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of excess in London’s best hotels and clubs. Dressed in bespoke suits and handmade shoes, Harry outwitted Scotland Yard with his trademark guile and panache. With dozens of pseudonyms, no fixed address and a knowledge of his city that allowed him to hide in its shadows, Harry was almost invisible, until blinded by love, he carried out the robbery that would prove his downfall. 311pp in paperback. Illus.
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74981 OSCAR WILDE AND THE DEAD MAN’S SMILE
by Gyles Brandreth Playwright and raconteur Oscar Wilde embarks on another adventure as he sets sail for America in the 1880s. On a rollercoaster of a lecture tour he meets P. T. Barnum, Jumbo the Elephant and Louisa May Alcott, becomes involved in a saloon shoot-out, and entertains Broadway’s brightest stars. But the
adventure doesn’t really begin until Oscar boards an ocean liner headed back across the Atlantic and joins a motley crew led by a French actor and impresario. What begins with a curious death at sea soon escalates into a series of increasingly macabre tragedies as the acting troupe arrives in Paris to perform Hamlet. 365pp. Remainder mark. $24 NOW £5
73942 THE DAIN CURSE by Dashiell Hammett Miss Gabriel Dain Leggett is young and wealthy, with a penchant for morphine and religious cults. She also has an unfortunate effect on the people around her - they die, violently. Is she the victim of a family curse? The short, squat, utterly unsentimental Continental Op, the best private detective around, has his doubts and finds himself confronting something infinitely more dangerous. This is the Continental Op’s most bizarre case and a tautly crafted masterpiece of suspense. 250pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4.50 74439 PAPILLON
by Henri Charrière An immediate sensation upon its publication in 1969, Papillon is one of the greatest true tales of courage, resilience and an unbreakable will. Condemned for a murder he did not commit, Henri Charrière, known as Papillon, was sent to the penal colony of French Guiana. 42 days after his arrival, he made his first break, travelling a thousand gruelling miles in an open boat. Recaptured,
his spirit remained untamed - in 13 years he made nine amazingly daring escapes, including one from the notorious Devil’s Island. 560pp, paperback.
£9.99 NOW £3.50 73978 PAINTED LADY: A Christopher
Redmayne Mystery by Edward Masters London 1671. Araminta Jewell is one of the great beauties of her day and even her marriage to the staid Sir Martin Culthorpe has not discouraged her hordes of admirers. It is during the sitting for a portrait that architect Christopher Redmayne first meets her, although he has heard much about her from his brother Henry, one of her most ardent pursuers. Before the portrait can be finished and revealed, Sir Martin is murdered. Joining forces with his friend, the Puritan Constable Jonathan Bale, Redmayne embarks on a quest to discover the killer’s identity. 350pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £4.75
74366 DEATH WALKS IN EASTREPPS: An Inspector
Wilkins Mystery by Francis Beeding Set in a quaint English seaside resort, the complex plot incorporates all the elements of a classic British crime novel - a double identity, a soaring body count, a case of extortion and a dramatic courtroom scene. Pronounced one of the ten greatest detective novels of all time,
it was first published in 1931 and here is in a smart new 254 page paperback reissue. Francis Beeding is the pseudonym for the writers Hilary St. George Saunders (1898-1951) and John Palmer (1885-1944) who collaboratively wrote over 30 crime and thriller novels, five of which have been adapted into feature films.
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74367 JOHNNY UNDER GROUND: Inspector Tibbett Investigates
by Patricia Moyes
Emmy Tibbett goes to her RAF reunion with an inexplicable sense of foreboding. As a naive 19 year old auxiliary officer she has fallen in love with handsome pilot ‘Beau’ Guest. After the reunion Chief Inspector Henry Tibbett suspects his wife is on the brink of uncovering a dangerous
secret, but he can’t prevent her from delving into a past that is dark with menace. First published in 1970, Irish born Patricia Moyes (1923-2000) was Peter Ustinov’s assistant for eight years. Facsimile paperback, 256pp.
