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fellow turns up dead, and Bruno is plunged into a sinister game of cat and mouse. 435 gripping pages. $25.95 NOW £5
70420 THE ROUGH COLLIER by Pat McIntosh
A Gil Cunningham murder mystery set in Scotland, 1493. A body is discovered in the peat - is it witchcraft or just plain murder? Gil Cunningham was up in the roof space of his mother’s house, teaching his new young wife sword play when the peat-cutters came to report the dead man. They believed the corpse to be that of Thomas Murray, a coal worker
missing from the estate of Sir James Douglas, Gil’s godfather. But Murray’s wife claims it must be someone else, while Sir James’s steward, the officious David Fleming, suspects witchcraft. But who is the corpse? With a cast of salt-boilers, colliers and priests as well as an assortment of vivacious females in Murray’s household, McIntosh’s characterisations and period details are first rate. 329pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3
70427 THEREBY HANGS A
TAIL by Spencer Quinn Chet and his human companion Bernie have both had some setbacks in life - Bernie in combat, Chet in K-9 school, but together they make a team like no other. Here they are called on to investigate threats made against an unlikely target - a petty, pampered show dog named Princess. But what seems like a joke turns into a serious case when Princess and her
owner are abducted. To make matters worse, Bernie’s on-off girlfriend reporter Susie disappears too. Theirs is a special bond between man and dog in this irresistible series narrated by the loveable and wise dog Chet. 309pp.
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70429 TO FETCH A THIEF by Spencer Quinn
Chet the dog has smelled a lot of unusual things in his years as a trusted companion and partner to PI Bernie Little, but nothing has prepared him for the exotic scent he encounters when an old-fashioned travelling circus comes to town. Bernie scores tickets for this less- than-greatest show on earth because his son Charlie is crazy
about elephants. The only problem is that Peanuts, the headlining pachyderm of this particular one-ring circus, has gone missing along with her trainer. Stranger still, no one saw them leave. How does an elephant vanish without a trace? Bernie and Chet are hired by Popo the Clown who has his won reasons for finding out what has become of the missing duo. Our pair head far away into the dark desert night and encounter some very dangerous people crossing the border into Mexico and being separated. One of the irresistible New York Times bestselling series. 307pp. £15.99 NOW £5
68850 AN ARSENE LUPIN OMNIBUS
by Maurice Leblanc Enter Arsène Lupin, Gentleman - Cambrioleur, the ‘Prince of Thieves’, one of the most daring and dashing individuals who ever lifted a diamond necklace from under the noses of the authorities. Young and handsome, laughing his way through difficulties and danger, Lupin is also the master of disguise
and languages. His sense of humour and conceit make life difficult for the police who attribute most of the major crimes in France to Lupin and his gang of ruffians and urchins. Maurice Leblanc’s stories are lively and witty, occasionally taking on the air of burlesque, especially when Lupin pits his wits against the English detective named variously ‘Holmlock Shears’ and ‘Herlock Sholmes’. These are significant tales in the history of crime fiction but, more importantly, they are great fun. 739 paperback pages. New from Wordsworth. ONLY £3
69581 RIDDLE OF THE RIVER by Catherine Shaw
Who is the young woman found drowned in the river like the lovelorn Ophelia? Cambridge undergraduate Vanessa Weatherburn suspects she may have been an actress but that raises questions of its own. Not too long ago actresses were synonymous with prostitute, but in this new Victorian era actresses are received in some of the best houses. Have notions of respectability really changed so much or are the newfound female freedoms merely masking social expectations that, for women at least, are no less restrictive than their elaborate bustle and tiny corsets? US first edition from the Felony and Mayhem mystery series, 352pp in paperback. $14.95 NOW £5
69571 LIBRARY PARADOX by Catherine Shaw
A famously anti-Semitic professor has been killed, shot in his own library and the police, eager to close the books on the murder, have arrested a young Jewish man who was conveniently on the scene. This is 1896, and with the notorious Dreyfus Affair in the news, Vanessa Weatherburn has real questions about his guilt. Finding the truth will take Vanessa deep into London’s Hassidic community, where she struggles to understand the customs of a foreign country. But the effort will pay off as it sheds some surprising light on a peculiar passion of Vanessa’s, a problem in mathematical logic posed by Bertrand Russell, known as The Library Paradox. A cunning thriller in the Felony and Mayhem mystery series, US first edition in paperback. 339pp with one map. $14.95 NOW £5
70438 CATHERINE SHAW: Set of Two by Catherine Shaw
