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Aesop’s Fables
Aesop
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.’Living in Ancient Greece in the 5th Century BC, Aesop was said to be a slave and story-teller. His...
Appointment with Death
Агата Кристи
A repugnant Amercian widow is killed during a trip to Petra…Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection...
Postern of Fate
Агата Кристи
A poisoning many years ago may not have been accidental after all…Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property, they have inherited some worthless bric-a-brac,...
Clutch of Constables
Ngaio Marsh
A classic Ngaio Marsh novel which features blood-curdling murders in the confines of a riverboat, the Zodiac, cruising through Constable country.’He looks upon the murders that he did in fact perform as tiresome and regrettable necessities,’...
When in Rome
Ngaio Marsh
Murder, blackmail and drug-dealing on the Tiber combine in one of Ngaio Marsh’s liveliest and most evocative novels.When their guide disappears mysteriously in the depths of a Roman Basilica, the members of Mr Sebastian Mailer’s tour group seem...
Scales of Justice
Ngaio Marsh
A brutal murder with a golf club and an ingenious plot bursting with snobbery, suspicion , adultery and secrets – to say nothing of the dreadful crime of catricide…The lives of the inhabitants of Swevenings are disrupted only by a fierce...
Spinsters in Jeopardy
Ngaio Marsh
A classic Ngaio Marsh mystery thriller combining drugs and sacrifice.High in mountains stands the magnificent Saracen fortress, home of the mysterious Mr Oberon, leader of a coven of witches. It is not the historic castle, however, that...
Three Act Tragedy
Агата Кристи
At an apparently respectable dinner party, a vicar is the first to die…Thirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actor’s house. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his...
Hand in Glove
Ngaio Marsh
One of Ngaio Marsh’s most ingenious novels.The April Fool’s Day had been a roaring success for all, it seemed – except for poor Mr Cartell who had ended up in the ditch – for ever.Then there was the case of Mr Percival Pyke Period’s letter of...
Artists in Crime
Ngaio Marsh
One of Ngaio Marsh’s most famous murder mysteries, which introduces Inspector Alleyn to his future wife, the irrepressible Agatha Troy.It started as a student exercise, the knife under the drape, the model’s pose chalked in place. But before...
After the Funeral
Агата Кристи
The master of a Victorian mansion dies suddenly – and his sister is convinced it was murder….When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard’s funeral suddenly takes on a...
Death in Ecstasy
Ngaio Marsh
Another classic Ngaio Marsh novel.Who slipped cyanide into the ceremonial wine of ecstasy at the House of the Sacred Flame? The other initiates and the High Priest claim to be above earthly passions. But Roderick Alleyn discovers that the victim...
Overture to Death
Ngaio Marsh
A classic Ngaio Marsh novel in which she more than lives up to her reputation as a crime writer of intelligence and style.It was planned as an act of charity: a new piano for the parish hall, an amusing play to finance the gift.But its execution...
The Moving Finger
Агата Кристи
Agatha Christie’s famous Miss Marple mystery, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets – a town where even...
The Big Four
Агата Кристи
A ruthless international cartel seeks world domination…Framed in the doorway of Poirot’s bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man’s gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell.Who was he? Was he...
Lord Edgware Dies
Агата Кристи
Agatha Christie’s famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to ‘get rid of’ her estranged...
The Thirteen Problems
Агата Кристи
The Tuesday Night Club is a venue where locals challenge Miss Marple to solve recent crimes…One Tuesday evening a group gathers at Miss Marple’s house and the conversation turns to unsolved crimes…The case of the disappearing bloodstains; the...
Hallowe’en Party
Агата Кристи
A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples…At a Hallowe’en party, Joyce – a hostile thirteen-year-old – boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still...
Elephants Can Remember
Агата Кристи
Hercule Poirot is determined to solve an old husband and wife double murder that is still an open verdict…Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. Here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident. This was followed by the grisly...
Five Little Pigs
Агата Кристи
Agatha Christie’s ingenious murder mystery, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five...
Hickory Dickory Dock
Агата Кристи
There’s more than petty theft going on in a London youth hostel…An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Hercule Poirot’s interest. But when he saw the list of stolen and vandalized items –...
The Mingrelian Conspiracy
Michael Pearce
A classic historical mystery from the award-winning Michael Pearce, set in the Egypt of the 1900s. When gang violence strikes the city, the inimitable Mamur Zapt is called in to investigate.In 1908, the city of Cairo lives – and dies – by its...
City Of Shadows
M Lee J
Inspector Danilov has always taken a unique approach to detective work. So, when he’s asked to investigate the violent death of a fellow police officer, killed in action, he doesn’t think twice about turning his attention to a different case...
The Dead Place
Stephen Booth
Soon there will be a killing. Close your eyes and breathe in the aroma. I can smell it right now, can’t you? So powerful, so sweet. So irresistible. It’s the scent of death.‘It’s perfectly simple. All you have to do is find the dead place’The...
Scared to Live
Stephen Booth
A dark psychological thriller featuring Diane Fry and Ben Cooper, in which a small community is ripped apart by arson and murder. ‘Ingenious plotting and richly atmospheric’ – Reginald Hill.An assassination in the night – an open window and...
