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Phryne Fisher V. Phryne Fisher loves to dance at the Green Mill, Melbourne's premier dance hall, to the music of Tintagel Stone's Jazzmakers, the band who taught St Vitus how to dance. And she's wearing a sparkling lobelia-coloured georgette dress. Nothing can flap the unflappable Phryne - especially on a dance floor with so many delectable partners. Nothing except death, that is. The dance competition is trailing into its last hours when suddenly, in the middle of "Bye Bye Blackbird" a figure slumps to the ground. No shot was heard. Phryne, conscious of how narrowly the missile missed her, investigates. She's led into the dark, smoky jazz clubs of Fitzroy, into the arms of eloquent strangers, and finally into the the sky, as she follows a complicated family tragedy of the great War and the damaged men who came back from ANZAC cove. In the Australian Alps, she meets a hermit with a dog called Lucky and a wombat living under his bunk - and risks her life on the love between brothers. -
The Saint - also known as Simon Templar - is looking for trouble in exotic places, In this collection: The Effete Angler: A chance encounter with an arrogant business man raises paranoia about the Saint. The Arrow of God: Templar investigates the bizarre murder of an acerbic journalist. The Black Commissar (titled The Man from Moscow in some editions): Simon is out to bring down a communist sympathizer who has installed himself as dictator of a semi-autonomous area of Jamaica. The Unkind Philanthropist: Simon engages in a little identity theft as he plays a confidence scheme on a crooked businessman. The Old Treasure Story: Simon engages the help of a film crew in aiding a woman in a race against time to recover a sunken treasure. The Questing Tycoon: Templar squares off against a man who is taking advantage of a young woman who may or may not be a voodoo priestess. -
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/ -
The house in the wood was picturesque and charming. The family who lived there were happy and affluent. Audrina wanted to be as good as her sister. She knew that her parents could not love her as much as they had loved her perfect - and dead - older sister. But how did the first Audrina die? Why was Audrina named after her dead older sister? What was the secret of the room empty of everything except for a rocking chair? Why did time seem to drag - then go quickly? And what was the secret that everyone knew - except sweet Audrina? -
Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. For here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident – the broken body of a woman was discovered on the rocks at the foot of the cliff. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies – a husband and wife – shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves back into a crime committed 15 years earlier and discovers that, when there is a distinct lack of physical evidence, it’s just as well that ‘old sins leave long shadows.' -
An Inspector Wexford omnibus. Kissing The Gunner's Daughter: Inspector Wexford No. XV. May 13 is famously the unluckiest day of the year. Sergeant Caleb Martin of Kingsmarkham CID had no idea just how terminally unlucky it would prove, as he embarked upon his last day on earth...Ten months later, Wexford is confronted with a murder scene of horrific brutality. At first the bloodbath at Tancred House looks like the desperate work of a burglar panicked into murder. The sole survivor of the massacre, seventeen-year-old Daisy Flory, remembers the events imperfectly, and her confused account of the fatal night seems to confirm this theory. But more and more, Chief Inspector Wexford is convinced that the crime lies closer to home, and that it has sinister links to the murder of Sergeant Martin... Simisola: Inspector Wexford No. XVI. In the quiet Sussex country town of Kingsmarkham, the daughter of Nigerian physician Raymond Akande is missing. It's probably nothing, says Dr. Akande...But the days that follow prove the doctor dreadfully wrong. A young woman is found murdered - not Melanie, but the last person to have seen and spoken to her. A second woman's body is discovered - again, not Melanie's - but like her, young and black. A third woman turns up beaten and unconscious; like the others, she is of Nigerian origin. Wexford feels that Melanie is the victim of a serial killer with a horribly singular objective. Road Rage: Inspector Wexford No XVII. The woods outside of Kingsmarkham were lovely, dark, and deep. And much of them were about to vanish forever when the new highway cut through. While Chief Inspector Wexford privately despaired about the loss of his hiking grounds, local residents and outsiders were organising a massive protest. Some of them may have been desperate enough to kidnap five hostages and threaten to kill them. One hostage was Wexford's wife, Dora. Now Wexford and his team race to find the whereabouts of the kidnappers. Because someone has crossed from political belief to fanaticism, and as the first body is found, good intentions may become Wexford's personal path to hell. -
Phryne Fisher No XV. The nice men at P&O are worried. A succession of jewellery thefts from first class passengers is hardly the best advertisement for their cruise liners, particularly when it is likely that it is a passenger who is doing the stealing. Phryne Fisher, with her Lulu bob, green eyes, Cupid's bow lips and Chanel travelling suits, is exactly the sort of elegant sleuth to take on a ring of jewellery thieves aboard the high seas - or at least, aboard the SS Hinemoa on a luxury cruise to New Zealand. With the Maharani - the Great Queen of Sapphires - as the bait, Phryne rises magnificently to the challenge. There are shipboard romances, champagne cocktails, erotic photographers, jealous husbands, mickey finns, blackmail and attempted murder, all before the thieves find out - as have countless love-smitten men before them - that where the glamorous and intelligent Phryne is involved, resistance is futile. -
Roderick Alleyn XXXII. "Is this a dagger which I see before me..." Four murders. Three witches. A fiendish lady. A homicidal husband. A ghost. No wonder Macbeth is considered such bad luck by theatre people that they won't mention its name out loud. But the new London production of "the Scottish play" promises to be a smash until gruesome pranks begin plaguing rehearsals. And when the last act ends in real-life tragedy, Chief Superintendent Alleyn takes center stage-uncovering a heartbreaking secret, murderous jealousy, and a dark, desperate reason for "murder for foul..." -
The Devonshire town of Credition is awaiting an important guest - the Bishop of Exeter. But a band of mercenaries is already in residence in the town and though mercenaries are commonplace in 14th-century England, this group is bent on making utter havoc: they terrify travellers, show no respect for anyone and there's a rumour a local girl has been seduced by their leader. The Bishop's visit could be ruined... When a robbery takes place among the mercenaries, Sir Baldwin Furnshill and Simon Puttock - attending the bishop's welcome dinner - are on hand to investigate. Then a young girl is discovered murdered, hidden in a chest. This is only the first of the Crediton Killings - and as murder follows brutal murder, Furnshill and Puttock must discover the killer's identity before he strikes yet again. Cover art by Danuta Mayer.
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