Contents

Praise for Constable & Toop

Title Page

Dedication

Prologue: The Birth of a Ghost

1. Lapsewood’s Paperwork

2. The Body in the Coffin

3. The Beauty of Alice Biggins

4. Uncle Jack

5. Penhaligan’s Problem

6. Mr Constable’s Good Nature

7. General Colt

8. The New Tenants of Aysgarth House

9. The Anger of Viola Trump

10. The Boy Tanner

11. Mr Gliddon’s Dying Wish

12. Lady Aysgarth’s Diary

13. The Man in Grey

14. The Blackened Church

15. The Death of a Ghost

16. A Trail of Infection

17. Doris McNally’s New Residency

18. The Bell Tower

19. The Disappearance of Lil’ Mags

20. The Boy in the Church

21. Lapsewood’s Return

22. Charlie and Jack

23. Breakfasting Alone

24. The Vault

25. The Exorcism of St Winifred’s School

26. A Parent’s Past

27. Mrs Pringle

28. The Parisian Problem

29. Clara’s List

30. The Burial of Mr Gliddon

31. Flouting Procedure

32. A Visitor

33. The End of Nell

34. Mr Sternwell’s Last Will and Testament

35. Grunt in London

36. What If . . .

37. Stalemate

38. Jack’s Last Breakfast

39. Destiny for the Dead

40. The Last Words of Enforcer Dawlish

41. One Tree Hill

42. Breaking Out

43. The Girl in the Kitchen

44. Emily’s New Home

45. The Respectable Mr Reeve

46. Last Orders

47. Mr Reeve’s Place Of Business

48. Those Who Mourn

49. Breaking In

50. Sam and Tanner

51. The Kitchen Killer

52. Fresh Blood

53. The Central Records Library

54. A New Ghost

55. An Apprenticeship of Thievery

56. The Responsibility of Murder

57. Poor Mrs Preston

58. The Return of Inspector Savage

59. A French Intrusion

60. Always Alice

61. Emily’s Play

62. The Ballad of Paddy O’Twain

63. The Hell Hound

64. A Widow’s Grief

65. Colonel Penhaligan’s Agenda

66. The Work of the Devil

67. An Entertaining Exorcism

68. The Eleventh Hole

69. A Father’s Guilt

70. Grunt’s Decline

71. An Unexpected Visitor

72. Jack’s Final Victim

73. The French Angel

74. The New Resident of Aysgarth House

75. Jack’s Funeral

76. The Endless Corridor

77. Honor Oak

The writing of Constable & Toop: a note from the author

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