Jack Colby, Car Detective

When Jack Colby, owner of Frogs Hill Classic Car Restorations, stumbles upon a 1938 coupé Lagonda V12 rusting away in a country barn in Kent, he longs to bring it back to its former glory. Jack also takes a shine to its owner, the fetching widow Polly Davis. Sadly, his romantic pursuits cut short. A few days later Polly is murdered just a few feet from the elegant machine. But Jack's curiosity about the classic car is just revving up. He knows that years ago Polly's late husband was found dead in the driver's seat. It's clear she had no interest in selling it or restoring it-just hiding it. And now he's hearing rumors about Polly's dicey past. Convinced that the Lagonda is somehow involved, especially when it disappears, Jack is determined to uncover Polly's secrets and bring her killer to justice, even at the risk of his own life.

Car detective Jack Colby has a new case, but soon suspects much more is at stake...- All is not well on the film set of director Bill Wade's new blockbuster Dark Harvest. At first Jack Colby, car detective, can't believe his luck when he is called in to investigate the disappearance of Bill Wade's rare 1935 Auburn speedster, but he soon realizes that this is no straightforward theft. Jack's warning lights are beginning to flash about his assignment – and rightly so, because the stage is set for murder.

Jack Colby, car detective, is plunged into a dangerous investigation when he agrees to track down a classic car that's been missing for over a decade. When car detective Jack Colby is asked by the 'Mad Major' to find one of the original five cars that took place in the original Peking to Paris rally of 1907, he accepts the challenge, but is soon plunged into a far more dangerous investigation. Was the recent death of car restorer Alfred King the accident it seems? It's not long before the car crime underworld becomes involved in the quest for the missing De Dion, and the stage is set for murder . . .

When Jack Colby hears a rumour that Old Herne's, the club for aviation and classic car veterans, is closing, he is appalled, and attends its annual event with foreboding. His instinct is right. He has been commissioned to investigate the theft of the Porsche car belonging to its manager, the popular Mike Nelson, but now far worse problems threaten the club when brutal murder proves to be on the agenda. Jack finds himself caught between two families: the Howells, headed by a US billionaire and veteran pilot, and the Nelsons, headed by Ray, widower of Miranda Pryde, singing star of the 1940s. Her legacy is kept alive by her enigmatic grandson Jason, star of a Miranda Pryde tribute band. But what role does he play in the case, and what role do the missing Porsche and Arthur Howell's beloved Morgan play? In his quest for the truth behind the murder, Jack crosses the path of a notorious gang-leader, and soon murder strikes again . . .

A call from Jack Colby's fiery ex-wife Eva always means trouble. This time it's a doozy. She's been accused of her murdering her husband, a Mexican band leader shot to death on the towpath of the River Medway. But Jack's race to the rescue comes with a slight detour: his other client, the beguiling Daisy Croft. Someone's stolen Daisy's beloved Morris Minor classic and she needs Jack's car-theft sleuthing skills to get it back. To Jack's surprise, the two cases begin to merge. It's appears that Eva and Daisy's disparate dilemmas have something in common: a murder committed at a local pub more than three decades ago. And someone is still nursing old wounds. As a long-festering plan of vengeance endangers the lives of two innocent women, and a second murder occurs, Jack's investigation heads down a very dangerous road.

Car enthusiast and British sleuth Jack Colby is back and steering a '36 Packard headlong into a stately world of deadly family secrets. Philip Moxton, a wealthy banker in the west of Kent, is anything but a routine client for Jack Colby, freelance investigator for the Kent police car-theft unit. Moxton is desperate for a very particular 1936 Packard One-Twenty saloon. Once, he was obliged to sell it. Now he wants to buy it back-anonymously, at any price, and soon. Because as Moxton tells it, he's going to be murdered. The case stalls when Colby tracks down the current owner, actor Tom Herrick. Herrick knows why Moxton wants to get his hands on it-a mystery involving an ongoing Moxton-Herrick family feud, and a multi-million-dollar legacy. For Colby, the search for the truth becomes treacherous as a relentless killer gears up to strike again and again. Everyone in the shadow of the prized Packard is a suspect. And anyone could be the next victim.

Car detective Jack Colby reaches back to World War II to uncover the dangerous secrets buried in the history of a 1938 Alpha Romeo. Jack Colby's old friend and world renowned classic-car portraitist Giovanni Donati has a sweet new gig: paint an exceptionally rare Spyder last seen racing in Italy's famed Mille Miglila just before Hitler came to power. Ever since, it's been resting on its laurels at Plumshaw Manor. But only hours after Giovanni says ciao he's arrested for murdering a member of the family at the sprawling English estate. Could he have done it? Is he being framed? If so, why? The investigation leads Jack back to the Second World War-and forward to an explosive and ongoing rivalry between two aristocratic clans. Now Jack has to dig through a long and mysterious history of betrayal, jealousy, and secret love affairs to prove Giovanni's innocence. But nothing is as it seems-except for the danger Jack faces as he draws close to the truth.

Jack Colby, car detective, is commissioned to buy a 'dream' car from an earl, but finds himself racing into serious danger.The once-notorious cabaret singer Adora Ferne guards a private treasure trove of twelve classic Jaguar cars, but hankers over the one that is missing. Enter Jack Colby: Adora's manager Danny Carter has commissioned him to buy the thirteenth dream car from its owner, the Earl of Storrington.When a murder follows the earl's rejection of an offer, Jack is determined to find out whether there is a link between that and the twelve Jaguars. But the path to the killer divides: does the truth lie amongst the secrets of Adora's past or much closer to home? Speeding along the route he's certain will lead to the answer, Jack rushes headlong into danger.