Buy both paperbacks and save more. US first editions. $29.90 NOW £9
70350 DEATH ON THE NILE by Agatha Christie
Linnet Ridgeway has it all: beauty, brains, money, and a new, handsome husband. Unfortunately, her husband’s jilted ex-fiancée - and Linnet’s former best friend - has followed them their fashionable Egyptian honeymoon cruise, and seems to be shadowing the couple’s every turn. When Linnet is murdered, the killer seems to be obvious - until the suspect produces
an airtight alibi. Soon, all of the other passengers on board, including an American lawyer, a nervous chambermaid and a Communist, are suspects in the case. Hercule Poirot must call upon all of his skills of reason and deduction to crack the case before the murderer strikes again. Death on the Nile is one of Agatha Christie’s best known novels, and is considered by most, including Dame Agatha herself, to be one of her very best mysteries. 351 pages you’ll find impossible to put down. $12 NOW £5
70394 THE A.B.C. MURDERS:
A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie Alice Ascher, a shopkeeper in Andover, is bludgeoned to death in her shop. Next to die is Betty Bernard in Bexhill - strangled with her own belt. Then, Sir Carmichael Clarke’s skull is smashed in in Churston. Clearly a serial killer with an alphabetical bent is on the loose, and an urgent hunt is launched for
the fiend dubbed the A.B.C. murderer. The taunting notes inspector Hercule Poirot receives are even more disturbing than the A.B.C. railway guide that the methodical killer leaves at the scene of each crime. Racing against the clock, Poirot tries to decipher each cryptic message and get one step ahead of this exceedingly clever and ruthless killer. The A.B.C. Murders proves to be the Belgian sleuth’s most challenging case yet. 252 pp. $12 NOW £5
70418 MYSTERY OF THE BLUE TRAIN: A Hercule
Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot is en route from Calais to Nice on the Blue Train when he finds himself at the centre of a vexing crime. A young American woman, Ruth Van Aldin Kettering, is found brutally murdered on board the train. The killer is still at large and it is up to Poirot to pick
him or her out of a cast of suspicious characters. Among them are Ruth’s husband, Derek Kettering, to whom she was unhappily married and an exotic dancer with a taste for a man just like Derek. As he persues the killer, Poirot encounters several passengers with a keen interest in a large, legendary ruby that Ruth possessed, a gift from her wealthy father. It’s a race against the clock for the charming detective in this stylish, fast-paced mystery with dozens of twists and an ending that is all but impossible to predict. 317 thrilling pages. $12 NOW £5
70402 THE CASE OF THE
MAN WHO DIED LAUGHING by Tarquin Hall
On the lawn of a grand boulevard in central Delhi early one morning, the Hindu goddess Kali appears and plunges a sword into the chest of a prominent Indian scientist, who dies in a fit of giggles. Vish Puri, India’s Most Private Investigator, and master of disguise, doesn’t believe the murder is a supernatural
occurrence. He sets out to prove who really killed Dr Suresh Jha. To get at the truth, he and his team of undercover operatives - Facecream, Tubelight and Flush - travel from the slum where India’s hereditary magicians must be persuaded to reveal their secrets to the holy city of Haridwar on the Ganges. Puri uncovers a network of spirituality and science and finds that solving the case will require all his earthly faculties. An absurdly intelligent read with a good tang of modern India. 309pp with glossary. Paperback. $15 NOW £5
70431 TOOTH AND CLAW: A
Mystery by Nigel McCrery The author was a police officer in the Murder Squad and is the creator of the TV drama series Silent Witness and Old Dog New Tricks. His suspenseful new novel shows the same pacey, gripping qualities as does his television writing. DCI Lapslie and Sergeant Bradbury chase down one of the most terrifying characters ever to stalk
the pages of a mystery thriller. A well-known TV reporter has been brutally murdered. There are no witnesses and no suspects. Then a second man is found dead in a train-station bomb explosion. Despite all the odds, the DCI begins to suspect that the two high-profile cases may be connected. Under pressure to produce results and with the media bearing down on him, he approaches breaking point. To make matters worse, the killer’s next target may be much closer than the inspector could possibly guess. Read on! 310 breathtaking pages. $25.95 NOW £6
70011 SLAUGHTER IN THE COTSWOLDS by Rebecca Tope
Thea throws herself into house-sitting for Babs and Cedric Angell in Lower Slaughter following her beloved father’s death. Although it is lonely, she has her spaniel Hepzie for company, and keeping the house in order and looking after the family’s menagerie of animals does the trick for a short period of time. But when her prickly older sister turns up, after witnessing an horrific killing, the timeless tranquillity of the village vanishes, replaced by the sinister connotations of the town’s name. 405pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3