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73480 TOOTH AND NAIL: An Inspector Rebus Novel by Ian Rankin
Inspector John Rebus is on a train to London from Edinburgh. His Scotland Yard opposite number, George Flight, isn't too happy at yet more interference. Rebus is going to have to deal with racial prejudice as well as the predations of a violent maniac. When he is offered a serial killer profile of the Wolfman by an attractive lady psychologist, it is too good an opportunity to turn down. But in finding an ally, he may have given his enemies an easy means of attack. A vividly sordid scalp-prickler. Photos and maps. 275pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.50
74805 77 SHADOW STREET by Dean Koontz On the summit of Shadow Hill stands the Pendleton, a 19th century tycoon’s dream home now converted to luxury apartments. Over the years, its grandeur has been scarred by episodes of madness, suicide and mass murder, but for its current residents this dark past is all but forgotten. Now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay impossible images, phantom voices mutter in strange tongues, elevators plunge into unknown depths. As nightmare visions become real, a group of extraordinary individuals hold the key to humanity’s destiny. 480pp, paperback.
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74777 CARRIE, SALEM’S LOT, THE SHINING: Leather Bound
by Stephen King
A magnificently presented silver edged hardback with red satin bookmark, blood-curdling endpapers and silver textured real leather cover with haunted house black and red embossed cover design and ridged spine, this is a marvellously collectable 1096 page omnibus. It features Stephen King’s three classic
novels, Carrie, Salem’s Lot and The Shining, each of which went on to become tremendously popular and incredible scary films. The original publication dates were 1974, 1975 and 1977 respectively. Blockbuster collectable glamorous edition.
ONLY £12.50 73979 PARLIAMENT HOUSE: A Christopher
Redmayne Mystery by Edward Masters London 1670. Commissioned to design and build a new house for the merchant Francis Polegate, architect Christopher Redmayne is delighted when the project is completed without a hitch. He throws a lavish party, but it comes to an abrupt end when one of the guests is murdered upon leaving the house. Redmayne can’t help but feel involved. With the help of his friend, Constable Jonathan Bale, he vows to find the killer and bring him to justice. Who in their midst has blood on their hands? Suspicions run high and the life of someone close to him in peril means Redmayne discovers that politics really can be deadly. 349pp in paperback.
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74300 MURDER ON THE THIRTY-FIRST FLOOR by Per Wahloo
Regarded as ‘The Godfather of Scandinavian Crime Fiction’ by Jo Nesbo no less, here is a novel first published in Sweden in 1964. In an unnamed country and sometime in the future, Chief Inspector Jensen of the 16th Division is called in after a publishers receive a threat to blow up their building. When the building is evacuated and no bomb explodes, Jensen is given seven days to track down the letter writer. It becomes clear that the directors and chairman of the publishers have their own secrets, not least the identity of the Special Department on the thirty first floor, which was not evacuated after the bomb threat. 215pp, Vintage paperback.
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71176 THE EYES OF MAX CARRADOS by Ernest Bramah
Max Carrados is one of the most unusual detectives in all fiction. He is blind - and yet he has developed his other faculties to such an amazing degree that they more than compensate for his lack of sight. Carrados can read a newspaper headline with the touch of his fingers, detect a man wearing a false moustache and shoot a villain by aiming at the sound of his beating heart. Assisted by his sharp-eyed manservant, Parker, Carrados is the mystery-solver par excellence. Here is a set of stories featuring a series of baffling puzzles. 670 page paperback.
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ORDEAL by Rebecca Tope Thea Osborne and her spaniel Hepzibah embark on their second house-sitting commission with few worries. Despite her first disastrous venture, in which she became drawn into a murder case, Thea is convinced that lightning will not strike twice, and arrives at the idyllic Frampton Mansell with renewed enthusiasm. However it seems she is jinxed - within days of
her arrival she finds a body hanging from the rafters in one of the barns. Suicide or murder? With plenty of plot twists. 408pp in paperback.
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74591 A DIRTY DEATH: A West Country Mystery by Rebecca Tope
When irascible farmer Guy Beardon meets a very dirty death in his own farmyard, it seems at first to be an accident, despite the fact that he was widely disliked. Only his daughter Lilah is prepared to defend his memory and when slowly she begins to suspect foul play, no one is eager to help her investigate. Two more deaths occur and are unmistakably murder. The difficulty lies in discovering who, among Guy’s many enemies, hated him enough to want him dead. Local policeman Den Cooper must investigate. 510pp in paperback.
