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Born in Hampshire in 1939, Roberts was educated at Churcher"s College.
(Just before the start of what should be an idyllic Christ...)
Just before the start of what should be an idyllic Christmas, two very different women manage to turn West Midland lawyer Chris Tyroll’s life upside down. One is his beautiful and no-nonsense fiancée, Sheila McKenna, who arrives unexpectedly at Heathrow. To Chris’s delight, she announces that she has arranged a year’s sabbatical in England. The other is the less shapely, but equally beguiling Granny Cassidy who persuades Chris to take on the appeal of Alan Walton; her son-in-law convicted in the infamous Belstone Lane Case. As a man who has served twelve years for crimes he claims he didn’t commit, Walton has nothing left to lose and is dead set on an appeal. To Chris the case initially seems hopeless, but sensing that something doesn’t quite add up and with scores of his own to settle, he reluctantly accepts the job. He and Sheila begin the daunting task of unearthing files that had been closed for eighteen years and searching for parties who frequently don’t want to be found. But troublesome enmities are awakened and witnesses are silenced — sometimes by murder. Repeated threats put the duo in danger until violent threats come to fruition and it becomes crystal clear that trouble awaits them if the case is probed any further. Chris is no stranger to hassle from criminals and dubious policemen, but having narrowly escaped death only last year, images of masked judges and police flash through his mind at night and he wonders whether this time will be different. Someone, somewhere, will stop at nothing to ensure the case remains permanently closed. But who are these figures sent to stop Chris in the dark and why are they so concerned? A complicated trail of lies and forgeries have to be unravelled before Chris and Sheila can even begin to understand the extent to which the law has been perverted to pursue a private revenge… ‘Robbery for Malice’ is a gripping legal thriller, perfect for fans of John Grisham. Praise for Barrie Roberts: ‘This book has a lot of spirit and is very enjoyable and well-informed read. It’s refereshingly different to what’s on offer elsewhere and I’m looking forward to future entries in what could well be a successful series.’ Mat Coward, Morning Star. Barrie Roberts has been a criminal lawyer for almost thirty years, working for two firms in the West Midlands including work on the appeals of the Birmingham Six. He is the author of four Sherlock Holmes books and one previous Chris Tyroll mystery, ‘The Victory Snapshot’. Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher. For more information on our titles please sign up to our newsletter at www.endeavourpress.com. Each week you will receive updates on free and discounted ebooks. Follow us on Twitter: @EndeavourPress and on Facebook via http://on.fb.me/1HweQV7. We are always interested in hearing from our readers. Endeavour Press believes that the future is now.
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( In the sixth of Barrie Roberts’s highly accomplished pa...)
In the sixth of Barrie Roberts’s highly accomplished pastiches of the masterly Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes is facing only dull professional prospects in London when Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard arrives at 221b Baker Street with a most peculiar parcel. After a swift but adept examination of the contents inside an ordinary shoe box tied with tarred twine, Holmes announces that the small, leathery-looking object before him is nothing less than the shrunken head of Algernon Crosby, a banker who had gone missing in London six weeks earlier. The rest of Crosby’s body, scarred and disfigured, has meanwhile been fished from the Thames. The mystery surrounding Crosby’s bizarre and gruesome murder is compounded by other significant missing pieces. Crosby’s yacht, the Gyrfalcon, which recently took him and his small crew on a trip to America and the West Indies, has vanished, and with it a burly deckhand known as Teddy the American. The discovery of a curious word chart in Teddy’s lodgings puts Holmes and Watson on the trail of a solution. Together they unravel a dangerous plot of curses and a revenge that reaches across the world to a mountain wilderness in America’s West. But before Holmes is able to close an investigation that will end in a violent confrontation with the killer in a warehouse on the London docks, Watson will find himself in deadly peril when he is trapped in a heathland pit with three hissing, poisonous lizards. “Entertaining ... One of the best imitators of Conan Doyle is Barrie Roberts....”—Daily Telegraph
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(In 1886, wealthy philathropist Lord Backwater is found be...)