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58200 A CHARLIE CHAN OMNIBUS by Earl Derr Biggers
A family secret leads to murder in a house without locks... Someone is prepared to kill to procure a valuable set of pearls, and a parrot fluent in Chinese knows too much... A Scotland Yard Inspector is about to close his final case, but someone is prepared to kill to keep the mystery unsolved... Three very different crimes, with one thing in common... He’s Honolulu’s greatest detective – prepare to savour the wisdom of Charlie Chan. From Hawaii to San Francisco, no crime is too baffling, no clue too insignificant for Charlie. Long out of print, Charlie Chan’s first three cases, ‘The House Without a Key’, ‘The Chinese Parrot’ and ‘Behind That Curtain’, have been collected in one volume. Paperback, 641pp. ONLY £3
62730 CASEFILES OF MR J. G. REEDER by Edgar Wallace
Let us introduce you to the enigmatic J. G. Reeder, a gentle, middle-aged man who carries a furled up umbrella and wears an old-fashioned flat-topped bowler hat. He is one of the great unsung sleuths of mystery fiction, created by the prolific Edgar Wallace. Reeder is a cold and ruthless detective who credits his success to his ‘criminal mind’ which allows him to solve a series of complex crimes outwitting the most cunning of villains. Contains the first three volumes in the Reeder canon: two novels, Room 13 and Terror Keep and the short stories The Mind of J. G. Reeder. 434pp. Paperback. ONLY £3
66779 SOMETHING WICKED by David Roberts
Journalist Verity Browne returns from an assignment in Prague with suspected tuberculosis. The prescribed cure is rest and a healthy diet, so her fiancé, Lord Edward Corinth, arranges for her to stay at a private clinic in Henley-on-Thames. Lord Edward is investigating the horrific murder of his dentist, who had a macabre connection with Henley - three of his patients had recently met unusual and highly suspicious deaths, and all of them lived near the town. Edward decides to base himself in Henley in order to more easily follow the trail and moves in with an old friend. 275pp, first US edition of 2007.
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68559 FROM THE DEAD by Mark Billingham
A decade ago, Alan Langford’s charred remains were discovered in his burnt-out car. His wife, Donna, was found guilty of conspiracy to murder her husband and sentenced to ten years in prison. But just before she is released, Donna receives a nasty shock - an anonymous letter containing a photo of her husband. The man she hates with every fibre of her being, the man she paid to have murdered, seems very much alive and well. How is it possible that he is still alive? Where is he? Who sent the photo, and why? 475pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3
68702 GOLIATH BONE: A New Mike Hammer Novel
by Mickey Spillane with Max Allan Collins Just before he died in 2006, Mickey Spillane had not quite finished his last Mike Hammer novel, with Mike back after a 12 year hiatus. He passed the incomplete manuscript to his great friend Collins (author of Saving Private Ryan, amongst many others) to complete and this is the result. Hammer’s biggest and most dangerous case yet begins when he halts the violent robbery of a pair of college sweethearts. It transpires that they have stumbled onto a remarkable archaeological find - the perfectly preserved femur of the biblical giant Goliath. 274pp.
$23 NOW £5 69531 THE CAPTAIN’S TABLE: A Bella Wallis
Mystery by Brian Thompson Bella’s life is dedicated to punishing evil-doers by exposing them as thinly disguised characters in the books she writes under a male pseudonym. Her confederates include Captain Quigley, her ‘fixer’, his shady assistant Murch who specialises in ‘gently persuading’ baddies to spill the beans, and the dashing Philip Westland, who may be a government spy. Can Bella ignore her own affairs of the heart and concentrate on gathering material for her next bestseller, whilst feistily eluding a brutal threat to her life? 232 pages. £12.99 NOW £3.75
69532 WALTENBERG by Hedi Kaddour An espionage thriller set between World War One and the Berlin Wall’s collapse, this is an excellent and complex novel. It is the compelling tale of Michael Lilstein, an East German spymaster and Auschwitz survivor who recruits a mysterious young Frenchman to act as a mole, much to the interest of the CIA. Intertwined with this story is the relationship between a German novelist and an American singer, and the novelist and a French journalist. 660pp in bumper paperback. £9.99 NOW £3.50
69990 KILLER IN WINTER by Susannah Gregory
Christmas 1354, and in Cambridge the winter is as bad as anyone can remember. A drunken attempt at blackmail by Norbert Tulyet, leaves him dead at the hostel door. And in St. Michael’s church, a second unidentified body holds an even greater mystery. For Matthew Bartholomew, the murders would be difficult to solve at any normal time of year, but now he has the distraction of Phillipa Abigny, to whom he was once betrothed, to deal with. Not only does the mysterious body in the church turn out to be Walter’s servant, but events conspire to ensure that Walter will never leave Cambridge again. 488pp in paperback in this ever popular series. £9.99 NOW £4
