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Billy Boyle is an Irish actor and singer on British film, television and stage. [1] [2] His recording career included five 45rpm singles for the Decca and Columbia labels, including the novelty song "My Baby's Crazy 'Bout Elvis" (Decca F 11503) in 1962.
James R. Benn is the creator of the Billy Boyle series, featuring a U.S. Army investigator in various locations and historical events of World War II. Learn more about his books, characters, and historical research on his website.
James R. Benn (born September 5, 1949) is an American author, best known for the Billy Boyle World War II Mystery Series . Personal life. Benn was born on September 5, 1949, in New York City, New York to parents Harold Joseph and Gertrude Ross Benn. He grew up in Southington, Connecticut.
Sep 1, 2006 · Billy Boyle, a young Irish-American cop from Boston has just made detective - with a little help from his cop relatives and friends - when World War II breaks out. His rabidly anti-English family calls on his mother's distant cousin, Mamie, married to a general, to wangle a staff job for him far from the fighting.
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- The White Ghost. The tension between a murder investigation and wartime action has always been at the heart of this series — How can one killing matter in a world where hundreds die every day?
- Death's Door. Library Journal: This seventh mystery in Benn’s historical series finds Billy Boyle, a Boston police detective turned Allied intelligence agent, awaiting orders in southern Italy early in 1944.
- Rag And Bone. CRIMESPREE MAGAZINE: The Billy Boyle books from James R Benn are among a small group that go right to the top of the reading pile. The latest, RAG AND BONE (SOHO) is...
- Evil For Evil. Fans of historical mysteries and World War II buffs will savor “Evil for Evil,’’ James Benn’s latest series novel with Billy Boyle…Rich in its exploration of Irish history and politics, this is also a character study of brash young man trying to balance personal, family, and political loyalties while staying true to himself.
Billy Boyle World War II Series. 19 primary works • 19 total works. Billy Boyle, an Irish-American cop from Boston, helps his "uncle" Ike Eisenhower in sensitive WWII military investigations in overseas Europe.
The Billy Boyle is a mystery series written by bestselling American author James R. Benn. It is a fictional story with the World War II forming a solid background to it. The book released by Soho Press in 2006 belongs to one of the many novels in the series and features Billy Boyle as the main protagonist who is a detective with the Boston ...
