The Anathema Stone

HILTON, John Buxton

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Collins Crime Club

Football hooliganism, violent demos, civil insurrection - what would happen if law and order broke down? One group of men knew. They hoped to be the ones to restore control - in their own way and at their own price. But they were men that Kenworthy knew, too. He last remembered them when corruption at the Yard was being tidied up. 
Once again John Buxton Hilton uses the high-powered investigating unit operating direct from the Cabinet Office that he introduced in "The Asking Price." Called in to help his former colleague Forrester, Kenworthy finds himself disentangling the intrigues of the Duchy of Axholme, a Government department specially established to absorb misfits and failures. Then there is an academic-minded young lady is saddled with the corpse of an elderly civil servant whom everyone believes to have died while making love to her. Has this anything to do with Peter Paul Whippletree, the drop-out extraordinary and crossword-puzzle comiler with whom she falls in love? 
There is pungent oblique comment here on the way things are sometimes managed in high places but Kenworthy's main concern is a mystery as obscure as any he has ever tackled. It calls for all the imagination and double-dealing he can muster. The reader has every chance to beat him to the solution - though probably not many will.

Corridors of Guilt

St.Martin's

Passion in the Peak

Four seemingly innocent schoolgirls claim that Henry Gower carried his sex education classes too far, and when the schoolteacher's body is found, Superintendent Simon Kenworthy must find the killer

The innocents at home: A Superintendent Kenworthy novel (The Crime club)

Collins

Slickensides is the name of a farm in the High Peak district of Derbyshire, of a cheese prepared at the farm, and of the old lead mine that lies beneath it. It is also the geological term for a particular rock formation which results in the trapping of energy behind it. Such energy can be dangerously explosive when released.All this Inspector Brunt has occasion to expound on a visit there in 1911 to investigate a reported break-in at the farm. At the same time a private detective with distinctly Holmesean characteristics (they even include a Watson!) arrives at the local inn. He is there to investigate the alleged disappearance of Barnard Brittlebank, the squire's dissolute son. Before long he informs Squire Brittlebank that his son has left for Canada.So it is disconcerting when young Brittlebank's body is found in the Slickensides mine. A dense fog descends, cutting off all communication with the outside world, and Brunt is left to answer some tricky questions with no assistance beyond the evidence and that of his own sharp wits.Although nearing retirement, Brunt is as shrewd as ever. In this beautifully realized story of a closed society three-quarters of a century ago, he demonstrates once again that he is one of the most memorable of fictional detectives, and triggers a denouement as explosive as only Slickensides can produce.

Slickensides

Displaced Person

St.Martin's Press

Four seemingly innocent schoolgirls claim that Henry Gower carried his sex education classes too far, and when the schoolteacher's body is found, Superintendent Simon Kenworthy must find the killer

The Innocents at Home

Literature & Fiction

St Martins Pr

Slickensides is the name of a farm in the High Peak district of Derbyshire, of a cheese prepared at the farm, and of the old lead mine that lies beneath it. It is also the geological term for a particular rock formation which results in the trapping of energy behind it. Such energy can be dangerously explosive when released.All this Inspector Brunt has occasion to expound on a visit there in 1911 to investigate a reported break-in at the farm. At the same time a private detective with distinctly Holmesean characteristics (they even include a Watson!) arrives at the local inn. He is there to investigate the alleged disappearance of Barnard Brittlebank, the squire's dissolute son. Before long he informs Squire Brittlebank that his son has left for Canada.So it is disconcerting when young Brittlebank's body is found in the Slickensides mine. A dense fog descends, cutting off all communication with the outside world, and Brunt is left to answer some tricky questions with no assistance beyond the evidence and that of his own sharp wits.Although nearing retirement, Brunt is as shrewd as ever. In this beautifully realized story of a closed society three-quarters of a century ago, he demonstrates once again that he is one of the most memorable of fictional detectives, and triggers a denouement as explosive as only Slickensides can produce.

Slickensides: A Derbyshire mystery

Retired Superintendent Simon Kenworthy's Intelligence activities during World War II return to haunt him when his former superior officer turns up murdered

Vacationing with his wife in a Derbyshire village, Superintendent Simon Kenworthy of Scotland Yard finds himself participating in a local dramatic production and in a series of sinister, unexplained incidents

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The Anathema Stone

Corridors of Guilt

Passion in the Peak

The innocents at home: A Superintendent Kenworthy novel (The Crime club)

Slickensides

Displaced Person

The Innocents at Home

Slickensides: A Derbyshire mystery

Displaced Person

The Anathema Stone