Fiction
The Gye Journals - 3 Classic whodunnits with a dash of the spooky
Unquiet Spirit
Constable, h/b, 2006, ISBN 978-1-84529-346-8, Carroll & Graf, h/b, 2006, ISBN 978-0-78671-854-2
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This is the third extract from the Gye Journals. St Thomas's College, Cambridge, has a ghost - or so some people say. The Cambridge branch of the Psychic Investigation Unit is invited to carry out an experiment. Professor Hockridge insists on being present. Alas, during the proceedings he collapses with a heart attack.
The master of the college wants to keep everything under wraps but he also wants a multi-million pound benefaction offered to the college. There must be no hint of scandal. Anonymous letters have been received claiming that the undergraduate whose unquiet spirit supposedly disturbs the peace of F staircase, did not commit suicide ten years ago, but was murdered.
Would Dr Nathaniel Gye, lecturer in parapsychology, make some discreet enquiries with a view to closing the whole sorry business. Find out by reading the latest Gye Journals.
The Nature of Rare Things
Constable, h/b, 2005, ISBN 1-84119-529-4, Carroll & Graf, h/b, 2005, ISBN 0-7867-1564-2
This is the second extract from the Gye Journals. When, at a backstreet spiritualist séance, Dr. Gye is 'commissioned' by a departed spirit to clear his name of the stigma of art theft and suicide, he reluctantly agrees to investigate a problem which seems insoluable. How can an Old Master painting simply vanish from a locked security van. His probing leads him into the sinister world of international crime and he and Kathryn will be plunged into real danger before this 'sealed room' mystery can be solved.
Tripletree
Constable, 2003, ISBN 1-84119-528-6, Thomas Dunne Books, h/b, 2004, ISBN 0-312-32874-5
Dr Nathaniel Gye, lecturer in parapsychology at Cambridge and a controversial presenter of TV documentaries on the occult tends to get involved in criminal investigations in which normal police procedures become confused with supposed supernatural activity. Tripletree is the first published extract from his personal journal. At an exotic party in the Cotswold Jacobean manor house of Coln St Ippolyts the festivities of the great and the good come to an abrupt end when the body of a woman is dragged from the lake. Nat Gye is pressed to share his expertise and finds himself sucked into a raging whirlpool of local feuds, passionate hatreds and conflicting ambitions, complicated by manifestations of witchcraft, mind-manipulation and ghostly manifestations. There will be more deaths and personal danger to Dr Gye and ‘Tripletree House’ itself will play a sinister role before the unsavoury truth is finally discovered.
“Well constructed, bags of atmosphere and an exciting denouement to keep you on the edge of your seat” Daily Mail
Keene's Quest – The Story of a British Spy in Revolutionary France, I
Severn House, 2001, ISBN 0-727855-980
Keene's Terror – The Story of a British Spy in Revolutionary France, II
Severn House, 2001, ISBN 0-727856-413
Keene's Liberty – The Story of a British Spy in Revolutionary France, III
Severn House, 2002, ISBN 0-727856-421
The Swarm of Heaven – a Renaissance mystery
Constable, h/b, 1999, ISBN 0-09478-470-1, Allison & Busby, p/b, 2001, ISBN 0-749005-602
The Tim Lacy Mysteries – a series of 6 Classic whodunnits in an artworld setting
Cumberland's Cradle - (a Tim Lacy mystery)
Headline, 1996, ISBN 0747250642 (p/b ISBN 0747250832) [Amazon link here
The Borgia Chalice - (a Tim Lacy mystery)
Headline, 1996, ISBN 0747217092 (p/b ISBN 0747250650) [Amazon link here
The Camargue Brotherhood - (a Tim Lacy mystery)
Headline, 1995, ISBN 0747214824 (p/b ISBN 0747250634) [Amazon link here
The Hellfire Papers - (A Tim Lacy mystery)
Headline, 1995, ISBN 0747210160 (p/b ISBN 0747244286) [Amazon link here
The Dresden Text - (a Tim Lacy mystery)
Headline, 1994, ISBN 0747210152 (p/b ISBN 0747244278) [Amazon link here
The Triarchs, (a Tim Lacy mystery)
Headline, 1994, ISBN 0747209774 (p/b ISBN 074724376x) [Amazon link here
Tryptych - (a thriller under the pseudonym of Jonathan Kane)
p/b Sphere ISBN 0-747-40776-2
Triple Take - (a thriller under the pseudonym of Jonathan Kane)
p/b Sphere ISBN 0-722-19073-5
Bear Rampant
The autobiography of Robert Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, Earl of Warwick and Earl of Leicester in the Holy Roman Empire Part Two
Hamish Hamilton, h/b, ISBN 0-241-10147-6
The Bear's Whelp
The autobiography of Rober Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, Earl of Warwick and Earl of Leicester in the Holy Roman Empire Part One
Hamish Hamilton, h/b, ISBN 0-241-89865x (p/b Fontana ISBN 0-0-06-15475-1)
Her Majesty's Captain
Being the manuscript of Robert Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, Earl of Warwick and Earl of Leicester in the Holy Roman Empire from his own hand
Little Brown USA, h/b, ISBN 0-316-94497-1
Short Stories included in the following anthologies:
The Bothersome Business of the Dutch Nativity, in The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, Robinson, p/b, 2009 ed, UK ISBN 978-1-84529-926-2
I Encounter an Old Friend and a New Mystery, in The Mammoth Book of Dickensian Whodunnits, Carroll & Graf, p/b, 2007, ISBN 97;8-0-7867-1971-6
Special Duties, in The World's Greatest Master & Commander Stories, Robinson, p/b, 2005 ed, ISBN 1-84529-177-8
A Perfect Crime, in The Mammoth Book of More Historical Whodunnits, Carroll & Graf, p/b, 2001, ISBN 0-7867-0916-2
The Last Letter, in Heroic Adventure Stories, Robinson, p/b, 1997, ISBN 1-85487-865-4
Henry VI: A Serious Matter, in Shakespearean Whodunnits, Robinson, p/b, 1997, ISBN 1-85487-945-6
The Case of the Barchester Codex, in The Strand Magazine (USA), www.strandmag.com June-Sept 2006
Constable, h/b, 2006, ISBN 978-1-84529-346-8, Carroll & Graf, h/b, 2006, ISBN 978-0-78671-854-2
I would be very interested to know what readers make of Unquiet Spirit and the other two Nathaniel Gye mysteries. The publishers reckon there is no commercial scope for extending the series yet I frequently receive letters asking for 'more Gye'.