Knight's GambitGavin Stevens, the wise and forbearing student of crime and of the folk ways of Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, plays the major role in these six stories of violence. In each, Stevenssharp insights and ingenious detection uncover the underlying motives.

amid the mobs screaming for Hitler

Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires

filled with adventure

Who are these people - and what have they got to hide

she will be killed

Greene travelled to Haiti during the nightmare rule of Papa Doc

Thus they plan to head for the mountains and start a new and convivial civilisation

Swinging between his wife and his mistress in the sacred and profane love machine and between the charms of morality and the excitements of sin

Ben and his Labrador Ned

Racky Jagger is as determined to thwart their plans but when he shares a revelation with Thorn

James (author of Death Comes to Pemberley

Then: Madeleine lived for her children