Dublin between the wars, where Captain Arthur and Anne Foster run a young detective agency with a spaniel named Pip underfoot. Occasionally as far afield as Chicago and Havana.
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Dublin, a wet September, and the young detective agency is running short-handed: Anne is away, the spaniel Pip has been banished to Blackrock, and our narrator wakes to a note in his own handwriting that he cannot remember writing, initialled R.K.
1 hr 27 minNo. 123
Dublin, and a young detective agency takes its second client: Mrs Vale, a handsome, iron-composed widow whose impractical nephew Julian has just announced his engagement to a Hungarian countess.
1 hr 27 minNo. 119
Dublin, and a decision that arrives at breakfast wearing the wholly unreasonable appearance of having been obvious all along: a former Army captain will not go back to London. He will stay — and open a detective agency of his own. A brass plate. An office above a stationer's.
1 hr 30 minNo. 117
Dublin, between the wars: a former Army captain has come to Ireland to meet the family of Anne Foster, the woman he admires — and quickly decides that being introduced to a houseful of O'Riordans is more perilous than any battlefield.
1 hr 26 minNo. 104
Chicago in the 1930s: a wealthy English widow walks into police headquarters and asks what it would cost to report a murder before it…
1 hr 26 minNo. 81
Havana in the 1930s: a white Art Deco casino blazing with light, American millionaires in cream dinner jackets, Cuban officials with…
1 hr 5 minNo. 78
The Belgian Detective is in Brussels, the flat is quiet, and Captain Hastings has just made the mistake of thinking life is ordinary…
1 hr 38 minNo. 75
A musketeer, a spaniel, and a murder at the most fashionable charity ball of the season — Captain Hastings is invited to Lady Beatrice…
1 hr 29 minNo. 73
London, spring 1930s: when Captain Hastings attends the stag dinner of Charles Chudley — charming, debt-prone, and hours away from…
2 hr 8 minNo. 65
A midnight shooting in a luxury hotel. A baseball idol who survives when he should have died. And a showgirl who fires twice — and still…
1 hr 14 minNo. 7