In this, Knox's introduction of the notorious Chief Inspector Thane and Inspector Moss who appear in many of Knox's subsequent novels, a crime reporter, a gun, a money-worshipping girlfriend and inside knowledge of a factory payroll car's movements are a recipe for disaster. Following careful planning the reporter brings off the hold-up and carries away a large amount of untraceable bank notes. In the panic of the raid however, he shoots a young policeman dead and a full scale murder hunt ensues. Knox takes his readers stage by stage through ingenious planning of the crime and the dragnet of the investigation that follows, seeing them through the eyes of both the pursued and the pursuer.

Death Department is set in a large Glasgow department store, where shoplifting is an inevitable cause of loss. But when the losses rocket skywards, the managing director senses that a highly organised swindle is in progress and demands action from the police. The mystery deepens when the head woman buyer disappears. Then two savage murders follow quickly on one another and every resource of the police is thrown into the intensive investigation.

Authentic Police Work and convincing backgrounds...from the streets of Glasgow the action shifts swiftly to a wild lonely lochside and on to a roaring climax.

Every murder leaves a trail. Some more twisted than others. Step back into the gritty world of 1960s Glasgow with Little Drops of Blood, the fourth riveting instalment in Bill Knox's iconic Thane & Moss series. When a seemingly simple hit-and-run turns out to be cold-blooded murder, Detectives Thane and Moss find themselves entangled in a complex web of stolen cars, blackmail, and deadly family secrets. As the body count rises, the hunt for the killer leads them from the gritty underbelly of the city to the rugged peaks of the Scottish Highlands, testing their skills and their resolve at every turn. But in a world where every clue leads to more questions and every answer comes with a price, will Thane and Moss unravel the mystery before it's too late? Or will they, too, become victims of a killer who will stop at nothing to keep his secrets safe? Step into the shadows of Glasgow's criminal underworld and experience the heart-pounding thrill of the chase in this unputdownable mystery from one of the godfathers of Scottish crime fiction.

The sixth novel in the Thane series Chief Detective Inspector Colin Thane and his second-in-command, D.I. Moss, regarded it as little more than unpleasant routine when they were asked to identify the body of a salmon poacher. He had apparently blown himself up while illegally dynamiting a river pool. But two surprises await first, the dead man had a companion, now missing; second, the case has a connection with an assassination bid on a visiting politician from Moscow. Time is short. Only "the man in the bottle" knows the truth, but first, as the hours tick by, the two detectives must interpret even these words for themselves.

With one man in jail and another on the wanted list, the safe-raiding at Glen Ault whisky warehouse seems an ordinary enough incident to Detective Chief Inspector Colin Thane and Detective Inspector Phil Moss of Glasgow's bustling Millside Division. But the case assumes major proportions when the jailed man's wife is murdered and HM Customs and Excise become involved. The two CID officers soon realise that the real taste of proof would have to come from the whisky - but to find their proof they must travel from the great sprawl of a new housing development in the city to the desolate loneliness of a vast peat-bog.

"Always a thoroughly reliable, good read." - THE TIMES It was obvious they were dealing with a professional - the killing was vicious and clever. William Carter, managing director of a firm carrying out secret work for the Admiralty, was found dead in his factory's enamelling oven. He left behind him a wide choice of suspects - and the risk of a major security leak. Why had Carter sent urgent messages to his attractive wife and his business partner just before his murder? Had he known that his life was in danger? Thane and Moss, assigned to this most bizarre case, find some of the answers in a booby-trapped building - but the rest of the truth almost comes too late... A Thane and Moss case.

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Beware the Tallyman, a merciless predator...Somewhere in the Millside district of Glasgow a tallyman - an unlicensed loan shark - is preying on people in desperate financial straits. He loans them cash at rates they cannot hope to pay back - and then demands various services in kind. And these 'services' make the Tallyman a one-man crime wave. It's a tough, depressing case for Inspectors Thane and Moss, especially after one of Thane's close friends is found dead - a victim of the brutal moneylender. And so it takes all of Thane's hot-headed drive and Moss' cool determination to flush out the Tallyman - but neither of them is prepared for the final violent confrontation in the heart of Scotland's wild, craggy highlands.

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A Thane and Moss mystery When a corpse is fished out of the River Clyde, CID inspectors Colin Thane and Phil Moss are confronted with several problems. In the first place, Margaret Barclay was certainly murdered - strangled, to be precise. Secondly, she came from Monkswalk, an affluent and status-conscious suburb where police officers are about as welcome as tax inspectors. And third, she was the friendly neighborhood witch. Thane and Moss find themselves confronting a maze of contradictory facts, concealed motives and outright lies, until a sudden realization leads them to a strange rite, and the cost of folly is paid for in blood.

Project Community was supposed to be an occasion for a police-sponsored exhibition of the handiworks of Glasgow's hobby clubs. However, someone used it as an occasion for murder, the victim being a used-car dealer with an unsavory reputation. When Colin Thane and Phil Moss began their investigation they confronted a strange assortment of clues, and there was a troubling memory at the back of Thane's mind.

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The pilot was still alive when they pulled him out, but his passenger was dead. Pieces of the single-engined four-seater Beagle Pup were scattered in and around Fortrose, yet, in spite ofall the mess, Chief Inspector Colin Thane expected it to be a straightforward aircrash. However, Thane was wrong, and it was soon clear that more serious crimes were hidden in the wreckage ofthe plane and also in a small flying club in the Highlands.

The killing of a narcotics courier provides newly promoted Detective Superintendent Colin Thane of the Scottish Crime Squad with his first firm lead to an illegal drugs laboratory. But his investigation takes him to a prosperous malt whisky distillery in remote countryside, where Thane discovers that he isn't alone in his search for the drugs haul. The lovely hills near Aviemore become a long, nightmarish stalk, with death in wait for the loser...

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When a vacationing policewoman dies in Scotland, Detective Superintendent Colin Thane discovers that what appeared to be a tragic accident was a ruthlessly calculated murder

John Gort, known as the "Interface Man" for his ability to penetrate any electronic system ever created, leaves Britain to run a bar in Spain. He is then approached to carry out an audacious robbery, one which will involve Glasgow detective Colin Thane in his most dangerous international case. This is Bill Knox's twentieth novel featuring Detective Superintendent Colin Thane. It follows "The Crossfire Killings", which won the Police Review Award.

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