John Baker

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John Baker

King Of The Streets

Poet in the Gutter

Shooting in the Dark

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by John Baker

About the Author

Bibliography

Audio Tape ISIS (2002)

King Of The Streets
Sam Turner has more than enough on his plate. He is helping the woman from Scottish Widows track the murderer of her husband and is investigating the death of a teenage runaway. That’s without his office being trashed and Frank Taylor, a bad-news gang boss from Manchester, turning up with his nasty habits and even nastier tastes.

Cornelius Garrett has performed in repertory theatres throughout the UK and has appeared in several of the BBC Shakespeare plays, the fashion series Gems, White Lady for BBC Screen 2, Casualty and the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only. He has worked extensively in radio drama including classic BBC Radio 4 serials, many Afternoon and Saturday Night Theatre productions as well as programmes for the World Service.
Unabridged: 7 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 9 hrs

Audio Tape - ISIS (2002)

Poet in the Gutter
Introducing Sam Turner, who bluffs his way into a job as a private eye - and discovers he’s good at it!
Because his flat was cold, he was off the booze, and another marriage had gone bust, Sam Turner went to the men’s group. There they talked about Iron John and how men were alienated. Sam said that he was a private detective. It was nearly true - he’d been thinking about it all his life, although he wasn’t sure how much of a future it had in York.
Terry Deacon was interested. He suspected his wife was fooling around Sam thought he could fit some surveillance into his schedule. When it turned out he was dealing with a killer, though, he found his new career was really taking off.
‘Engagingly credible, off the wall, romantic without being sentimental, with a sharp sense of humour’ Val McDermid

Audio Tape ISIS (2002)

Shooting in the Dark
Angeles Falco seemed like something straight from a 1950s detective movie when she walked into Sam Turner’s office. Beautiful, dark and enigmatic - but made strangely vulnerable by her damaged eyesight. All she would say is that she and her sister were being followed. But by whom or for what purpose she didn’t know - and she feared for their lives.
Sam would be only too happy to help Angeles . . . but when her sister, Isabel, is left brutally murdered on a deserted hillside and he starts to feel a growing affection for his beautiful charge, the case seems to be getting beyond even his experience. And soon he finds himself up against a serial killer whose dark fantasies will try to destroy his attempt at a new life.
A tale of vicious obsession, loneliness and occasional depravity . . .

About The Author
John Baker was born in Hull in 1942 and educated at the university there. He has worked as a social worker, shipbroker, truck driver, milkman, and most recently in the computer industry. He has twice received a Yorkshire Arts Association Writers’ Bursary. Married with five children, he lives in York

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

King Of The Streets (ISIS, 2002)

Poet in the Gutter (ISIS, 2002)

Shooting in the Dark (ISIS, 2002)