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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. -
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... -
1968, Southern California: a beauty queen lies dead among the orange groves... her head sawn off. It's Detective Nick Becker's first case. Nick and his brothers are local boys. All of them knew the pretty girl lying in the morgue. The product of a troubled family, she had needed rescuing. Now it's too late for Nick to help - except by catching her killer. But America is in a strange state in '68, with no state more strange than California. And the dead girl's life was more complex than anyone could have imagined. Four decades later, Nick discovers that the man he arrested may have been innocent and that he will have to search the darkest corners of his family's history to find the truth. -
This volume contains: The King of the Beggars: A behind the scenes criminal mastermind is extracting protection money from beggars in New York City. The Saint and actress Monica Varing team up, in disguise, to infiltrate the organization and unmask the King. The Masked Angel : A professional fight sees the Masked Angel knock out Torpedo Smith, for good. The Saint is suspicious that a certain Dr. Spangler is somehow giving the Masked Angel an unfair advantage. When another professional fighter falls, it's up to the Saint to put on his gloves and step into the ring. -
Calumet City: Charlie Newton
$10.00Patti Black is the most decorated cop in Chicago; a ghetto street officer, she redefines the word badass. But the steel-plated exterior she shows to the world - solitary, friendless, loveless - hides the hideous traumas of her past. As an orphaned child, she was horribly sexually abused by her foster parents and the torments of the past are only barely contained by her meticulously maintained tough-guy persona. When a serious of seemingly unrelated cases - a drug bust gone bad, a mayoral assassination attempt, the abduction and murder of a states attorney, a long-hidden body walled up in a tenement basement - all point in her direction, she comes to the horrified realization that her past is no longer staying in its deeply suppressed place. It's back - and it's hunting her down. -
Crime Collection: Cards On The Table: Mr. Shaitana collects snuff-boxes, Egyptian antiquities and murderers. Not caught murderers ('necessarily second rate') but the ones who got away with it. He invites Hercule Poiret around to meet his collection. Before the evening is over, the collector is a corpse - stabbed to death by one of his own exhibits...N Or M? Tommy and Tuppence become involved in a case during the tense days of WWII - Hitler's most trusted agents are in England. N is a man - M is a woman. Both are masters of cunning, deception and murder. Set in a seaside boarding house inhabited by innocent-seeming boarders, Tommy and Tuppence are on the trail of a ruthless scheme of kidnapping, espionage and murder. A Murder Is Announced: '...and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m. Friends, please accept this, the only intimation.' A joke, of course, in bad taste. But none of Miss Blacklock's friends can resist calling on her at the appointed hour. At 6.30 precisely, the lights go out...
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An omnibus volume containing: Where Are The Children? Nancy Harmon long ago fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her hair and left California for the windswept peace of Cape Cod. Now remarried, she has two more beloved children and the pain has begun to heal - until the morning when she looks in the backyard for her children and finds only one red mitten. She knows that the nightmare is beginning again...Loves Music, Loves To Dance: A killer enacts a bizarre dance of death, his victims drawn from the women who answer his personal adverts in New York's trendy magazines...Erin and Darcy, besties since college. have moved to the city to embark on careers as a jewellery designer and an interior decorator respectively. Just for fun, they agree to help a friend with research for a television documentary on the kinds of people who place and answer personal adverts, by answering ads and sharing their experiences. Then Erin vanishes...and her body is found on an abandoned Manhattan pier; on one foot is her own shoe and on the other, a high-heeled dancing slipper. She is not the first victim of the 'dancing shoe murderer'...Darcy, guilt-ridden