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The Shadow Before

By John Newton Chance

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9781555048402 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, November 1, 2005), cover price $22.01

Fate of the Lying Jade

Product Description: In Spain, some twenty years after the war, Blake is trying to rescue a wayward daughter from trouble and return her to her politician father. But, after being trapped and shot at in a deserted village, with Blake in hot pursuit, the girl escapes to an equally deserted mine...read more

By John Newton Chance

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9781843957867 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, May 31, 2005), cover price $20.99 | About this edition: In Spain, some twenty years after the war, Blake is trying to rescue a wayward daughter from trouble and return her to her politician father.

The Mystery of Enda Favell

By John Newton Chance

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9781842623640 | Large print edition (Dales Large Print, April 30, 2005), cover price $23.99

The Love-hate Relation

Product Description: A murder is not an easy thing to plan if a man intends to profit by it. It is even more difficult if the killer has not met his victim. In this case, the villain was a weak man and his victim, as he found to his dismay, was a strong one...read more

By John Newton Chance

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9780786270163 | Thorndike Pr, March 1, 2005, cover price $22.01 | About this edition: A murder is not an easy thing to plan if a man intends to profit by it.

The Farm Villains

By John Newton Chance

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9781843955733 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, January 31, 2005), cover price $20.99

The Killing Experiment

Product Description: The forests of Bavaria are not always enchanting, particularly when wild wolf men range the woods through the night. Behind it all is a scientist who might have discovered the secret of harnessing the power of storms. What he had not discovered was how to harness the power of evil men who want his secret...read more

By John Newton Chance

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9781842623596 | Large print edition (Dales Large Print, January 31, 2005), cover price $23.99 | About this edition: The forests of Bavaria are not always enchanting, particularly when wild wolf men range the woods through the night.

The Psychic Trap

Product Description: Book by Chance, John Newton

By John Newton Chance

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9780783894454 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, October 1, 2001), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Book by Chance, John Newton

A Place Called Skull

Product Description: A man comes to find his way into a secret house, but when he finds it he has a feeling that he is already lost. His mission is to save the world from final devastation, but the nearer he comes to that last secret, the greater his feeling of being lost...read more

By John Newton Chance

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9780708997130 | Large print edition (Linford, October 1, 2001), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: A man comes to find his way into a secret house, but when he finds it he has a feeling that he is already lost.

The Shadow of the Killer

Product Description: Some eccentric millionaires like to have beautiful girls dance naked on the lawn while sprayed by a hose - but few fill the hose pump with whitewash. And few play jokes upon their lady friends while in their baths. Jonathan Blake visited a house where the defunct owner had done these things and much worse...read more

By John Newton Chance

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9780708945841 | Large print edition (Linford, August 1, 2001), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Some eccentric millionaires like to have beautiful girls dance naked on the lawn while sprayed by a hose - but few fill the hose pump with whitewash.

Terror Train

Product Description: Jonathan Blake had an appointment with an unknown man near midnight in a disused railway station - but nobody came to meet him. After a long wait, a woman appeared with the unusual excuse that her train had broken down and she had come to catch a relief train...read more

By John Newton Chance

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9780708959961 | Large print edition (Linford, June 1, 2001), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Jonathan Blake had an appointment with an unknown man near midnight in a disused railway station - but nobody came to meet him.

The Halloween Murders

Product Description: It is said that if a girl looks into a mirror on the night of Halloween and sees a man standing behind her, that will be the one she will marry. But the face that Jonathan Blake's neighbour saw behind her was that of a man next in line to be murdered! She ran to her neighbour for help...read more

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9780708959589 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, March 1, 2001), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: It is said that if a girl looks into a mirror on the night of Halloween and sees a man standing behind her, that will be the one she will marry.

The Cat Watchers

Product Description: Should an old acquaintance call and say he has been threatened with murder you say he is a fool, a neurotic, a liar or perhaps just a daydreamer. But the man who called on Jonathan Blake might have been telling the truth, because of a past record of making enemies...read more

By John Newton Chance

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9780708957660 | Large print edition (Linford, September 1, 2000), cover price $20.99 | About this edition: Should an old acquaintance call and say he has been threatened with murder you say he is a fool, a neurotic, a liar or perhaps just a daydreamer.

The Monstrous Regiment

Product Description: It is understandable that a multi-millionaire should wish to be out of sight, but to buy a large old manor and put armed guards at the lodges seemed a little extreme. When Jonathan Blake went to visit somebody on the estate, he found a lot of the millionaire's old friends were turning up there, ladies who, in the past, had either tried to murder him or get him murdered...read more

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9780708957370 | Large print edition (Linford, May 1, 2000), cover price $20.99 | About this edition: It is understandable that a multi-millionaire should wish to be out of sight, but to buy a large old manor and put armed guards at the lodges seemed a little extreme.

Looking for Samson

Product Description: Keyes had scarcely had a moment's peace since he had become involved with those crazy van Dekens. So when he and Alex travelled down to Cornwall on their honeymoon he reckoned on at least a few days of quiet. But, within hours, Alex's sister arrived bearing the news that she had discovered a dead, if not murdered, body on the floor of her cottage, and soon Keyes found himself involved in a bizarre spate of killings...read more

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9780708956526 | Large print edition (Linford, January 1, 2000), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Keyes had scarcely had a moment's peace since he had become involved with those crazy van Dekens.

