Bøger af Edward Arno

The meaning of Ho! used as a call to attract attention, sometimes specially used after a word denoting a destinationPidgley Properties is expanding its empire. James Pidgley has been sent to the seaside town of Brighton to oversee the hotel conversion. The building had been abandoned for several years. Drugs, sex, and smuggling is business of the dark damp corridors. A high-profile supermarket tycoon's son is found murdered in the old hotel. James and his new girlfriend are drawn into the investigation. Fractions within the Pidgley family reveal themselves. While James finds himself in high seas explosive ending

The world of investment banking easily crosses over to organized crime and money laundering. A young graffiti artist Andrew Soriano (ANT to his friends) creates a picture on a wall above a freeway depicting a murder he has just witnessed. Malachy Moss an assistant at the high-flying investment bank uncovers a money-laundering scheme. One of the people involved in the money laundering is murdered. She is the victim portrayed in Ant's graffiti. Malachy sees the artwork and tracks down Ant. The woman murdered had been in the investment bank office hours before she disappeared. The killers track down Ant and threaten his life. He goes on the run and is forced to team up with Malachy. With reluctant trust and a heap of attitude the pair struggle to stay alive. The duo is joined by scatterbrained TV-obsessed Janice Smart. She initially impresses the duo as slow-witted, but when a crisis occurs it is Janice who takes the lead. Together they battle corporate and organized crime.

Circus clown Brinarno finds the report of his death funny until his credit card and bank account are frozen. Someone had gone to a lot of trouble to declare him dead.James Pidgley has moved to the quiet hillside town of Great Malvern to develop a small piece of land. The trouble with the locals about his caravan forces him to move into the circus winter quarters adjacent to his land. The circus owner's boyfriend is found murdered and then a clown is found dead. James starts to investigate on behalf of Mabel Morris, the circus owner. His Romany ancestry makes him a welcome ally of the circus travelers. James is shocked at the misinformation given out by the local police. Brinarno's employment for the British government on classified military projects complicates his search for the killer. The unlikely combination of skinhead circus tentmen and Chinese acrobats aid James in solving this three-ring circus mystery.

It was a simple task of buying another house for Pidgley Properties. When two corpses are found, James Pidgley is inadvertently forced to solve the crimes against a background of police prejudices.The first body was buried under the road fifty years earlier at the height of the Queen's Coronation celebrations. The second body is found in the living room of the house while it was still dressed for an amateur film. The deceased was the estate agent who was selling the house. James' father is arrested for the murder only because he once lived in this house as a child.Brian Steel and Dave Lilly, the local wan-a-be drug dealers, fearing their consignment of prescription drugs would be found decide to kidnap James' sister. They hope to distract James from uncovering what really happened the night the Estate agent died. James befriends one of Brian and Dave's cohorts, Trevor. And together they rescue James's sister from near death. Trevor and James trap the drug dealers and get them to confess to the murder. At a family celebration James has second thoughts about the validity of their confession. A life-threatening chase ensues where James uncover a fifty-year-old secret and the identity of the real killers.Coronation Souvenir is the first novel in the James Pidgley series, and the debut of mystery crime author, Edward Arno.