The Second Inspector Thanet Omnibus: Close Her Eyes, Last Seen Alive, Dead on Arrival

by Dorothy Simpson (Author)

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  1995

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  CLOSE HER EYES: When Charity Pritchard goes missing Inspector Thanet's concern deepens when the first thought of her strictly relgious family is to leave the matter in God's hands. Of course, no detective can put much faith in appearance, but it is only after Thanet finds Charity's broken body before he realises just how wrong he can be...LAST SEEN ALIVE: It was all of twenty years since Alicia Parnell last saw Sturrenden. While she was still a schoolgirl a jilted boyfriend had killed himself, and her parents had tactfully moved away. Nevertheless the old crowd were delighted to welcome her back when she turned up out of the blue one day- but puzzlement at her motive is quickly replaced by shock, when Alicia is found strangled in her room...DEAD ON ARRIVAL: Life has been rough on Steven Long. Separated from his wife, estranged from his family except his twin brother, he had become a loner. But on the night he died from a savage blow to the back of the head, he'd had an unusual number of visitors. All that was certain was that the murderer had been exceptionally cool and calculated about this particular crime...

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  1994

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  THE NIGHT SHE DIED Even casual acquaintances mentioned Julie's power over men. They flocked to her; adored her. But could any of them have been so obsessed as to turn a knife on her? Inspector Thanet is more curious about the hideous nightmares Julie suffered before her death, and their link to a foggy November night nearly twenty years before...Could he be on the way to solving not one murder, but two? SIX FEET UNDER At first Inspector Thanet doesn't know what to make of the murder of an entirely unprepossessing middle-aged spinster in a peaceful Kentish garden. But he soon discovers that she not only had a few startling secrets of her own but had been in an ideal position to ferret out those of other people...PUPPET FOR A CORPSE The suicide rate among the medical profession is notoriously high, but Dr Pettifer had everything to live for: health, wealth - and a beautiful (and very pregnant) wife. Moreover, do would-be suicides arrange for their cars to be repaired or book expensive holidays just hours before reaching for the tablets?