Literary critic and amateur detective Adam Ludlow reluctantly agrees to give a talk on Sheridan's play The School for Scandal to an amateur dramatics society. But what he thought would be an easy, if rather tedious favour for a colleague, turns into a puzzling murder mystery that reunites him with his police detective friend Montero.This is the second in a five-book series of Adam Ludlow murder mysteries, and was named among the ninety crime and detective novels named by Jacques Ba...

When a student is found murdered at Mudge Hall, lecturer and literary critic Adam Ludlow pursues her killer around the seedy pubs, nightclubs, and boarding houses of early 1960s London. He meets small-time criminals, a communist cell, and a police inspector keen to show off his knowledge of English Literature. But to solve the mystery, Ludlow must discover the secret of an incriminating bracelet.

Commentators have argued for many years that law firms need to move forward from their traditional, seniority-based compensation systems. But it's not enough to simply add performance-related elements at the edges of these. Shifting generational-based attitudes; changing career aspirations; increasingly demanding clients; and pricing innovation and development in the range of benefits that can be offered (both financial and non-financial) all conspire to urge firms to rethink how their com...

Innovation. How to go about it, what it can do for your business - what even is it? Can innovation be applied in the legal environment? Such is the interest and appetite for legal innovation that, in the last 18 months, ARK has published over a dozen titles with innovation in their remit, covering everything from knowledge management to pricing, from marketing to recruitment, and everything in between. This compilation deep-dives into the key areas that drive innovation forward in the lega...

Is Aunt Caroline's murder just an isolated incident or could it be part of a much larger web of crime and intrigue? The case spawns secrets of its own which threaten to separate Flora and Oliver almost as soon as they get engaged.Flora's wartime past still hasn't quite let go of her, but in this novel it becomes clear that there are dark secrets in Oliver Quest's family too. The action in this mystery/thriller ranges over the length and breadth of Britain and all the seasons of the ...

RETIRED INTELLIGENCE agent Winston Crisp thought his career of delving into dark, unpleasant secrets was long over. He'd forsaken adventure and settled comfortably into the tiny community on Penobscot Island off the coast of Maine. There, he's content to write poems no magazine will publish, gossip with the locals around the pot-bellied stove at the hardware store, and gain weight on his landlady's homestyle cooking. But when the body of a young woman is found, he just can't refrain from a...

This is the sixth novel in the Pitkirtly mystery series.What would you do if you thought you were about to lose everything you cared about most?Charlie Smith thought his career was more important to him than anything else. Amaryllis valued her freedom. Christopher valued his friends, especially Amaryllis. Neil Macrae, 'the pub landlord with no name', couldn't face the thought of losing his pub. There were others who couldn't bear to lose Neil Macrae.'The Queen of Scots...

This is the 26th novel in the Pitkirtly Mysteries series.When a music festival takes over the town, most people predict some kind of trouble, but the presence of Amaryllis's former colleague Green makes this seem even more likely.So in the intervals between doughnut breaks, the usual suspects find themselves dealing with two violent deaths and an assortment of temper tantrums, not all from the musicians. Anyone who isn't arrested by a couple of unfamiliar police officers can ...

This is the 25th in the Pitkirtly Mysteries series of quirky mystery novels set in Scotland. It's early autumn and Dave and Jemima are heading for Loch Rannoch, in Highland Perthshire, not to view the autumn colours but to meet a long-lost cousin of Jemima's. It isn't long before they begin to wish the cousin had stayed lost. But at least they and some of their friends from Pitkirtly have the chance to experience a change of scenery and the joys of life without a mobile signal or an intern...

This is the 4th of the Max Falconer mysteries, centring on a museum curator whose vole research is frequently interrupted by criminal and other activities.The museum is already in crisis, with the director in hospital and a new threat from a mysterious animals rights activist, when Amanda makes an unpleasant discovery which sets off a police investigation. Meanwhile Max and Philippa are settling in together and Philippa's career seems to be heading in a new – and possibly dangerous ...

This is the 24th book in the Pitkirtly Mystery series. Clementine Fairfax, previously encountered in 'The Identity Illusion', returns to Pitkirtly under cover to investigate a computer crime which has been traced to Pitkirtly College computing department, where Zak Johnstone is currently studying. Two suspicious deaths later, she is not very much the wiser about what is going on. Meanwhile Clementine's half-sister Amaryllis gets into a tunnel again, Christopher and others try to find somet...

This is the 22nd novel in the Pitkirtly Mysteries series, set in a small fictitious town on the south coast of Fife which is definitely not Culross, though quite close to it geographically.Kyle is sent to Old Pitkirtlyhill House, once the home of the Murray family and now in the possession of the local council, to review a collection of documents stored in the attics. This task is complicated by a grim discovery and by multiple questions of identity. A mysterious newcomer to Pitkirt...