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74112 TV CREAM TOYS by Steve Berry Almost 200 super-desirable toys are alphabetically catalogued here. The book is based on a website for aficionados of retro toys, and each featured toy comes with at least one colour photo, a description and a history. A ratings box covers date of origin, battery requirements, number of players, breakage likelihood, the power of the associated advertising, the envy factor, ‘eBayability’ and finally overall satisfaction. The sub-titles are a treat in themselves - Action Man (1966) is a ‘military mannequin’, Barbie (1959) the ‘whore next door’ and Lego (1949) the ‘building brick enemy of the vacuum cleaner’, the A La Carte Kitchen via Raving Bonkers Fighting Robots to ZX Spectrum. 207pp, colour photos.
£12.99 NOW £3
74729 WATCHES by Judith Miller
A block of a book which tells the story of wristwatch design through 300 stunning images and covering the 1900s to 2000. The book shines a spotlight onto the most desirable watches from Rolex to Hamilton, Swatch to Omega, Patek Philippe, Bulova, Cartier,
Elgin, Volta and hundreds of others. Each is photographed in close up colour, filling each page and there are captions, fun quotes from famous people and an excellent star rating by the antique expert Judith Miller indicating current prices asked by vintage fashion dealers, from 500 pounds right up to 50,000 pounds and over. Many of these firms began as makers of pocket watches in the 19th century. 304pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £6
CRIME
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
75312 THAMES TORSO MURDERS by M. J. Trow Using his long experience of research into criminal history, and working in conjunction with a leading forensic psychologist, the author reconstructs, in compelling and grisly detail, each killing in this series of murders - throwing new light on an unforgettable and unresolved murder case. The incredible career of the Thames
Torso Murderer has gripped readers and historians ever since he committed his horrifying crimes in the 1870s and 1880s. The case poses as many questions as the killings by Jack the Ripper. How, over a period of 15 years, did he not only get away with a succession of murders, but also succeed in scattering the dismembered corpses along the banks of the River Thames? What sort of a perverted character was he? Why did he take such risks? Why did he kill again and again? As our author reveals, he was well-organized, with a cold, logical streak, and was fascinated by the river. The methodical dismemberment of at least eight bodies had more to do with the clinical need to avoid detection than with the frenzy of a maniac. Yet the anonymous individual who removed heads and legs, but did not obliterate the faces, even had the audacity to drop a victim into the foundations of the new Scotland Yard, as if he wanted to taunt the police. A bloodthirsty conundrum. 175 pages, archive illustrations, map. £19.99 NOW £7
75195 MAMMOTH BOOK OF THE MAFIA
edited by Nigel Cawthorne and Colin Cawthorne 19 glamorous and horrific mob stories from prominent ex-Mafiosi, infiltrators and award winning writers. Donnie Brasco, the FBI agent who worked undercover in the Bonanno and Colombo crime families in New York for six years, Albert DeMeo, the son of a
gangster who later became a lawyer, Jerry Black the ‘hit man’, a chilling professional murderer of 38 victims regarded by many as the original ‘Soprano’ and more first hand accounts of life inside the mob by Frankie Faggio, Richard Kuklinski and many more. 458pp in paperback.