because she had persuaded Erin to participate in the research for the documentary, sets out to meet the men Erin had dated. hoping she will find the killer - not knowing that she has been targeted as the killer's next victim... Let Me Call You Sweetheart: When her daughter's face is cut in a car accident, Kerry McGrath is relieved that the plastic surgeon who treats her is the eminent Dr. Charles Smith. Then Kerry notices something bizarre...Two of Smith's patients bear an uncanny resemblance to Suzanne Reardon, a young woman killed eleven years earlier. Why would Dr. Smith create look-alikes of a murder victim? You Belong To Me: When Dr. Susan Chandler decides to use her daily radio talk show to explore the phenomenon of women who disappear and are later found to have become victims of killers who prey on the lonely and insecure, she has no idea that she is exposing herself - and those closest to her - to the very terror that she hopes to warn others against. Susan sets out to determine who is responsible for an attempt on the life of a woman who called in to the show offering information on the mysterious disappearance from a cruise ship, years before, of Regina Clausen, a wealthy investment advisor. Soon Susan finds herself in a race against time, for not only does the killer stalk these lonely women, but he seems intent on eliminating anyone who can possibly further Susan's investigation. -
Casket Case: Fran Rizer
$8.00Callie Parrish III. The town's beloved pharmacist has been found floating face down in his hot tub. Callie has to wonder if the kind man died of natural causes, or if his seemingly distraught young wife had a hand in his death. But when the hateful real estate agent who's been pestering Callie's friend Jane to vacate her flat is found with his skull bashed in at the foot of Jane's steps...Even though Callie feels she's not getting anywhere, someone else seems to think she knows far too much... -
Who killed Marius Steen, the theatre tycoon with a fortune to leave his young mistress Jacqui? And who killed Bill Sweet, the shady blackmailer with a collection of compromising photographs? Charles Paris, the middle-aged actor who keeps going on booze and women, takes to detection by assuming a variety of roles - among them that of McWhirter of the Yard! In that role he precipitates the crime; as one of the blackmailer's victims he finds himself in bed with the blackmailer's wife and he also has a small part in a horror film - The Zombie Walks - in which the murderer tries to shoot him. He eventually arrives at the solution via the petrol crisis and an abortive attack of German measles! -
Dear Mummy: We had a murder last night. Miss Springer, the gym mistress. It happened in the middle of the night and the police came and this morning they're asking everyone questions. Miss Chadwick told us not to talk to anybody about it, but I thought you'd like to know. With Love, Jennifer. Getting a letter like that would have given any respectable parent the palpitations. But unpleasant things like murder are going on in an exclusive school for girls. Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of the unpopular games mistress – shot through the heart from point blank range. The school is thrown into chaos when the ‘cat’ strikes again. Unfortunately, schoolgirl Julia Upjohn knows too much and she knows that without Hercule Poirot’s help, she will be the next victim…Cover art by Tom Adams. -
Dear Mummy: We had a murder last night. Miss Springer, the gym mistress. It happened in the middle of the night and the police came and this morning they're asking everyone questions. Miss Chadwick told us not to talk to anybody about it, but I thought you'd like to know. With Love, Jennifer. Getting a letter like that would have given any respectable parent the palpitations. But unpleasant things like murder are going on in an exclusive school for girls. Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of the unpopular games mistress – shot through the heart from point blank range. The school is thrown into chaos when the ‘cat’ strikes again. Unfortunately, schoolgirl Julia Upjohn knows too much and she knows that without Hercule Poirot’s help, she will be the next victim… -
Alex Cross, Book IV. Psychopath Gary Soneji is back - filled with hatred and obsessed with revenge on Detective Alex Cross. Soneji is determined to go down in a blaze of glory and he wants Alex to be there. Will this be the final showdown?
