Böcker av Bruce Graeme

In the beginning was the Word-When Theodore Terhune's wealthy client Arthur Harrison is found stabbed and his library ransacked, the police suspect the murderer was looking for a book. Harrison collected rare early printed books called incunabula, but as the provenance of such titles is well documented in the book world it would make little sense to steal one. Terhune is hired by the estate to sell off Harrison's library, but another armed break-in and a very strange book auction suggest the killer is still searching for something. Soon Terhune himself becomes a target, but what exactly does the murderer want? And why are crosses appearing in the turf of local fields?The sixth book in the entertaining series involving bookseller and amateur sleuth Theodore Terhune.BRUCE GRAEME (1900-82) was a pseudonym of Graham Montague Jeffries, an author of more than 100 crime novels and a founding member of the Crime Writers' Association. He created six series sleuths, including bookseller and accidental detective Theodore Terhune, whose adventures-Seven Clues in Search of a Crime (1941); House with Crooked Walls (1942); A Case for Solomon (1943); Work for the Hangman (1944); Ten Trails to Tyburn (1944); A Case of Books (1946) and And a Bottle of Rum (1949)-are republished by Moonstone Press.

Theodore Terhune finds the body of a policeman in the road one evening, run over by a lorry. The inquest delivers a verdict of accidental death, but the police and Terhune are suspicious. Investigations suggest smuggling is alive and well on Romney Marsh and the dead constable was on their track. The seventh novel in the Theodore Terhune series.

When"Peter the Hermit" dies of seemingly natural causes, the police uncover clues that suggest a hidden past. Before long, bookseller Theodore Terhune receives a series of five anaonymous short stories that clearly aim to help him solve the mystery behind Peter's death. A 1944 crime classic

Theodore Terhune interrupts an attempted robbery; someone was trying to steal the key to the Kylstone burial vault, which will shortly be open to the public. When the key goes missing, a series of mysterious encounters leads the curious Terhune from one clue to another, and eventually to the secret past of two families.

On a trip to Yorkshire, bookseller Theodore Terhune investigates a suspicious accidental death that might be murder.

Theodore Terhune is drawn into an old murder case after he stumbles on the fresh corpse of Frank Smallwood, a man thought to have been slain twenty years previously. There had been a trial and conviction, the defendant had served time and was then killed in the war. So what exactly happened to Frank Smallwood?

Theodore Terhune is hired to write the history of an ancient Kentish manor house for its new owner, Vincente Salvaterra, who wants to know why the house is shunned by the locals. His research reveals unsolved mysteries, and when tragedy then strikes the eccentric Salvaterra family, Terhune must determine if the cause is the house or a human agent.

Crime writer Iain Carter uses inside knowledge from an indiscreet relative to write a satirical police novel under a pseudonym. When the book proves to be a huge success, Iain must take increasingly convoluted steps to protect his secret. Trouble ensues when a local bookmaker is killed and his mysterious alter-ego becomes the prime suspect.