Books by James Warden

At the centre of this investigation was an elderly couple - content in their own company, devoted to each other, "always locked in each other's arms" - who had disappeared without a trace and who, one way or another, needed to be found.

Samuel Warden of the Detective Police had been forewarned. He was to travel to Cloisterham, a town on the Medway, where six months before a young man, Edwin Drood, had disappeared, and find him "whether he be dead or alive".

Bingham, wondering what he was doing on a rain-swept day in Lowestoft looking for a woman who did not want to be found, changed his mind on listening to her son: he'd do all he could to find the runaway wife.

Bingham felt that little girls deserve better than to disappear at the age of six, never to be heard of again, and set out on his first case.

In the summer of 1955, two children disappear and stories emerge of strange craft in Rendlesham Forest.

Personal Memoirs

Contemporary Fiction: Family and relationships