Rival police officers Inspector Miller, the young local constable, and Inspector Roper, a county investigator, are forced into an uneasy partnership as they probe the murder of the leading citizen of an English seaside village

Seascape With Dead Figures

Hart, Roy.

Literature & Fiction

St Martins Pr

While investigating the murder of a young barmaid in the little village of Cort Abbas, Roper becomes entangled in a web of gossip, facts, and lies until an apparent suicide accompanied by a written confession arouses Roper's suspicions

A Pretty Place for a Murder

Somebody--or something--wants to keep the new owner of a village cottage away from her property, so she prevails upon intrepid Inspector Roper to unravel the story behind its supposed haunting

Remains to Be Seen

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

When wealthy Stella Pumfrey is found murdered, Inspector Roper's list of suspects includes a husband and sister who stand to inherit Stella's fortune and a recently jilted lover

Robbed Blind

Breach of Promise

A reverent, seemingly timid old man is blasted to death with a shotgun and Superintendent Roper is woefully short of clues, until a search into the dead man's past reveals a host of potential enemies

British & Irish

Inspector Roper investigates the disappearance of an aging starlet, Rita Cavallo, from her country home, quickly discovering another body in the process and running into nothing but resistance from her difficult and suspicious family

Blood Kin

Roy Hart's Inspector Roper series is building a following of readers who enjoy classic cozy English village mysteries. In Final Appointment, what appears to be a gruesome traffic accident is revealed to be murder. When the headless body of ex-cop Gerald Pope is found next to a motorcycle, Inspector Roper investigates. Scrutinizing the circumstances of Pope's retirement, Roper finds a questionable record of arrests and a host of enemies, both on and off the police force, who may have wanted him dead. As he delves deeply into Pope's past, Roper uncovers a tangled thread of guilt stretching through a quiet English town. Layers of motive and malice conceal the truth, which Roper pursues with subtle questions and dogged sleuthing.

Final Appointment

At long last, Inspector Douglas Roper is able to get away from England to Greece for a much-needed vacation. He spends his mornings at an archeological dig in Crete, and his afternoons sightseeing with Miss Carmody, an attractive and intelligent woman, with an alluring aura of independence. But Roper's peaceful, idyllic holiday is interrupted when he discovers Mrs. Gribo, one of the guests at his hotel, brutally murdered in her ransacked room. In the midst of his easy romance, with Mrs. Gribo's murder unsolved, Roper reluctantly returns to work in rainy Dorset, where nothing appears to have changed in his absence. When the body of Albert Haddowes is discovered, murdered in his armchair and dead for a week or more, Roper discovers that the strands of two investigations intertwine. He is left with a complicated knot to untangle, and a romance that goes beyond his cautious expectations.

A Deadly Schedule

Hardcover: 205 pages Publisher: St Martins Pr; 1st U.S. ed edition (October 1985) Language: English

A Position of Trust

When the headless body of an ex-cop is found beside his  motorcycle, Inspector Roper investigates and discovers that the victim  had enemies on and off the police force. By the author of Breach of  Promise.

London: Little Brown, 1993

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Seascape With Dead Figures

A Pretty Place for a Murder

Remains to Be Seen

Robbed Blind

Breach of Promise

Blood Kin

Final Appointment

A Deadly Schedule

A Position of Trust

Final Appointment