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Tom Wasp and the Murdered Stunner

04 Feb 08

Murder and the Golden Goblet

Murder, 'Orrible Murder: Collection of short stories

Murder in Friday Street

The Wickenham Murders

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About the Author (Photo (c) Jean Cockett)

Bibliography

First British Edition Five Star Publishing (2008)

Tom Wasp and the Murdered Stunner
When, in 1862, London chimney sweep Tom Wasp finds the dead body of his friend Bessie Barton, a beautiful red-headed artists' model, he vows to find her killer. There seems little doubt that it was Moonman, from whom she had fled in terror but who had relentlessly tracked her down. But who is Moonman? Tracking her pitiful past through London's seamiest quarters with the help of his sweep's chummy, eleven-year-old Ned, Tom sets out on the long and dangerous trail to discover the truth. Tom and Ned make a formidable team as they clean the filthy chimneys of life.
Tom Wasp also appears in short stories and anthologies, such as The Mammoth Book of Dickensian Whodunnits, edited by Mike Ashley, (Robinson, UK, and Carroll & Graf, US, 2007/8). In 'Tom Wasp and the Swell Mob he solves the murder of Alice Dear, whose father was in the Marshalsea, and who has become a model for Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit.

First British Edition Severn House (2007)

Murder and the Golden Goblet
Who was Lance Venyon? Curiosity over a memorial plaque in an old Kentish church sets wheelchair-bound ex-cop Peter Marsh and his daughter Georgia on a long and dangerous trail that will lead them not only into the world of art fakes in 1950s Paris but further back still to the legends of King Arthur, Sir Gawain and their connections with Dover Castle. But is it just legend, or is Arthur's golden goblet still to be found deep in the Kentish soil? And was the boating accident in which Lance Venyon was lost in 1961 an accident – or murder?

First British Edition Crippen & Landru (2006)

Murder, 'Orrible Murder: Collection of short stories
Question: what do a French chef, a Victorian chimney sweep and Aphrodite, goddess of love, have in common? Answer: they are all busy solving murder cases in Murder, ’Orrible Murder. Auguste Didier, master chef in Victorian London, flits from pineapple pits to the home of the Rightful King of England, pursuing his love of exquisite food while constantly being distracted by murder. Chimney sweep Tom Wasp walks the streets of East London with his chummy, young Ned, righting the many wrongs he comes across. Aphrodite, when she can take time off form her main duty of looking after the love life of the gods, including her own, proves a keen detective – particularly when her own interests are threatened. Other investigators join the trio, too, including an ardent fan of Rudolf Valentino's and, of course, Sherlock Holmes himself.

First British Edition Severn House (2005)

Murder in Friday Street
The second book in a new mystery series from a popular library author. When eighteen-year-old Alice Winters is found murdered near a ruined medieval tower just outside the remote village of Friday Street on the Kentish downs, her boyfriend Jake is charged. That evening the haunting melody of the Friday Street tune is heard which, according to village tradition, is played whenever there has been a miscarriage of justice. The case arouses the interest of Peter and Georgia Marsh, the father and daughter team who specialise in cases where the past has reached out to touch the present. And Friday Street had been the scene of a notorious murder in 1968, when the famous rock singer Fanny Star returned to the village of her birth only to be murdered. Adam Jones, her singing partner, was convicted of the murder. Had the tune been heard then too? Had Adam been wrongly convicted? Peter and Georgia set out to discover the secrets held by the apparently peaceful village - but their first obstacle is to break the silence kept by Friday Street, anxious to protect its own.

First British Edition Severn House (2004)

The Wickenham Murders
Former policeman Peter Marsh, invalided out of the force, and his daughter Georgia investigate the 1929 murder of doctor’s daughter Ada Proctor in the Kentish village of Wickenham. The young gardener Davy Todd was hung for the murder, a verdict about which there seems little doubt – until Marsh & Daughter begin to look more deeply into it. When Georgia visits Wickenham, she is met with hostility. The village is divided by a feud between two families, the Todds and the Elgins, which affected the 1929 murder and is still rampant today. Two further deaths, separated by about seventy years, darken Marsh & Daughter’s search for the truth; the discovery of a skeleton in a denehole on Wickenham Manor ground, and the death of a professional protestor – but how can they be connected with the wrongly convicted Davy Todd?

