Elspeth Duff Mysteries

Ann Crew

3 books in series

1 book in this series is set in Singapore

A Murder in Malta: An Elspeth Duff Mystery (Elspeth Duff Mysteries)

This novel introduces Elspeth Duff. In A Murder in Malta, Lord Kennington, owner of the exclusive Kennington hotels, informs Elspeth of a suspected terrorist threat at his hotel in Valletta during the week of Malta’s ascension to the European [...more]

Set in Malta

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A Scandal in Stresa: An Elspeth Duff Mystery

Shots ring out near the Kennington Stresa hotel on the edge of Lake Maggiore in northern Italy. One strikes the windshield of a large Alfa Romeo on the way to the hotel and the other kills Marco Celli, a seedy but sexy grade-B Italian movie idol [...more]

Set in Piedmont

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A Secret in Singapore: An Elspeth Duff Mystery

At the end of Elspeth’s first year at Girton College at the University of Cambridge in 1969, her fiancé, Malcolm, a vibrant, quixotic and iconoclastic graduate student, was killed outside of the gates of the college. Thirty-eight years later [...more]

Set in Singapore

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Saint Jack

Paul Theroux

Jack Flowers, saint or sinner, caught a passing bumboat into Singapore and got a job as a water-clerk to a Chinese ship chandler. Now, on the side, he offers girls (indeed 'anything, anything at all') to tourists, sailors, residents and expatriates, [...more]

Set in Singapore

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The Steep Approach To Garbadale

Iain Banks

Dark family secrets and a long-lost love affair lie at the heart of Iain Banks's fabulous new novel. The Wopuld family built its fortune on a board game called Empire! - now a hugely successful computer game. So successful, the American Spraint Corp [...more]

Set in Hong Kong, California, Singapore

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