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This page lists crime fiction novels by Robert Player.

Robert Player was the pen name used for crime writing by the architect, academic and broadcaster Robert Furneaux Jordan. Furneaux also wrote books about architecture which were published under his own name.

The Ingenious Mr Stone

Robert Player

1945

"All through the winter a series of bizarre incidents disturbed the usual serenity of Easton Knoyle School for Girls. Mrs. Carberry's unnerving visit, the attentions of the odious 'Mr. Pym' -- the headmistress was distraught with worry. Then in the spring, came the crowning disaster. Miss Langdon-Miles herself fell dead on the platform of a London lecture hall. The coroner's verdict: strychnine poisoning. Who was behind these events; what was their connection with another more peaceful death in a quiet hotel on the Northumberland moors?"

The Homicidal Colonel

Robert Player

1970

Oh, Where are Bloody Mary's Earrings?

Robert Player

1972

Let's Talk of Graves, of Worms, of Epitaphs

Robert Player

1975

"It's the story of a distinguished Anglican clergyman who in 1855 enters the Roman Catholic Church - a conversion which, said Gladstone, was a blow under which the nation staggered - and who later achieves the papacy as Paschal the Fourth. Yet not only was Barnabas Barbellion married, with two children, for years also, he was having asecret affair with the wife of his neighbour Harold Gatsby. And when Gatsby died, very suddenly, in the midst of a garden party and was found to have been poisoned, Phillippa stood trial for her husband's murder. The trial, described very fully here, was a cause celebre, even the Archbishop of Caterbury was called as a witness. Moreover Barbellion's ailing wife had also died rather suddenly. But no one dared to put two and two together, except his son Augustine ...."

The Month of the Mangled Models

Robert Player

1977

"It's the heyday of Victorian magnificence and magniloquence. The London season opens, as usual, with the Royal Academy banquet. The wordly Prince Of Wales graces the glittering occasion. Landseer, Millais, Frith, Leighton, even Ruskin, are of the company. And suddenly there's an appaling scandal, the naked body of a girl, stabbed to death, is found spread-eagled at the head of the grand staircase, and attached to the corpse a red label addressed to the President of the RA with the words'The Wages Of Sin Is Death'...."