Robert Barnard
Robert Barnard was an English crime writer, critic and lecturer. In addition to over 40 books published under his own name, he also published four books under the pseudonym Bernard Bastable. [Wikipedia]
Works (50)

A mansion and its murder
1998

A scandal in Belgravia
1991

Sheer torture
1982

Posthumous papers
1979

Unruly son
1979

Little victims
1983

Out of the blackout
1985

Disposal of the living
August 8, 1985

Political suicide
1986

A talent to deceive

Touched by the dead
1999

The habit of widowhood
1996

Rogues Gallery

Death of an old goat
1974

Death of a salesperson

The killings on Jubilee Terrace
2009

2nd Culprit
June 1994

A short history of English literature
1984

Bodies
1986

The case of the missing Brontë
1983

A little local murder
April 1995

To die like a gentleman
1993

Death and the princess
1982

Death on the High C's
1981

The Verdict of Us All

The graveyard position
2004

A corpse in a gilded cage

Death in a cold climate
1980

At death's door

A suit of diamonds

The skeleton in the grass
1987

Dead, Mr. Mozart
1995

Imagery and theme in the novels of Dickens
1971

The corpse at the Haworth Tandoori
1998

Too many notes, Mr. Mozart
1996

The Missing Bronte
October 22, 1992

The cherry blossom corpse
1987

BRONTE ENCYCLOPEDIA

A charitable body

Medusa; Death warmed over; At death's door

Intrusion detection systems

A fatal attachment

Last post
2008

Unholy dying
2000

The bad samaritan
1995

Masters of the house
1994

Death and the chaste apprentice
1989

A hovering of vultures

A city of strangers
1990

Emily Brontë
2000