Lost

by Russell James

From one of Britain’s masters of crime writing, here are two stories to whet your appetite, presented in bargain-price format. The title story, Lost, introduces the only detective to be given a lead role in a Russell James story (a beguiling character, he is the ex-priest turned detective Joe Venables, who is trawling south London to find a missing daughter). The second story, What’s My Name?, is in characteristic first-person style, but is an amusing (and true) story recounted to the narrator inside a British jail.

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First published March 28, 2012

About the author

A British author of some 2 dozen books, half of which are crime novels, Russell is an ex-chairman of the Crime Writers Association. He has written several non-fiction works and half a dozen historical novels. He is currently working on the third book in his Croome Victorian saga, the first of which is AFTER SHE DROWNED, telling of forbidden love in the Victorian Church, and the second THE CAPTAIN'S WARD, telling of a young girl's coming of age in Victorian Britain.