About The Author
In Her Own Words…
Amy Myers was born in Kent, where she still lives, although she has now ventured to the far side of the Medway. For many years a director of a London publishing company, she is now a full-time writer. Married to an American, she lived for some years in Paris, where, surrounded by food, she first dreamed up her Victorian chef detective Auguste Didier. She is known for this series, which began with Murder in Pug's Parlour and has now concluded with Murder in the Queen's Boudoir, although Auguste still flourishes in short stories. In her current Marsh & Daughter novels, Peter Marsh, a disabled ex-cop, and his daughter Georgia, investigate cases in which the past reaches out to touch the present. Tom Wasp and the Murdered Stunner (Five Star Publishing, US) is the first full length novel in what she hopes will be a new series; it features a Victorian chimney sweep, who sets out to clean a few of the chimneys of life with the aid of his apprentice, eleven-year-old Ned. Tom also appears in short stories.
Tom Wasp and Auguste Didier have teamed up together together with Aphrodite, the goddess of love, in a collection of her short stories published by Crippen & Landru, Murder, ’Orrible Murder. Amy Myers' short stories, ranging in period from the present day back to Aphrodite herself, appear in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, the Crime Writers' Association anthologies, Mammoth Book anthologies edited by Mike Ashley, and Maxim Jakubowski's Best British Mystery series. She also writes fiction in other genres, under the name of Harriet Hudson.
About Marsh & Daughter: Peter and Georgia Marsh began their sparky partnership after the disappearance of Rick, Georgia's brother, during a walking holiday in France ten years earlier. The agony of not knowing what had happened to him spurred them on to look into unsolved crimes of the past or miscarriages of justice; they then record what really happened in a series of true crime books. Peter is wheelchair-bound after a shooting incident in his former police career, and Georgia, after licking her wounds following a short marriage to charmer conman Zac, is now – after much hesitation – living with publisher Luke Frost. Their first was The Wickenham Murders, and since then their investigations have been recorded in Murder in Friday Street, Murder in Hell's Corner and Murder and the Golden Goblet. Their next investigation is Murder in a Mist to be published by Severn House in 2008.
Amy's most recent short stories include:
Parson Pennywick and the Whirligig in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September/October double issue 2007, and Tom Wasp and the Swell Mob in The Mammoth Book of Dickensian Whodunnits, edited by Mike Ashley (Robinson/Carroll & Graf 2007/8).

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Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

Murder in the Mist (Severn House, 2008) Jun 08

Tom Wasp and the Murdered Stunner (Five Star Publishing, 2008) Feb 08

Murder and the Golden Goblet (Severn House, 2007)

Murder, 'Orrible Murder: Collection of short stories Short Stories (Crippen & Landru, 2006)

Murder in Friday Street (Severn House, 2005)

The Wickenham Murders (Severn House, 2004)

The Best British Mysteries Short Stories (Allison & Busby, 2004) (The Rightful King of England) Pbk Jan 04

Roaring Twenties Whodunnits Short Stories (Robinson Pbk, 2004) (Valentino’s Valediction )

Scenes of Crime Short Stories (Constable, 2000)

Murder in the Queen's Boudoir (Severn House, 2000) (Auguste Didier)

Murder With Majesty (Severn House, 1999) (Auguste Didier)

Murder in the Motor Stable (Headline, 1996) Headline Pbk 1997 (Auguste Didier)

Murder at the Music Hall (Headline, 1995) Headline Pbk 1996 (Auguste Didier)

Murder in the Smokehouse (Headline, 1993) Headline Pbk 1993 (Auguste Didier)

Murder Under the Kissing Bough (Headline, 1993) Headline Pbk 1993 (Auguste Didier)

Murder Makes an Entree (Headline, 1992) Headline Pbk 1992 (Auguste Didier)

Murder at the Masque (Headline, 1991) Headline Pbk 1991 (Auguste Didier)

Murder at Plum's (Headline, 1989) Headline Pbk 1990 (Auguste Didier)

Murder in the Limelight (Malvern, 1986) Headline Pbk 1989 (Auguste Didier)

Murder in Pug's Parlour (Malvern, 1986) Headline Pbk 1989 (Auguste Didier)