SUCCESSION and THE BLACK ROSE

Barry Faulkner

ISBN 10: 1916163386 / ISBN 13: 9781916163386

Editore: 1946, 2021

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Two cases from the DCS Palmer and the Serial Murder Squad series.Succession.When James Dawn, the boss of South London's major crime family is assassinated in the Walworth road by scooter killers suspicion falls on Jim Dooley the boss of the West End Drugs business but there are others in the frame including James uncle Stan who thinks he should have been made boss when Jame's dad retired, or Johnny Robinson and his North London gang and all the time working her intrigue and double dealing behind the scenes is James Dawn's wife, Eve. And then it all becomes murkier when Dooley is hit and dumped in the Thames. Blood samples lead Palmer and the team towards Eve's loyal men. Will they break under questioning in custody Eve's bringing a major money launderer into the picture, somebody her husband had thrown out of the country for skimming his washed money. It was a ploy by Eve to get access to the Dawns foreign accounts and as soon as she has that the launderer meets his end too. The final proof falls into place and Palmer is after Eve, she runs and a cat-and-mouse chase over a couple of days through London with Eve using all the tricks a mob boss's wife has learned over the years to escape custody making deals with Johnny Robinson on a partnership basis but in the end he hangs her out to dry and Palmer manages to just in time stop a Panama bound plane on the runway at Heathrow and haul Eve off.The Black Rose.Geoffrey and Linda Hanley run a Garden Centre in Harrow. Geoffrey and Linda Hanley are dead. Forensics discover their death is from arconite poisoning, arconite is derived from a popular garden plant. Their deaths coincide with Geoffrey Handley breeding the first truly black rose which will make him very rich indeed and this raised Palmer's suspicions. The investigation leads to rival Garden Centre owners the Blooms who have been stealing cuttings of the black rose with the help of Handley's manager Jim Riley. Riley gets cold feet when the thefts turn to murder and past murders involving the Blooms and their acquisition of other Garden Centres in the past come to light. The Blooms have the rose and many growing cuttings and Riley decided to trash them before the Blooms can exhibit the Black rose at Chelsea Flower Show on the Royal Visit Day. Bloom is aware of the plan is after Riley to kill him and they face one another in the Blooms greenhouse where Riley accidently kills Bloom with a pair of shears. Riley runs, he doesn't want to be arrested before he can stop the false claim to own the Black rose that Bloom's wife will make at Chelsea. He gets into Chelsea through the staff entrance and makes his way around the back of the main marquee and alters the signage on the Black rose to say the Handleys were the breeders. When the rose display is opened in front of HRH and the sign seen the media go wild, HRH has to be removed by security and Mrs Bloom faces questions. She is unaware at this time of her husband's death. Riley flees the scene Palmer's Squad are after him although by this time Palmer knows the Blooms' past and the fact that Riley was being blackmailed. The end twist is quite different as Riley comes into custody and, on the quiet, Palmer, who realises Riley was blackmailed and duped into siding with the Blooms in stealing the Black rose, liaises with the executors of the Handley's estate which has no family beneficiaries to get Riley given a chance to make it work in tandem with the Handley's accountant who we have found out earlier embezzled enough money from the company to set it back on an even keel.

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• Titolo: SUCCESSION and THE BLACK ROSE
• Editore: 1946
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1916163386
• ISBN 13: 9781916163386
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 203 L x 127 A x 26 P (millimetri) 203 millimetri di larghezza per 127 millimetri di altezza per 26 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 519 grammi

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Cases 11 and 12 in the series. Case 11, Succession; a major London organized crime boss is killed on the street and suspicion ranges between members of his family and his competitors. As the net tightens one main suspect emerges and the chase begins for Palmer and the team through the murky London drugs underworld. Case 12, The Black Rose; the rose breeders Holy Grail, a pure black rose has been bred at a London breeders garden center and is ready to be launched at the Royal Opening of the Chelsea Flower show, but will it make it? Being worth millions of pounds in breeding rights this first plant is attracting the attention of rogue breeders with a bad criminal record who will stop at nothing to steal it, even murder. Old liaisons and suspicious past deaths in the industry surface as Palmer starts digging. The author thanks the British Association of Rose Breeders for their specialist help in writing this book.
Two fast-moving cases in the best-selling DCS Palmer series with twists and turns to their unexpected endings.

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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Best Selling Author of the DCS Palmer Detective books. 12 out, number 13 coming soon and the factual books London Crime book, an in-depth look at the major gangs, geezers and heists 1930- today, a best seller in Amazon books Organised Crime sections and UK Serial Killers 1930- present day, just out.Barry Faulkner was born into an extended South London family of petty criminals who ran with the notorious Richardson gang. His mother who was a top fashion model of the time was determined that as the youngest in the family he would not follow in that family tradition although the characters he met and their escapades he witnessed have added a certain authenticity to his books. He attended the first ever comprehensive school in the UK, William Penn in Peckham and East Dulwich, where he attained no academic qualifications other than GCE 'O' level in Art and English and a Prefect's badge (though some say he stole all three!) His mother had great theatrical aspirations for young Faulkner and pushed him into auditioning for the Morley Academy of Dramatic Art at the Elephant and Castle, where he was accepted but only lasted three months before being asked to leave as no visible talent had surfaced. Mind you, during his time at the Academy he was called to audition for the National Youth Theatre by Trevor Nunn who was seeking a Michael Caine type actor- forty five years later, he's still waiting for the call back!His early writing career was as a copywriter with the major US advertising agency Erwin Wasey Ruthrauff & Ryan in Paddington during which time he got lucky with some light entertainment scripts sent to the BBC and Independent Television and became a script editor and writer on a freelance basis. He worked on most of the LE shows of the 1980-90s and as personal writer to Bob Monkhouse, Tom O'Connor and others. During that period, while living out of a suitcase in UK hotels for a lot of the time, he filled many notebooks with DCS Palmer case plots and in 2017 he finally found time to start putting them in order and into book form. Twelve are finished and published on Amazon so far, with the thirteenth out soon. He hopes you enjoy reading them as much as he enjoyed writing them. Faulkner is a member of ALLI (Alliance of Independent Authors) and publishes a blog about the 'geezers' of his youth, the criminals and their heists. It goes in depth about the Krays, Brinks Mat, 'Nipper' Read and all the other major heists and who 'dun 'em'. Take a look at geezers2016.wordpress.com. This was used extensively as a research tool by ITN Productions for the C5 UK Narcos series in which Faulkner appears.He also speaks about that era in illustrated talks for social clubs, WI and others. As a crime writer Faulkner is quite particular about 'getting it right' and as well as his own Barry Faulkner Facebook page he publishes a page called 'UK Crime Readers and Writers Page' which has much information about the forensic crime detection methods, police procedurals and other facts of use to both reader and writer of crime and detective books.Faulkner is a popular speaker and often asked to be on Crime Panels at Literary Festivals which he embraces and supports wholeheartedly having been invited onto various Crime Panels including the major Bristol Crime Festival.His book 'I'm With The Band' has been serialised on BBC Radio Bristol in 19 parts.He has been the subject of Corinium Radio Writer's room and Hannah Kate's Saturday Bookshelf two hour long programme on N Manchester FM, BBC Radio Bristol, Howard Lovy Talks to Authors in the USA as well as many other independent stations, book related Facebook pages and book reviewers blogs.