

He’s done so well at the latter that’s he’s on a first name basis with several policemen at Scotland Yard, and they don’t mind in the least if he does some investigating for them on his own. I don’t have any books there over 20 million.įor an author no one had even heard of a year ago at this time, that’s quite an achievement.ĭuncan’s series character is a chap named Mordecai Tremaine, a retired tobacconist whose hobbies are reading romance novels and solving crimes. Most of the books I have listed for sale on Amazon have rankings in the 3 to 8 millions. They may not look spectacular, but believe me, they are - especially for detective fiction. Four of his six novels are back in print, and in the list of the titles at the end of this review, I’ve added the current Amazon sales ranking. It’s strange, but I have a feeling that Francis Duncan’s detective novels are selling now as well as they ever did, if not a whole lot better.