Madman's Will

Product Description: Just after the funeral of a murdered man, the murderer is shocked to find that he has been left a legacy by his victim - a bank deposit box containing some old socks, a key for a set of cut-throat razors and a number of pornographic photographs of the deceased's secretary...read more

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9780708956052 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, December 1, 1999), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Just after the funeral of a murdered man, the murderer is shocked to find that he has been left a legacy by his victim - a bank deposit box containing some old socks, a key for a set of cut-throat razors and a number of pornographic photographs of the deceased's secretary.

The Smiling Cadaver

Product Description: Clearly it was to be no ordinary house party at Ramboro Castle. The couple's undercover mission was the investigation of the possible substitution of a bogus Lew Grogan for the genuine article. They discovered that the marriage lines of their fellow guests would not have stood up under cross-examination, and some of the staff at the castle would have made excellent prison warders, others would have been the inmates...read more

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9780708955994 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, November 1, 1999), cover price $20.99 | About this edition: Clearly it was to be no ordinary house party at Ramboro Castle.

Dead Men's Shoes

Product Description: When Jonathan Blake came into his family fortune he assumed that his hitherto turbulent and dangerous life would give way to things more pleasant. But danger continued to pursue him to his own home, bringing mystery, suspense, intrigue and death...read more

By John Newton Chance

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9780708955321 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, July 1, 1999), cover price $20.99 | About this edition: When Jonathan Blake came into his family fortune he assumed that his hitherto turbulent and dangerous life would give way to things more pleasant.

The Murder Makers

Product Description: Julian Hammer wrote thrillers. When people asked him how he thought of all the murders, he would reply that he did them personally first. Thus, when Jonathan Blake called on Hammer to look into the case of a missing person, it did appear that the author might have killed him...read more

By John Newton Chance

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9780708955024 | Large print edition (Linford, June 1, 1999), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Julian Hammer wrote thrillers.

The Bad Circle

Product Description: Keyes was sent to the house owned by Arethusa Greco-Browne to get her signature on a document relating to her deceased husband's will. Keyes had heard unfavourable reports about the house and its two other occupants, Anna and Harry, After his first meeting, he felt there was something very wrong at Cob Weary...read more

By John Newton Chance

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9780754035473 | Large print edition (Chivers, June 1, 1999), cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Keyes was sent to the house owned by Arethusa Greco-Browne to get her signature on a document relating to her deceased husband's will.

9780754035480 | Large print edition (Chivers, June 1, 1999), cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Keyes was sent to the house owned by Arethusa Greco-Browne to get her signature on a document relating to her deceased husband's will.

9780783803616 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, February 1, 1999), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Chance, John Newton

The Dead Tale-Tellers

Product Description: Jonathan Blake always kept appointments. He had kept many, in all sorts of places, at all sorts of times, but never one like that one he kept in the house in the woods in the fading light of an October day. It seemed a perfect, peaceful place to visit and perhaps take tea and muffins round the fire...read more

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9780708954799 | Large print edition (Linford, May 1, 1999), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Jonathan Blake always kept appointments.

The Double Death

Product Description: Jonathan Blake knew he should never have gone back to Dead End, especially when almost the entire population had once tried to kill him. However, there was something in the menacing desolation of the place that drew him back. He met Laura again, and a sprinkling of the men who had shot at him before, but the treasure he went back for was now guarded by a new threat - a dragon from the East whose double trickery was enough to make a man begin to doubt himself and his eyes - and then to drive him mad...read more

By John Newton Chance

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9781853899225 | Large print edition (Dales Large Print, April 1, 1999), cover price $20.99 | About this edition: Jonathan Blake knew he should never have gone back to Dead End, especially when almost the entire population had once tried to kill him.

The Guilty Witnesses

Product Description: Jonathan Blake had become involved in finding out just who had stolen a precious statuette. A gang of amateurs had so clever a plot that they had attracted the attention of a group of international spies, who habitually used amateurs as guide dogs to secret places of treasure and other things...read more

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9780708954553 | Large print edition (Linford, March 1, 1999), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Jonathan Blake had become involved in finding out just who had stolen a precious statuette.

The Man With Two Heads

Product Description: Is it possible for a man to have one head at night and quite another the following morning? As a student of evil, Jonathan Blake knew men who might find it very convenient to change their heads. It was when he tried to find out which men did this strange operation that his troubles began...read more

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9780708954201 | Large print edition (Linford, January 1, 1999), cover price $20.99 | About this edition: Is it possible for a man to have one head at night and quite another the following morning?

Involvement in Austria

Driving through the Austrian forests on vacation, Jonathan Blake finds himself pursued by a mysterious Porsche, whose occupants seem intent on shooting him

By John Newton Chance

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9780783884066 | G K Hall & Co, May 1, 1998, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Driving through the Austrian forests on vacation, Jonathan Blake finds himself pursued by a mysterious Porsche, whose occupants seem intent on shooting him

Motive for a Kill

Product Description: MysteryLarge Print EditionJonathan Blake was returning to an old house and an old love, he thought. What he came back to was a house of smugglers and wreckers who had plundered the Cornish coast for centuries and wrecked fine ships on the rocks below the cliffs...read more

By John Newton Chance

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9780745189529 | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, June 1, 1997), cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Returning to the old house on the Cornish coast, Jonathon finds a wrecked yacht, on top of some spiked gates.

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9780783819952 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, August 1, 1997), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: MysteryLarge Print EditionJonathan Blake was returning to an old house and an old love, he thought.

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