The Detective of Last Resort Mysteries – quirky crime novels by C. A. W. Parker

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A hardboiled detective for the mean streets of 1920s rural England…

Meet Rusty Macduff, Detective of Last Resort. Former Baker Street Irregular, current private investigator for hire – specialising in the cases no famous sleuth will take on in the Golden Age of Crime.

If you've got a case nobody will touch with a bargepole, Rusty promises to at least poke at it with a stick.

The series so far…

Front cover for The Girl for the Gold by C. A. W. Parker

Front cover for The Man With No Face by C. A. W. Parker

Front cover for The Isle of Vice by C. A. W. Parker

Front cover for The Lost King by C. A. W. Parker

Front cover for The Fast Train to the Grave by C. A. W. Parker

Kirkus Reviews has said the first novel in the series is a "thoroughly enjoyable mystery that’s humorous and absorbing" and described it as "a detective noir with snappy British humor that calls to mind Agatha Christie and P. G. Wodehouse".

Publishers Weekly BookLife Prize called Rusty Macduff "the perfect eccentric detective".

You can read the books in any order. Jump in today!

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