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 in a temple which stood on the Acropolis in ancient Athens. Lord Elgin had brought her to London in the nineteenth century, and even though now she was over 2,300 years old, she was still rather beautiful - and desirable. Which is why Lord Francis Powerscourt finds himself summoned by the British Museum to attend a most urgent matter. The Caryatid has been stolen and an inferior copy left in her place. Powerscourt agrees to handle the case discreetly - but then comes the first death: an employee of the British Museum is pushed under a rush hour train before he and the police can question him. What had he known about the statue's disappearance? And who would want such a priceless object? Powerscourt and his friend Johnny Fitzgerald undertake a mission that takes them deep into the heart of London's Greek community and the upper echelons of English society to uncover the bizarre truth of the vanishing lady...

Death of an Elgin Marble

David Dickinson

Constable Crime

<p>1st UK ed. With a fine dust jacket  Signed onthe title page by the author.</p>

Death & the Jubilee

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Constable

In this the third in the Lord Francis Powerscourt murder mystery series, Lord Francis Powerscourt embarks on an odyssey through the treacherous world of art dealers and picture restorers, framers and reliners, in pursuit of a master forger.

Death of an Old Master

Death of a Chancellor

England, 1901, and the cathedral in the town of Compton in the west of England is preparing to celebrate a very special anniversary, one thousand years of Christian worship. But a few weeks before the main ceremonies at Easter, the chancellor, a high official of the cathedral, dies in mysterious circumstances. No one, except the doctor and the undertaker, is allowed to view the corpse. It soon transpires that the Chancellor was one of the richest men in England and his sister suspects foul play - so that discreet and well bred investigator Lord Francis Powerscourt is asked to look into the case. As Powerscourt paces the ancient cloisters and listens to evensong from the choir stalls, he begins to suspect that a terrible secret lies hidden in the cathedral, and that it might have something to do with the anniversary. Then there is a truly dreadful incident - the dead body of one of the choristers is discovered, turning and turning on the great spit in the Vicars Hall kitchen. Both Powerscourt and his wife Lady Lucy are to be at risk of their lives before he uncovers the astonishing secret of Compton Minster and unmasks a brutal killer. With narrative skill and a real understanding of the period, David Dickinson takes us once again into a past that is in many ways more exciting and more dangerous than our own time.

1897, London is preparing for Victoria's Diamond Jubilee but early on a February morning a corpse with no head or hands is dragged out of the Thames by London Bridge. Powerscourt's investigation leads him to a mansion in Oxfordshire where he realises that he and his family are in mortal danger.

Death and the Jubilee

Constable Robinson

<p>The perfect gift for thumb-twiddlers, doodlers and idolers everywhere. Puzzles, pencil sports, factoids and games from the old favorites to the wildly original.</p>

The Complete Time Waster

Magpie Books

Death on the Nevskii Prospekt (A Lord Francis Powerscourt Mystery)

Death on the Holy Mountain (Lord Francis Powerscourt Mystery)

Powerscourt, coaxed out of retirement one last time, heads for St Petersburg where a British diplomat has been discovered, his throat cut, on a bridge spanning Nevsky Prospekt. It would seem the man knew a secret - and it proved fatal. As Powerscourt paces the Winter Palace and ponders the mystery, other matters press in on him. With Russia edging towards revolution, he must make his escape - before time runs out on him too.

Death on the Nevskii Prospekt (Lord Francis Powerscourt Mystery)

Robinson Publishing

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 is spared his tycoon father takes it as a miracle and organizes a family pilgrimage to the resting place of the boy's name saint, Saint James the Greater in Santiago de Compostela in Spain, the greatest pilgrimage site of the Middle Ages. The first modern-day pilgrim is killed in Le Puy en Velay in Southern France and Powerscourt is summoned to investigate. The pilgrims' progress across the holy sites is punctuated by further bizarre deaths. After his own life is put in terrible danger Powerscourt finally solves the murders on the day of the Bull Run at Pamplona in Southern Spain where young men race down the cobbled streets pursued by the bulls. The careless are gored to death, but it is up to Powerscourt to beware of the horns and other hidden dangers to finally resolve the Deaths of the Pilgrims.

Death of a Pilgrim (Lord Francis Powerscourt Mystery)

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