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74605 THE WINDERMERE WITNESS by Rebecca Tope
Following a personal tragedy, florist Persimmon ‘Simmy’ Brown has moved to the beautiful region of the Lake District, content to lose herself in her work. But the peace she has found is shattered when, at the wedding of a millionaire’s daughter, the bride’s brother is found dead in the lake. As the wedding florist and one of the last people to talk to Mark Baxter alive, Simmy gradually becomes involved with the grief-ridden and angry relatives. And when events take another sinister turn, she becomes a prime witness. 414pp, paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.50
74557 KINGDOM OF STRANGERS by Zoe Ferraris
In paranoid, sex-obsessed Saudi Arabia where adultery is punishable by death, policeman Ibrahim Zahrani’s lover had gone missing and he cannot report it. His colleague, forensic pathologist Katya Hijazi is desperate to be able to live freely, but has her own potentially lethal secrets. Then, just outside Jeddah, a hidden grave is uncovered containing the victims of a serial killer who has worked undetected for many years. 406pp, paperback.
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74508 OUR GG IN HAVANA by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
GG - who may or may not be Graham Greene - arrives in Havana in 1955 in search of a good time. He heads to the Shanghai Theatre and after becoming transfixed by the sex acts he sees, goes backstage to meet the star of the show, Charity. GG falls for her and the pair spend the night together but when he returns the following night he finds, to his horror, a dead body in her dressing room. The next day a newspaper article reveals that he is considered the murderer. Packed with Cuban intelligence officials, dead bodies, spies and the heady nightlife of Havana, Gutiérrez re-writes ‘Our Man In Havana’. 150pp, paperback. £9.99 NOW £3
74477 DAYS OF ATONEMENT by Michael Gregorio
As Napoleon’s troops sweep in Prussia, three children are found massacred in their beds. Then the crushed corpse of their mother is discovered in a dockside warehouse. Amid the chaos of invasion, Prussian magistrate Hanno Stiffeniis begins his investigation into the brutal killings. He travels to a remote fortress on the Russian border to try and find the children’s father, but learns that he too is dead and buried. Is it a tragic coincidence or part of a bigger plot that this entire family has been wiped off the face of the earth in less than a week? 445pp, paperback. £7.99 NOW £2.75
74561 SALVATION OF A SAINT by Keigo Higashino
By the bestselling author of Japanese thriller phenomenon ‘The Devotion of Suspect X’, here is an extraordinary thriller. When a man is discovered dead by poisoning in his empty home, his beautiful wife Ayane immediately falls under suspicion. All clues point to her being the logical suspect, but how could she have committed the crime when she was hundreds of miles away? While Tokyo police detective Kusanagi tries to unpick a seemingly unrelated sequence of events, he finds himself falling for Ayane. As his judgement becomes dangerously clouded, his assistant must call on an old friend for help. 377pp, paperback. £7.99 NOW £3
74470 BANGKOK EIGHT by John Burdett A cracking East meets West thriller with a half Thai, half American Buddhist cop whose beliefs are as important as his forensic skills. In surreal Bangkok, city of temples and brothels where Buddhist monks in saffron robes walk the same streets as world-class gangsters, a US marine sergeant is killed inside a locked Mercedes by a maddened python and a swarm of cobras. Two policemen, the only two in the city not on the take, arrived too late. Minutes later only one is alive. The cop left standing is a devout Buddhist and swears to avenge the death of his partner and soul brother. To do so he must he must immerse himself in the moneyed underbelly of Bangkok where he will eventually find the killer. 447pp, paperback. £7.99 NOW £3
73343 CHARLES JESSOLD CONSIDERED A MURDERER by Wesley Stace
The night before brilliant but erratic composer Charles Jessold’s opera, about a betrayed husband who murders his wife and her lover, is due to open, Jessold is found dead, apparently having murdered his wife and her lover. Leslie Shepherd, music critic and Jessold’s collaborator on the opera, reflects on the scandalous affair in a dazzling, passionate and witty novel about the dangerous relationship between artist and critic. A subtle tale of English music with Wodehouse-style dialogue. 344pp, paperback. £7.99 NOW £2.25
58200 A CHARLIE CHAN OMNIBUS by Earl Derr Biggers
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. 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. 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. Paperback, 641pp.
