lachlan Brown, Inspector Faro is interrupted on his walk home by a terrified woman who runs from the shadows. But before Faro can react, he s hit over the head. The next time he sees the woman, she s a corpse in the police mortuary. When the body of a man who looks remarkably like the woman is discovered the next day, Faro becomes increasingly concerned. Could they be related? Why was the woman s house burned to the ground? And where does Lachlan Brown, who claims he too has been the victim of an attempted murder, fit into all of this? Solving this puzzle will take all of Faro s remarkable detection skills.