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Allan Martin



Allan Martin worked as a teacher, teacher-trainer and university lecturer, and only turned to writing fiction after He'd taken early retirement.

His first novel, The Peat Dead, is published by ThunderPoint Publishing. It’s a crime thriller, set mainly on the island of Islay, and is the first in a series featuring Inspector Angus Blue and forensic archaeologist Dr Alison Hendrickx.

He's already completed a second Inspector Blue novel, The Dead of Jura, and the first in a detective series set in 1930s Estonia, The Fall. He's also translated from Estonian a ‘closed-room’ mystery originally published in 1937. He's had several short stories published, mostly in iScot magazine.
 

Genres: Historical Mystery, Historical, Mystery
 
New and upcoming books
February 2024

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The Dead of Oban
(Angus Blue, book 4)
Series
Angus Blue
   1. The Peat Dead (2019)
   A Fatal Contagion (2020)
   2. The Dead of Jura (2020)
   3. The Dead of Appin (2021)
   4. The Dead of Oban (2024)
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Collections
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Series contributed to
Aspects of History
   3. Action this Day (2023) (with others)
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