Murder mystery enters the world of English football in this 1939 classic. In a high stakes final between a team of amateurs and the Arsenal side of 1939, a player drops dead on the pitch shortly after half time. It’s up to Detective Inspector Slade to unravel the multiplicity of motives and suspects behind this […]
Sweden, winter, 1991. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team receive an anonymous tip-off. A few days later a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive suits, shot dead. The dead men were criminals, victims of what seems to have been a gangland hit. But what appears […]
Book #1 in the Marian Moyer Series! She may be a crime-scene photographer, but that doesn’t mean Marian Moyer is ready to star in her own murder mystery. Most days, she can’t even control her hair. But when the star of Marian’s racy, underground magazine turns up dead and the police are convinced she’s the […]
‘A tragic discovery was made at Bishop’s Hotel last evening when a maid, on entering the suite of Signora da Costa, a rich Argentine guest at the hotel, found her dead body on the bed wrapped in an eiderdown.’ Paul Ashby is excited to be heading off on holiday to the South of France. But […]
The treasure was to be found in an English country house, and it was worth one million pounds, but what was the treasure, was it jewels or something else? Various parties were searching; American gangsters among them, and all had to unravel the clues to be found in the works of Shakespeare. Murder followed murder […]
On her 55th birthday, physicist Gloria Lamerino makes a U-turn: she cleans out her Berkeley, California condo and her physics lab, signs for a retirement bonus, and flies east to her hometown of Revere, just outside Boston. Back in the city she left thirty years ago, Gloria moves into an apartment above her friends’ funeral […]
Detective Inspector Tom Thorne now knows that three murdered young women were a killer’s mistakes — and that Alison was his triumph. And unless Thorne can enter the mind of a brilliant madman — a frighteningly elusive fiend who enjoys toying with the police as much as he savors his sick obsession — Alison Willetts […]
Originally published in 1932, this is the first Crime Classic novel written by an MP. And fittingly, the crime scene is within the House of Commons itself, in which a financier has been shot dead. Entreated by the financier’s daughter, a young parliamentary private secretary turns sleuth to find the identity of the murderer – […]
Shocked by a series of brutal, unexplainable murders, Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell embarks on a desperate journey into the heart of the Alaskan Bush country — in search of the terrible, earth-shattering truth… Blurb from the 2001 Signet Edition This further outing of State Trooper Liam Campbell and his pilot girlfriend Wy in the […]
‘ When California single mom and suburban sleuth Kate Austen finds her friend’s corpse next to a bottle of scotch and an empty vial of sleeping pills, she doesn’t believe it’s suicide. And when a second body turns up, even handsome homicide detective Michael Stone agrees that it’s beginning to look a lot like murder.’ […]
Bodies In The Library 