Mat Coward Books In Order - Books In Order

Fortean Times Books In Publication Order

Mythconceptions (2013)

Frank Mitchell and Don Packham Books In Publication Order

Up and Down (2000)
In and Out (2001)
Over and Under (2004)
Open and Closed (2005)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

The Soother’s Boy (2008)
Acts of Destruction (2012)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

Do the World a Favour and Other Stories (2003)
So Far, So Near (2007)
You Can Jump and Other Stories (2012)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

Cannibal Victims Speak Out! And Other Astonishing Press Cuttings (1995)
Classic Radio Comedy (2003)
Success… and How to Avoid It (2004)

World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories Books In Publication Order

The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 (2000)
The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 (2000)
The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 (2002)
The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4 (2003)
The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 5 (2004)

Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles Audio Books In Publication Order

Frostfire (By:) (2007)
Mother Russia (By:) (2007)
Old Soldiers (By:James Swallow) (2007)
Here There Be Monsters (By:Andy Lane) (2008)
The Doll of Death (By:) (2008)
Home Truths (By:Simon Guerrier) (2008)
The Prisoner’s Dilemma (By:Simon Guerrier) (2009)
The Drowned World (By:Simon Guerrier) (2009)
Resistance (By:Steve Lyons) (2009)
The Mahogany Murderers (By:Andy Lane) (2009)
The Prisoner of Peladon (By:Cavan Scott,MarkWright) (2009)
Ringpullworld (By:Paul Magrs) (2009)
The Guardian of the Solar System (By:Simon Guerrier) (2010)
Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code (By:) (2010)
Find and Replace (By:Paul Magrs) (2010)
Quinnis (By:) (2010)
The Perpetual Bond (By:Simon Guerrier) (2011)
Ferril’s Folly (By:) (2011)
The Cold Equations (By:Simon Guerrier) (2011)
The Memory Cheats (By:Simon Guerrier) (2011)
The Many Deaths of Jo Grant (By:Cavan Scott,MarkWright) (2011)
The First Wave (By:Simon Guerrier) (2011)
Beyond the Ultimate Adventure (By:Terrance Dicks) (2011)
The Anachronauts (By:Simon Guerrier) (2012)
The Selachian Gambit (By:Steve Lyons) (2012)
Binary (By:) (2012)
The Jigsaw War (By:) (2012)
The Uncertainty Principle (By:Simon Guerrier) (2012)
Project: Nirvana (By:Cavan Scott,MarkWright) (2012)
The Last Post (By:James Goss) (2012)
The Flames of Cadiz (By:) (2013)
House of Cards (By:Steve Lyons) (2013)
The Scorchies (By:James Goss) (2013)
The Library of Alexandria (By:Simon Guerrier) (2013)
Shadow of the Past (By:Simon Guerrier) (2013)
The Alchemists (By:) (2013)
The Apocalypse Mirror (By:) (2013)
Mastermind (By:Jonathan Morris) (2013)
Upstairs (2013)
The Beginning (By:) (2013)
The Dying Light (By:) (2013)
The Sleeping City (By:) (2014)
Starborn (By:Jacqueline Rayner) (2014)
The War to End All Wars (By:Simon Guerrier) (2014)
The Elixir of Doom (By:Paul Magrs) (2014)

Anthologies In Publication Order

Crimewave 2: Deepest Red (1999)
The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 (2000)
Show Business is Murder (2004)
The Last Noel (2004)

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Mythconceptions
(2013)

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Standalone Novels Book Covers

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Mat Coward Books Overview

In and Out

Bull’s Eye It’s Murder Whether he’s miserably depressed or buoyantly cheerful, a day with the delightfully unpredictable Detective Inspector Don Packham is never dull for his partner, DC Frank Mitchell especially when it involves murder. When the body of Yvonne ‘Chalkie’ Wood, a member of the Hollow Head Pub’s darts team, is found bludgeoned in the ladies’ lavatory during a night of celebration over a championship game, Packham and Mitchell accept an unspoken challenge from a clever killer. Though the victim had her share of enemies and each member of the team wished her dead, her untimely murder puts the detectives on a case of money, sex and secrets that requires luck, skill and an excellent aim to solve.

Over and Under

The annual cricket match between the Comedians and the Writers is a little more eventful than usual when Bruce Lester is murdered with a baseball bat. Detective Inspector Don Packham interrogates the many suspects. Murder is a serious business. But bringing a baseball bat into a cricket pavilion that is one unspeakable crime.

Open and Closed

The Bath Street public library in Cowden is an impressive, modern facility that was only recently opened. Now, the borough council wants to close it as part of a ‘rationalization’ package. So, one autumn night, militant library lovers enter the building and begin unfurling their banners and bedrolls. The branch librarian locks the doors behind them…
and the occupation of Bath Street library is underway. The mood is buoyant, full of hope and solidarity at least, until a garrotted corpse is found sitting in the librarian’s office. DI Don Packham recognizes the deceased straight away: Bert Rosen was a much loved local character. The Co*ckney son of Jewish refugees, Bert was a veteran of World War II and had spent his long life fighting in the workingman’s corner. Plenty opposed his politics, but it’s hard to find anyone to say a bad word for the man himself. So who, amongst the anti cuts campaigners gathered in the library that night, might have killed him? Don, outraged at plans to close the library, reckons they should forget about the murder, and just arrest the council on a charge of cultural vandalism. DC Frank Mitchell, meanwhile, despite everyone telling him that community pressure groups are an essential part of a healthy democracy, is increasingly convinced that the lunatics have taken over the asylum. And the whole investigation is complicated by the astonishing object found in the dead man’s pocket…
Mat Coward is a Dagger and Edgar nominated short story writer. He lives in Somerset, in the UK.

Classic Radio Comedy

Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. Jules and Sand, Bluebottle and Eccles, Tony Hancock and Sid James. Between them, these three very different shows from the ’50s and ’60s define and encapsulate the glory days of radio comedy. And what’s more, where would contemporary radio and TV comedy be without them? Exploring the origins and lasting influence of the ‘Big Three,’ this book focuses on the comedy rather than the lives of the men behind the microphones.

The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1

More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. Jon L. Breen, England Maxim Jakubowski, Canada Edo Van Belkom, Australia David Honeybone, and Germany Thomas Woertche. Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year s compilation, the best value for money of any such anthology. The A to Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader:Robert Barnard Lawrence Block Jon L. Breen Wolfgang Burger Lillian Stewart Carl Margaret Coel Max Allan Collins Bill Crider Jeffery Deaver Brendan DuBois Susanna Gregory Joseph Hansen Carolyn G. Hart Lauren Henderson Edward D. Hoch Clark Howard Tatjana Kruse Paul Lascaux Dick Lochte Peter Lovesey Mary Jane Maffini Ed McBain Val McDermid Marcia Muller Joyce Carol Oates Anne Perry Nancy Pickard Bill Pronzini Ruth Rendell S. J. Rozan Billie Rubin Kristine Kathryn Rusch Stephan Rykena David B. Silva Nancy Springer Jac. Toes John Vermeulen Donald E. Westlake Carolyn Wheat.

The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2