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When a body with no identity is found in an Edinburgh hotel, Detective Chief Inspector Ian Forsyth is able to deduce that the body has not been killed in that room and find out the name of the dead man, who was a faith healer. The wife of the healer is then murdered at a function to celebrate the life of the dead man. Finally, another member of the faith healing entourage is murdered by being shot in the back with an arrow during an archery co...

When six professors are drugged at a dinner and then humiliated by being smeared with unpleasant substances, Sergeant MacRae is baffled, but Chief Inspector Forsyth forsees a related incident which turns out to be the murder of a lecturer notorious for seducing local wives and female undergraduates. When a campus wife, who was having an affair with the lecturer, is also murdered on a lonely beach at the time that her husband is holding a depar...

The old man sits on a stool at the end of the bar counter in the Covenanter Bar. What few people know is that he is an expert at solving abstruse problems. One who does is Inspector Adam Bailey. When he has a difficult case to which he can see no solution, he goes along to the Covenanter Bar and puts the facts to the old man, hoping that he can see a way through the problems to a solution. In this volume the old man solves sixteen cases that h...

These are thirteen further cases solved by DCI Forsyth as narrated by DS MacRae. How can a man escape from a locked room which has only one door and no windows when the door is under constant surveillance? How is it possible for a man to be murdered in front of several people but none of them to have any idea of how he was killed? Why is the only item stolen in a robbery a worthless bronze statuette of a horse? How can a man be poisoned at a c...

DCI Forsyth amd DS MacRae are called to a house from which a young lady has been kidnapped and where they find the sister and brother of the victim at loggerheads about the involvememt of the police. The first attempt to pay the ransom is aborted when the bug hidden in the money is found to have been removed by one of a small number of possible suspects. At the second attempt, the room in which the ransom is to be handed over is under surveill...

With DCI Forsyth on holiday, his squad investigates the murder of a couple in what looks like a gangland killing, and it turns out that the couple have lied as to how they obtained their wealth. When DS MacRae hears of a previous, similar killing, the squad is able to make the connection between the two incidents and trace other people involved, who may also be at risk. But none of the others is prepared to cooperate and, when two of them are ...

When Joseph Carrington kills a man for whose alleged murder he has just spent twenty years in prison, DCI Forsyth and DS MacRae are keen to find out who told him of the victim's new identity. There are a number of suspects, but Carrington refuses to point the finger at any of them. When Carrington and a crony of his, Keith Edwards, are murdered, MacRae is astounded to find that Forsyth is prepared to take a case to the Procurator Fiscal becaus...

A volume featuring thirteen of DCI Ian Forsyth's cases narrated by DS Alistair MacRae. How can a woman under observation vanish without trace? How can half a dozen diamonds not be found in a room where they have been hidden by a thief? Why are the police unable to find a room in which a murder was seen to take place? How is it possible for a woman to be killed in an abandoned factory inside a police cordon and the murderer still escape? How ca...

A writer of popular science fiction stories, which bear little resemblance to reality, takes a trip to the moon on a space ship. But how will he cope with the tricks that the crew will play on him? Because every robot has the Three Laws of Robotics implanted in his brain, he is unable to harm a human being. How then can robots, who are vastly superior to humans in every respect, attain their goal of becoming masters of the universe? A man goes...

When the two Merton brothers are tortured and murdered, there is no shortage of suspects. Principal among these are the Merton sister, the two Douglas brothers, whose family have been feuding with the Mertons for centuries and various inhabitants of the town of Auchenbland, which is controlled by the Mertons, who have suffered from the Mertons' arbitrary decisions. After an arson attack on the Mertons'family home and the torture and murder of ...

When a naked body is found in a room in a prestigious hotel in Edinburgh, and nothing is known about him except his name because his registration document has been stolen, DCI Ian Forsyth and DS Alistair MacRae are at a loss to know how to proceed until they learn that he had made arrangements to visit four forms involved in an export drive organised by Councillor Benson. When the head of one of the firms is also murdered, the pair are convinc...

A financier, who is proposing to write his autobiography, is found murdered with a visiting card in his hand. Sergeant Alistair MacRae is astounded when Chief Inspector Ian Forsyth is able to deduce that the hand had originally held a playing card and is able to name the people who placed the cards in the hand. Suspicion for the murder falls on the financier's four university friends, now respectable citizens, whose careers would be blighted i...

DCI Ian Forsyth and DS Alistair MacRae are baffled as to why elderly people are being killed by being shot in the head while asleep in bed. They are also investigating the murder of the eldest son of a local landowner and business man. Forsyth is eventually able to work out why the old people are being murdered and to show that the two investigations are related. When a local villain is found dead in the snow in the landowner's garden, MacRae ...

This book contains two of the cases of DCI Ian Forsyth. In the first, a number of men are tortured and killed, but there seems, at first, no connection between them. With Forsyth on holiday, DS Alistair MacRae and his team establish the connection and find the two people who complete the circle. When one of these two is killed, MacRae puts forward a solution to the mystery. But it is left to Forsyth to deduce who is really responsible when he ...

In MURDERS OF NOTE DCI Ian Forsyth sees more in the mugging of a student after he has left an Edinburgh city centre bar than DS Alistair MacRae does. His version is justified when one of the people involved in the mugging is murdered. When a further person involved is found dead in his tower block flat, Forsyth is able from the clues available to deduce who is responsible for the killings and obtain the necessary evidence to convince a jury th...

In Green Pastures, a wealthy man is murdered but all his family have alibis. When further murders occur, DS MacRae goes for the wrong killer. But DCI Forsyth solves the mystery by using logical deduction In Hostage Crisis, DS MacRae believes that a hostage situation is a cover for another crime, but an Inspector takes credit for solving the mystery. When DCI Forsyth returns from holiday, he makes sure that both the criminal and the Inspector g...

When an ex-army man is killed during a burglary, Chief Inspector Forsyth suspects that one of the family is involved. When another member of the household is found shot at close range in a room where entry by the window is impossible and no-one is found in the room after the shots are fired, it requires all Forsyth's ingenuity to arrive at a solution of both murders by logical deduction.

A young woman's body is found in woodland near Edinburgh but no-one of that description is on a missing list. When Chief Inspector Forsyth solves that mystery, it becomes clear that the death is connected with an amateur theatrical company. The man who ran the company is found dead after being tortured and the death of one of the sponsors follows. It seems clear that someone is taking revenge for the death of the young woman and, though everyo...

An old school friend of Detective Sergeant Alistair MacRae of the Lothian and Borders Police appeals to him for help after he and his girl friend are subjected to a series of harassing incidents. MacRae is able to ensure that the harassment comes to an end and, in the process of doing so, is led to the identity of the person who can tell him where an infamous fraudster is enjoying his ill-gotten gains. Along with Detective Chief Inspector Ian ...

A detective novel in the tradition of classic whodunnits. An Edinburgh publisher is murdered in an apparently motiveless crime in an office where the window is fastened and the door locked on the inside. Two possible clues are the wrong date on the desk calendar and the piece of plastic found in the dead man's hand. When the firm's accountant is killed at the wake, DCI Ian Forsyth solves the mysteries in masterly fashion by the use of logical ...