$13.95 NOW £5
75309 SCOTLAND YARD’S GHOST SQUAD: The Secret Weapon Against Post-War
Crime by Dick Kirby The author spent half of his 26 years’ service in the Metropolitan Police with Scotland Yard’s Serious Crime Squad and the Flying Squad, so he has plenty of experience of his subject. In this thrilling volume, using hitherto unseen official documents and conversations with
people who were on the spot at the time, he reveals the secret activities of the Special Duties Squad, otherwise known as the Ghost Squad, in the years immediately after World War II, when crime was rife and Scotland
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Yard were desperate to clamp down on it. Four of the Yard’s best-informed detectives were called in. They were Divisional Detective Inspector Jack Capstick - a brilliant thief-taker and informant runner, Detective Inspector Henry Clark - who knew the South London villains as few other detectives did, and possessed a punch ‘like the kick of a mule’, and Detective Sergeants Matt Brinnand and John Gosling, who topped the Flying Squad’s war-time arrests record. These four fearless men set about their task, using informants, undercover officers and their own unsurpassed skills. In under four years, they arrested 789 criminals, solved 1,506 cases, and recovered stolen property valued at £250,000 (or in today’s money £10,000,000. 224 incredible paperback pages with b/w archive photos. £12.99 NOW £6
75299 ENEMIES OF THE STATE: The Cato Street
Conspiracy by M. J. Trow In a fascinating insight into the justice system of Georgian England, the twists and turns of a
complicated plot, and the characters of the Cato Street conspirators who were not afraid to resort to murder in order to generate political change, a highly rated biographer reveals the plan to assassinate Prime
Minister Lord Liverpool and his cabinet and destroy his government. This was an age when it was possible for a prime minister to be shot dead in the lobby of the House of Commons, when five-year-old children were working in mines, when 300,000 soldiers and sailors found themselves suddenly out of work, and when the yeomanry charged an unarmed crowd of women and children at St Peter’s Fields in Manchester. The Cato Street conspirators matched the Gunpowder plotters in their daring, but their dark, radical intrigue has not, until now, received the attention it deserves. In a gripping, fast-moving account of a notorious but neglected episode in British history, the author reconstructs the case in vivid detail and sets it in the wider context of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. 192 pages illustrated in b/w with map. £19.99 NOW £7
74887 BILLINGTON: Victorian Executioner by Alison Bruce
Tells the story of the incredible and rather gruesome Billington family. James was formerly a pub entertainer and then a barber, but he nourished a single-minded determination to secure the post of executioner for London and the Home Counties. This compelling book is an examination of the men who were expected single- handedly to kill another human being without hesitation or emotion. Three of James’ sons, Thomas, William and John followed in his footsteps and together the family were responsible for a horrifying 235 executions, including those of many notorious murderers in Great Britain between 1884 and 1905. 224 pages illus. £18.99 NOW £6
75104 RED DUSK AND THE
MORROW by Paul Duke
Sub-titled Adventures and Investigations in Soviet Russia, Paul Duke was sent into Russia in 1918, shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution, by ‘C’, the mysterious Head of the British Secret Service. His mission was to pull together the British spy networks operating against the new regime. With its
spies and diplomats thrown out at the start of the Red Terror, Britain’s espionage efforts were left to a British businessman with no previous experience as a spy. Duke operated under a variety of covers, the most daring of which was as a member of the Cheka Secret Police. On his return, the government publicised his account of the Bolshevik terror to justify a joint US-UK military attack on Northern Russia. He became the only British secret agent to be knighted for spying and was awarded the Victoria Cross. First published in 1922. A true classic of espionage. 264pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £4.50
58185 JACK THE RIPPER: The Whitechapel Murderer by Terry Lynch
Horrific, horrendous, unspeakable, The Whitechapel Murderer, Jack the Ripper, stalked the streets of East London in 1888, slaughtering prostitutes and bewildering the police who were hunting him. They never succeeded in apprehending him, and to this day the mystery of his identity remains an enigma. This book looks at the evidence left by the murderer and the reports and investigative papers which recorded the atrocities that the ripper performed. 369 page paperback. ONLY £4
74704 DEATH AND THE VIRGIN QUEEN: Elizabeth I and the Dark Scandal That Rocked the Throne by Chris Skidmore
On the morning of September 8th 1560, at the isolated manor of Cumnor Place, the body of a young woman was found at the bottom of a staircase, her neck broken. But this was no ordinary death. Amy
Robsart was the wife of Elizabeth I’s great favourite Robert Dudley. Immediately, foul play was suspected, and Elizabeth’s own reputation was in danger of serious damage. Ultimately, a verdict of Death By Accident was reached. Was Amy murdered in order to facilitate her husband’s affair with Elizabeth, or not? Now, in an impressively vivid re-telling of the whole story, new material is presented, in the form of a previously lost coroner’s report that offers an important revelation about the nature of Amy’s injuries. At last centuries of speculation are put to rest. 430 pages with colour plates. 430 page paperback, b/w illus. $16.99 NOW £5
75205 1222: A Hanne CRIME FICTION
The jury, passing on the prisoner’s life, May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try.
- Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
75208 AS THE PIG TURNS: An Agatha Raisin Mystery by M. C. Beaton
Winter Parva is a picturesque (touristy) Cotswolds village with gift shops, a medieval market hall and thatched cottages. After a disappointing Christmas season, the parish council has decided to hold a special event in January, complete with old fashioned costumes, Morris dancing and a pig roast on the
village green. Agatha Raisin organises an outing to enjoy the merriments, but as the spit roast turns and the fog lifts slightly, sharp-eyed Agatha notices something peculiar about the pig - a tattoo of a heart with an arrow through it and the name Amy. Stop! She screams pigs don’t have tattoos. The ‘pig’ in fact is Gary Beech, a policeman not exactly beloved of the locals. Although Agatha has every intention of leaving matters to the police, everything changes when Gary’s ex-wife Amy hires Agatha’s detective agency to investigate, and another murder ensues. 292pp in large print. ONLY £5
75574 FAT OLLIE’S BOOK:
An 87th Precinct Novel by Ed McBain
Lester Henderson has it all - widely tipped to be the next mayor he faces a glorious future - until he is gunned down. At that point he becomes Ollie Weeks’ problem. Uncharacteristically first to the scene, Ollie lands the murder of the decade, but the crime is overshadowed by a deed even
more repugnant. Ollie’s life’s work is his novel. Honed by countless rejection letters, it is finally ready to be inflicted on the nation when the one and only manuscript is stolen from his car by a thief who is convinced that Ollie’s opus contains the secret location to a hoard of diamonds. A sharply exciting read. 291pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3
75570 A DEADLY BREW: A Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle
by Susannah Gregory Pestilence, poison and priests can be a deadly brew. The winter of 1353 brings new confusion to the people of Cambridge. Torrential rain spread fever to the poor and made travelling hazardous along the town’s outlaw- infested roads. Then three members of the University die by drinking poisoned
wine. Is this another college conspiracy or a new period of hostility between town and gown? The bottles of poisoned wine are circulating through knowing and innocent hands. Physician Matthew Bartholomew would rather not get involved but when his life is threatened he realises he has become a target for people with more than robbery on their minds. He stumbles upon criminal activities that not only implicate his friends, relatives and colleagues, but also mix commercial greed and academic intrigue. 455pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £3.50
75562 BLUE LIGHTNING by Ann Cleeves
By the award winning author of Raven Black, this thriller introduces us to Jimmy Perez, a fine fictional creation. Shetland Detective Jimmy knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to Fair Isles to introduce his fiancée Fran to his parents. Strangers while welcomed are still viewed with a degree of mistrust in the community
which is a challenging place to live. With the autumn storms raging, the island is truly cut off from the rest of the world. Tension is high, people feel trapped and tempers become frayed. It’s enough to drive someone to murder. When a woman’s body is discovered at the renowned bird observatory, with feathers threaded through her hair, the islanders react with fear and anger. With only Fran to help him, Jimmy has to investigate the old-fashioned way and soon realises that this is no crime of passion but cold murder. Will the killer strike again? 357pp in US first edition. $24.99 NOW £4
75113 BAD INTENTIONS by Karin Fossum
Early one September three friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin by Dead Water Lake. With only a pale moon to light their way, they row across the water in the middle of the night, but only two return. When the body of the third friend is discovered, Inspector Sejer is put in charge of the investigation and is troubled by the apparent suicide. He has an overwhelming
sense that the surviving pair have something to hide. Weeks pass without any further clues, and then in a nearby lake the body of another teenage boy floats to the surface. A riveting exploration of the consequences of crime, a whydunnit rather than a traditional whodunnit. 184pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3
Wilhelmsen Novel by Anne Holt
