Whodunnit

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  • London, 1871. The rich man in his Bayswater villa, the poor man at his gate casing the place.  For many, crime was the only way to get a start in life and ostentatious  wealth was a temptation. In a time of an emergent police force and no telephones, a wave of burglaries terrorises the well-to-do. It was enough to put ideas into  Val Leary's head.  An Irish labourer, he lacked the tools, the expertise and the capital but the Soho underworld would provide those.  What he needed was an inside contact.  That's where Janey came in: a kitchenmaid, the lowest of the servants, in an age when dismissal without references was tantamount to certain death.  Will she risk it?

  • Homicide investigator Rita Trible has seen many hideous crimes - but none like the eleven year old altar boy who was abused, murdered then embalmed. And worse, he is but the first victim of a serial slayer out to make Milwaukee a killing ground. Rita follows the trail of death, only to find it going in the direction she dreads...into the most forbidden realm of the parish, where she uncovers the secret life of a priest the Church is desperate to conceal at any price...and towards the horrifying fear that her own little boy has been targeted by a killer who seems to read her mind and mock her every move...
  • Fraser's third Jemima Shore mystery. Everyone loved Chloe Fontaine. Tiny and exquisitely pretty, her fragile looks hid her considerable talent as a novelist. There had been a series of admirers, lovers and husbands ever since her arrival in literary London. It hardly seemed to matter about the odd contrast between the disorderliness of her private life and the careful formality of her work. Then came the sudden and strange disappearance of Chloe, leaving Jemima in charge of her new London flat....

  • In an isolated Suffolk cottage, a young American writer lives and battles with his artist wife.  He fantasises about murdering her - and when she runs away, he tries out acting like a murderer.  But when his wife doesn't turn up, people start wondering, the police start investigating - and he can't stop behaving suspiciously.  The first of this American author's stories with an English setting.
  • Sydney Bartleby has killed his wife, Alicia - at least he has thought about it, compulsively, over and over again, plotting schemes, designing escapes, forging alibis. Of course he has; he's a mystery-script writer. But when Alicia takes a long, unannounced vacation, Sydney seizes the opportunity to perfect his artistic method...in fact, it's a little too perfect...
  • Modesty Blaize IV. The rugged team of Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin take on impossible odds, pitted against Simon Delicta, the man with a taste for death, and Swordmaster Wenczel in a duel to the death. As the adventure unfolds, travelling from London to Panama before reaching the depths of the Sahara desert, the pair will need all their skills to survive.
  • The last thing eleven-year-old Robin wants to hear is that his mother and her new husband are extending their honeymoon. Not that staying with Aunt Mags is so bad, but there's her boyfriend to contend with, and the members of the school gang are insisting that he do a dare before they let him join. Robin is told to kidnap Mrs. Nordling's prize-winning cat. Getting into the Nordlings' house is easy, but the scene that confronts him is terrifying...Grabbing the cat and making for the door, Robin isn't sure whether Mr. Nordling saw his face or not. He realises that to stay safe, he has to hide the unusual looking cat that he's just rescued from certain death in his aunt's small terrace house. Meanwhile,  Mr. Nordling is getting desperate - he knows that if he can find his wife's unmistakable cat, he'll find the witness to his terrible crime. But his infuriating neighbour Edith Todmaster won't leave him alone - she's getting too near the truth and now he's going top have to deal with her too...A dark and atmospheric tale with a deft feline touch...
  • When a noted anthropologist arrives at an ancient Anasazi Indian ruin to dig for clay pots, she's angry to find that the pre-Navajo burial site has been despoiled - then she is terrified at what looms out of the darkness. Weeks later, Lt. Joe Leaphorn, investigating a report to the Navajo Tribal Police that the anthropologist has been stealing precious artifacts, discovers that she's also been reported missing. The case turns sinister when Officer Jim Chee, on a routine search for missing excavation equipment, finds more than  he expected near a similar dig.   Leaphorn and Chee join forces to unearth the past and solve a bizarre and mystifying series of murders that seem to have only one thing in common - the beautiful and valuable Anasazi pots.

  • Actor Sheridan Hayne's life is transformed with his immense success as TV's Sherlock Holmes. He's been a passionate Sherlockian since his youth  and he's thrilled when the studio suggests he live in rooms in Baker Street that contain plenty of  Sherlock case relics. So naturally, when some mysterious karate killings take place, Sheridan is drawn to investigate.