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Midnight Louie, the jet-black feline sleuth who thinks he's Sam Spade with hairballs, finds some suspicious jumpsuit-clad Kings of Rock 'n' Roll wreaking havoc in his home town of Las Vegas. It all begins when Midnight Louie's human partner, P.R. woman Temple Barr, learns something strange about one of her accounts. It seems that ghost sightings are holding up the remodeling of the Crystal Phoenix hotel. But that's not the strange part. What's strange is that the workmen swear that the ghost is none other than the (supposedly) deceased King of Rock 'n' Roll, Elvis Presley. Could the ghost be an uninvited visitor from the nearby Kingdome - a Elvis-themed tourist attraction - or is he a more otherworldly visitor? Meanwhile, the daughter of Temple's professional enemy, a lovely seventeen year old who bears a striking resemblance to Priscilla Presley, is in trouble. A series of death threats culminates in a razor-tattoo attack, leaving her with the letter"E" carved in her neck. And Temple's neighbour and former suitor has been receiving some unusual calls to his midnight radio hotline - and guess who the caller sounds like? When a dead Elvis is found, it's not only a question of whodunnit - but why and who is the dead man? Could Elvis still be alive and hiding behind his impersonators? Or is he really dead again - or for the first time? Or not at all? Cover art by Roger Loveless.
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While incarcerated for two years in five different prisons, Archer collected numerous ideas for short tales and in this selection, all of them have a twist in the tail: from The Man Who Robbed His Own Post Office to Don't Drink the Water...wherein a company chairman decides to poison his wife while on holiday overseas, with very unexpected consequences; Charity Begins at Home - a story of an accountant who realises he has achieved nothing in life and sets out to make his fortune before he retires. Maestro: the tax man sets out to find how an Italian restaurateur can afford a yacht, a Ferrari and a home in Florence on a profit of £100,000 a year; The Red King: a con man finds a wealthy lord needs only one more piece to complete a chess set that will be then worth a fortune; The Commissioner: A Bombay con man finds himself in the morgue when he involves the Police chief as bait in a scam; The Alibi show3s how a murder can be committed when the killer is already in jail and alibi-ed by two prison officers; and The Eye of The Beholder features a devilishly handsome premier league football player who falls in love with a 20-stone woman...who just happens to be the ninth-richest lady in Italy. With illustrations by the irrepressible Roland Searle. -
The city is in uproar. Like a savage cat, the unknown strangler pounces on his victims. Victims chosen seemingly at random. One murder after another. The police are completely baffled. The mayor orders Ellery Queen on the case. There are the facts, laid out as neatly as the corpses. But where do they connect? Ellery believes that these seemingly mad murders are all committed by the same person. But he can't prove it. He believes that there's a pattern in the killings that will provide a solution. But he can't find it. Ellery is as baffled as the police. They are working desperately, but the murders continue - the cat is still at large. -
Cheaters: J.R. Carroll
$25.00Danny Gold's skill at the roulette table is noticed, and he's soon progressing from a nice little earn to making big bucks, laundering cash for enigmatic businessman turned porno movie maker Sigmund Barry - an offer to good to refuse. Robert Curlewis had the world at his feet, until Booze and smack took it away. And he's inherited another desperado, Florence, but when she witnesses the vicious slaying of a young gambler in Melbourne's Chinatown, Robert's no longer wasting his life - he's trying to keep it. Throw in a wild card, a rogue Kiwi commando and you have a whole deck of cheaters. -
When the bones of a twelve year old boy are found scattered in the Hollywood Hills, Harry Bosch is drawn into a case that recalls the darkest memories from his own haunted past. The bones have been buried for years, but Bosch unearths the child's identity and fractured life, determined that he will not be forgotten. Then a love affair begins to blossom for Bosch - until a disastrous mission leaves him in more trouble than ever before and faced with an unimaginable decision.
