Author: Peter Robinson

Format: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Peter Robinson Omnibus

Not Safe After Dark

Not Safe After Dark is a complete collection of Peter Robinson’s short crime tales including four stories featuring Inspector Banks, a private-eye story set in Florida, a romantic Parisian mystery, and the modern classic, ‘Innocence’ – winner of the Crime Writer of Canada’s Best Short Story Award.

Whether writing pure detective fiction or heartbreaking noir, Peter Robinson is one of the crime world’s finest stylists. This anthology explores our hidden paranoia, challenges all that we take for granted and lures us to new, exotic places, only to make us wish that we could run back home.

A Necessary End

Violence erupts at an anti-nuclear demonstration in Eastvale, leaving one policeman stabbed to death.

At first there are over a hundred suspects, but then things narrow down to the people who live on “Maggie’s Farm”, an isolated house high on the daleside. Among the suspects is Dennis Osmond, a social worker involved with Jenny Fuller, Inspector Banks’s friend.

As if this isn’t enough to cope with, Banks finds his freedom hampered by the appointment of an old enemy, Detective Superintendent Richard ‘Dirty Dick’ Burgess, to head the investigation.

Although officially warned off the case, the only way Banks can salvage his career is by beating Burgess to the killer