A Man Who Cannot Kill by J F Straker
When some children find a dead woman in the park, it is up to Detective Collier to find the killer.
Meanwhile, Harry Hyde, an ineffectual ex-schoolmaster, is approached by a private investigator, Peppard before quickly disappearing...
Hyde is conned into obtaining compromising photographs for divorce evidence for his ex-employer, Mrs Ould, whose son he tutored.
But quickly Hyde is plunged into a nightmare he could not have forseen: he was the last man to be seen with Collier's victim, having met her frequently in the days before she was killed.
He is arrested and eventually charged with not one, but two murders, when Mr Ould is also discovered dead.
Hyde manages to escape from the police when their car crashes, but the nightmare closes in upon him with ever-increasing horror when he is tracked down by the dead woman's brother...
Managing to escape again, Hyde turns to an old friend for help as the police continue to search for him.
If Hyde didn't kill either victim, who did?
Can he find the real culprit before the police find him?
J. F. Straker was the author of twenty-five novels, including `Death on a Sunday Morning' and `A Choice of Victims'.
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The Shadow Spy by Nicholas Luard
After a series of business failures and a disgraced career Steele, a retired British officer, is forced back into the service by a blackmail scheme that has overshadowed his entire life.
His choice is simple: impersonate the glamorous playboy Ross Callum - the most flamboyant agent provocateur ever to operate out of the sinister city of Tangier - or spend the rest of his life in a military prison.
As Steele works his way into his his new character he learns of the deadly assassin whose only aim is to murder Ross Callum.
Steele's mission is to draw this incensed man into the open.
Nicholas Luard was a writer and politician, but is perhaps best known for his activities in the early 1960s: co-founding The Establishment with Peter Cook and being one of the Lords Gnome of Private Eye.
He is also the author of `The Warm and Golden War' and `The Robespierre Serial',
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