Peter Tonkin





Peter Tonkin

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born
January 01, 1950 in The United Kingdom

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Peter Tonkin's first novel, KILLER, was published in 1978. His work has included the acclaimed "Mariner" series that have been critically compared with the best of Alistair MacLean, Desmond Bagley and Hammond Innes.

More recently he has been working on a series of detective thrillers with an Elizabethan background. This series, "The Master of Defense", has been characterised as 'James Bond meets Sherlock Holmes meets William Shakespeare'. Each story is a classic 'whodunit' with all the clues presented to the reader exactly as they are presented to the hero, Tom Musgrave. The Kirkus Review described them as having 'Elizabethan detail, rousing action sequences, sound detection...everything a fan of historical mysteries could hope for."


Average rating: 3.57 · 101 ratings · 13 reviews · 33 distinct works
The Ship Breakers
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings3 editions
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The Coffin Ship
2.77 of 5 stars 2.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1990 — 6 editions
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The Journal Of Edwin Underhill
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings2 editions
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The Fire Ship
3.2 of 5 stars 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions
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High Wind in Java
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions
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Hell Gate
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1998
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Killer
3.25 of 5 stars 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1979 — 2 editions
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The Pirate Ship
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings3 editions
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Meltdown
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions
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High Water
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
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More books by Peter Tonkin…
The Coffin Ship The Fire Ship The Bomb Ship Meltdown
Richard Mariner (24 books)
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3.5316455696202533 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 79 ratings
The Point of Death One Head Too Many Hound of the Borders The Silent Woman
Master of Defense (4 books)
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3.7777777777777777 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings

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