Books
The Devil’s Feast
London 1842. A mysterious and horrible death at the Reform, London’s newest and grandest gentleman’s club, is hushed up. Amateur private inquiry agent Captain William Avery is persuaded to investigate, and soon discovers a web of rivalries and hatreds, both personal and political, simmering behind the club’s handsome façade… [ read more ]
The Printer’s Coffin
London 1841. Three years after they last saw each other at the close of The Strangler Vine, Blake and Avery are reunited in very different circumstances. The police mysteriously refuse to investigate a series of dreadful murders in the cheap print shops near Drury Lane. Blake and Avery must find the culprit before he kills again. [ read more ]
The Strangler Vine
Calcutta 1837. The acclaimed first book in M.J. Carter’s Blake and Avery series follows William Avery, a down-at-heel junior officer in the East India Company’s army, and Jeremiah Blake, a brilliant but taciturn special inquiry agent, set out on a secret mission: to track down the notorious adventurer, spy and poet Xavier Mountstuart. [ read more ]
The Three Emperors
The Three Emperors is the story of the three dysfunctional rulers of Germany, Russia and Great Britain at the turn of the last century, combined with a study of the larger forces around them. [ read more ]
Anthony Blunt
When Anthony Blunt died in 1983, he was a man about whom almost anything could be – and was – said. As Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures and Director of the Courtauld Institute, Blunt’s position was assured until his exposure in 1979 left his reputation in tatters. [ read more ]