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Tommy and Tuppence IV. When Tommy and Tuppence Beresford visit Aunt Ada - an unpleasant old bat - at Sunny Ridge Nursing Home, Tuppence encounters some odd residents including Mrs. Lancaster who mystifies her with talk about "your poor child" and "something behind the fireplace". When Aunt Ada dies a few weeks later, she leaves Tommy and Tuppence a painting featuring a house, which Tuppence is sure she has seen before. This realization leads her on a dangerous adventure involving a missing tombstone, diamond smuggling - and a horrible discovery of what Mrs. Lancaster was talking about. -
Lovejoy XVI. When the antique trade is slow, you have to make ends meet in unusual ways. So Lovejoy is driving for Gazza Gaunt's disreputable assignation service. But when one of his customers, the beautiful Fiona, discovers his eye for the genuine article, he finds himself the toast of a rich set whose vices and interest in danger extend way beyond a casual tryst in the back of Lovejoy's van. Advising the rich on valuables is never easy, but when he discovers this set's previous advisors have ended up in hospital - or worse - Lovejoy decides to flee with the horse-mad Almira to France. Little does he realise that Almira is part of a plot and that France is the centre of the biggest antique scam in history. -
Inspector Bonaparte XIX. The body of Constable Stenhouse is found in his jeep on the road to Agar’s Lagoon by a long distance truckie. Stenhouse, a competent policeman but not popular, has been shot, and his native tracker is missing. It looks like as if Jackie Musgrove, has the tracker, shot his Constable and cleared out with his swag and rifle. But the local blacks are making smoke signals and gathering purposefully. Bony happens to be in the town of Agar’s Lagoon due to engine trouble on his flight home from Broome, and as the case gets more interesting, it's not long before he's asked to help with the investigation. And he's not alone in his search - the local Aborigines are seeking vengeance as well... -
The people of Streetch village had never trusted the three women living up at the Grange - not since Phoebe Maybury's husband suddenly - and inexplicably - vanished. Ten years later a corpse is discovered in the grounds, and Phoebe's nightmare begins anew. For when they identify the body, the police are determined to charge her with murder...
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The handsome young salesman gazed at the portrait of a would-be murderer. It appeared in the mirror that hung over his washbasin. A year ago, his nineteen-year-old girlfriend was killed by a car full of four drunken people - one of whom was driving. The young salesman isn't going to kill them - no. He's going to make them suffer as he suffered - by killing the innocent people each drunkard loved the most. Superintendent Ancher patiently investigates a series of bizarre deaths, none of which seem to be related to each other and a terrible battle of wits begins. Can Ancher save the innocents before the cruel punishment descends?
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Nemesis: In utter disbelief, Jane Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr Rafiel - an acquaintance she had met briefly while on vacation in St. Honore. Rafiel had left instructions for her to investigate a crime after his death. The only problem was, he had failed to tell her who was involved or where and when the crime had been committed. It was most intriguing. Soon she is faced with a new crime - the ultimate crime - murder. It seems someone is adamant that past evils remain buried. Sleeping Murder: Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs. In fear, Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Have they dredged up a “perfect” crime committed many years before? At Bertram's Hotel: This old-fashioned London hotel may not be quite as reputable as it makes out...When Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she's looking for at Bertram's: traditional décor and impeccable service. But she senses an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer. Not even Miss Marple can foresee the violent chain of events set in motion when an eccentric hotel guest makes his way to the airport one day late. The Murder At The Vicarage: Miss Marple encounters a compelling murder mystery in the sleepy little village of St. Mary Mead, where under the seemingly peaceful exterior of an English country village lurks intrigue, guilt, deception and death. Colonel Protheroe, local magistrate and overbearing land-owner is the most detested man in the village. Everyone - even in the vicar - wishes he were dead. And very soon he is...shot in the head in the vicar's own study. Faced with a surfeit of suspects, only the inscrutable Miss Marple can unravel the tangled web of clues that will lead to the unmasking of the killer. -
Hamish Macbeth V. Wealthy Maggie Baird is not nice, kind or generous. About the best that could be said of her is that inside her middle-aged body, there still beats the heart of a beautiful tart. When Maggie's car catches fire with her inside it, suspicion focuses on the five house guests staying at Maggie's luxurious Highlands cottage: her timid niece and four former lovers, one of whom Maggie had intended to pick for a husband. All five are equally impecunious; and all had ample opportunity to monkey with Maggie's car. So finding who did it requires all P.C. Hamish Macbeth's extraordinary common sense and insight into human nature. And - lazy lout though he may be, a thorn in the side of his superiors and an exasperation to his neighbours - Hamish lets no grass grow under his feet when it comes to solving a murder. Not even when the killer appears to be the wrong person. -
Inspector Frost 6. On a rainy night in Denton, Detective Inspector Jack Frost is called to the site of a macabre discovery in the woods - that of a human foot. Meanwhile a multiple rapist is on the loose, the local supermarket reports poisoned stock and a man claims to have cut his wife up into little pieces, yet can't recall where he hid them. But it is when two young girls are reported missing in quick succession that the Denton crime wave reaches terrifying heights. As the exhausted Frost staggers from case to case, pressured from all sides and haunted by memories of his wife, something nasty arrives at the station in the form of Detective Chief Inspector Skinner. The scheming, slippery Skinner clearly has his eye on the Superintendent's office, but his first job is to manipulate the transfer of the unorthodox D.I. Jack Frost to another division. Will Frost find the missing girls before his new nemesis forces him away from Denton once and for all? -
Inspector Lynley No. XVII. Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough, Cresswell's uncle. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio's digging soon reveals that the Fairclough clan is awash in secrets, lies, and motives. Deborah's investigation of the prime suspect - Bernard's prodigal son Nicholas, a recovering drug addict - leads her to Nicholas's wife, a woman with whom she feels a kinship, a woman as fiercely protective as she is beautiful. Lynley and Simon delve for information from the rest of the family, including the victim's bitter ex-wife and the man he left her for - and Bernard himself. As the investigation escalates, the Fairclough family's veneer cracks, with deception and self-delusion threatening to destroy everyone from the Fairclough patriarch to Tim, the troubled son Ian left behind.
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