Wallis, Bill

A dead man in Istanbul by Michael Pearce( Sound Recording )
6 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 160 libraries worldwide
When the Second Secretary of the embassy in Istanbul dies from a bullet hole in his head while trying to swim the Dardanelles Straits, the Foreign Office sends Seymour to investigate.

Rumpole and the golden thread by John Mortimer( Sound Recording )
6 editions published between 1983 and 2010 in English and held by 158 libraries worldwide
In this collection, Horace Rumpole takes on the con-o-sewers of the art world, journeys deep into the throbbing heart of Africa, dabbles in some female politics, decides the country is a very dangerous place, and incurs the wrath of Hilda ... The stories are: Rumpole and the Genuine Artlicle, Rumpole and the Golden Thread, Rumpole and the Old Boy Net, Rumpole and the Female of the Species, Rumpole and the Sporting Life and Rumpole and the Last Resort.

The Anglo-Irish murders by Ruth Dudley Edwards( Sound Recording )
4 editions published between 2000 and 2001 in English and No Linguistic Content and held by 151 libraries worldwide
Foolishly, the British and Irish governments have chosen the tactless and impatient Baroness Troutbeck to chair a conference on Anglo-Irish cultural sensitivities. Soon, however, the arrangements crumble around his ears.

The Saint Valentine's Day murders by Ruth Dudley Edwards( Sound Recording )
3 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 150 libraries worldwide

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight( Sound Recording )
6 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in English and held by 142 libraries worldwide
This translation narrates in crystalline verse the strange tale of a green knight who rudely interrupts the Round Table festivities one Yuletide, casting a pall of unease over the company and challenging one of their number to a wager. The virtuous Gawain accepts, and decapitates the intruder with his own axe. Gushing blood, the knight reclaims his head, orders Gawain to seek him out a year hence, and departs. Next Yuletide Gawain dutifully sets forth. His quest for the Green Knight involves a winter journey, a seduction scene in a dream-like castle, a dire challenge answered, and a drama of enigmatic reward disguised as psychic undoing.

Clubbed to death by Ruth Dudley Edwards( Sound Recording )
3 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 140 libraries worldwide

Ten lords a-leaping by Ruth Dudley Edwards( Sound Recording )
2 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 134 libraries worldwide
Ida "Jack" Troutbeck, mistress of St. Martha's College, has been elevated to the peerage, and the House of Lords will never be the same. Disinclined to watch her language or moderate her manners, she apalls conventional peers, but plots with others to scupper an anti-hunting bill of which she disapproves. She feels confident of winning, but hasn't reckoned against a campaign of intimidation.

Matricide at St. Martha's by Ruth Dudley Edwards( Sound Recording )
4 editions published between 1994 and 2000 in English and held by 131 libraries worldwide
When an enormous bequest is left to St Martha's College, the dons split into three factions with three goals. One of their number is found dead, and once again Robert Amiss finds himself within a murder investigation.

Closed circle by Robert Goddard( Sound Recording )
5 editions published between 1993 and 2000 in English and held by 130 libraries worldwide
It is 1931 and two confidence tricksters board a transatlantic liner. They meet Miss Charnwood and her wealthy niece. It's a trick they've pulled before; charm the girl, then get her father to buy you off. Who would imagine that these smooth operators would let their hearts rule their heads? Or that they would stumble into something much darker and deeper than either had suspected?

The point in the market a Mamur Zapt mystery by Michael Pearce( Sound Recording )
8 editions published between 2008 and 2009 in English and held by 120 libraries worldwide
It's World War I. Britain has ruled Egypt since 1881 under a shadow government headed by its Agent and Consul General under the nominal authority of Egypt's hereditary ruler the Khedive. The head of the Secret Police is the Mamur Zapt, an office currently held by a Welshman, Captain Gareth Cadwallader Owen. And as the clouds of the war further darken Egypt's sun-lit skies, he has his hands full. On the professional front, there's all that commotion that started in Cairo's Camel Market. On the personal side, Owen has married his longtime lover, the lovely Pasha's daughter, Zeinab, a move with serious consequences for both of them and riddled with political and social pitfalls. Neither can be fully accepted by the other's culture and community. Against this, the perils of the Great War pale.