In 1886, wealthy philathropist Lord Backwater is found beaten to death on the grounds of his estate. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson must unravel the mystery by pitting their wits against a ruthless new enemy, taking them across the globe in search of the killer. By turns both thrilling and daring, The Man From Hell braves dark new territories in the Holmes mythology and is an invaluable addition to the library of any Holmes fan. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed detective stories. From the earliest days of Holmes’ career to his astonishing encounters with Martian invaders, the Further Adventures series encapsulates the most varied and thrilling cases of the worlds’ greatest detective.
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(In 1886, wealthy philanthropist Lord Backwater was found ...)
In 1886, wealthy philanthropist Lord Backwater was found beaten to death in the grounds of his estate. As Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson strive to unravel the mystery, many obstacles are put in their way. The Great Detective must get to the bottom of a forty year old secret from the other side of the world and pit himself against a ruthless opponent before he can reveal a story of appalling cruelty and corruption, and the case can finally be solved.
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(From the author of SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE RAILWAY MANIAC...)
From the author of SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE RAILWAY MANIAC, a further pastiche featuring Holmes and Watson. A wealthy, reclusive philanthropist is found beaten to death on his own estate. Holmes' inquiries lead him back into the man's past, to a personal secret and a ruthless opponent.
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(The past is never dead… Sheila McKenna, an Australian s...)
The past is never dead… Sheila McKenna, an Australian social historian, flies to England to visit her grandfather after he sends her a rather intriguing letter. Almost as she arrives, her grandfather dies. Murdered. Chris Tyroll, maverick midlands solicitor, is drawn into the case and determined to find out who killed the old man. Almost immediately, somebody drives directly at Chris and injures him. Is Chris on the murderer’s hit list too? As Chris and Sheila investigate, they begin to uncover a fifty-year-old story of comradeship, corruption and criminality. Somehow, this story is connected to the death of Sheila’s grandfather. But why does it still matter, to somebody at least, half a century later? Chris and Sheila don’t know – but they do know that their lives are in danger. Only those on the margins of society seem willing to help the pair in their search for truth and justice – and are eerily able to foresee the outcomes. The authorities seem strangely disinterested. But why would that be? The Victory Snapshot takes the reader on an intriguing journey of discovery, as Chris and Sheila dispense with convention and find their own, often ingenious, way to the truth. Praise for Barrie Roberts ‘This book has a lot of spirit and is very enjoyable and well-informed read. It’s refreshingly different to what’s on offer elsewhere and I’m looking forward to future entries in what could well be a successful series.’ - Mat Coward, Morning Star Barrie Roberts has been a criminal lawyer for almost thirty years, working for two firms in the West Midlands including work on the appeals of the Birmingham Six. He is the author of four Sherlock Holmes books and previous Chris Tyroll Mystery books, including Bad Penny Blues.
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( From a manuscript believed to be the work of John H. Wa...)
From a manuscript believed to be the work of John H. Watson, MD When a series of bizarre accidents befall small shopkeepers who have recently taken precautions to protect their premises, Sherlock Holmes is the first to discern a pattern, to the befuddlement of his most loyal friend. It seems someone is running a protection racket, and more, murder is involved, so Holmes teams up with a New York detective who has travelled to London to get to the bottom of the Rule of Nine.
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(Chris Tyroll is a busy litigation lawyer in the West Midl...)
Chris Tyroll is a busy litigation lawyer in the West Midlands. He'd like to have long lunches, play golf and holiday in the Seychelles, but he puts up with early starts, no lunches and late nights. One morning three clients come to him with totally different problems. The first, an Employment Tribunal case against British Defence Systems, looks complicated. BDS manufactures a seek-and-destroy weapon, ‘The Retaliator.’ The dismissal of one man has triggered a strike and two more workers have been sacked as a result. Then Tyroll deals with a distraught mother who cannot accept her son’s death and wants to get the coroner’s verdict changed from suicide to murder. And finally he’s met with a man who asks: why can’t an empty field be used to graze ponies? Tyroll investigates these cases with the aid of his sharp and beautiful girlfriend Sheila McKenna as they weave their way through clues and deal with their own relationship issues. But when another client dies, and a chance comment by a witness reveals that all three cases are somehow connected, Tyroll realises he’s in deeper than he thought. Tyroll finds himself and Sheila in a deadly confrontation. Can he save her? Can he even save himself? It’s a race against time to solve the three cases before it’s too late... ‘Very enjoyable and well-informed. It’s refreshingly different.’ Morning Star Barrie Roberts was born in Hampshire and has worked as a criminal lawyer for over twenty years. Crowner & Justice is the fourth book in the series featuring Chris Tyroll and Sheila McKenna. He is also the author of a series of popular Sherlock Holmes pastiches. Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher. For more information on our titles please sign up to our newsletter at www.endeavourpress.com. Each week you will receive updates on free and discounted ebooks. Follow us on Twitter: @EndeavourPress and on Facebook via http://on.fb.me/1HweQV7. We are always interested in hearing from our readers. Endeavour Press believes that the future is now.
