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Detective Book Club: Trouble for Tallon; Fall from grace; Murder in luxury
Detective Book Club Trouble for Tallon Fall from grace Murder in luxury Author:John Ball, Victor Canning, Hugh Pentecost 1: Trouble for Tallon by John Ball (c)1981: Jack Tallon, once a Los Angeles detective, left the crowded city to take a job as police chief in Whitewater, Washington. His force turned out to be mainly a group whose big job was writing speeding tickets, but as this story opens there is a murder. Tallon uses the search for a councilman's murderer a... more »s a chance to teach his force to handle a killing. He succeeds not only in guiding them through the procedures of a murder investigation, but Tallon shows how a small-town police department learns to function like a crack detective team; 2: Fall from grace by Victor Canning (c)1980: John Corbin wrote a book about famous gardens, plantings, etc., and the book caught the eye of the Bishop of Davell who wanted the history of his family's famous gardens, Illaton, written about. John had been an ambivalent young man--attached by interest and knowledge to nature but not averse to a little blackmail when he needed funds. However, he seemed to have given up his old ways when he settled at Illaton, fell in love with Rachel, and planned to marry her when his job was finished. Unfortunately, she became pregnant, John needed money, and happened to find an item in the Davell archives he thought would be useful. He reverted to the blackmail he formerly practised but the results were not at all what he expected; 3: Murder in luxury by Hugh Pentecost (c)1981: The Hotel Beaumont in New York is the background of an odd series of murders that disrupt the workings of this magnificent hotel, disturbs the many famous guests, and fascinates the reader. The manager, Pierre Chambrun, his PR man and narrator, Mark Haskell, struggle to learn how a famous young girl can return to her room three times to find a different dead man lying on her bedroom floor. No weapon turns up, she has never seen the victim, and yet the police believe she must be the killer. Chambrun and his staff aren't sure until a clue sets them on the right track. In the meantime, the girl thinks she is going crazy.« less