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DIE by Ruth Rendell When the body of a brutally beaten girl is found in a quarry during a hedonistic hippy festival at Sundays near Kingsmarkham, Chief Inspector Wexford is the first on the scene. The victim’s face has been pulped by the back-end of a bottle, but who, in this atmosphere of peace and love, could be capable of such violence? The body is that of local
girl turned stripper Dawn Stonor, but it is the unlikely link between her and the mysterious folk singer Zeno Vedast that piques Wexford’s interest. He uncovers a history of love and hate that began years earlier. 356pp, paperback. £7.99 NOW £2.50
74846 PUT ON BY CUNNING 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. £7.99 NOW £3
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. £7.99 NOW £3
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
76026 SAINT ZITA SOCIETY by Ruth Rendell Dex works as a gardener for Dr Jefferson at his home in Pimlico, in an exclusive street of white-painted stucco Georgian houses inhabited by the rich. The hired help, a motley assortment of au pairs, drivers and cleaners decide to form the St Zita Society as an excuse to meet at the local pub and air their grievances. When Dex is invited to attend, the others discover he has recently been released from a hospital for the criminally insane, incarcerated for attempting to kill his own mother. It seems his most meaningful relationship is with his mobile phone service provider Peach. Accidental death and pathological madness cohabit above and below stairs in Pimlico. 280pp in large softback. £12.99 NOW £3.50
62724 MYSTERY OF THE YELLOW ROOM by Gaston Leroux
Even if Hercule Poirot had been born a Frenchman, not a Belgian, he would have to take second place in detection to Joseph Rouletabille, the brilliant young sleuth created by Gaston Leroux. Here, in his first and most baffling case, the 18 year old reporter astounds readers with his audacity and ingenuity. Who could have tried to murder Mademoiselle Stangerson, beautiful daughter of a famous radium scientist? And how could they have entered and escaped from a completely locked and watched room? With the Surete’s top sleuth vying against him, Rouletabille is determined to prove only he can solve the case. 212 page paperback. ONLY £3
75402 CUCKOO’S CALLING by Robert Galbraith (aka J. K. Rowling)
From the hushed streets of Mayfair to the backstreet pubs of the East End and the bustle of Soho, we are introduced to Cormoran Strike, a slightly overweight private detective. Wounded both physically and psychologically and his life is in disarray. When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-
covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed she has committed suicide but her brother has his doubts. The case is given to Strike and could give him a financial lifeline, but it comes at a personal cost. The more he delves into the young model’s complex world, the closer he gets to trouble. This is J. K. Rowling’s acclaimed first crime novel. 449pp. £16.99 NOW £6
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. Paperback, 641pp.
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76578 LATE SCHOLAR by Jill Paton Walsh A Peter Wimsey Investigates novel based on the characters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Becoming the Duke and Duchess of Denver has not ended the detective partnership of Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. When Peter discovers he has inherited the job of Visitor, that is the ultimate regulator, of St Severin’s College, and the Fellows appeal to him to solve a dispute, he and Harriet set off happily to spend some time in Oxford, the city of their engagement and wedding. But a quarrel about whether to sell an ancient manuscript turns out to be both bitter and lethal. Several of the Fellows at St Severin’s die unexpectedly and the causes of death bear an uncanny resemblance to the murder methods in Peter Wimsey’s past cases and Harriet Vane’s detective novels. 356pp, paperback. £8.99 NOW £4.50
75026 UNRELIABLE LIFE OF HARRY THE VALET by Duncan Hamilton
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An impossibly daring jewellery heist aboard a train at Paris’s Gare du Nord station captures the attention of the world in October 1893. Who would have dared pull off such a feat? The author reveals the true story of Harry the Valet, the notorious crook who was the scourge of Victorian London, who conned and stole his way into high society, living a life 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. Harry was almost invisible, until blinded by love, he carried out the robbery that would prove his downfall. 311pp in paperback. Illus. £7.99 NOW £3
