Christopher Lee

Page Updated: 23/09/98

Christopher Lee

About the Author

Bibliography

The Killing of Cinderella

03 Sep 98

The Killing Of Sally Keemer

pbk 23 Jul 98

The Bath Detective

First British Edition - Gollancz (1998)

The Killing of Cinderella
To Bath for the Christmas panto comes former Bond girl Lynda Elstrom, all curves and blond hair. These days mostly famous for being famous. She doesn't show for the panto photocall. Next morning she does show, centre stage, hanging from the Fairy Godmother's wire. Irritating she might have been, but who would want to kill her?
Inspector James Boswell Hedge Leonard has no shortage of people to talk to. Prince Charming, played by Jason Williams, the ageless balladeer, who bought his mum a bungalow with his first gold disc; Maurice Poulson, the director, scathing, cruel and brilliant; Curly Weekes from Saturday morning TV, the first black buttons Bath has ever seen; Rudy Sharpe and the Rostow twins, the ugliest of Ugly Sisters; her first husband, who just happened to be in Bath on the night in question ...
The Killing of Cinderella is the third in this well-received series of Bath Detective Mysteries starring Inspector Leonard.

Paperback - Vista (1998)

First British Edition - Gollancz (1997)

The Killing Of Sally Keemer
See Review by Bob Cornwell
Chief Superintendent Leonard's self-indulgent Sunday, reading books in bed, has left him unprepared for Monday's new murder inquiry: a woman found dead in a toilet on the Paddington to Bristol train.
He recognises her as the rather attractive woman - long in the leg, short in the skirt and well suited to both - who briefly distracted him from his book on the Saturday evening Paddington to Bath express. Sally Keemer was a partner in a small Bath-based PR agency. All nice and respectable. But she may have known more than was good for her about some of the darker dealings of the firms her company represented, and about the private lives of some of her clients. There's a whiff of blackmail, and rumours that she was supplying her clients with extra services not listed on her company's books.
'This is a good solid entertaining police mystery' Crime Time
'… the dialogue is sharp and natural; the characters quickly take on a life of their own; the writing is full of unexpected observation' Tangled Web

Paperback - Vista (1997)

The Bath Detective
There's dirty work in the City of Wafers - but Inspector Leonard's here to clean up.
It’s easy to underestimate the eccentric. quietly spoken Inspector James Boswell Hodge Leonard, with his bicycle and his tweeds. And superiors who make the mistake of doing so soon discover that he's not too keen on toeing the Establishment line.
When the grisly corpse of a traveller is found outside a Roman bath, Leonard's orders are to clear up the mess with no fuss. But he soon begins to kick over Bath's social dustbins and out tumbles a decade of secrets and suspects, smelling to high heaven.

About The Author
Christopher Lee was BBC correspondent in Moscow and covered defence and foreign affairs before taking up research in contemporary history at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. It was there that he began writing his history of Britain, which became the award-winning Radio 4 series, This Sceptred Isle. He is a scriptwriter for The Archers, and his own political drama series for radio, The House, ran for six years. He is now writing the second part of his Radio 4 thriller series, Colvil & Soames. He is the author of ten books and has edited four others. Christopher Lee lives in Somerset.

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

The Killing of Cinderella (Gollancz, 1998) Sep 98 ( Leonard)

The Killing Of Sally Keemer (Gollancz, 1997) Vista Pbk Jul 98 ( Leonard)

The Bath Detective (Gollancz, 1996) Vista Pbk Jul 97 ( Leonard)

The Madrigal (Gollancz) Gollancz Jul 97

House II

The House

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