Detective Watters Mysteries Collection - Books 1-3 - Detective Watters Mysteries - E-book - ePub

The first three books in Malcolm Archibald's 'Detective Watters Mysteries', a series of crime mystery novels set in 19th century United Kingdom, now in one volume!The Fireraisers: Dundee, Scotland, 1862. After the mill of businessman Matthew Beaumont burns down, Detective Sergeant George Watters is sent to investigate. When a man is found dead in the hold of a trade ship, George discovers a connection between Beaumont and foreign powers threatening the country.
But what connects the enigmatic Beaumont to the murder and the strange events taking place in the Dundee shipyard?The Atlantic Street Murder: Sergeant Watters and Detective Silver investigate a tangled mystery in London, involving the murder of a guardsman and the wife of an Austrian diplomat. With the help of the Irish woman Rowena, Watters trawls through the back streets of London, encounters female prize-fighters and suave cracksmen, and finds himself in the savage world of espionage.
But can he find the meaning behind the mysterious words: 'There is a storm from the east and the west'?Murdered On The 13th: Dundee, 1860s. Sergeant George Watters and his team investigate the murder of a local banker, found dead on the 13th tee of a local golf course. Illicit prizefighters, merchants and prostitutes all seem to be connected to the murder, and even the toughest of Dundee are refusing to talk.
In a case that stretches him to his limit, Watters' enquiries take him from the lowest brothels to the elite of Dundee society.