David Troughton
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Jericho of Scotland Yard volume 3
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When a hydrogen bomb scientist is found strangled with newspaper in his mouth and lipstick on his neck, Jericho and his team debate whether the murder was a political assassination or a crime of passion. Meanwhile, Jericho's relationship with Juliette draws ire from the assistant commissioner.
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Jericho of Scotland Yard volume 1
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Chief Inspector Michael Jericho investigates the murder of a young black man shot dead in a Notting Hill neighborhood full of racial tension. The same night, Sir Nicholas Wellesley is kidnapped outside his gentleman's club. Could the two crimes be connected?
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Jericho of Scotland Yard volume 2
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The morning after their wedding, the bodies of what appear to be running champion Johnny Swan and his wife, West End dancer Lizzie Way, are discovered in their hotel room. But Jericho finds that the crime scene is not all that it seems, and the case expands to include Russian spies, gangsters, and a link to Jericho's past.
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Jericho of Scotland Yard volume 4
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As heavy smog envelops London, a young photographer and his girlfriend are stabbed to death. The press connects their death to a legendary serial killer called the Butcher, but Jericho finds a link to a local cinema.
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London Hospital volume 3
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Probationer Ethel Bennett suffers a long night of rising tension as she nurses the injured docker whose leg wounds are not healing. On the Children's Ward, children are dying from an epidemic of diarrhoea and vomiting that has swept through the slums with the hot weather.
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London Hospital volume 4
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With the hospital facing imminent financial collapse, Chairman Sydney Holland launches a campaign to raise money. He hires clerks to write 20,000 begging letters, and rigs collecting buckets to the top of lamp-posts so that passengers passing the hospital on omnibuses can drop in their spare coins.
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London Hospital volume 1
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The hospital staff's caseload includes striking Jewish workers beaten up by the police, children asphyxiating from diphtheria and an incredible piece of open-heart surgery by the flamboyant Mr. Hurry Fenwick. Meanwhile, emergency room Nurse Ada Russell faces a difficult dilemma when Dr. James Walton asks him to marry her.
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London Hospital volume 2
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The streets are teeming with trouble and gangland rivalry is rife. One of the first people to stagger through the hospital doors is leader of the Blind Beggar Boys, Nobby Clark, who has a bullet wound. Elsewhere, the Light Department at the hospital is using a radical new technique.