75559 ALCHEMY OF MURDER by Carol McCleary
Paris 1889 and the world’s fair is on. 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? 561pp in softback. £11.99 NOW £1.75
75999 MAMMOTH BOOK OF BODY HORROR edited by Paul Kane and Marie O’Regan John W. Campbell’s Who Goes There? coined the term ‘body horror’. It has long been used to describe such films as The Thing and most recently District 9, but the sub-genre did not begin with film. Here you will find profoundly unsettling stories, horrific tales of transformation, mutation and contagion spanning the entire history from the best writers of horror, Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, James Herbert, Stephen King, H. P. Lovecraft, Mary Shelley. 500 page paperback. $13.95 NOW £3.50
76543 BONES BENEATH by Mark Billingham
Detective Inspector Tom Thorne is back in charge, but there’s a terrifying price to pay. Stuart Nicklin, the most dangerous psychopath he has ever put behind bars, promises to reveal the whereabouts of a body he buried 25 years earlier but only if Thorne agrees to escort him. Unable to refuse, Thorne gathers a team and
travels to a remote Welsh island at the mercy of the weather and cut off from the mainland. He is determined to get the job done and return home before Nicklin can outwit them. Soon, new bodies are added to the old, and Thorne finds himself facing the toughest decision he has ever had to make. 391pp, £18.99 NOW £5.50
76636 SCAREDY CAT by Mark Billingham It was a calculated vicious murder at Euston station. The victim had been followed home on the tube, then strangled in front of her child. At the same time a second body is discovered at the back of Kings Cross station, killed in identical fashion. It eerily echoes the murders of two other women, both stabbed to death months before on the same day. DI. Tom Thorne sees the link and comes to the horrifying conclusion that it is not one serial killer the police are up against, it is two. To stop them both, Thorne must catch a man whose need to manipulate is as great as his need to kill and his deadliest weapon of all is terror. 369 page paperback. ONLY £4
76576 KILLING GROUND: The Ultimate Collection by Gerald Seymour
The massive bestseller Harry’s Game burst on to the literary scene in 1975. Here is another tense, taut tale of mounting drama. The US Drug Enforcement Agency is desperate to capture Mario Ruggerio, the would-be leader of the Sicilian Mafia and mastermind behind the international drugs trade. Charlotte Parsons, a young English schoolteacher, was the family’s nanny four years ago. When she is asked to take up her old job she is excited at the prospect of leaving behind a sleepy Devon village. But Charlie doesn’t realise that she is the live bait in an American trap. The book’s anti-Mafia judge is evocative of the real life judge Giovanni Falcone. 491pp, paperback. £8.99 NOW £3
76585 MURDER IN THE AFTERNOON: A Kate
Shackleton Mystery by Frances Brody Young Harriet and her brother Austin have always been scared of the quarry where their stone mason father works, so when they find him dead on the cold ground, they scarper quick smart and look for some help. When help arrives however, the quarry is deserted and there is no sign of the body. Were the children mistaken? Is their father not dead? Did he simply get up and run away? It seems like a sinister disappearing act and an unusual situation requiring the expertise of Kate Shackleton. This is one case where surprising family ties make it her most dangerous and delicate yet. 387pp, paperback.
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23821 IN A GLASS DARKLY by Sheridan Le Fanu
A remarkable collection of tales of the supernatural. The patients of Dr Heselius are plagued by malignant apparitions and vampires. Many disturbing implications remain unsolved. 302 page paperback.
50636 GOTHIC SHORT STORIES edited by David Blair
This superb new collection brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales. The haunting ‘The Lame Priest’ are ‘lost masterpieces’ and several have never been anthologised before. 272 paperback pages.
53185 CASEBOOK OF CARNACKI - GHOST FINDER by W. H. Hodgson
Thomas Carnacki is a ghost finder, an Edwardian psychic detective, investigating a wide range of terrifying hauntings presented in the nine stories in this complete collection of his adventures. 192 page paperback.
