Classic Crime

It was not until the fifth death in Long Greeting that Miss Tidy made up her mind to go to the police. It was not a sense of civic duty that com...

My accidents cant be accidental.  Very well, theres only one thing they can beand thats attempted murder. Archy Mitfold had always loved a mystery...

An apartment on the rue Morgue turned into a charnel house; the corpse of a shopgirl dragged from the Seine; a high-stakes game of political blackm...

David realised that he had tumbled in upon something that was not merely a mess... He had tumbled in upon a mystery. Desperate for some time awa...

Former SB Inspector Jack Mowgley has taken enforced early retirement and is scraping a living as a private detective in Normandy. Recovering in a C...

Agatha Christies seasonal mystery thriller in a sumptuous Christmas hardback Special Edition. There is, at Christmas, a spir...

September 1940. Britain stands alone facing an imminent Nazi invasion. Handpicked groups of men form the covert Auxiliary Units; ordinary by day, t...

When New Yorker Alex Nadal inherits his aunt's farm near Barcelona he is more than intrigued. First, because his aunt appears to have died twice -...

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray In everyone's eyes, even the old ladies hiding behind their quivering curtains, even the kids jus...

Sir John Appleby is already annoyed at being dragged to a private viewing of a young artist''s work. But when he finds out the exhibition is for Ga...

The best cricket novel ever written . . .Before 'Sandpapergate' there was The Amazing Test Match Crime.'Cricket is the great narrative sport, and a...

Barcelona, 1912. A city still recovering from the dramatic incidents of the so-called 'Tragic Week' when Catalonian conscripts bound for the unpopu...

On a hot summer night, Sir John Appleby is dragged from his newly-wedded bliss to investigate a disturbing crime that predates itself. It seems ...

Three hundred years ago, Lord Carpenter, Id have had your head on a spike on Tower Hill.. It is 1938 and newspaper chief Lord Carpenter is about t...

Good God, you dont think it was an accident? Wealthy industrialist Anthony Mullins is found dead in a garage fire with the door locked. The locals...

How many times have I told you that we must appear to run this hotel as commercial proposition? Newly arrived in London, journalist Charles Venabl...

Something doesn't add up about Archie and Pye... After a disastrous day at work, disillusioned junior PR executive Tom Winscombe finds himself sha...

A series of grisly murders rocks London. At each location, only a jumble of bones remains of the deceased, along with a bizarre sphere covered in s...

A novel of anger, jealousy, betrayal and murder in 2000 BC It is Egypt, 2000 BC, where death gives meaning to life. At the foot of a clif...

A middle-aged diplomat is accosted in an airport lounge and his identity stolen Sir Stafford Nyes journey home from Malaya to London take...

Mystery readers and lovers of detective fiction are in for a real treat with the twelve intersected stories featuring the ace sleuth Lady Molly of ...

The year is 1941, and the world is engulfed in war. Having consolidated his forces, Fu-Manchu seeks to tip the balance of power by launching assaul...

'I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling...

Taking us into a 1930s London of grimy back streets, smoky cafes and shabby rooms, Plain Murder, C. S. Forester's second crime novel, is a brillian...

Usually, when you call a burlesque act a ''show stopper'', you don''t mean it quite so literally. But this time, that''s just what happened: The sh...

'You are a wronged woman and shall have justice. Do not bring police. If you do, all will be in vain. Your unknown friend.'When a beautiful young w...