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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