AG Barnett's Mystery Singles Books in Order

Barry Holt's bowling outing turns sinister when the alley's owner announces a sale and then dies beneath a pinsetting machine. The amateur magician spots signs of misdirection and begins to question whether the apparent accident was carefully staged.

A Yorkshire landlord is found dead at the bottom of his cellar steps in 1976. Brewery representative Jackie Naylor doubts the official explanation, but persuading an unwelcoming detective to reconsider will mean finding more than an uneasy feeling.

Covering a Wiltshire parish after the war, vicar James Innes encounters a suspicious death at a convalescent home for officers. A marble bust and an inconsistent injury prompt him to question what happened on the stairs.

After a bitter dinner argument, Gerald Lyle is found dead amid exhaust fumes in his workshop. Nell Blackwood and the reclusive Roderick Fane examine three guests' motives as an apparent misadventure begins to look deliberately arranged.

Botanist Cornelius Hartwell dies in his study beside a cup of cordial in 1895 Gloucestershire. His companion Ada Selwyn's knowledge of plants raises doubts about the death, but the investigating sergeant is reluctant to welcome her help.

A hated moneylender is found bludgeoned in an allotment beside Woodstock police station. The weapon belongs to a man who threatened him, but pub owner Gertie Bundle and Hester Croft take an interest in the case.