David Dickinson, Author Soho Constable $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-56947-540-9
Set in France in 1906, Dickinson's eighth Lord Powerscourt investigation (after 2008's Death on the Holy Mountain
) visits Agatha Christie terrain with limited success. When Englishman John Delaney dies on a family pilgrimage organized by...
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David Dickinson, Author . Soho Constable $24.95 (312p) ISBN 978-1-56947-503-4
Dickinson's witty, highly literate seventh Lord Francis Powerscourt novel (after 2007's Death on the Nevskii Prospekt
) provides a lively portrait of turn-of-the-last-century Ireland, where the English investigator and his wife, Lady Lucy, track...
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David Dickinson, Author . Carroll & Graf $25 (247p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1696-8
In Dickinson's well-written fifth historical set in turn-of-the-20th-century Britain (after 2005's Death of a Chancellor
), Lord Francis Powerscourt investigates the death of a junior "bencher," Alexander Dauntsey, who falls face...
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David Dickinson, Author . Carroll & Graf $24.95 (326p) ISBN 978-0-78671-897-9
Dickinson's solid sixth Lord Francis Powerscourt turn-of-the-20th-century mystery doesn't quite rise to the level of some of the better earlier entries in the series. In the wake of the upper-class investigator's brush with death in...
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David Dickinson, Author . Carroll & Graf $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0945-8
In this excellent novel, the first in a new historical series, Dickinson draws on his experience as series editor of the BBC's three-part program about the British royal family, Monarchy, to weave a tale of blackmail and murder among the royals...
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David Dickinson, Author . Carroll & Graf $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1110-9
Less a whodunit like its predecessor, Goodnight Sweet Prince
(2002), than a tale of intrigue and action, Dickinson's second Lord Francis Powerscourt mystery centers on efforts to disrupt Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 through...
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David Dickinson, Soho Constable, $25 (352p) ISBN 978-1-56947-912-4
Dickinson's strong 10th historical starring Lord Francis Powerscourt (after 2010's Death of a Wine Merchant) combines a compelling whodunit with some of the author's best writing to date. In 1909, a car accident strands Powerscourt and his wife in...
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David Dickinson, Author . Carroll & Graf $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1306-6
In Dickinson's third well-paced Victorian mystery (after 2003's Death and the Jubilee
), devoted family man Lord Francis Powerscourt investigates the murder of a distant relative, art historian Christopher Montague, found garroted in his...
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David Dickinson, Author . Carroll & Graf $25 (313p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1492-6
British author Dickinson's compelling fourth Francis Powerscourt whodunit (after 2004's Death of an Old Master
) reinforces his standing as one of the better current historical mystery writers. Powerscourt's return to England in 1901,...
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David Dickinson, Author Soho Constable $25 (329p) ISBN 978-1-56947-622-2
Dorothy Sayers fans may enjoy seeing how closely Dickinson follows the plot of a well-known Lord Peter Wimsey novel in his ninth early 20th-century historical featuring aristocratic English sleuth Lord Francis Powerscourt (after 2009’s Death...
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