Oliver St John Latimer doesn't like David Audley, and jumps at the chance to poke a finger in Audley's eye when Senator Cookridge asks Audley to investigate the civil-war incident where a valuable treasure was lost. But Latimer is deep in a game of someone else's devising. Read More...

In 1957 a KGB mole in British Intelligence is sent to the Dordogne re-recruit David Audley into the British Secret Service. Suez and the invasion of Hungary are barely over, the Cold War is at its height, and Audley's abilities are needed by Britain and Russia like... Read More...

David Audley barely shows in this story as Frances Fitzgibbon is ordered to investigate the past of her superior, Colonel Jack Butler, also Audley's boss. More than one spectre is raised from the dark past and Frances finds herself confronting dangerous questions. Read More...

Major O'Conor was conducting his own private war deep behind German lines in Yugoslavia. With him were Lieutenant Audley and Corporal Butler, later to head British Intelligence. But the Major's allegiances seem to have taken a strange turn. What is he up to and what will befall Chandos Force? Read More...

Colonel Butler is sent on a walking tour of Hadrian's Wall as a stalking horse by David Audley. They are trying to flush out foreign agents who are systematically ruining the careers of Britain's most promising students and young academics. Read More...

The excavation of Philip Masson's body near Mrs Griffin's cottage resurrected several old ghosts. Rumours abounded, and young Jenny Fielding, asked to investigate, had heard one that David Audley was involved. A labyrinthine trail leads Jenny to a Spanish battlefield and the knowledge why Philip Masson had to die. Read More...

For John Rain, getting out of the life was never going to be easy. but with a new identity in Paris, and the help of his lover, Mossad agent Delilah, he was beginning to leave the killing business behind. And then he receives a message from rogue CIA operative Jim Hilger... Read More...

Mr Davenport has written a witty and learned introduction on various methods of murder. He has explored the many possibilities, including a number that are not included in this anthology. The examples are drawn from history and fiction, and range from classical Greece and Biblical times to the present. Read More...

When the English capture Calais, the war with France is suspended by a truce. But for Thomas of Hookton, there is no end to the fighting. He has to find the grail, the most sacred of Christendom's relics, and is sent to his ancestral homeland, Gascony, to engineer a confrontation with his deadliest enemy: his cousin, Guy Vexille. Read More...

It is 1810 and the French are making yet another attempt to invade Portugal and push the British back into the sea. Facing them is a wasted land, stripped of food by Wellington's orders, and Captain Richard Sharpe. But Sharpe is in trouble. Read More...