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Issue Details: First known date: 1967-1970... 1967-1970 King Crime
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The crime imprint of London-based Hodder and Stoughton: exact dates unconfirmed, but active in the 1950s and 1960s.

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y separately published work icon See Nothing, Say Nothing Patricia Carlon , London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1967 Z195130 1967 single work novel crime

'A ten minute joyride turns into manslaughter as two teenagers hit-and-run. This then meticulously traces the aftermath as Julius and Barry try to find the old woman whose dog they also killed, who may or may not have seen them. And finally it leads to murder as Barry becomes obsessed with the need to destroy all evidence. As taut as the youngsters' nerves and an indictment of the too typical community whose see-nothing-say-nothing attitude precipitates further disasters.'

Source: Kirkus Reviews.

London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1967
y separately published work icon Forty Pieces of Alloy Patricia Carlon , London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1968 Z194917 1968 single work novel crime London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1968
y separately published work icon The Whispering Wall Patricia Carlon , London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1969 Z116138 1969 single work novel crime Sarah is a stroke victim who has lost the power of speech and movement. Lying in her bed she overhears through the walls of a plan by her tenants to murder someone. Sarah must warn the other members of the household before it is too late. (Source: Trove) London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1969
y separately published work icon Death by Demonstration Patricia Carlon , London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1970 Z194816 1970 single work novel crime

'An anti-Vietnam War demonstration by angry Australian college students in the sixties results in the death of a young woman marcher. No one seems to know how she came to be struck down. But as the police seek to charge one of the leaders of the protest, Jefferson Shields, a private detective, eliminates the most likely suspects and, a la G. K. Chesterton, identifies the only possible culprit.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Soho Press).

London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1970
y separately published work icon The Souvenir Patricia Carlon , London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1970 Z77945 1970 single work novel crime mystery

'An early-morning murder in the park of a quiet country town. Two hitch-hiking girls, one of them guilty - one of them a liar.

'Four years on, Marion still has to know who killed her brother. The police, the press and ordinary people have lost interest in the case. She needs to call on Jefferson Shields - she's been told that he solves puzzles.

'You'll be baffled to the end of The Souvenir.' (Publisher's blurb [Wakefield Press ed.])

London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1970

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First known date: 1967-1970
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