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Berlin, 1939: Cathleen O'Dea has come from Hollywood to Germany to star in a film. She also wants to trace her missing mother. Desperate for help in her search, she responds to the attentions of Josef Goebbels. This is viewed with alarm and jealousy by Sean Carmody, the one time boy hero of a previous Cleary classic, The Sundowners. The other characters seen through Carmody's eyes are Admiral Canaris and his agony over an uncovered secret; a disillusioned English aristocrat, formerly a Hitler favourite; General von Albern as he plans to assassinate Hitler; and the General don Helmut's romance with an English actress. -
Knights Templar XXXI. 1327: England is in turmoil. King Edward II has been removed from the throne and his son installed in his place. The old man's rule had proved a disaster for the realm and many hope that his removal may mean the return of peace to England's cities. Keeper of the King's Peace Sir Baldwin de Furnshill and his friend Bailiff Simon Puttock had been tasked with guarding Edward II, but they have failed in their task and now ride fast to Exeter to inform the sheriff of the old king's escape. In Exeter, the sheriff has problems of his own. Overnight the body of a young maid has been discovered, lying bloodied and abandoned in a dirty alleyway. The city's gates had been shut against the lawlessness outside, so the perpetrator must still lie within the sanctuary of the town. When Baldwin de Furnshill arrives, along with Sir Richard de Welles, a companion of old, he is tasked with uncovering the truth behind this gruesome murder. But, in a city where every man hides a secret, his task will be far from easy… -
Dr. Alan Morris, world-renowned archaeologist, is not the sort to go missing. He had travelled the world for forty years investigating ruins, so it would not seem that the Welsh border site of Aurae Phiala would pose any problems. Charlotte Rossignol, a pretty young music teacher and Dr. Morris's heir, is distressed. She feels her great-uncle is in danger and begins her own investigation. Among the ruins of Aurae Phiala, Charlotte finds a curious history, and much more to be excavated than just Roman ruins. From the creator of Cadfael.
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The sequel to Hotel Paradise. A once fashionable resort, now fading. A spinster aunt living in the attic. A house full of secrets and old, dusty furnishings, uninhabited for almost half a century. A neglected lake covered in water lilies. And emma Graham a 12 year old girl with a passion for double chocolate ice cream and an obsession with the 'accidental' drowning death of another we year old girl - Mary-Evelyn Devereau - forty years earlier. Not only that - the murder of Fern Queen is still unsolved. -
Inspector Banks No. 11. When the nude photo of a teenage runaway shows up on a website, the girl's father turns to Detective Chief Inspector Alan banks for help. But these aren't unusual circumstances, for the runaway is the daughter of a man who's determined to destroy the dedicated Yorkshire policeman's career and good name. Still, it’s a case that Banks—a father himself—dares not ignore as he follows its trail into teeming London. But when a series of gruesome murders follows soon after, Banks finds himself pulled into the past and private world of his most powerful enemy, Chief Constable Jimmy Riddle. -
Paul Madriani 1. Paul Madriani, a brilliant criminal defense lawyer, had a once-promising career with a prestigious law-firm, until an ill-judged affair with the senior partner Ben Potter's wife led to his resignation. Now he scrambles for work amid the ghosts of his doomed affair and the remains of a failing marriage. Then Potter is found dead, an apparent suicide. But as details come to light, the case turns from suicide to murder and the needle of suspicion points towards the victim's seductive wife, Talia Potter. Indicted and arrested, Talia turns to Paul, her former lover, to defend her against the mounting evidence in a case that for her could result in the gas chamber. -
Conclave: Robert Harris
$9.00The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world’s most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth. -
It's the job offer of a lifetime: £120,000 a year, a top of the range BMW, and the chance to work with charismatic sportswear billionaire Nathan Strauss. But on the day that Chris Treiger celebrates his new job with Britain's most powerful PR firm, Nathan Strauss stuns the corporate world by falling off the balcony of his ninth floor hotel suite. Chris will now report to Nathan's brother Jacob and his sinister spin doctor - a man whose loyalty borders on the obsessive. Meanwhile, investigating the bizarre death of a leading financial analyst, Chris's ex-lover Judith Laing discovers he was on the point of revealing damaging evidence about Chris's new bosses. Chris refuses to believe her - until another death occurs.
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Old Mrs Lauder was as loathsome as her lilies were lovely. Every year, the vicar hoped for a change of heart in this sinister woman, whose murder had brought fear and suspicion to the village, and to the Church, the lilies she had denied them every Easter while she lived. But somewhere in those waxen, perfect blooms lurked a message, and danger... -
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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