Background
Hilton was born in Buxton, Derbyshire.
(Asked to speak at a conference on the topic of riot contr...)
Asked to speak at a conference on the topic of riot control, Inspector Kenworthy of Scotland Yard grows utterly perplexed when an obscure government agency is linked to a crime involving a gang of football hooligans. Reprint. K. NYT.
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(VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean with ligh...)
VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean with light toning and has little wear to edges. Content is clean with slight toning.
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(The rural town of St. Botolph's Fen End may have a perver...)
The rural town of St. Botolph's Fen End may have a pervert in their midst. Did Henry Gower, the very enthusiastic schoolteacher, carry the demonstrations in his sex education classes just a little too far? So claim four "innocent" schoolgirls. But the weakest of the four buckles and confesses to her parents that they made the story up-but why? Was it boredom, revenge, or just a pure evil in the leader of the group? After all, she's been seen consulting the town's ancient herbalist, a local witch of sorts.But when Henry Gower's body is found mangled in a pond, the unanswered questions grow even more complex. Only Superintendent Simon Kenworthy, with the help of the sexy but hard-nosed young cop Polly Parrott, can sort through the slander and find the true murderer.
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(Kenworthy in retirement is consulted by a special team op...)
Kenworthy in retirement is consulted by a special team operating from the Cabinet Office. They need his second opinion on the random kidnapping of a motley collection of customers from a village shop in Bedfordshire. The ransom price is so bizarre that it is kept secret from the public - and on their return the villagers seem none the worse for their experience. But a rougher time is had by all when an entire Norfolk Parish Council is spirited away. Not until they try their hand at abducting a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute do the kidnappers meet their match. In the meantime, Kenworthy has been sorting out the red herrings and finds the answer in the cut-throat power politics of organized crime. The action moves rapidly - and murderously - from the North Country to the Fens, from rural Wiltshire to the hinterland of the Costa del Sol. From a series of memorable vignettes there emerges a sardonic picture of England in the 1980s - and of the devious ways in which decisions are sometimes reached in high places. A small-time London thief who does not like mice; his anarchistic daughter, on the brink of a doctorate in criminology; a corrupt tycoon who tires of Monopoly in an Open Prison; two intelligent young policemen struggling to interpret a tachometer log - this is John Buxton Hilton operating in a new vein.
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(Anne Cossey has a recurring dream of an avenue that remin...)
Anne Cossey has a recurring dream of an avenue that reminds her of Hobbema's painting of The Avenue at Middelharnis. Beyond that she knows nothing of the place, except that it terrifies her. There is a great deal in her past that she cannot remember. Who is her mother? Who was her father? Who is she?Then, while she is on honeymoon in Spain, her mother 'commits suicide' in a manner that Anne is the first to recognize as murder. From then on the knots begin to tighten, for Anne is on the civilian payroll of Chief Superintendent Kenworthy, now in his closing years at the Yard, and her husband is a detective-sergeant in the squad of Kenworthy's old winger, Shiner Wright. She unearths various files in the archives that might refer to her mother's elusive past, but then finds herself one chilly dawn abducted under anaesthetic and coming to in the very avenue of her nightmare.The action grows increasingly sinister, giving Kenworthy one of his most complex cases to date - and John Buxton Hilton the opportunity to introduce a few more to his gallery of memorable characters, including Swannee Foster, a criminal individualist, whom many at the Yard have agreed not to harness.
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(Lured into a scandalous rendezvous with a lovely milk-mai...)
Lured into a scandalous rendezvous with a lovely milk-maid, a young politician suddenly finds himself a suspect when the girl turns up murdered, and it is up to Scotland Yard's Inspector Kenworthy to sort out the truth. Reprint.
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("...it was hate that kept the Town Moor going. There's a ...)
"...it was hate that kept the Town Moor going. There's a lot of talk these days about the disappearance of the community spirit. The truth is that nowadays people don't get to know each other well enough to work up the right kind of ill-feeling..."Detective Superintendent Kenworthy must dig into the past to solve the murder of a man charged with killing his wife, only to discover that the dead man's memoirs hide the origin of a yet unsuspected crime.A "full-fleshed, first-class mystery of place and character" Kirkus
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(In the 1870s, the future Inspector Brunt is on his way ho...)
In the 1870s, the future Inspector Brunt is on his way home after a reprimand when he has a disturbing encounter with George Ludlam, an enigmatic, taciturn man, intent on reaching one of Derbyshire's more remote villages. Then news reaches HQ that this man's arrival has terrified some of the villagers. Who is he? Who used he to be? And why has he come back?Brunt is sent to carry out an investigation, thus distracting him from the pursuit of Amelia Pilkington, a confidence trickster who lives off the hydropathic society of the time, but the affair becomes public when a woman is murdered and George Ludlam is the obvious suspect.Few readers will succeed in beating Sergeant Nadin and Constable Brunt to the solution to the mystery.'A powerful period piece against a backcloth of crude murder, the coming of age of an unusual constable, the subtle deflation of a pompous inspector, plus a mid-Victorian con-woman who can melt a heart of stone. The author's own concluding confidence trick is not bad either.' Observer'An atmospherically gripping historical chiller' The Times
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('I suppose it would be possible to tail a fellow Englishm...)
'I suppose it would be possible to tail a fellow Englishman for a month about the South of France. It wouldn't be easy, operating singly. And presumably it wouldn't do for him to know?''He's unaware that I'm in touch with you, and if he does catch you on his heels, he'll undoubtedly explode. If that happens, explode back at him and wait for him to simmer down. Actually, I think you and he might get on reasonably well.'When a retired English colonel plans a walking tour in the South of France, his wife engages Kenworthy to mind him. Is this an unpardonable breach of personal privacy? And is Colonel Neville's purpose really sinister-as it sometimes appears? Kenworthy finds him in turn eccentric, domineering, secretive and, on occasion, bumblingly inefficient; then he loses him. Murder follows, and Kenworthy, helped by Monique Colin, a delectable young private eye from an agency in Nice, traces a trail back to the wartime Resistance: a world of pride, passions, jealousies and shame, in which the harshness of reality was sometimes more powerful than the heroism.
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Hilton was born in Buxton, Derbyshire.
He wrote the and the, as well as the under the pseudonym John Greenwood. Hilton died in Norwich.
(In the 1870s, the future Inspector Brunt is on his way ho...)
(Lured into a scandalous rendezvous with a lovely milk-mai...)
(Asked to speak at a conference on the topic of riot contr...)
(Anne Cossey has a recurring dream of an avenue that remin...)
('I suppose it would be possible to tail a fellow Englishm...)
(Kenworthy in retirement is consulted by a special team op...)
(VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean with ligh...)
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(The rural town of St. Botolph's Fen End may have a perver...)
("...it was hate that kept the Town Moor going. There's a ...)