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(London swelters in a heatwave and Sherlock Holmes frets i...)
London swelters in a heatwave and Sherlock Holmes frets in inactivity until a young police constable arrives from the West of England. He has seen his sergeant, a man of great rectitude, ignore a confession of murder by a vagrant when a young girl was killed and the murderer never found.
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(In the fourth of Barrie Roberts'' Conan Doyle pastiches, ...)
In the fourth of Barrie Roberts'' Conan Doyle pastiches, Holmes and Watson become embroiled in the murky world of international secret intelligence services in an attempt to foil a plot to ruin Queen Victoria''s Jubilee.'
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(The past has a way of coming back… Sheila McKenna, an A...)
The past has a way of coming back… Sheila McKenna, an Australian social historian, is in the UK to research and write a book about the nineteenth-century transportation of convicts from Britain to Australia. And when she buys a convict’s love token, in the form of an old, engraved copper penny, inspiration strikes. Sheila decides to find out more about the ‘JS’ who gave the token to his loved one, and armed with the name of the ship that took him to Australia, she begins her research. However, there was more than one convict with the initials JS aboard the Lucy Collins in 1865. Sheila investigates each one. Yet it soon becomes apparent that even more than a century later, somebody, somewhere, doesn’t want Sheila looking into their family history. Undeterred, and with the help of her fiancé, lawyer Chris Tyroll, Sheila begins to piece together the lives, loves and legacies of six men, all transported on the Lucy Collins, and their families. She works her way forwards through the generations, identifying, contacting and talking to some of those men’s descendants. Meanwhile, the threats to Sheila’s safety keep coming, and grow ever more serious. Over time, history and the modern age seem to intertwine. Are the actions and inclinations of convicts in past generations still afflicting their descendants? And if so, precisely who is going to such extraordinary – perhaps even murderous -lengths to hide it? Bad Penny Blues is a suspense thriller filled with intrigue and forgotten memories. Praise for Barrie Roberts ‘This book has a lot of spirit and is very enjoyable and well-informed read. It’s refreshingly different to what’s on offer elsewhere and I’m looking forward to future entries in what could well be a successful series.’ - Mat Coward, Morning Star. Barrie Roberts has been a criminal lawyer for almost thirty years, working for two firms in the West Midlands including work on the appeals of the Birmingham Six. He is the author of four Sherlock Holmes books and previous Chris Tyroll mystery books, including The Victory Snapshot .
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Born in Hampshire in 1939, Roberts was educated at Churcher"s College.
As a lawyer, Roberts worked for two firms in the West Midlands and at one he was a part of the appeal for the Birmingham Six. As an instructor, Roberts taught courses on Ghosts and Unsolved Mysteries and has also lectured on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
( In the sixth of Barrie Roberts’s highly accomplished pa...)
(In the fourth of Barrie Roberts'' Conan Doyle pastiches, ...)
(The past has a way of coming back… Sheila McKenna, an A...)
(The past is never dead… Sheila McKenna, an Australian s...)
(Just before the start of what should be an idyllic Christ...)
(London swelters in a heatwave and Sherlock Holmes frets i...)
(From the author of SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE RAILWAY MANIAC...)
(In 1886, wealthy philanthropist Lord Backwater was found ...)
(In 1886, wealthy philathropist Lord Backwater is found be...)
(Chris Tyroll is a busy litigation lawyer in the West Midl...)
( From a manuscript believed to be the work of John H. Wa...)
Roberts was a member of the Gypsy council and interested himself in the treatment of Gypsies and other travellers.