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Set in the snowy location of Wideview Chalet, Detective Inspector Bonaparte, half-caste aboriginal and 'Boney' to his friends, find an uncanny set of tracks in the snow that may reveal the killer. The victim is a German who left his country before its wartime collapse and is living under an assumed name at the chalet. All manner of things become clear to Boney - the strange tracks, a conversation about deep sea fishing and clothing given to a charity. -
Phryne Fisher No. VII. Running late to a gala performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore, Phryne Fisher meets some thugs in dark alley and handles them convincingly before they can ruin her silver dress. She then finds that she has rescued the handsome Lin Chung, and his grandmother, who briefly mistake her for a deity. Denying divinity but accepting cognac, she later continues safely to the theatre where her night is again interrupted by a bizarre death onstage. What links can Phryne find between the ridiculously entertaining plot of Ruddigore, the Chinese community of Little Bourke St., or the actors treading the boards of His Majestys Theatre? Cover art by Beth Norling. -
Wayward daughters. Missing husbands. Philandering partners. Curious conmen. If you've got a problem, then see Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only - and finest - lady private detective. She's not exactly conventional, nor is she Miss Marple, but she has warmth, wit and an uncanny intuition, not to mention Mr Matekoni - charming proprietor of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. She's on the trail of a missing child which will be a hotbed of strange situations and more than a little danger. Made into a very successful TV series. -
Maisie Dobbs 1. Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator, began her working life at the age of thirteen as a servant in a Belgravia mansion. When discovered reading in the library by her employer, Lady Rowan Compton, Maisie is shocked when she realises that her thirst for education is supported by Lady Rowan and Dr. Maurice Blanche, a family friend. The Great War intervenes in Maisie’s education plans and soon after commencement of her studies at Girton College, Cambridge, she enlists to become a nurse. Finally, in 1929, Maisie sets up as an independent private investigator. Her first assignment, a seemingly tedious inquiry involving a case of suspected infidelity, takes her not only on the trail of a killer, but back to the war she had tried so hard to forget. -
6.30 a.m. isn't Marlowe's best hour for being woken up, especially by a crummy lawyer called Umney. Umney's assistant was more interesting: sharp tongue, blue-grey eyes and more curves than a scenic railway. The brief is vague: a strange lady - Betty Mayfield - is being blackmailed by a guy with a mind as straight as a stale banana. What started as a standard tail job ended up with a disappearing corpse on a hotel balcony - a fat little jerk of a P.I., called Goble and a suicidal junkie with a few secrets...Chandler's last complete novel. -
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. -
Imagine you're a young news reporter on assignment at a large city hospital, out with a trauma team answering a call to a street mugging...and imagine the victim is a young woman robbed of her identification - a Jane Doe - imagine the medics working to revive her, then finally giving up and removing the oxygen mask that covered her face - and imagine the face that is a mirror image of your own. Meghan Collins finds that few things are as they seem, even those she holds dear. One terrible discovery sets a series of events in motion that lead her to explore the secret lives of the people closest to her, searching first to identify the woman who shares her face and then to uncover her killer. The secrets and the truths, once exposed, can never be denied. And in the days of genetic engineering, nothing can be taken at face value,not even who we are... -
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... -
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…
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