Six years of hard labor in the prison jute mill taken its toll on young Graham, convicted of manslaughter after a drunken brawl

Post-war London is buzzing with speculation about the deaths of ten young drug addicts within the space of just one week. The police are desperate to cut off supplies of heroin and cocaine to the capital, but they are struggling. So Sir Graham Forbes turns to Paul Temple.

Even though Carl Andersen was cross-examined for 23 hours, the murder at the crossroads gave 

Maigret one of his trickiest problems

A lawyer's wife just cannot tell the truth, even when she has to deny committing murder!

A woman thinks her late husband is alive, and someone would prefer the sleuth dead

Dr Belasco is Scotland Yard's top target and the Temples go incognito to meet Belasco's right-hand man Ross Hunter on the Harwich boat train but circumstances overtake them and Temple is faced with the murder of a private detective, cigarette lighters with a distinctive acorn motif and more murders before Belasco is finally unmasked.

five years is a long time to remember a man's screams in the night, and time mellows hate - for some.

Paul and Steve are returning from New York on board a luxury liner when they meet an amnesiac millionaire.

Adam Dalgliesh probes the murder of a brilliant criminal lawyer

No fingerprints around, Frank. Everything wiped... except one thing. The cap of a whisky bottle we found in the waste-basket... a bottle that had been in the manager's cupboard. That bottle cap had one fingerprint. Yours.