Hardcastle's Secret Agent
Hardcastle's Secret Agent

Author: Graham Ison

Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd

Published: 2021-05-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1448305160

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Detective Inspector Walter Hardcastle is following in his father's footsteps, but is his rapid rise about to be threatened by a spate of disturbing break-ins linked to the war effort August, 1939. As war looms, Detective Inspector Walter Hardcastle is following in the footsteps of his father, Ernest, and progressing through the ranks of the Metropolitan Police. Summoned to the office of Charles Marriot, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of CID at New Scotland Yard, Walter learns that he has been promoted to a senior role at V Division, and is plunged into a top secret case when burglaries occur at the homes of those working on a new type of war submarine. Could a German spy be behind the break-ins? When one of the burglaries ends with a double murder, the stakes get higher for Walter. Can he track down an enemy agent on the streets of London while also resolving another disturbing case?

Hardcastle's Spy
Hardcastle's Spy

Author: Graham Ison

Publisher: Murder Room

Published: 2015-10-14

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1471918580

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Introducing the pipe-smoking DI Ernest Hardcastle, bluff straight-talker, canny investigator and no respecter of privilege.1916. In a London shocked by reports of the first days of the Somme, a woman is found murdered in Shoreditch. At first it's thought she was a common streetwalker, but then she's identified as someone MI5 have had under observation and who has an address book containing the names of some of the high and mighty names in the land. Hardcastle is brought in to take charge of the case, but his forthright and common sense approach does not sit comfortably with the help - and hindrance - of the MI5.

Hardcastle's Mandarin
Hardcastle's Mandarin

Author: Graham Ison

Publisher: Murder Room

Published: 2015-10-14

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1471918645

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It is June 1917. DDI Ernest Hardcastle, head of the CID for the Whitehall division of the Metropolitan Police, is called to investigate the murder of a very senior civil servant, Sir Nigel Strang. Given that Sir Nigel was the permanent secretary at the Ministry of Munitions, Hardcastle wonders whether the German Intelligence Service might be responsible. Then another murder, of a man on a bus near Scotland Yard, leads Hardcastle to a woman working at Woolwich Arsenal who is suspected of passing information to the enemy. But is there a connection? Hardcastle, aided by Detective Sergeant Charles Marriott, must find out . . .

Hardcastle's Traitors
Hardcastle's Traitors

Author: Graham Ison

Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd

Published: 2013-11-01

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1780104480

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It is New Year’s Eve 1915 and the Hardcastle family are welcoming 1916 at their home in Kennington, London. But an hour into the New Year, Hardcastle is called to a murder in a jeweller’s shop in Vauxhall. In a first for the A Division senior detective, the killers apparently made their escape in a motor car. As Hardcastle’s enquiry progresses, what he believed to be a fairly straightforward investigation turns into one with ramifications extending from Chelsea via Sussex and Surrey to France, close to the fighting on the Western Front. And as is so often the case in wartime, the army becomes involved and so, to Hardcastle’s dismay, does Scotland Yard’s Special Branch . . .

Hardcastle's Frustration
Hardcastle's Frustration

Author: Graham Ison

Publisher: Severn House/ORIM

Published: 2012-12-15

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 178010281X

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During the last days of World War I, Det. Inspector Ernest Hardcastle is encumbered with a complicated murder investigation. March, 1918. The Great War is grinding slowly to its bloody finale. Divisional Det. Inspector Ernest Hardcastle, head of the Whitehall Division of the Metropolitan Police, is called to a body recovered from the Thames. Mavis Parker, the victim’s attractive widow, proves to be a good-time girl, and to complicate matters, all the suspects seem to be known to each other, including a South African who purports to be an actor. But when Special Branch intervenes, things really get complicated . . . “Meticulously researched historical details, period ambience, authentic British working-class dialogue, a splendid plot, gentle humor, and two clever detectives add up to an outstanding historical procedural.” —Booklist “Hardcastle comes across as someone who will solve the crime, no matter what he has to say or do to accomplish his job. Great historical mystery!” —Historical Novel Society

Hardcastle's Secret Agent
Hardcastle's Secret Agent

Author: Graham Ison

Publisher: Severn House Publishers

Published: 2021-03

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780727850348

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August, 1939. As war looms, DI Walter Hardcastle is summoned to the office of Charles Marriot, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of CID at New Scotland Yard. Walter learns that he has been promoted to a senior role at V Division, and is plunged into a top secret case when burglaries occur at the homes of those working on a new type of war submarine.

Frozen Passion
Frozen Passion

Author: Charlie (Chawtoma) Davis

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2018-08-13

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 164214651X

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Randango Hardcastle, known as Randy, is very flexible with the young ladies on campus, but Josie Garden is his latest attempt. He discovers the cute girl from the state of Georgia has not only raised the passion in his heart but also his expectations that he could score big. Randy, being a passionate warrior, tries every avenue of romance. He believes in trying to transform and seduce Josie, but nothing seems to work. Josie, being a young lady with an respectable mind, believes that a young lady should receive a ring before giving any sexual attention. She knows that major support should come from the man who plans to wed her, but she desires to reach her educational goal first. Both believe they want the same thing - marriage, only to find out later on, their desires were opposed instead of united.

Myrtle Hardcastle Mysteries Digital Collection
Myrtle Hardcastle Mysteries Digital Collection

Author: Elizabeth C. Bunce

Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers

Published: 2024-05-07

Total Pages: 972

ISBN-13: 1523529172

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Perfect for fans of Enola Holmes and Agatha Christie: an amateur detective obsessed with crime scene analysis investigates her sleepy village town in the Edgar Award-Winning series, now available for the first time in a complete paperback gift set! ​ This highly acclaimed, Edgar Award-winning series features twelve-year-old Myrtle Hardcastle, Amateur Detective, who has a passion for justice and a Highly Unconventional obsession with criminal science. Armed with her father's law books and her mum's microscope, Myrtle keeps abreast of the latest developments in crime scene analysis and Observes her neighbors in the quiet village of Swinburne, England (often to their chagrin). In this complete paperback set, Myrtle, her governess, and her precocious cat Peony take on swindlers, murderers, and the occasional ghost, earning Myrtle a place among the most daring amateur detectives of her time. Join Myrtle as she puts her sparkling wit and nose for murder to the test in five thrilling investigations: Premeditated Myrtle How To Get Away With Myrtle Cold-Blooded Myrtle In Myrtle Peril Myrtle, Means, and Opportunity

Premeditated Myrtle (Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery 1)
Premeditated Myrtle (Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery 1)

Author: Elizabeth C. Bunce

Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers

Published: 2020-10-13

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1643750631

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This Edgar Award-winning cozy mystery series for middle-graders introduces us to Myrtle Hardcastle, everyone's favorite 12-year-old amateur detective and Young Lady of Quality. Wickedly smart and keenly interested in the new tools of criminology, Myrtle has a nose for murder in the Victorian English village where she lives with her father, who is the local prosecutor, and her governess, Miss Judson. More mysteries await in How to Get Away with Myrtle (Book 2) and Cold-Blooded Myrtle (Book 3).

HARDCASTLE:COMMUNITY PRACTICE 2E I/M P
HARDCASTLE:COMMUNITY PRACTICE 2E I/M P

Author: David A. Hardcastle

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2004-05-24

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0199760608

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This manual is intended to help instructors to make the text a more effective tool for teaching social work skills and theories in community practice. It covers the basics of practice perspectives and specific techniques, mirroring the main text chapter by chapter. Replete with a creative array of exercises, simulations, audiovisual, and other instructional aids, this manual is designed to make the material come alive.