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One night, in a private boarding house in Scarborough, a railway man vanishes, leaving his belongings behind...It is the eve of the Great War, and Jim Stringer, railway detective, is uneasy about his next assignment. It's not so much the prospect Scarborough in the gloomy off-season that bothers him, or even the fact that the last railway man to stay in the house has disappeared without trace. It's more that his governor, Chief Inspector Saul Weatherhill, seems to be deliberately holding back details of the case - and that he's been sent to Scarborough with a trigger-happy assistant. And when Jim encounters the seductive and beautiful Amanda Rickerby a whole new personal danger enters Jim's life... -
Gaslight Mystery XIV. Sarah Brandt’s family is one of the oldest in New York City and her father, Felix Decker, takes his position in society very seriously. He still refuses to resign himself to his daughter being involved with an Irish Catholic police detective. But when a member of his private club - the very exclusive Knickerbocker - is murdered, Decker forms an uneasy alliance with Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to solve the crime as discreetly as possible. Malloy soon discovers that despite his social standing, the deceased - Chilton Devries - was no gentleman. In fact, he’s left behind his own unofficial club of sorts, populated by everyone who despised him. As he and Sarah sort through the suspects, it becomes clear to her that her father is evaluating more than the detective’s investigative abilities, and that, on a personal level, there is much more at stake for Malloy than discovering who revoked Devries’s membership - permanently. -
Gordon Reeve is going to the funeral of his brother, a journalist, found dead in his car - a presumed suicide. When he gets there, no-one wants to answer his questions - like why the car in which his brother was found was locked on the outside - and why does the local cop shadow him and stop him talking to the friend who saw Jim last? And he feels that it wasn't a ghost he saw parked outside the crematorium...Ex-SAS, a professional killer with an anger management problem, it's not in Reeve's nature to let such questions go unanswered - particular when the killers come knocking on his front door.
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Time: the 1930s, Take one stately English home - complete with secret passage and impeccable butler. Fill with assorted characters gathered for a weekend house party. Among them, an eccentric, gun-crazy earl; his brother, a government minister engaged in top secret talks with a foreign envoy; a Texas millionaire and his wife (the owner of a fabulous diamond necklace); a young lady down on her luck; and the uninvited guest - a beautiful European adventuress, complete with shady past and unconvincing present. Add: the threat of a visit from 'The Wraith', notorious society jewel thief; a violent thunderstorm; a fight in a darkened room; a scream in the night - and a body in the lake. Finally, season with one highly unconventional detective. A superb puzzle of the Agatha Christie genre.
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Red Dragon: Sexual hunger; demonic violence; sinister logic - the lethal components driving a psychopath i n the grip of an unimaginable delusion; a boastful killer who sends the police tormenting notes; a tortured, torturing monster who finds ultimate pleasure in viciously murdering happy families. He calls himself - The Red Dragon. Silence of the Lambs: There's a killer on the loose who knows that beauty is only skin deep, and a trainee investigator who's trying to save her own hide. The only man who can help is locked up in an asylum. He's willing to put a brave face on - if it'll help him escape...
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Chaos erupts when the Governor of Virginia orders that speed traps be installed on all streets and highways, and warns that motorists will be caught by monitoring aircraft flying overhead. But the eccentric inhabitants of Tangier, an island approximately 14 kilometres off the coast of Virginia in Chesapeake Bay, respond by threatening to secede and set up an independent state, claiming that their independence lies in the history of America's first settlers, those who set sail from England's Isle of Dogs in 1607. Judy Hammer, newly installed as the superintendent of Virginia State Police and Andy Brazil, state trooper and Hammer's right-hand confidante, are at their wit's end as they try to protect the public from the politicians - and vice versa.
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John Putnam Thatcher, senior vice-president of the world's third largest bank, the Sloane, is in Puerto Rico to set the affairs of Slax Clothing in order. The bank has lent them three million dollars and Thatcher soon discovers there's more wrong at Slax than a delay in delivery dates. There's sabotage, arson, murder, kidnapping and a political crisis! Slax's boss is kidnapped, the Government declares a state of emergency and a nation wide manhunt ensues!
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Campion has been summoned, by an anonymous message, to the picture-perfect village of Kepesake for the funeral of Pig Peters, who he remembers only as the sadistic school bully of his childhood. It is a decidedly unpleasant affair with one or two dubious mourners. Campion has practically forgotten the affair when he is called back to Kepesake to investigate a peculiarly distasteful death. The body is that of Pig Peters, freshly killed five months after his funeral... This book was first published in 1937 and sounds worthy of being made into an episode of Midsomer Murders. -
Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern front, a boy in the snow, mute with a chain around his neck. He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him. His uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him back to France to live with him and his Uncle's exotic beautiful wife. She helps him to heal and he flourishes, becoming the youngest person ever admitted to medical school in France. But Hannibal's demons visit him and torment him. When he is old enough, he visits them in turn. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/dvd-hannibal-rising-gaspard-ulliel-gong-li-dominic-west/
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