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In colonial Morocco, a painter navigates a conspiracy of forgery,
corruption, and murder For Francis, life with David grows more
dangerous by the day. When sober, he is charming, but when he
drinks, he is violent, slashing Francis's paintings and threatening
to gut the painter, too. When David leaves London for Morocco,
Francis cannot help but follow this man whom he loves but can no
longer trust. In Tangier, they find a thriving community of expats
who guzzle champagne while revolutionaries gather in the desert.
But in Morocco's International Zone, death does not wait for
rebellion. After Francis identifies a friend's Picasso as a fake,
the police call him in to investigate the forger's demise. If he
refuses, they will throw David in jail, where inmates and the DTs
will kill him within the week. Between the bustle of the city and
the emptiness of the desert, Francis finds that in Morocco, even
the fakes can be worth killing for.
In postwar France, a gambler finds that surviving his vacation may
be a long shot
Peace has come to England and the blackout is over, but the gloom
has yet to lift from London. One night, leaving a gambling club
where he has run up a considerable tab, the young painter Francis
Bacon, accompanied by his lover, sees a man gunned down in the
street. They do what they can to stanch the flow of blood, but the
Frenchman dies in the hospital. Soon afterward, Bacon receives a
strange offer from the club owner: He will erase Bacon's debts if
the painter delivers a package to the dead man's widow, Madame
Renard, on the Riviera. What gambler could resist a trip to Monte
Carlo?
After handing over the parcel, Bacon learns that Madame Renard is
dead--and the striking young woman who accepted the delivery is an
imposter. The Riviera may be lovely, but in 1945, its sun-drenched
beaches can be just as dark as the back alleys of London.
A killer takes refuge in the blacked-out streets of wartime London,
upending the world of one of Britain's greatest painters in this
chilling and captivating reimagining of the life of Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon walks the streets of World War II London, employed as
a warden for the ARP to keep watch for activities that might tip
off the Axis powers. Before the war, Bacon had travelled to Berlin
and Paris picking up snatches of culture from a succession of
middle-aged men charmed by his young face. Known for his flamboyant
personal life and expensive taste, Bacon has returned home to live
with his former nanny--who's also his biggest collector--in a
cramped bohemian apartment. But one night, death intrudes on his
after-hours paradise. When a young man is found dead in the park,
his head smashed in, Bacon and the rest of London's demimonde
realize that they have much more to fear than the faraway scream of
war.
Lambda Literary Award Finalist: A young Irishman finds love and
danger in the shadows of Weimar Germany. Francis Bacon has never
cared much for country living, so he is overjoyed when his father
sends him to Berlin as punishment for his not-so-innocent
flirtations with the other boys at school. With afternoons at the
cinema, dinner at the Hotel Adlon, and nights at the most
outrageous cabarets in Germany-and in his uncle Lastings's
bed-he'll fit right in. The Great War having ended over a decade
ago, and its resulting economic turmoil in the past, Germany is
enjoying the "Golden Twenties"-a time of healthy fiscal growth, and
creative and sexual resurgence, centered in Berlin. Yet dark clouds
are gathering as Hitler consolidates power within the Nazi Party
and brownshirts march through the streets. As tensions rise,
Francis finds his uncle Lastings busy welcoming countless men into
his hotel room-some invited for pleasure, others to be recruited
for the fight against Bolshevism. But when the Nazis send Lastings
fleeing for his life, Francis is left alone, penniless, and hunted,
with only his keen sense of hedonism to distract him from a city
that gets more menacing every night. Nights in Berlin is the 4th
book in the Francis Bacon Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the
series in any order.
When a raging fire destroys the modern mansion of wealthy
restauranteur Joseph Skane and kills his disabled wife, Mrs.
Skane's nurse, Maria, is arrested for arson and murder. Soon
afterward, a mysterious caller hired investigator Anna Peters to
help with Maria's defense. Although Anna has had her share of
unusual cases, this one is her biggest challenge yet. Maria has
refused to speak since running from the burning house, and even
when she agrees to respond to Anna's questions in writing, Anna
suspects she's hiding information that could clear her name...
This volume collects 22 stories from the author of the Anna Peters
mystery series, many published in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
or Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Included are: "Secrets," "Lions
on the Lawn," "The Summer of the Strangler," "My Life in Crime,"
"Lying," "Blood in the Water," "My Famous Relative," "Perfection,"
"The Blind Woman," "A Meeting at the Cafe Visconti," "Pigskill,"
"The Archeologist's Revenge," "Star of the Silver Screen," "Ghost
Writer," "Tabloid Press," "My Demon Lover," "The Man Kali Visited,"
"The View From Above," "To Beauty," "Ideas in My Head," "The
Paradise Garden," and "The Helpful Stranger." Great reading from a
master of the short-form mystery!
Anna Peters, Washington, D.C.-based private investigator, knows
little about hockey or Florida when she agrees to help Jurgen
"T-Rex" Parkes, star center of the NHL-expansion Orlando Showmen,
clear his name of his teammate Alf Rene's murder. She also isn't
entirely sure her client is innocent. She faces an uphill battle:
Parkes asked Rene to meet him the night of the murder, and he has
no alibit. The Showmen management is more concerned about the
team's tarnished image than seeking the truth, and the media are
swarming around Parkes and his family. As Anna digs into the case,
she finds Parkes uncooperative, the victim's family and friends
secretive and suspicious, and her own safety in jeapardy...
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