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A moonlight night - a sleeping village - and a corpse in evening dress, locked in the village green stocks. Superintendent Hannasyde sets out on the trail of a killer so cunning that even his phenomenal powers of detection are tested to the limit! -
Ridley Jones 1. If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway instead of waiting for a cab, she would still be living the beautiful lie she used to call her life. She would still be the privileged daughter of a doting father and a loving mother. Her life would still be perfect - with only the tiny cracks of an angry junkie for a brother and a charming drunk with shady underworld connections for an uncle to mar the otherwise flawless whole. But that’s not what happened. Instead, those inconsequential decisions lead her to perform a good deed that puts her in the right place at the right time to unleash a chain of events that brings a mysterious package to her door - a package which informs her that her entire world is a lie. Suddenly forced to question everything she knows about herself and her family, Ridley wanders into dark territory she never knew existed, where everyone in her life seems like a stranger. She has no idea who’s on her side and who has something to hide - even, and maybe especially, her new lover, Jake, who appears to have secrets of his own. -
Who killed Carolyn, the beautiful, opportunistic and successful prosecuting deputy whose dead body is found naked and bound in her fashionable apartment? Was it rape and murder - or a premeditated crime? Rusty Sabich, family man and the number-two prosecutor of Kindle County, is handed this explosive case - the brutal murder of the woman who was his former lover. A shocking turn of events suddenly transforms him from the accuser into the accused and plunges him into a nightmare world where nothing seems real and no one can be presumed innocent. -
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... -
1895, and the eyes of the world are fixed on France. An obscure Jewish artillery officer is accused of selling military secrets to Germany. Convicted by court martial, degraded by his regiment and vilified by the press he is deported, condemned to living death on the notorious Ile du Diable. Branded a traitor, abandoned and alone, the man is about to become a legend, a symbol of injustice, the issue that would divide a nation and the world for a decade. The possibility of his innocence is a faint flame, kept alive by his immediate family. A desperate message is sent to 'the court of final appeal' - a famous address in Baker Street. Yet Sherlock Holmes is unresponsive; the traitor's guilt seems established beyond reasonable doubt and nothing - not even a wife's last-hope plea - will persuade him to intervene...nothing except the personal request of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria. Cover art by Alun Hood.
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Crippen: John Boyne
$6.00July 1910 - a gruesome discovery is made at 39 Hilltop Crescent, Camden. Buried in the cellar are the remains of Cora Crippen, former musical hall singer and wife of Dr. Hawley Crippen. And Crippen, together with his attractive mistress Ethel Le Neve, have vanished. Across the Channel in Antwerp, the SS Montrose is about to set sail for a two week voyage to Canada. Slipping almost unnoticed into the throng of 1300 passengers is a Mr John Robinson and his seventeen year old son Edmund. A very interesting fictionalisation of the notorious Crippen - what might he have been like and why he was driven to murder his wife. Crippen is also infamous for being the first criminal caught by wireless telegraph. In the last few years, new evidence has arisen in the case - the corpse in cellar may not have been Dora Crippen...
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Dark Veil: Nickolae Gerstner
$15.00In Scotland, a small boy has a disturbing and inexplicable vision: Two men are in a car. One of them is dead, killed. And a bad man is waiting for the clock lady. In Chicago, university scientist Steven Farrell is found dead in his car, an apparent suicide. For his wife Madelon, a dealer in antique clocks, her happy life is over - and a nightmare begins. Someone is watching her, following her, searching her home and calling in the night. As she learns more about her husband's controversial research into psychic ability, Madelon's worst fears become more certain - a shadowy conspiracy exists and her life is in danger.
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On exhibit at the marble-pillared Wade Museum of Oriental Art is an enormous black-hooded carriage; and when an inspector opens one of its doors to investigate some strange goings-on, out falls a corpse. But it is not just an ordinary corpse - this one has an elaborately decorated Persian dagger protruding from its chest, fake whiskers on its chin, and a cookbook clutched in its hand. These bizarre components have Dr. Gideon Fell temporarily baffled, but not overwhelmed, as he unravels the clues to reveal the solution to a chillingly horrendous crime. -
To Kill A Cat: W.J. Burley
$20.00The naked girl lying sprawled in the seedy hotel bedroom had been the victim of two separate assaults - one almost delicate and the other savage, mindless. And Superintendent Wycliffe, officially on holiday, couldn't resist the temptation to find out why. There was too much of everything about this case... too many suspects, too many motives - and too many lies.
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