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74562 SCARPETTA FACTOR by Patricia Cornwell
In the weeks before Christmas, the effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro bono to New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. She is asked live on air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr who has vanished and is presumed dead. Moments later during the same broadcast she receives a startling call-in from a former psychiatric patient of Benton Wesley’s. Her life becomes embroiled in a deadly plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess. 533pp. Paperback. £6.99 NOW £3.50
58201 CRIME SCENES edited by David Stuart Davies
A sparkling collection of short stories written by well- respected and well-established names such as Peter Lovesey, Edward Marston, Natasha Cooper, Judith Cutler and Russell James as well as a few young lions whose work is bristling with promise. Paperback, 354pp. ONLY £3
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74847 ROAD RAGE by Ruth Rendell
A by-pass is planned that will destroy the peace and natural habitat of Kingsmarkham forever. Dora Wexford joins the protest movement, but Chief Inspector Wexford must be more circumspect. Trouble is expected. Before the protesters can make their presence felt, the badly decomposed body of a young
woman is discovered. While Burden believes he knows the identity of the murderer, Wexford is not convinced. Having just become a grandfather, he cannot come to terms with the most powerful, familial passions until this case is resolved. 389pp in paperback.
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by Ruth Rendell The tragic death of Manuel Camargue, Kingsmarkham’s very own celebrity flautist, is met with a ruling of misadventure but when after an absence of 19 years his entrancing daughter Natalie reappears, Dinah his fiancé goes to Chief Inspector Wexford for help. Dinah believes Natalie is not who she claims to be. Knowing there is a large inheritance at stake,
Wexford begins to investigate. Then events take a gruesome twist. 269pp in paperback.
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74849 SIMISOLA by Ruth Rendell
Only 18 black people live in Kingsmarkham. One of them is Chief Inspector Wexford’s new Doctor, Raymond Akande. When his daughter Melanie goes missing, Wexford takes much more than just a professional interest in the case. Melanie disappeared somewhere between the Benefit Office and the bus stop. Or at least no one saw her get on the
bus when it came. Apparently happy at home, she had recently broken up with her boyfriend. No one liked to voice their suspicions that she might be dead. Superbly paced with tension and a climax of stunning unexpectedness. 378pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.50
74854 BABES IN THE WOOD
by Ruth Rendell
There hadn’t been anything like this kind of rain in living memory. The River Brede had burst its banks and not a single house in the valley had escaped flooding. In the midst of all this, two teenagers Giles and Sophie Dade, and Joanna Troy, the woman who had been looking after them, had vanished. The Subaqua Task
Force could find no trace of them, but Mrs Dade was still convinced her children were dead. The investigation would call into question many of Chief Inspector Wexford’s assumptions about the way people behaved, including his own family. Another Rendell gripper. 401pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.50
75333 CHIEF INSPECTOR WEXFORD: Set of Four by Ruth Rendell
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74865 KILLING DOLL by Ruth Rendell
No one would ever have described Manningtree Grove as fashionable and few would have found it especially interesting. But it was not an unpleasant place to live - the old railway lay in a valley and the gardens looked down onto it through an almost rural scene of grass and trees. Yet it was here that Peter Yearman first sold his soul to the devil, here that his
sister first thought of the doll and the uses to which magic might be out and here, in the Mistley Tunnel, that Diarmit Bawne first barricaded himself behind the old broken mattress and thought of using the knives. A novel with a horrifying climax. 266pp in paperback.
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74871 THE WATER’S LOVELY
by Ruth Rendell
The dead man was Ismay’s step- father Guy. Nine years on she and her sister Heather still live in the same house in Clapham. But is has been divided into two self- contained flats. Their mother lives upstairs with her sister Pamela and the bathroom where Guy drowned has been demolished. Ismay and
Heather get on well and always have. They never discuss the changes to the house, still less what happened that August day but now with painful inevitability, hidden truths start to emerge. A classy psychological novel. 409pp in paperback.
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