Peter Drax: 6 books

‘There’s been a murder there.’Tubby stared at him. ‘A murder! Who was it?’It was the first time in his life that Tubby had been told that he had been murdered.Carl Swanson, recognized as the best ship’s captain in the fishing town of Gilsboro, is about to head out...

He called out, ‘Abie!’ The word was swallowed up in the depths of the hall. It was like a morgue.Captain Eric Macrae is down on his luck, living in a cheap London boarding house and on his wits. When chance puts a string of valuable pearls his way, he can’t resist stealing them. But the...

‘One brown mouse. Victim of foul play.’Chalk Street, Camden Town, is the busy scene for all kinds of commercial activity – some legal, some a little less so. By day, local crime boss Mr. Rivers works as a market trader, but gladly turns his attention to the potentially lucrative theft...

His arms were hanging down, but his face was turned upwards. For the first time Johnny saw a dead man.Colonel Meroy is a prosperous pillar of the landed gentry. But his neighbours would be shocked to learn he’d started out as a London pickpocket, and still earns his income from a career in...

‘The man died from wounds on the head. There was no trace of carbon in his lungs, so he must have been dead before he was put on the dump.’The livelihood of Louie Patra depends entirely on the supply of bad men; men who climb up the face of a house; men who could pick a pocket, steal from...

The knife with the carved sheath inlaid with silver, had been driven up to its haft between the shoulders of Captain Geoffrey Hunt.Johannis Kudorfer, master mariner, is a fraudster and a rogue. But that suits Sam Hartford just fine, because he is a scoundrel himself. When Sam devises a scheme...