The Gentle Touch

When Ivor Stocker, a J.P. and successful businessman, rteceives a blackmail threat, it becomes a case for Det-Insp. Maggie Forbes...

A series of robberies with violence have been reported. All have a similar pattern, and all are carried out by women. Maggie Forbes and her police team are puzzled to know who these women are. Or could it be one woman in many disguises.

Det.-Insp. Maggie Forbes spends a frustrating day at the law courts. She feels she would be much usefully employed trying to solve the criminal cases that keep arriving on her desk.

Detective Inspector Forbes has a marksman with a high-powered rifle loose on her patch.

A famous television actress received death threats.

An articulate, well-educated young black man confesses to a crime that he did not commit. As her son Steve seeks advice which only a father can give, Maggie's problems go from bad to worse.

Maggie suffers severe stress when faced with a bloody multiple murder.

When a loyal wife is determined to help her jailed husband get justice, Maggie is Forced to review the evidence.

When animal rights campaigners free some dogs from a labratory, but fail to realise that one of the animlas is dangerously ill, a children's birthday party becomes a terrible nightmare for Maggie Forbes.

Her name is Cecily. She's sophisticated well-liked - and dangerous, as DI Maggie Forbes will soon find out when she makes enquiries at Cecily's elegant flat, a place which conceals a grim secret.

A minor civil servant is found dead in exotic circumstances, and Maggie tries to protect his widow from publicity.