The Kill Call
Stephen Booth
An atmospheric new Fry and Cooper thriller for fans of Peter Robinson and Reginald Hill.On a rain-swept Derbyshire moor, hounds from the local foxhunt find the body of a well-dressed man whose head has been crushed. Yet an anonymous caller...
A Clubbable Woman
Reginald Hill
‘So far out in front that he need not bother looking over his shoulder’ Sunday TelegraphDetective Superintendent Andy Dalziel investigates murder close to home in this first crime novel featuring the much-loved detective team of Dalziel and...
An April Shroud
Reginald Hill
Superintendent Dalziel falls for the recently bereaved Mrs Fielding’s ample charms, and has to be rescued from a litter of fresh corpses by Inspector Pascoe.Superintendent Andy Dalziel’s holiday runs into trouble when he gets marooned by flood...
A Killing Kindness
Reginald Hill
‘Altogether an enjoyable performance, one of Mr Hill’s best’ Financial TimesWhen Mary Dinwoodie is found choked in a ditch following a night out with her boyfriend, a mysterious caller phones the local paper with a quotation from Hamlet. The...
On Beulah Height
Reginald Hill
‘Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift’ Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayFifteen years ago they moved everyone out of Dendale. They needed a new reservoir and an old community seemed a...
Recalled to Life
Reginald Hill
‘The story is expertly told, skein by skein, with a new knot to be untied just when you think everything is clear’ Sunday Telegraph1963. It was the year of the Profumo Scandal, the Great Train Robbery, the Kennedy Assassination – and the...
The Mermaids Singing
Val McDermid
In this special 20th anniversary edition, Lee Child introduces the Gold Dagger award-winning serial killer thriller that began the Number One bestselling crime series featuring clinical psychologist Dr Tony Hill, hero of TV’s much-loved Wire in...
The Wood Beyond
Reginald Hill
‘Hill’s wit is the constant, ironic foil to his vision, and to call this a mere crime novel is to say Everest is a nice little hill’ Frances Hegarty, Mail on SundayWhen animal-rights activists uncover a long-dead uniformed body in the grounds of...
The Last Temptation
Val McDermid
The Number One bestselling crime series featuring Dr Tony Hill, hero of TV’s Wire in the Blood, written by the award-winning Val McDermid. The hunt for a serial killer leads from Britain through Europe in this terrifying psychological thriller.A...
The Leavenworth Case
John Curran
THIS DETECTIVE STORY CLUB CLASSIC is introduced by Dr John Curran, who looks at how Anna Katherine Green was a pioneer who inspired a new generation of crime writers, in particular a young woman named Agatha Christie.When the retired merchant...
No Way Home
Jack Slater
Looking for more from DS Peter Gayle? Then don’t miss this chilling new police procedural!A dead body. A mysterious murder. A serial killer on the loose.A taxi driver is found murdered in a remote part of Exeter. He is a family man, no enemies...
Nowhere to Run
Jack Slater
‘There are lots of twists and turns in this book and it has the makings of a great series’ – Annette (Netgalley)A missing child. A dead body. A killer on the loose.Returning to Exeter CID after his son’s unsolved disappearance Detective Sergeant...
The Delegates’ Choice
Ian Sansom
Israel Armstrong, one of literature’s most unlikely detectives, returns for more crime solving adventure in this hilarious third novel from the Mobile Library series.Israel has been invited to attend the Mobile Meet in London, the annual mobile...
Under World
Reginald Hill
‘Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift’ Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayYears ago, young Tracey Pedley disappeared in the woods around Burrthorpe. The close-knit mining village had its...
Divergent Series
Вероника Рот
No. 1 New York Times bestsellers DIVERGENT, INSURGENT and ALLEGIANT in collector’s trilogy set.DIVERGENT, INSURGENT and ALLEGIANT were major blockbuster movies in 2014, 2015 and 2016.Divergent:Sixteen-year-old Tris has been forced to make a...
Robinson Crusoe
Даниэль Дефо
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.'It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.'Shipwrecked in a storm at sea,...
Northanger Abbey
Джейн Остин
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Northanger Abbey! These were thrilling words, and wound up Catherine's feelings to the highest point of ecstasy.’Considered the most light-hearted and satirical of...
The Deerslayer
Джеймс Фенимор Купер
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Set in the 1740s, just after the start of the French and Indian wars, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Deerslayer tells the story of a young Natty Bumppo, most...
Arabian Nights
Sir Burton Richard
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘“For,” said he, “there never was nor is there one chaste woman upon the face of earth.”’A collection of Persian, Arabian and Indian tales dating from the 9th...
The Woodlanders
Томас Харди (Гарди)
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Grace Melbury, the only daughter of a timber-merchant, arrives home in Little Hintock after an expensive education and her father looks to find a husband...
Moll Flanders
Даниэль Дефо
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.‘My true name is so well known in the Records or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old Bailey, and there are some things of such consequence still depending there,...
Silas Marner
Джордж Элиот
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the...
The Moonstone
Уилки Коллинз
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.’Centred around a glorious yellow diamond that carries with it a...
Mansfield Park
Джейн Остин
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘I pay very little regard…to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not...
Oliver Twist
Чарльз Диккенс
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.'Oliver Twist has asked for more!'Fleeing the workhouse, Oliver finds himself taken under the wing of the Artful Dodger and caught up with a group of pickpockets in...
