From Doon With Death - 1964

One of the series featuring Detective Chief Inspector Wexford. The police knew all about Margaret Parsons - a religious, old-fashioned and respectable woman, as unexciting and dependable as her marriage. But it wasn't her life that interested Wexford - it was her violent, passionate death.
The question is: wo was Margaret Parsons?

A New Lease of Death- 1967

The Reverend Henry Archery has a problem. His son wants to marry the lovely, clever daughter of a man hanged sixteen years ago for a brutal axe-killing. So, he decides he must try to clear the dead criminal's name. The girl's mother has always maintained, in the teeth of police evidence, that her daughter's father was no murderer. And there are certain areas of doubt - more than one person stood to gain by the victim's death, for instance. So Archery starts digging. Soon enough, he unearths some disturbing fragments of previously buried information…