J.F. Straker

Straker, J.F.

Dead Letter Day

Detectives Johnny Inch and Humphrey Nicodemus have resigned from the force and set up business together as Private Investigators.

When they were still in the force two brothers, Martin and Joseph Slade, had attacked a security van outside a City goldsmith’s, knocking out the...Read more

Hell Is Empty

On a lonely island in a Scottish loch, Donald Grant and his wife Kay are staying with his aunt and uncle, and their daughter Janet.

Three desperate men, looking for a hide-out have also come to the island.

Bull, Fred and Joe are gunmen on the run from a robbery, and...Read more

Miscarriage of Murder

Max Friteau stands to inherit a fortune one day from his late father — but only if he abides by the terms in his will.

Robert Friteau, a rich Belgian merchant living in the Friteau family home of Château Granbois, was violently anti-British.

Many years ago during the...Read more