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The Savage Gorge
Tweed and Paula of the SIS take over the brutal murder case of two attractive women from the plodding Chief Inspector Reebeck. A vital clue leads them to a remote and beautiful county, an area controlled by the human but dangerous 'Pit Bull'. They meet Pit Bull's strange family: his volatile daughter, Margot; his other intelligent daughter, Sable; his well-mannered and observant son, Lance; and Mrs Shipton, their grim housekeeper. Into the picture appears the enigmatic private detective, Falkirk, and world traveller, Archie MacBlade. Tweed explores the local village, peculiar in its ways, and meets the local gossip, Mrs Grout. With Paula at his side, he visits the strange town of Gunners Gorge, bloodstained by Cromwell long ago. More murders are committed. 'Not the work of a serial killer,' Tweed insists, 'I sense something much bigger ...' Is Finden Square the key? HQ of ONTRANTO, the giant oil corporation, is hidden in the heart of London and owned by the devious womanizer, Neville Guile. Tweed and Paula accelerate their dangerous race to solve the diabolical mystery. But time is not on their side ...
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The Main Chance
Bella Main, Regal Owner of the main Chance, the worlds largest private bank, invites tweed and paula To visit her at Hengistbury manor, the banks hq. Located in a massive elizabethan mansion, hidden Away In the forest in the deep south of britain, the atmosphere is eerie and oppressive.Bella tells Tweed and Paula Grey, his assistant, that she has refused an enormous offer from Calouste Gubenkian, the most ruthless and villainous man in Europe. Within days of their visit Bella is murdered. Tweed and Paula return to investigate the atrocious act. The bank's HQ is based in a huge Elizabethan manor hidden in The Forest, a vast area in the deep south of England. Tweed has already met members of the two families, run by their forefathers for generations. Was Bella murdered by one of them - or is it the work of the vicious Calouste? The movement never stops, changing to Calouste's Chateau Les Rochers in the Belgian Ardennes. A ferocious battle takes place. Two more murders are committed at the manor. Tweed and Paula race to tiny Seacove on the rugged Cornish coast to prevent another murder. Finally, Tweed proves the Bank, founded in 1912, was based on a brutal crime all those years ago.
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Blood Storm
Three junior Cabinet Ministers, the Macomber brothers, are plotting to convert Britain into a Police State GB. In secret circles they are known as The Cabal. They have persuaded almost half the Cabinet to support the conspiracy. Fighting to stop the creation of the sinister State Security are Tweed and Paula Grey of the SIS. Added to this massive task, Tweed is asked by his old friend, Commander Buchanan of the Yard, to investigate the horrific murders of society beauty Viola Vander-Browne and her raunchy sister, Marina. With one hand Tweed tracks the killer of the sisters. With other, he ruthlessly sabotages The Cabal. From early on, Tweed has suspected there is a link between the two murders and The Cabal's conspiracy. Unable to identify the killer, he sets about identifying the nest victim. Disagreeing with him, Paula goes her own way. The Parrot (so nicknamed because she talks so much) is the senior Civil Servant who attends the Cabal. Her assistant is the attractive Coral Flenton. Are they the key?