70059 BETRAYAL by Karin Alvtegen
This award-winning Scandinavian writer is a master of psychological suspense. Someone is watching Eva. In the trees at the edge of her garden, a figure lurks in the dark. In hospital, Jonas watches over his girlfriend who is in a coma. But what, or who, has put her there? Through a chance meeting, Eva and Jonas’s lives will become disturbingly entwined. Eva will discover that sometimes her own destructive behaviour can have consequences far beyond our control. Unbearable tension in this compulsive thriller. 297 page paperback. £7.99 NOW £3
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Sherlock Holmes 69925 SHERLOCK HOLMES
HANDBOOK: The Methods and Mysteries of the
World’s Greatest Detective by Ransom Riggs
For real fans of Sherlock Holmes, this companion to his casework thoroughly explores the methodology of the world’s most famous consulting detective. From analysing fingerprints and decoding ciphers to creating
disguises and faking his own death, readers will learn exactly how Holmes solved his most celebrated cases. As a bonus, there is a host of trivia about the master detective and his universe. Why did Holmes never marry? How was the real Scotland Yard organised? Was cocaine really legal back then? And why were the British so terrified of Australia? A volume full of exciting discoveries. 224 pages with evocative line drawings and three appendices: Briefly, the Life and Times of Arthur Conan Doyle, The Collected Wit and Wisdom of Sherlock Holmes and The Sherlock Holmes Canon.
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25387 ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATED STRAND
SHERLOCK HOLMES by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ‘Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories’. It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first
appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the now legendary and
pioneering Strand Magazine began serialising Arthur Conan Doyle’s matchless tales of detection, featuring the incomparable sleuth patiently assisted by his doggedly loyal and lovably pedantic friend and companion, Dr Watson. The stories are illustrated by the remarkable Sydney Paget. 1408 page well-bound softback. ONLY £7
29430 SHADOWS OF
SHERLOCK HOLMES edited by David Stuart Davies
Meet The Crime Doctor, Professor Augustus
S.F.X.Van Dusen - The Thinking Machine, Max Carrados - the incredible blind detective, the repulsive but brilliant Skin o’ My Teeth, and the natty, ingenious French sleuth Eugene Valmont. The stories include: The Purloined
Letter by Edgar Allan Poe, The Stolen Cigar Case by Bret Harte, The Swedish Match by Anton Chekhov, Nine Points of the Law by E.W. Hornung, The Ghost at Massingham Mansions by Ernest Bramah and The Great Pearl Mystery by Baroness Orczy. 384pp. Paperback. ONLY £2
33873 STUDY IN SCARLET
AND THE SIGN OF FOUR by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle This novel not only establishes the magic of the Holmes myth but also provides the reader with a dramatic adventure yarn, which ranges from the foggy, gas-lit streets of London to the burning planes of Utah. The second Holmes novel presents the detective with one of his greatest challenges. The theft of the Agra treasure in India forms
a catalyst for treachery, deceit and murder. With these two classic novels, you have the brilliant foundation of the Sherlock Holmes canon. Reading pleasure rarely comes any finer. 224pp. Paperback. ONLY £2
56600 SHERLOCK HOLMES
& THE HENTZAU AFFAIR by David Stuart Davies Colonel Sapt of the Ruritanian Court journeys to England on a secret mission to save the country from anarchy. His mission is to engage the services of Rudolf Rassendyll once more to impersonate the King while the monarch recovers from a serious illness. But Rassendyll has mysteriously disappeared. In
desperation, Sapt consults Sherlock Holmes who, with his faithful companion Watson, travels to the Kingdom of Ruritania in an effort to thwart the plans of the scheming Rupert of Hentzau in his bid for the throne. 128pp. Paperback. ONLY £3
66781 MYSTERIOUS WORLD OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
by Bruce Wexler
Sherlock Holmes appeared in over 60 short stories and novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Ignatius Doyle from 1887 to 1927. In 1893’s The Final Problem he and his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, plunged to their deaths over the
Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland. However, public pressure and financial necessity saw him return, and the stories remain classics to this day. This book is a one-of-a-kind companion volume which brings to vibrant life and the crime-ridden streets of Victorian London with the enthusiasm of an avid Holmes fan and over 150 colour and b/w images. 192 pages, 8¾”×12".
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