Classic Crime

Sergeant Love is a sucker for a picturesque country cottage. But he finds himself quite literally knocked out by the little bas-relief plaster co...

As Miss Lucilla Teatime often remarks, there is no lack of entertainment in the delightful town of Flaxborough. What could be more wholesome than...

In Flaxboroughs posh neighbouring village, Mumblesbury, the local solicitor, Richard Daspard Loughbury, has suddenly died.  Natural causes it appe...

A peculiar pornographic movie has been wowing viewers in the Gulf. One of the more scurrilous English Sunday papers gets a tip-off that this exot...

Pauls mother abandoned him when he was a baby. Evies mother died in a car accident. All Paul knows is what the private investigator told his fath...

''The House in the Lepers'' Hollow. That''s what it was called. How right they were... the whole place seems unclean...diseased...rotten.'' And in...

At first, the women hadn''t believed Dodd was dead. They had put him in his pyjamas, fixed up his wound with plaster and lint, and put him to bed. ...

Eighteen short stories sure to delight and intrigue the most astute armchair detective In typical Appleby fashion, these mysteries are as comica...

With the great train robbers, the Richardsons and the Krays banged up for life, the face of crime changed forever forcing decent honest hard workin...

With one woman murdered and a man on the run, can Littlejohn dredge through years of family secrets and wartime betrayal before anyone else gets hu...

Putting dead bodies in the ground for a living could give anyone ideas... Blaise is out of work and down on his luck when a chance encounter with ...

A Second World War-themed murder mystery weekend ends in murder for real.Having reluctantly agreed to make up the numbers at a World War II-themed ...

Who should be hobnobbing with the great and the good at a Buckingham Palace garden party but little Miss Emily Seeton, retired teacher and artistic...