From Norway’s bestselling female crime writer comes a suspenseful locked-room mystery. A train has de-railed, 1,222 metres above sea level. Stranded in an isolated hotel during a monumental snowstorm, the passengers are being murdered, one by one. With no possibility of rescue for anyone, Police Inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen is asked to
investigate. Paralysed by a bullet lodged in her spine, she has no desire to get involved but, as her curiosity and natural talent for observation force her to take an interest in the passengers and their secrets, she is slowly coaxed into helping. She realises that time is running out, and she must act before panic takes over. Complicating things is the presence of a mysterious guest who was travelling in a private coach at the end of the train and was evacuated first to the top floor of the hotel. No-one knows who the guest is or why armed guards are hovering outside his or her door, but Hanne has her suspicions. Trapped in her wheelchair, trapped by the storm, and now trapped with a killer, Hanne must fit the pieces of the puzzle together before the killer strikes again. 313 thrilling pages. $25 NOW £4
75559 ALCHEMY OF MURDER
by Carol McCleary
Paris 1889 and the world’s fair is on. The alchemist is how I’ve come to think of him; he has a passion for the dark side of knowledge, mixing murder and madness with science. Nellie Bly is a reporter, feminist and amateur detective, in Paris on the trail of an enigmatic killer. An epidemic of
Black Fever rages, anarchists plot to overthrow the government and a murderer preys on the prostitutes who haunt the streets of Montmartre. But it is also a city of culture, a magnet for artists and men of science and letters. Can the combined genius of Oscar Wilde, Jules Verne and Louis Pasteur help Nellie prove a match for Jack the Ripper? An ambitious novel of history, mystery, science and murder. 561pp in softback with large print.
£11.99 NOW £3
75663 BEAST OF THE CAMARGUE
by Xavier-Marie Bonnot Fans of Rebus and Harry Bosch should enjoy this Commandant de Palma Investigation. Mysterious chants are heard in the empty marshlands of the Camargue, and a body is found at the edge of a swamp. Then another is discovered, hideously mutilated, apparently torn apart by monstrous
teeth and claws. De Palma, known to his Marseille police colleagues as The Baron is technically on sick leave, but seduced by the charms of a beautiful woman, he is soon drawn into the enquiry. As he investigates the legend of the Beast and the knights of Tarascon, he unearths the murky secrets and rituals that bind local Provencal landowners and underworld bosses. An atmospheric thriller steeped in history and an intoxicating French summer. 326pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3
75680 THREE SECONDS by Roslund & Hellström A Swedish novel in translation which invites comparison with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo with its same obsessive detail and slow chapters shifting quickly into a higher gear. From the amphetamine-fuelled beginning when a drug deal goes awry in a Stockholm flat, you are submerged in labyrinthine Swedish
bureaucracy, its prison system and
organised crime. Piet Hoffmann is the Swedish police force’s best undercover operative. Not even his family know of his double identity. Yet when a drug deal with the Polish mafia goes horribly wrong, his secret life begins to crumble around him. Two men are charged with investigating the drug-related killing and are unaware of Hoffmann’s true identity. Reviewers say this one is destined for the big screen. 638pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
74604 THE WHITE LIONESS: An Inspector Wallander Mystery by Henning Mankell
In peaceful southern Sweden Louise Akerblom, an estate agent, pillar of the Methodist church, wife and mother, disappears. There is no explanation, no motive and Inspector Wallander and his team are called in to investigate. Kurt Wallander has a gut feeling that the victim will never be found alive. In South Africa, Nelson Mandela has made his long walk to freedom. Wallander and his colleagues find themselves caught up in a complex web involving renegade members of South Africa’s secret service and a former KGB agent, all of whom are set upon halting Mandela’s rise to power. Faced with a world in which terrorism knows no frontiers, Wallander must prevent a hideous crime that means to dam the tide of history. 565pp, paperback. £7.99 NOW £4
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
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