Ways and Means

Ways and Means
Author: Henry Cecil
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2009-01-06
Genre: Legal stories
ISBN: 1842320696

Basil Merridew and his 'nephew' arrive in a prosperous village, but shortly afterwards take out a slander action against twenty-two neighbours. This is the first episode in a fascinating plot which has our two heroes using the law to plan ever more convoluted and intricate ways to make their way in the world without working.

Settled Out Of Court

Settled Out Of Court
Author: Henry Cecil
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2012-09-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755129474

Lonsdale Walsh is a rich financier who is wrongly imprisoned for murder. From his prison cell Lonsdale hatches an intricate plan to stage his own retrial at a secret location. Find out if Lonsdale can secure an acquittal and relish the further unexpected twists that are to be revealed.

Henry Cecil

Henry Cecil
Author: Brough Scott
Publisher: Racing Post
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-04
Genre: Racehorse trainers
ISBN: 9781909471405

"The story of trainer Henry Cecil is one of the great redemption songs of sporting history: decades of success at the highest level followed by years in the professional and personal depths, then a glorious resurrection topped by the unbeatable Frankel, widely considered the greatest racehorse of all time"--Amazon.com.

Alibi for a Judge

Alibi for a Judge
Author: Henry Cecil
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2008-11-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1842320432

Mr Justice Carstairs is a High Court Judge. He is completely incompetent and a chronic worrier. He sentences a man and then immediately doubts his verdict. In trying to overrule his own judgement he encounters resistance on all sides. He also becomes the target of a blackmailer. A highly amusing tale of a man assailed by his own doubts.

The Asking Price

The Asking Price
Author: Henry Cecil
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2009-01-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1842320440

Ronald Holbrook is a fifty-seven year old bachelor who has lived in the same house for twenty years. Jane Doughty, the daughter of his next-door neighbours, is seventeen. She suddenly decides she is in love with Ronald and wants to marry him. Everyone is amused at first but then events take a disturbingly sinister turn and Ronald finds himself enmeshed in a potentially tragic situation.