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D G Compton
By the Author
In the House of Dark Music
A graveyard, sinister music, a small child's nightmare... A children's tune played on a hurdy-gurdy A small boy's nightmare The same tune played by an…
Twice Ten Thousand Miles
Intriguing, suspenseful historical romance When Beth leaves home - and more importantly, her domineering aunt - to take a PR job at a stately home…
Stranger at the Wedding
Mistaken identity, romance, suspense - perfect for fans of Bridgerton 'I cannot marry him,' said Caroline. 'I am not Kate. I am only her twin.'…
And Murder Came Too
It's murder in a sleepy French fishing village . . . Crime writer Ben Anderson was hoping for a peaceful honeymoon sailing in Europe. He's…
Disguise for a Dead Gentleman
A school reunion goes horribly wrong... A superb classic crime novel from a master of the genre. 'Compton has been one of Britain's most original…
The Fine and Handsome Captain
Will she ever escape her past? Romantic suspense for fans of Joan Aiken and Bridgerton Young Hester Malpass knew little of her past. Only that…
High Tide for Hanging
At sea, the danger can't be escaped... Classic crime fiction from the 1960s set around a Thames mooring. 'Compton has been one of Britain's most…
Dead on Cue
A deadly role becomes murder in the theatre... When writer Ben Anderson goes to Downshead Repertory Theatre company to see the rehearsals for his first…
Medium for Murder
Even in the world of murder, things are not always as they seem... When Ben Anderson first came to stay at Buckleigh Combe in North…
D.G. Compton SF Gateway Omnibus
D.G. Compton is best known for his prescient 1974 novel, THE CONTINUOUS KATHERINE MORTENHOE, which predicted the 21st century's obsessions with media voyeurism and 'reality…
The Palace
The palace was several hundred years old, a sort of haphazard medieval city containing church buildings, stables, army barracks - and the offices and homes…
The Missionaries
The spaceship landed on the planet Earth to bring it the message of a new religion and a new way of life that would fit…
The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe
A few years in the future, medical science has advanced to the point where it is practically unheard of for people to die of any…
The Quality of Mercy
The time: 1979 The place: a top-secret US Air Force base in the Cotswolds The actors: carefully selected, healthy-living personnel The missions: long-range reconnaissance flights…
Ascendancies
Into a future where a depleted fuel supply had the world spiralling down into grinding poverty and constant war came . . . Moondrift. Mysterious…
Scudder's Game
Have a Happy Golden Straub Day! The message floated in the sky for all to read; citizens chanted it to each other, motorists tooted it…
Nomansland
The Attrition. It was a bloodless, bureaucratic word, chosen to hide the appalling reality of the plague that had changed the face of civilisation. Now…
Back of Town Blues
Alec Duncan, King of Swing, it says on the billboard outside Tony's. a black man playing a white piano; just what you need to tart…
Farewell, Earth's Bliss
On board an obsolete ship, nine weeks out from home, the latest batch of colonists arrive at their destination. A grim penal settlement in a…
The Silent Multitude
In the near future, the super-modern city of Gloucester has been transformed - completely redesigned and rebuilt to the principles of 'scientific city planning'. This…
Chronocules
The Penheniot Experimental Research Village was a top-secret community with an elaborate defence system to keep away prying eyes. Inside the walls men rushed ahead…
The Steel Crocodile
In answer to an unanswerable future, science has created Bohn, the omnipotent computer whose flashing circuits and messianic pronouncements dictate what tomorrow will - or…
A Usual Lunacy
It makes people positively ache with happiness. It puts the roses back in their cheeks and the itch back in their blood. "It" is the…
Justice City
In a governmental Punishment and Protection centre, Charge Nurse Landon is wondering why one of the new inductees seems familiar. Meanwhile Chief Inspector Duncan is…