David Williams – лучшие произведения

Litchester Cathedral, usually an oasis of cloistered calm, suddenly finds itself at the centre of an acrimonious dispute over the proposed sale of its 1225 copy of the Magna Carta. Merchant banker Mark Treasure is invited down to sort out the squabbling cathedral chapter. But even as he journeys down to Litchester a fire destroys the ecclesiastical library –…

University College, Itchendover, is short of funds - and up for grabs. The rival parties in the proposed take-over seem to be the American Funny Farms Foundation and a calculating Arab prince. Banker sleuth Mark Treasure tries to adjudicate, but instead finds a baffling murder on his hands. Of course, the vital question is "Who did it?" But there are other…

Hardly anyone attends St Martin's Church, Kengrave Square, in West London, and it's very nearly falling down. But when news gets out that it's to be closed, and possibly sold, there's a significant flurry of interest. The site is worth millions. Aziz Developments are after it, and so is the Community of Investors for Jesus - a curious American group of…

King Charles Island, a British Colony in the West Indies, came dramatically awake through the foul murder of its most influential citizen. But then banker sleuth Mark Treasure arrived on business to discover that his accident-prone assistant was the number one suspect...However, Treasure quickly volunteered to assist the daunted Chief Inspector Small in finding the…

The plan to save the Elizabethan stately home Vormer House by selling part of its deer park for a golf and hotel complex has a mixed reception from local politicians, and others. Merchant banker Mark Treasure is financial advisor to the property group behind the development. He and his wife Molly drive up to attend the Thatchford town meeting called to air the…

It’s action all the way in this classic and witty whodunit centred round the fate of the 19th-century Round House could wreck the multi-million pound development in a south coast resort. A dozen interested parties are in favour of knocking it down. They include an Arab oil sheikh, a sexy English Literature drop-out from Sussex University, the head of a construction…

To steal a painting from the Hermitage museum in Leningrad is going to take planning, nerve and ingenuity - and that's how Sergey Vasilefski does the job, unaided. But there's no way he'll be able to get the painting out of Russia alone... The police come to suspect that members of the Baroque Circle - a cultural group on a visit from England - are implicated in the…

Mark Treasure has no idea that accompanying his actress wife on location to a picturesque West Country town could possibly lead to murder . . . The merchant banker is asked by Chiversley's Area Bishop to become involved in the financial affairs of the local covent - one with only three nuns left in residence and assets worth eleven million pounds. But this…

Roderick Copper (67), retired Major, and Benny Gold (70), London cabbie, apply on the same morning for residential places with the Rudyard Trust for Retired Officers and Gentlemen. But its eccentric and drunken Director tells them the Trust is technically bankrupt, its multi-million-pound assets about to be divided between the Founder’s descendants – a curious,…