53189 THE HAUNTED HOTEL AND OTHER STORIES by Wilkie Collins
The star attraction is the novella ‘The Haunted Hotel’, a clever combination of detective and ghost story set in Venice, a city of grim waterways, dark shadows and death. Include ghosts, corpses that move, family curses and perhaps the most unusual of all, the Devil’s spectacles, which bring a clarity of vision that can lead to madness. 317 page paperback.
54978 THE BEETLE: A Mystery by Richard Marsh
From out of the dark and mystic Egypt come The Beetle, a creature of horror, ‘born of neither God nor man’, which can change its form at will. It is bent on revenge for a crime committed against the devotees of an ancient religion. At large in London, it pursues its victims without mercy. 288pp. Paperback.
55437 WHISPERER IN DARKNESS : Collected
Stories Volume One by H.P. Lovecraft Included in this volume are several early tales, along with the classics ‘The Call of Cthulhu’, ‘The Dunwich Horror’ and ‘At the Mountains of Madness’. Arm yourself with a copy of Abdul Alhazred’s fabled Necronomican and prepare to face terrors beyond the wildest imaginings of all save H.P. Lovecraft. 384pp. Paperback.
56200 ORIENTAL GHOST STORIES by Lafcadio Hearn
57495 GHOST STORIES OF HENRY JAMES Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. This edition includes all ten of his ghost stories, and as such is the fullest collection currently available. They include ‘The Jolly Corner’, a compelling story of psychological doubling; ‘Owen Wingrave’, which is also a subtle parable of military tradition; ‘The Friends of the Friends’, a strange story of uncanny love; and ‘The Private Life’, which finds a shrewd, high comedy in its ghostly theme. Paperback. 344pp.
58186 TALES OF UNEASE by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Doyle’s vivid imagination for the strange, the grotesque and the frightening is given full rein. We move from the mysteries of Egypt and the strange powers granted by ‘The Ring of Thoth’ to the isolated ghostlands of the Arctic in ‘The Captain of the Polestar’. 208 page paperback.
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58192 WOMAN IN WHITE by Wilkie Collins Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and ‘The Woman in White’ is his first excursion into the genre. When the hero, Walter Hartright, on a moonlit night in north London, encounters a solitary, terrified and beautiful woman dressed in white, he feels impelled to solve the mystery of her distress. 502pp. Paperback.
58197 NIGHT SHIVERS: The Ghost Stories of J. H. Riddell by J. H. Riddell
‘Night Shivers’ presents a treasure trove of the stories of Mrs J. H. Riddell, one of the greatest Victorian writers of ghost stories. Journeys into the gloomy haunts of old neglected houses, into a world of prophetic dreams, out onto the wild terrain of Ireland to encounter a frightful banshee and even down into Hell itself. 14 short stories and one novella. 449pp. Paperback.
58198 THE WITCH OF PRAGUE AND OTHER each £2
Lafcadio Hearn’s fascinating and unsettling ghost stories are a reinterpretation of oriental legends and folktales. They are a potent blend of weird beauty and horror. Lakes, mountains, ruined castles and terraced fields were the natural locale of ghostly spirits. 253pp. Paperback.
56202 COLLECTED GHOST STORIES by M.R. James
M.R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. 30 tales, among them ‘Casting the Runes’, ‘Oh, Whistle and I’ll come to you, My Lad’, ‘The Tractate Middoth’, ‘The Ash Tree’ and ‘Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook’. 352pp. Paperback.
56599 HOUSE BY THE CHURCHYARD by Sheridan Le Fanu
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu is best known today as one of the Victorian period’s leading exponents of supernatural fiction. This is perhaps his best novel in this genre. Set in the village of Chapelizod, near Dublin, in the 1760s the story opens with the accidental disinterment of an old skull in the churchyard, and an eerie late-night funeral. 560 page paperback.
57490 CLASSIC VICTORIAN AND
EDWARDIAN GHOST STORIES by Rex Collings The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as ‘real’ apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting new selection of ghost stories by Rex Collings. There are stories from distant lands - Fisher’s Ghost by John Lang is set in Australia and A Ghostly Manifestation by ‘A Clergyman’ is set in Calcutta. 304 page paperback.
