The Company of Knaves

Shaw, Simon

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Harpercollins

Act of Darkness

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Collins Crime

Killer blonde PI Grace Cornish returns in the follow-up to Simon Shaw's psychological chiller Killing Grace Grace is in trouble. She's always had a cavalier attitude towards legal nicities, and when her inquiries demand a spot of breaking-and-entering, she doesn't hesitate. But when she's caught on a security camera and her old nemesis from her police days gets ready to throw the book at her, it looks as if this time she's overstepped the mark. Out of the blue, her ex-flame Bob rings up to offer his help, but there's a catch. Working for a hush-hush anti-narcotics unit, Bob's been targeting an elusive money-launderer, and from an intercepted phonecall now knows he'll be in London the following weekend. He doesn't know where, though, but he does know who his man's meeting: a playboy and professional gambler with a taste for fast cars and loose women. The gambler always calls the same escort agency when he's in town and Bob's boys have put the screws on the owner so that the next girl he gets sent will be working undercover. Which is where Grace comes in. All she has to do is sell her body for one night and her impending court case could disappear, is that too much to ask? But as usual with Grace, things are never that simple, and soon she's in far deeper than she bargained for.

Selling Grace

Business & Money

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Philip Fletcher, the well-known actor and murderer, has hit rock bottom. Instead of finding himself on the verge of stardom as he had fondly imagined, his personal and professional lives are at an all-time low: unloved and apparently unemployable, he has turned to whiskey for solace. Then suddenly a job is offered, and with it a vast sum of money, by a movie producer extremely anxious to secure his services. Where, Philip wonders, is the catch? He finds out soon enough, as he narrowly escapes death by "accident" several times during filming. Someone is out to get him, but who? In his element in the seedy and corrupt film world, Philip has advantages the would-be murderers cannot even guess at. Philip actually has a pretty solid grounding in this line of work; in fact, he's probably better at it than the killer himself.

Dead for a Ducat

Mystery

St Martins Pr

Furious that a hated rival is up for knighthood in the New Year's Honors List, Philip Fletcher takes advantage of the untimely death of a fellow actor to use blackmail and get on the List too, but things do not go quite as smoothly as he had intended.

The Company of Knaves: A Philip Fletcher Mystery (Philip Fletcher Mysteries)

Minotaur Books

Furious that a hated rival is up for knighthood in the New Year's Honors List, Philip Fletcher takes advantage of the untimely death of a fellow actor to use blackmail and get on the List too, but things do not go quite as smoothly as he had intended.

The Company of Knaves: A Philip Fletcher Mystery (Philip Fletcher Mysteries, 5)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Forced to play second fiddle to bratty movie star Richi Calvi, who has landed the coveted title role in an important staging of Macbeth, Fletcher finds himself wrongly accused of murder when Calvi is found stabbed to death.

BLOODY INSTRUCTIONS

DOUBLEDAY

Forced to play second fiddle to bratty movie star Richi Calvi,  who has landed the coveted title role in an important staging of  Macbeth, Fletcher finds himself wrongly accused of murder when  Calvi is found stabbed to death.

Bloody Instructions

Gollancz

Philip Fletcher, murderous actor of "Murder Out of Tune", returns in this crime novel by an author whose first two books both won awards. Fletcher finds the tables turned on him when he is framed for a murder he didn't commit. In desperation, he turns amateur detective.

Orion Publishing Co

The third crime novel featuring actor-murderer Philip Fletcher. It sees him at an all-time low - until he's offered a highly-paid film role in a somewhat improbable costume drama. There must be a catch, and after several near-fatal "accidents" Philip thinks he knows what it is.

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The Company of Knaves

Act of Darkness

Selling Grace

Dead for a Ducat

The Company of Knaves: A Philip Fletcher Mystery (Philip Fletcher Mysteries)

The Company of Knaves: A Philip Fletcher Mystery (Philip Fletcher Mysteries, 5)

BLOODY INSTRUCTIONS

Bloody Instructions

Bloody Instructions

Dead for a Ducat