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Home Front Detective Series by author "Edward Marston" Formats: AZW3, EPUB, MOBI Inspector Marmion, the Home Front Detective, solves major crimes in Britain during the Great War.  Volume 1: A Bespoke MurderISBN-13: 9780749009908 ASIN: B006WB2BBW Published: 11/20/2011 May 1915. As zeppelin bombs fall on London and with the sinking of the Lusitania, anti-German hysteria reaches fever pitch and attacks on German immigrants surge. Not even the West End of London is immune. Jacob Stein's bespoke tailoring business comes under brutal attack, leaving his safe ransacked, his daughter, Ruth, raped and traumatized and Jacob dead.Inspector Harvey Marmion is detailed to the case and faces an uphill struggle to track down the perpetrators, even up to the chaos of the Front Line.  Volume 2: An Instrument of SlaughterISBN-13: 9780749009953 ASIN: B009UV67RA Published: 10/29/2012 1916. Inspector Marmion and Sergeant Keedy are assigned to the case when the body of a young conscientious objector is found bludgeoned to death. Public sympathy is lukewarm for conscientious objectors with some people even claim that a conchie deserves to die if he won t fight for his King and Country. As the detectives identify one suspect, others pop up in the most unexpected places. Everyone speaks well of Ablatt but is he really the saint they describe? Marmion and Keedy have to dig deep in order to unearth the instrument of slaughter and the person who wielded it.  Volume 3: Five Dead CanariesISBN-13: 9780749013325 ASIN: B00E2584DE Published: 10/28/2013 Marmion and Keedy return for a third time in the acclaimed Home Front Detective series. As thousands of Brits are fighting on the Front Line, a new breed of women emerges to hold the Home Front together. Fiercely independent and fiery-spirited, these women are a raucous group of munition workers, or munitionettes . The canaries, so-called because of their chemically-stained yellow faces, decide to celebrate leader Florrie Duncan s birthday but their frolics are soon cut short when all but one are killed in a startling explosion.  Volume 4: Deeds of DarknessISBN-13: 9780749015190 ASIN: B00N01TI36 Published: 10/23/2014 In June 1916, a young woman is found murdered in a cinema. Harvery Marmion and Joe Keedy set out to find the killer who so elusively fled in the dark. Before long, two more victims, of striking similarity but differing backgrounds, are found dead around the city.Meanwhile, miles from home, Marmion s son Paul prepares for life on the front line as he marches towards the Battle of the Somme. Suffering a vicious blow in No Man s Land, Paul is left blinded for the rest of his life. Marmion must come to terms with the permanent darkness of his son s life, while continuing to search for the brutal killer who only strikes in the dark.  Meet the AuthorsEdward Marston Edward Marston was born and brought up in Wales. He read Modern History at Oxford then lectured in the subject for three years before becoming a full-time freelance writer. His first historical mystery, The Queen's Head, was published in 1988, launching the Nicholas Bracewell series.  Sharing Widget |
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