Книги, похожие на «Jack Batten, Blood Count»

Upton Park, East London. Someone has stolen Raj Desai’s lucky charm. His daughter has also gone missing. To the rescue comes Frank Wire, private detective by day and disc-jockey by night.Hot on the trail of a faceless and ubiquitous organization, Frank must also escape from a gang of hoodlums, mysterious assassins, and a bothersome jilted lover from a distant past. His frantic search through the streets of London brings him in contact with its many unimaginable and grimy secrets. When his fiancé is again also kidnapped, Frank Wire knows that he must unravel the mystery of The Crooked Bullet.

As detective Paul Temple turns his hand to playwright, his leading lady Iris Archer pulls out shortly before the play is due to open and declares that she is heading for France.However, shortly after her disappearance Paul Temple receives a guest at his Scottish holiday home – none other than that of Iris Archer.The mystery deepens as Temple is asked by a young man to act as postmaster in delivering a letter. Meanwhile someone acting under the codename of Z4 seems to have control of events. Could this be Doctor Steiner, and just who is he? It is all up to Temple . . .