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When Dorothy Martin goes to France - alone because Alan is stuck back home in Sherebury with a broken ankle - she worries about her ability to get along in a language she barely speaks, and in a country she hasn't seen for over fifty years. But by the time Alan joins her a week l...

Dorothy Martin isn't overly enthusiastic when her husband, retired police detective Alan Nesbitt, invites her to accompany him to a conference in Cambridge, picturing cramped student accommodation. But St. Stephen's turns out to be recently renovated, and, bolstered by en suite f...

Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, go to Orkney in Scotland to see some intriguing Stone Age excavations. When the donor of the dig is found murdered, Dorothy and Alan launch an unofficial investigation into the murder.

Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, have just visited Buckingham Palace, where Alan was awarded the George Cross, when they and a friend, retired Chief Inspector Jonathan Quinn, stumble across the body of a young girl hidden in St. James's Park. ...

Dorothy Martin has a weakness for fine food, and when her friends Tom and Lynn inviter her to spend some time with them at a cottage on the island of Iona in the Hebrides, promising fresh crab and exquisite salmon, and since her, well, dear friend Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt is ...

Dorothy Martin isn't overly enthusiastic when her husband, retired police detective Alan Nesbitt, invites her to accompany him to a conference in Cambridge, picturing cramped student accommodation. But St Stephen's turns out to be recently renovated, and, bolstered by en suite fa...

A thirty-year-old death haunts Alan Nesbitt, former Chief Constable in Cornwall. Back in 1968, a beautiful twenty-year-old girl was found dead on the rocks, presumably having jumped from the cliffs. All that was known about her was her age, that she had had a child six months ear...

One late-summer's evening, before the beginning of the new term, Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired police detective Alan Newbitt, are guests at Sherebury University art department's drinks party to introduce the new teaching assistant sculptress Gillian Roberts. However, tr...

Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, have just visited Buckingham Palace, where Alan was awarded the George Cross, when they and a friend, retired Chief Inspector Jonathan Quinn, stumble across the body of a young girl hidden in St James's Park. W...

A land developer is killed in Sherebury, England, and police suspect environmentalists, but they are too busy to handle the case because of a forthcoming royal visit. So the case is taken by Dorothy Martin, an American widow working in a bookstore who is the sweetheart of the chi...

Profiles six men and women who have embraced peaceful solutions to violent conflicts. Includes a timeline and glossary.

At war with the Army: Two buddies suffer many mishaps at an army training camp during World War II. Vic Puccinelli is a newly promoted sergeant who finds himself head over heels for a pretty girl. Desperate, Puccinelli enlists the aid of his bumbling pal Alvin Corwin to help him ...

Dorothy and her husband have just settled in their new home in Sherebury, England now that he has retired from the police force. Then an old acquaintance in Hillsburg, Indiana dies leaving her a small inheritance. He has also left a note suggesting that if he dies, he has been mu...

After the wizard : A young orphan living in Kansas becomes obsessed with the characters in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and begins to believe that they're real.

The charming amateur sleuth confronts a dark secret from her past when she returns to her old English boarding school to solve a case of robbery - and finds herself tracking a murderer.

Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, go to Orkney in Scotland to see some intriguing Stone Age excavations. When the donor of the dig is found murdered, Dorothy and Alan launch an unofficial investigation into the murder.

"When Dorothy Martin and her husband Alan meet the wealthy Ahmad family, they are charmed by their courtesy, their perfect English, their delightful children and their commitment to peace. Following a concert at Sherebury Cathedral, the Ahmads offer to host a party afterwards at ...