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Detective Inspector Marmion and Sergeant Keedy set about solving crime cases in London during the First World War.
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A Bespoke Murder
Edward Marston
May 1915. With thousands of Britons fighting in the trenches, a severely depleted police force remains behind to keep the Home Front safe and continue the fight against crime, espionage, and military desertion. In London, Scotland Yard is already overstretched when the sinking of the Lusit...
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Instrument of Slaughter
Edward Marston
January 1916. Britain is on the brink of enforcing conscription. Eligible young men who have not yet signed up to fight are despised as ‘conchies’ and ‘shirkers’, subjected to hatred and verbal abuse. Cyril Ablatt, leader of Shoreditch’s group of conscientious...
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Five Dead Canaries
Edward Marston
1916. As thousands of Brits are fighting on the Front Line, a new breed of fiercely independent and fiery-spirited women emerge to hold the Home Front together. Among this raucous group of munitionettes, or ‘canaries’, is Florrie Duncan whose birthday celebrations are tragicall...
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Deeds of Darkness
Edward Marston
The latest in the Home Front Detective series by master of historical fiction, Edward Marston.
June 1916. The largest British army ever to be sent into battle are preparing for their advance beyond the Somme. Among the troops is Paul Marmion, son of Detective Inspector Harvey Marmion of t...
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Dance of Death
Edward Marston
The fifth book in the Home Front Detective Series. London, Autumn 1916. When he slips out of a house in the early hours of the morning, Simon Wilder is too preoccupied to realise that he is being stalked. As he walks along the street, lights begin to dim as a warning that there’s ano...
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The Enemy Within
Edward Marston
Pentonville Prison. Wally Hibbert is serving a long sentence for arson. But after befriending and tricking one of the officers, Hibbert makes an audacious escape. Inspector Marmion, the detective who arrested Hibbert, is warned to watch his back, but it seems that Hibbert has another targe...
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Under Attack
Edward Marston
June, 1917. While German Gotha bombers raid London from above, a man's body is fished from the Thames below. The man had been garrotted and his tongue cut out before he was left to his watery grave, and as the killer has taken care to remove identifying items and even labels, Detective Ins...
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The Unseen Hand
Edward Marston
1917. The Lotus Hotel offers sanctuary for its exclusively female clientele, attracting the cream of London’s society. But a dead body found in one of its rooms is hardly good for business, and when it is discovered that the woman was neither a guest nor a member of staff, the Lotu...
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