Detective Joe Sandilands mysteries
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The last Kashmiri rose , Detective Joe Sandilands mysteries volume 1
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Detective Joe Sandilands mysteries volume 2
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Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
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English
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Detective Joe Sandilands mysteries volume 3
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Winner of the CWA Historical Dagger Award
The North-West Frontier, 1910. The screams of a wounded British officer abandoned at the bottom of a dark ravine are heard by a young Scottish subaltern. Ignoring the command to retreat back to base the Highlander sets out alone, with dagger in hand, to rescue his fellow officer from the Pathan tribesmen who are slowly torturing him to death.
Over a dozen years later the backwash of this tragedy
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Detective Joe Sandilands mysteries volume 4
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Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands is sent to help a Maharajah hunt a tiger that has been terrorizing the countryside, but Joe's suspicions are raised when the choice of weapons for the expedition seems more appropriate for hunting humans.
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Detective Joe Sandilands mysteries volume 5
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Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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Joseph Sandilands is back home from India enjoying the nightlife of Jazz Age London. After returning home late from a disappointing date, he is called to the posh Ritz Hotel, where Dame Beatrice Joliffe, the socially prominent founder of the Wrens (Women' s Royal Navy Society), lies dead. A broken window and a missing necklace point to a burglary gone wrong, and Scotland Yard wants Sandilands to resolve the case quickly and discreetly. When Dame Beatrice's...
6) Tug of War
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Detective Joe Sandilands mysteries volume 6
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Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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Champagne, northern France, summer 1926. Joe Sandilands is despatched under the auspices of Interpol to Reims where he is to represent British interests in an unusual case. He has been invited to be the guest of a glamorous French war-widow who runs a champagne estate on the Marne. Aline Houdart is determined that Joe should support her claim that a mysterious shell-shocked soldier who has turned up in the local sanatorium without speech or apparent...
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Detective Joe Sandilands mysteries volume 7
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Soho/Constable
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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Detective Joe Sandilands mysteries volume 8
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Soho Constable
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Since Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands was going to drive down to the French Riviera for a vacation, he agreed to drop his niece off at a chateau along the way for a visit with her father. But when the pair arrive at the chateau, they find recent vandalism has caused an uneasy atmosphere among the guests. When a child goes missing and then a murder occurs, Sandilands realizes he is no longer on vacation.
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Soho Constable
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2011.
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English
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Returning to England only to discover that his role at the Metropolitan Police has expanded to include the Special Irish Branch, Joe Sandilands struggles with regional terrorism while clashing with a Russian princess who is running a spy network out of Kensington.
10) Not my blood
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Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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It's 1933 London and Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands receives a phone call from a boy saying he is his nephew, a teacher at his school has been murdered and he is responsible. Joe gets assigned to the case and finds that over the history of the school a large number of boys from wealthy families have disappeared and none of the families have followed up on their son's whereabouts.
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Detective Joe Sandilands mysteries volume 11
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Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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At dawn one morning in 1933, an amateur dowsing team searching the banks of the Thames for precious metals unearths the body of a young woman with a priceless gold coin in her mouth. The case falls on Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard Joe Sandilands's turf, but he's been given another assignment -- and a very high-profile one. London is hosting a historic economic conference to try to solve the Global Depression and political tensions are running...
12) Enter Pale Death
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Detective Joe Sandilands mysteries volume 12
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English
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"One morning before dawn at her regal country estate, Lady Lavinia Truelove is crushed to death by a horse. Classified as "death by misadventure," this appears a gruesome accident, but Scotland Yard Detective Joe Sandilands suspects foul play--a misgiving he is struggling to separate from his personal grievances toward Sir James Truelove, who is Lady Lavinia's widower and the influential academic patron of Dorcas Joliffe, whom Joe one day hopes to...
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Diana's altar , Detective Joe Sandilands mysteries volume 13
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