Bøger af Michael B Coyle

In 1939, on the eve of World War II, the World's Fair begins at Flushing Meadows, near New York City. Blathers and Duff, descendants of private investigators, are running the security for the Fair. When they investigate a murder on the Fair's premises, they get tangled up with the Nazi Bund as it works to advance the policies of Hitler in the US...

Blathers and Duff, private investigators, introduce their sons, amid political strife between England and the Irish people, in three related tales. In the first, Blathers asks his former partner, Duff, to come to Ireland and help solve an apparent murder. During that visit, young Blathers is born. He grows up experiencing armed conflict and famine. Secondly, Young Duff has been raised in America, where he was led to believe that his father is dead. He is told about his father by his mother on her deathbed. When he is sent to London on behalf of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, he finds his father and they track down an assassin together. Finally, young Blathers and young Duff meet and get involved in solving several killings in Ireland.

Blathers and Duff first appeared in Oliver Twist when they were called upon to investigate a burglary. After that, Charles Dickens forgot about them. Now they are back. Tales of the Black Lion is a novel in stories, all featuring the two private investigators. Blathers and Duff center their activities at the Black Lion Inn. Their capers involve missing jewelry, political intrigue, cryptic messages, criminal gangs, white slavery, and murder, murder, murder, murder. The detectives and others, including Charles Dickens and one of his associates, work together to solve the mysteries surrounding these issues, beginning with a bloody murder that remains unsolved until the final tale in the book. Along the way we meet characters from all levels of British society in the days of Robert Peel and the changeover from Bow Street Runners to Bobbies and London 's Metropolitan Police.