Henry Carter Hull

There are no easy choices when the dark clouds gather DI Shona Oliver’s past and present collide when James McGowan, her ex-classmate - now a famous actor - comes to the area to make a Robert Burns biopic. Shona is tasked with keeping him safe during filming on an isolated island in the Solway Firth, and her job is made much harder when a dead man wearing James’s coat is found on the beach in suspicious circumstances. It seems someone wanted James...

Fast-paced tales of crime and coppers from "one of the most popular writers of the early twentieth century"(Mystery Scene).   This collection presents a dozen classic detective stories that include "The Mind-Readers," "The Sirius Man," "The Couper Buckle," "The Guy from Memphis," and more featuring Chief Insp. Oliver Rater, a man of few words ironically nicknamed the Orator by his colleagues. But silent as he may be, there is much going on under...