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An ancient Egyptian tomb - sealed from the outside world for centuries, deep inside solid rock...the sarcophagus is opened...and inside is a freshly murdered corpse! Legendary detective G.K. Chesterton investigates the mystery and reveals the amazing solution - but not before there are more deaths and deadly dangers. Take this trip down the Nile, past the ancient temple of Karnak, the Valley Of The Kings and the city of Luxor, to an archeological dig in the valley of Deir el-Bahri in the year 1919...and into a surprise world of suspence and romance. -
While travelling by train, Miss Marple witnesses the strangling of a young woman in another train on a parallel track. The police find nothing to support her story, so she conducts her own investigation, with the aid of her close friend Jim Stringer. They conclude the body must have been thrown from the train near Ackenthorpe Hall. There's only one thing for it - Miss Marple goes undercover as a housekeeper at the Hall. Based on Agatha Christie's 4.50 From Paddington. Also stars James Robertson Justice, Joan Hickson and Rutherford's husband Stringer Davis. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/4-50-from-paddington-agatha-christie/ https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/margaret-rutherford-dreadnought-good-manners-andrew-merriman/ -
Book XX of Brother Cadfael. November 1145 - the bitter rift between King Stephen and Empress Maud at last has achance for reconciliation. With both sides pndering the wisdom of further conflict, they agree that a council should take place. It is hoped that the meeting will at least resolve the question prisoners of war, a number of whom were taken following the shocking defection to the King’s cousin Philip, younger son of the Earl of Gloucester. Brother Cadfael seeks leave to attend the meeting - he has learned that among the prisoners is one Olivier de Bretagne, a young man who calls upon loyalties even higher than Cadfael’s monastic vows. As Cadfael observes, ‘Before I was a brother, I was a father…’ and his determination to come to his son’s aid prompts a perplexing investigation of a uniquely personal nature. -
When Kinsey Millhone answers her office door late one night, she lets in more darkness than she realizes. Janice Kepler is a grieving mother who can't let the death of her beautiful daughter Lorna alone. The police agree that Lorna was murdered, but a suspect was never apprehended and the trail is now ten months cold. Kinsey pieces together Lorna's young life: a dull day job at the local water treatment plant, spiced by sidelines in prostitution and porno. She tangles with Lorna's friends: a local late-night DJ; a sweet, funny teenage hooker; Lorna's sloppy landlord and his exotic wife. But to find out which one, if any, turned killer, Kinsey will have to inhabit a netherworld from which she may never return. -
A Catholic Priest is brutally bludgeoned to death returning from a visit to a dying woman. In his shoe is a scrap of paper with a list of names - all of whom died recently and seemingly from natural causes and advantageously for those who gained by the deaths. There are whispers about a pale horse. A place? A person? An organisation? Mark Easterbrook hears the whispers that those prepared to pay can ensure that natural death becomes the ally of their ambitions. The search for a solution leads Easterbrook to a quiet Hampshire village where three modern witches boast openly of their occult powers... -
From the creator of Cadfael. When Herbert Terrell falls off a mountain during his annual climbing holiday in Czechoslovakia, accidental death seems to be the inevitable verdict. But his young step-daughter, Tossa, doesn't accept the inevitable. She'd been planning a summer holiday in Europe, so what could be simpler than to persuade her companions to the scene of the crime? Dominic Felse, a little bewitched by Tossa's brown eyes, is game for a change of plans, although ignorant of her real motive. And he's certainly not prepared for their touring holiday to become a deadly game of cat and mouse. A fragment of an English folk song, the plaintive lament of a pipe and an unexpected corpse are the clues the amateur sleuths must solve to discover the riddle of the piper on the mountain.
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Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the famous Orient Express in its tracks as it travels through the mountainous Balkans. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year but, by the morning, it has one less passenger. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of the passengers is none other than detective Hercule Poirot. On vacation. Isolated and with a killer on board, Poirot must identify the murderer - in case he or she decides to strike again. -
Kay Scarpetta VIII. Dublin, Ireland and Richmond, Virginia - separated by thousands of miles but linked by murder. Dr. Scarpetta, on a leisure stint in Ireland, has the perfect opportunity to find out if the murders on opposite sides of the Atlantic are linked. Five dismembered, beheaded bodies were found in Ireland years ago - now four have been discovered in the US. But the tenth corpse in Virginia is different. There are vital discrepancies and evidence that the elderly victim was already seriously ill. A copy-cat killing - ghoulish, but not unusual. But when the next body is found, Scarpetta discovers that the killer is armed with the most lethal weapon on earth - smallpox. -
Female: age 32, single, self-employed and wiser than she used to be. For Kinsey Millhome, private investigator, only one thing stays the same - when a client sits down in the chair across the desk, she never knows what's going to happen next. Business was slow and there was nothing about Beverley Danziger to cause Kinsey concern. She was looking for her sister. She paid up front. It seemed like a lot of money for a routine job but Kinsey wasn't going to argue. She kicked herself later for the things she didn't see. But by then she was in danger, and money was the last thing on her mind...
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