Roderic Jeffries

(Not Cozy) (aka Peter Alding & Jeffrey Ashford)

INSPECTOR ALVAREZ Mysteries:

Main Character: Enrique Alvarez, Police Inspector,  Spain 

1. Mistakenly in Mallorca   ‘74
2. Two-Faced Death  ‘76
3. Troublesome Deaths   ‘77
4. Murder Begets Murder  ‘79
5. Just Desserts   ‘80
6. Unseemly End   ‘81
7. Deadly Petard   ‘83
8. Three and One Make Five   ‘84
9. Layers of Deceit   ‘85
10. Almost Murder   ‘86
11. Relatively Dangerous   ‘87
12. Death Trick   ‘88
13. Dead Clever   ‘89
14. Too Clever by Half   ‘90
15. Murder’s Long Memory   ‘91
16. A Fatal Fleece   ‘92
17. Murder Confounded   ‘93
18. Death Takes Time   ‘94
19. An Arcadian Death   ‘95
20. An Artistic Way to Go   ‘97
21. A Maze of Murders   ‘98
22. Enigmatic Disappearance   ‘98
23. The Ambiguity of Murder   ‘99
24. An Artful Death   ’00
25. Definitely Deceased   ’01
26. Seeing is Deceiving   ’02
27. An Intriguing Murder   ’03
28. An Air of Murder   ’04
29. A Sunny Disappearance   ’05
30. Murder Delayed   ’06
31. Murder Needs Imagination    ’07
32. An Instinctive Solution    ’08
33. Sun, Sea and Murder    ’09
34. A Question of Motive    ’10
35. Murder Majorcan Style    ’11
36. Murdered by Nature    ’12
37. In Search of Murder    ’14

STAND ALONES:

Twice Checked   ’59 
Deadly Game   ’61
Evidence of the Accused   ’61
Exhibit No. Thirteen   ’62
Police and Detection   ’62
The Benefits of Death   ’63
Against Time!   ’64
An Embarrassing Death   ’65
Police Dog    ’65
Dead Against the Lawyers    ’66
Death in the Coverts   ’66
A Deadly Marriage     ’67
Patrol Car   ’67
Police Car   ’67
A Traitor’s Crime   ’68
Dead Man’s Bluff   ’70
Police Patrol Boat   ’71
Trapped   ’72
The Riddle in the Parchment    ’76
The Boy Who Knew Too Much    ’77
Missing Man  ’80
Voyage into Danger   ’81
Eighteen Desperate Hours   ’82
Peril at Sea  ’83
Sunken Danger   ’85
Meeting Trouble   ’86
The Man Who Couldn’t Be   ’87
Dead Man’s Bluff   ’90

Written as Jeffrey Ashford:

STAND ALONES:

Counsel for the Defense   ’60
Investigations Are Proceeding  ’61 (aka The D.I.)
The Burden of Proof  ’62
Will Anyone Who Saw the Accident…   ’63
Inquiries Are Continuing  ’64 (aka The Superintendent’s Room)
The Hands of Innocence  ’65
Consider the Evidence  ’66
Hit and Run  ’66
Forget What You Saw  ’67
Prisoner at the Bar  ’69
To Protect the Guilty  ’67
Bent Copper   ’71
A Man Will Be Kidnapped Tomorrow  ’72
The Double Run  ’73
The Color of Violence  ’74
Three Layers of Guilt  ’75
Slow Down the World  ’76
Hostage to Death  ’77
The Anger of Fear  ’78
A Recipe for Murder  ’79
The Loss of the Culion  ’81
Guilt with Honour  ’82
A Sense of Loyalty  ’83
Presumption of Guilt  ’84
An Ideal Crime  ’85
A Question of Principle  ’86
A Crime Remembered  ’87
The Honourable Detective  ’88
A Conflict of Interests  ’89
An Illegal Solution  ’90
Deadly Reunion  ’91
Twisted Justice  ’92
Judgement Deferred  ’93
The Bitter Bite  ’94
The Price of Failure  ’95
Loyal Disloyalty  ’96
A Web of Circumstances   ’97
The Cost of Innocence   ’98
An Honest Betrayal     ’99
Murder Will Out     ’00
Looking-Glass Justice    ’01
A Truthful Injustice    ’02
A Fair Exchange Is Robbery    ’03
Evidentially Guilty  ’04
Deadly Corruption    ’05
Illegal Guilt    ’08
A Dangerous Friendship    ’08
Criminal Innocence    ’10
Justice Deferred    ’12
Damned by Logic   ’13

Written as Peter Alding:

C. I. D. ROOM Series:

Main Character: Constable Kerr

1. The C. I. D. Room    ’67
2. Circle of Danger  ’68
3. Murder among Thieves  ’69
4. Guilt without Proof   ’70
5. Despite the Evidence  ’71
6. Call Back to Crime  ’72
7. Field of Fire  ’73
8. The Murder Line  ’74
9. Six Days to Death  ’75
10. Murder Is Suspected  ’78
11. Ransom Town  ’79
12. A Man Condemned  ’81
13. Betrayed by Death  ’82
14. One Man’s Justice ’83

As Roderic Graeme, he continued the Blackshirt  series of books that his father started…