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Oxford letters
Headline
2005
Novelist Kate Ivory becomes concerned about the influence of a married couple on her mother.
Oxford proof
Headline
2002
Novelist Kate Ivory is head-hunted by an ambitious young book editor who then falls foul of financial fraudsters.
Oxford shift
Headline
2000
Novelist Kate Ivory comes to the rescue of a respectable widow in her sixties disappears in Oxford, and is then suspected of murder.
The players come again
Virago Press Limited
1990
Kate is commissioned to write a biography of Gabrielle Foxx and uncovers a startling mystery.
The private wound
Published for The Crime Club by Collins
1968
A young novelist is seduced by the wife of the local squireen, with violent consequences.
Rex mundi
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1978
An antiquarian bookseller witnesses a murder in Greece.
The school library mystery
Blackie & Son Limited
1950s
A cryptic message falls out of the binding of a book when it is accidentally damaged.
The scroll of the dead: a Sherlock Holmes adventure
Calabash Press
1998
Sebastian Melmoth seeks the immortality promised by an Egyptian papyrus.
A smile on the face of the tiger
Warner Books
2000
Walker is hunting for a man who used to write steamy crime fiction.
The theft of Magna Carta: the 41st story of Roger West
Hodder and Stoughton
1973
A country copper thwarts the sale of a priceless document.
Two-thirds of a ghost
Tom Stacey
1972
A celebrated author is murdered in the middle of a party game.
The Wyndham case : an Imogen Quy mystery
Hodder & Stoughton
1993
A student is found dead in a locked library of arcane books.
