The Jewel in the Crown is a 1966 novel by Paul Scott that begins his Paradise Quartet. The Quartet novel sequence in four volumes is set in the last days of British rule in India during World War II.
The Bookseller's Promise is the third book in the Cliff Janeway series by the award-winning John Dunning, an unusually talented and unique American writer.
In Boll's novels, one of the central themes is the attempt to preserve basic moral values in a time of terror, as well as in a period of material prosperity and corruption.
André Maurois, a French writer known for his psychological novels and biographies, explores themes of family relationships, love, and internal conflicts in this work, which is characteristic of his style.
These stories deal with different topics, although most deal with different criminal acts, from fraud and fortune-telling to marriage fraud and murder.