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

HILTON, John Buxton

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

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The Bitter Bite

Jeffrey Ashford

Thrillers & Suspense

Scarlet Contessa

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The Child Garden

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Ryman, Geoff

Fantasy

Inside the Vatican

Bull, George

Religion & Spirituality

After stumbling onto a crime, and, subsequently, recovering from a severe knock on the head, Detective Superintendent George Rogers discovers the crime's motive and a body--all the while romancing a blind woman named Phaedra Haggar

Burial Deferred

Jonathan Ross

Dead on Arrival

Hall, Patricia

Mystery

Something Blue

Darcy Rhone is pregnant, unmarried and recovering from a broken engagement. She is completely alone. Casting around for help, she calls Ethan, an old high school friend, and convinces him to let her stay with him in London until she gets her act together. Little does she know what she's in for when she boards the plane to cross the Atlantic!

Literature & Fiction

Griffin, Emily

Contemporary

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