Mystery

Boris Akunin / Special Assignments : Erast Fandorin 5

  Boris Akunin's well-loved, inimitable hero faces two very different adversaries: one, a deft, comedic swindler and master of disguise, whose machinations send ripples spreading through the...

Boris Akunin / The Death of Achilles : Erast Fandorin 4 (Hardback)

  International intrigue, professional rivalry, the criminal underworld of nineteenth-century Moscow, and an irresistible femme fatale: if Erast Fandorin was hoping for a quiet homecoming, he is...

Elly Griffiths / The House at Sea's End ( Ruth Galloway Novels - Book 3 )

 Dr Ruth Galloway is called in by a team of archaeologists investigating coastal erosion on the north Norfolk coast, when they unearth six bodies buried at the foot of a cliff. They seem to have been...

Colin Dexter / The Daughters of Cain (Hardback)

 The eleventh Inspector Morse novel begins when a body is discovered in a set of rooms off a prestigious staircase in the most famous Oxford college of them all. Colin Dexter has won the Crime...

Alan Bradley / The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie : A Flavia de Luce Mystery Book 1

 Meet Flavia: Mystery Solver. Master Poisoner. 11 Years Old.England 1950. At Buckshaw, the crumbling country seat of the de Luce family, very-nearly-eleven-year-old Flavia is plotting revenge on her...

M.C. Beaton / Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham ( Agatha Raisin Series - Book 8 )

 The local ladies all deem Mr John a wizard, so when Agatha finds a few grey hairs on her head - and the rinse she tries at home turns her hair purple - she makes a beeline for the handsome Evesham...

Michaels Russell / The City of Strangers ( Stefan Gillespie Novels - Book 2 )

   The SUNDAY TIMES top 20 bestseller!Shortlisted for the CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger AwardNew York, 1939: A city of hope. A city of opportunity. A city hiding dark secrets ...A brutal murder in...

M.C. Beaton / Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage ( Agatha Raisin Series - Book 5 )

The morning of Agatha's marriage to James Lacey dawns bright and clear. But her luck runs out in the church when Jimmy, the husband she had believed long dead, turns up large as life and twice as...

James Runcie / Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death : Grantchester Mysteries 1

   Grantchester Mysteries 1Now a major, prime-time six-part series Grantchester for ITVSidney Chambers, the Vicar of Grantchester, is a thirty-two year old bachelor. Sidney is an unconventional...

Colin Dexter / Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories

   Contains 10 mysteries including two Inspector Morse stories written especially for this anthology. By the author of "Last Bus to Woodstock", "The Jewel That Was Ours" and "The Way Through The...

Nigel Balchin - Mine Own Executioner - Vintage Pan PB - Crime 1952

Hailed by John Betjeman as 'one of our dozen readable living writers of genius', Nigel Balchin was one of the best-known English novelists of the Second World War generation: few writers so tangibly...

Ellis Peters / The Raven in the Foregate

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Rufus King - A Variety of Weapons - Vintage PB Pulp USA 1943

Ann Lebrick cheerfully accepted an assignment to photograph the ocelots of Miss Estelle Marlow. On arrival at the Marlow estate, Black Tor, where she was to stay for a week, she found herself in...

Louise Penny / The Cruellest Month ( Chief Inspector Gamache - Book 3 )

   The New York Times Bestseller It's Easter, and on a glorious spring day in peaceful Three Pines, someone waits for night to fall. They plan to raise the dead... When Chief Inspector Gamache of...

G.K. Chesterton / Father Brown Stories

 With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence...

M.C. Beaton / Agatha Raisin and the Curious Curate

 He was a vicar to die for - and he did! Agatha is going through a man-hating phase and so is unmoved by news of the captivating new curate. But when she meets the golden-haired, blue eyed Tristan...

Michael Russell / The City of Shadows ( Stefan Gillespie Novels - Book 1 )

Longlisted for the CWA John Creasy New Blood Dagger Award 2013 and shortlisted for CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger Award 2014 `She looked up at the terraced house, with the closed shutters and the...

Colin Dexter / SERVICE DEAD DEAD JERICHO DUO SPL

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Robert Robinson - Landscape With Dead Dons - Gollancz Crime HB

A hardcover Gollancz Crime Detective reissue, 1982 of the 1956 novel, Landscape With Dead Dons, in the classic Gollancz yellow jacket. Not an ex library copy, as was the fate of many Gollancz titles...

Boris Akunin / Leviathan (Hardback)

On 15th March 1878 Lord Littleby, an English eccentric and collector, is found murdered in his Paris house together with nine members of his staff. A gold whale in the victim's hand leads Erast...

Boris Akunin / Murder on the Leviathan

Paris, 1878: Eccentric antiquarian Lord Littleby and his ten servants are found murdered in Littleby s mansion on the rue de Grenelle, and a priceless Indian shawl is missing. Police commissioner...

Jeffrey Ashford - Enquiries Are Continuing - Mystery Guild Book 1965 Crime

Mystery. A boy drowned, a girl attacked and a constable burnt to death were supposed to be s̀traight forward' cases, but Inspector Kerry finds he has to fight against the odds for the truth to be...

Colin Dexter / The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn

Chief Inspector Morse is called in to investigate the murder of an Oxford academic, and finds the dons in uproar. The code of integrity had been breached and Quinn's death was not a matter of how and...

Colin Dexter / The Last Bus to Woodstock

The death of Sylvia Kaye featured dramatically in the Oxford Mail. By Friday evening Inspector Morse had informed the nation that the police were looking for a dangerous man - facing charges of...

Boris Akunin / The Winter Queen

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James Runcie / Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death

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M.C. Beaton / Death of a Village (Hamish Macbeth Series)

Scottish policeman Hamish Macbeth tries to avoid a dreaded promotion while solving assorted crimes and crossing swords with pretty reporter Elspeth Grant in his 18th outing (after 2002's Death of a...

Colin Dexter / Service of all the Dead

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Colin Dexter / The Dead of Jericho

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Colin Dexter / The Jewel that was Ours

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Malcolm Pryce / Aberystwyth Mon Amour

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Ellis Peters / Monk's Hood

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Colin Dexter / The Secret of Annexe 3

Colin Dexter / The Way Through The Woods

Colin Dexter / The Riddle of the Third Mile

Colin Dexter / Death is now my Neighbour

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Agatha Christie / Murder on the Orient Express

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Wilkie Collins / The Woman in White

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Colin Dexter / The Remorseful Day

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Colin Dexter / Last Seen Wearing

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Colin Dexter / The Wench Is Dead

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Colin Dexter / The Daughters Of Cain

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