57491 MADAM CROWL’S GHOST by Sheridan Le Fanu
In 1888 Henry James wrote ‘There was the customary novel by Mr Le Fanu for the bedside; the ideal reading in a country house for the hours after midnight’. Madam Crowl’s Ghost & Other Stories are tales selected from Le Fanu’s stories which mostly appeared in The Dublin University Magazine and other periodicals, and their haunting, sinister qualities still have an enormous appeal for the modern reader. 192pp.
68842 THE SIMON IFF STORIES AND OTHER WORKS by Aleister Crowley
This volume brings together two series of short fiction by the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). It includes the first complete publication of Simple Simon, the detective series featuring Crowley’s most memorable fictional creation, the mystic-magician-philosopher-psychoanalyst-detective Simon Iff. His three Simon Iff Abroad stories take the reader to tribal North Africa, inaccessible Central Africa and to the high seas. Also included are the eight stories of his legendary Golden Twigs and The Golden Bough. 551pp, paperback.
STORIES by Francis Marion Crawford This unique collection contains all the supernatural works of the prolific F. Marion Crawford (1854-1909), including his classic chillers ‘For Blood is the Life’, ‘The Upper Berth’ and the title story, ‘The Screaming Skull’ which was based on a true horror legend. Most of these stories have long been out of print. 451pp. Paperback.
58203 TALES OF MYSTERY AND THE
MACABRE by Elizabeth Gaskell The real charm of this dark anthology is its variety. Unlike so many writers of this kind of material, Gaskell allows the story to fit the style rather than the other way around and as result there is a charming freshness to each tale. 305pp in paperback.
59980 SCOTTISH GHOST STORIES edited by Rosemary Gray
Scotland has a notoriously rich and diverse cultural tradition when it comes to the supernatural. Many of her greatest writers, from Sir Walter Scott and James Hogg to Robert Louis Stevenson and John Buchan, have explored the country’s unique folkloric heritage to spine-chilling effect. Tormented spectres throng the pages of this disquieting collection compiled by Rosemary Gray. Paperback. 623pp.
62736 THE DRUG AND OTHER STORIES by Aleister Crowley
Crowley was a successful critic, editor and author of fiction from 1908 to 1922, and his short stories are long overdue for discovery. Of the 49 stories in the present volume, only 30 were published in his lifetime. Most of the rest appear here for the first time. They are set in places he had lived and knew well: Belle Epoque Paris, Edwardian London, pre-revolutionary Russia and America during the First World War. 608 page paperback.
64986 SWEENEY TODD - THE STRING
OF PEARLS: Second Edition by James Malcolm Rymer
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The String of Pearls - the original tale of Sweeney Todd, a classic of British horror, was first published as a weekly serial in 1846-7 by Edward Lloyd, the King of the Penny Dreadfuls. So here is the original story of the terrifying owner of that famous London barber- shop, and the secret recipe for Mrs Lovett’s delicious pies. 259 paperback pages.
65523 THE ITALIAN by Ann Radcliffe Ann Radcliffe is the high priestess of the gothic novel. In The Italian, first published in 1797, she creates a chilling, atmospheric concoction of thwarted lovers, ruined abbeys, imprisonment and dark passages, with an undercurrent of seething sexuality and presents us with a cunning villain in the sinister monk Schedoni. Gothic fiction. Paperback. 464pp.
68848 NIGHT TERRORS: The Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson by E. F. Benson
E. F. Benson was a master of the ghost story and now all his rich, imaginative, spine-tingling and beautifully written tales are presented together in this bumper collection. Encounter revengeful spectres, vampires, homicidal spirits, monstrous spectral worms and slugs and other entities of nameless dread. Paperback, 705pp.
68853 VOODOO TALES: The Ghost Stories of
Henry S. Whitehead by Henry S. Whitehead In this collection of rare and out of print stories you will encounter the curses of the great Guinea-Snake, the Sheen, the weredog whose very touch means certain death, the curious tale of the ‘magicked’ mirror, and fiendish manikins who make life a living hell. 691 page paperback.
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