Fletcher: 1215 books

Fans of golden-era mysteries will relish the twists and turns of J. S. Fletcher's The Chestermarke Instinct. This cleverly crafted mystery begins with what seems like a common enough occurrence: a bank manager is late for work one morning. But what first appears to be simply a matter of a missed train...

In The Abolitionists (a companion volume to The Shaking of the Foundations) Ronald Fletcher turns his attention to those critics who have advocated the abolition of the family. Blaming the strength of the family for all discontents, they see the family as the deeply entrenched last bastion of an exploitative...

Planet Earth, a crashed ship of unknown origin, and an Alien. One young woman, a famous lake in England and how she tries to save the planet. These two characters battle it out with a war of words. Who will win?Elizabeth was sat on the grassy banks of the reservoir, watching life slip her by....

Theresa's Tale tells of forbidden love. She is the illegitimate daughter of Catherine and Alfred. She is raised by catholic nuns in an orphanage in county Kerry where she was born, taken from her mother before she had chance to even glimpse her bastard child. Theresa is a troubled child who is bullied...

Tale one - Dead in a Ditch - Alfred's Tale Set in 1999, in England, Alfred of indeterminable age is lying at the bottom of a very icy cold and deep muddy ditch hidden by brambles. He has been knocked into this place by a car that sped off not stopping. He is sure that broken bones aside, this was...

Romance is never out of date, as these seven stories of undying love from Dorothy Fletcher prove. Enjoy a throwback to passionate kisses and whirlwind romances with: Whispers Always, My Love Meeting at Madrid The Late Contessa The Brand Inheritance Shadow on Long Island New Yorker Nurse Sensuality Level: Behind Closed Doors

It may well and fittingly be complained that of late years we English folk have shown an unpardonable spirit of curiosity about things which do not concern us. We have brought into being more than one periodical publication full of gossip about the private life and affairs of folk of eminence, and...

Fans of golden-era mysteries will delight in J. S. Fletcher's Scarhaven Keep, a tightly plotted page-turner set in a coastal region of northern England. A young actor and theater manager has gone missing, and several of his friends and business associates set out to track him down. The trail leads to nearby Scarhaven, where the details of a nefarious plot begin to be revealed.

Written in play format - A mother experiencing behavioural and emotional difficulties with her teenage daughter conjures a plan to save her daughter at the cost of another life. The story demonstrates classic similarities between generations, while providing humour and realism against a backdrop of...

What would you do if someone you loved committed murder?Puerile man-boy, Neil Denton, thinks his life is ticking along just fine. Putting his recent failure behind him, he's retaking his degree in social sciences and earning money on the side organizing pyramid broadband sales (with most...

Finding Italy explores the journey of the Romans’ ancestor Aeneas and his fellow Trojans from their old home, Troy, to their new country, Italy, narrated in Vergil’s epic poem Aeneid. K. F. B. Fletcher argues that a main narrative theme is patriotism, specifically the problem of how one comes...

Major Archibald Lee Fletcher was another pseudonym of St. George Rathbone.

Meredith needs a boyfriend. Her libido tells her so, her best friend tells her so, and her long lonely nights with only a book to keep her company tell her so. But finding a boyfriend in her bush town isn't as easy as you'd imagine. That was before the gorgeous Declan Knight showed up and tried...

Martin’s sister worries about big things, and little things, and everything in between. Martin comes up with a plan to help, but will it stop her worrying? Do Fruit Worry About Getting Fat? is the third picture book from writer-illustrator duo Helen Vivienne Fletcher and Ian Garmonsway. If you like...