Minsik
Discover
Jan 1, 1936 — Jan 1, 2013· 77 yrs

UNITED KINGDOM AUTHOR · FICTION · DETECTIVE AND MYSTERY

Robert Barnard

Also known as: Bernard Bastable

54
BOOKS
4.1
AVG RATING (9)
3
READERS

Robert Barnard was an English crime writer, critic and lecturer. In addition to over 40 books published under his own name, he also published four books under the pseudonym Bernard Bastable. [Wikipedia]

Burnham-on-Crouch, United Kingdom
Wikipedia

The last diners pushed away their plates of lamb biryani or chicken tikka masala, downed the last of their Tiger beers or their fruit juices, and began scrabbling in purses and feeling in back pockets as they made their way to the till.

— from The corpse at the Haworth Tandoori, 1998

Most acclaimed

#2

Posthumous papers

1979

0.0 (0)
#1

To die like a gentleman

1993

0.0 (0)

Told through diaries and letters, a mystery, set in England in 1942, follows a young governess who is faced with a sinister manservant, a master's tyranny, and a situation fraught with bitter rivalries, intense hatreds, and murder.

#3

A corpse in a gilded cage

0.0 (0)

Perce Spender, a working-class Londoner, is unexpectedly transformed into the twelfth Earl of Ellesmere when a distant relative dies. But he would rather be warming a bar stool in his local pub, and he's taken up residence at Chetton Hall only until arrangements can be made to sell it. Getting rid of the family estate displeases at least one of Perce's greedy offspring, however, and on the morning after a family party the new Earl is found dead. The Chief Constable's plethora of suspects is not the social-register list he was anticipating--one of Perce's sons is now in jail, one ought to be, one daughter is a bit too curious about the will, and daughter-in-law Dixie, now the new Countess of Ellesmere, has been keeping company with a small-time crook.

Books

Newest First