Barlow(1971–1975)

Strays

Barlow must find a young girl who has disappeared from London Airport.

Wanted

Fishing for a villain in Amsterdam, Barlow searches for the appropriate bait.

Review

Eddie Doyle is serving a life sentence for murder, but friends in The Potteries think the police may have moved too fast.

Publicity

A girl has been murdered in the West Country, and routine methods have failed to find her killer. What's needed is something different...

Wheelbarrows

Barlow investigates a racket using car ferries to export stolen vehicles.

Informant

When a voice from the past brings Barlow information about a crime, he has to balance his new responsibilities at the Home Office against his detective's judgment.

Trespass

The policeman look and sound British. But when Barlow follows the trail of a city swindler as far as Rhodesia, he finds them surprisingly unfriendly.

Assessor

Barlow finds that Signor Rizzi is interested in something more sinister then good trade relations.

Treasure

The Rock of Gibraltar proves stony ground when Barlow and Rees start 'digging' for treasure. Their hunt for £750,000 worth of stolen and forged securities leads them to all the Rock's attractions - and one of the attractions leads Rees into temptation.

A Welcome in the Hillside

The Home Office has co-opted Barlow to look into corruption in Wales. Businessman Tony Sherlock employs the daughter of a senior officer and tries to buy him off.

Come to Dust

Hopkins is jailed, and DS Owen commits suicide. Barlow finds counterfeit money hidden in a old coal hunt, and the body of a small child is discovered in Hopkins' father's grave.

Big Deal

Barlow's involvement in the security arrangements for a number of big open-air pop festivals appears to be routine. But when things go wrong at least one chief constable is glad he's there.

Snatch

A prominent Jewish industrialist appears to have been kidnapped. Is it a hoax? Or is it the action of Arab guerillas - in which case what exactly do they want?

Plunder

Even on holiday in Italy Barlow manages to combine business with pleasure - which accounts for his knowledge of and interest in Etruscan art.

Hit

Barlow is instructed to make discreet enquiries into the undesirable company being kept by a politician. In the process he meets up with an old adversary and decides, for once, to go it alone.

Corruption

A series of apparently unconnected explosions reveals a web of intrigue. Barlow's enquiries touch a raw nerve in high places and he takes a big personal risk.

Restitution

Snookered

A mysterious call from Special Branch leads Barlow into a cloak-and-dagger world which is, as Fenton warns him, ""shadowy, full of intrigue - and violent"".

Vindication

Away

Bullion

Rat Run

Asylum

Contessa

Nemesis