Mitchell, James, 1926-2002

The unfortunately named Ernest Fluck is by all accounts a computer genius. He is also said to be unpleasant, impossible to work with, a gambler and possibly a crook. Rumours are that he is engaged to Irish socialite and racehorse owner Imogen Courtney-Lithgoe. He's also missing - and so is one of...

Bill Day - former RAF Wing Commander, war hero and superb pilot. Did he really help fly five fugitive SS men - and their loot - out of Berlin during the 1948 airlift in his company's Dakota - none of them to be seen again? Forty years on, Anglo-Italian private eye Ron Hogget is hired to find that...

Anglo-Italian private detective Tommaso Ronald Hogget, excels at finding missing things and missing people - sometimes when they're dead. Hogget enjoys fine wine, good food and always travels first class - when he's on expenses. He's not necessarily the most honest detective and certainly not the...