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Inspector French and the Box Office Murders
Freeman Crofts Wills
From the Collins Crime Club archive, the fifth Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’.THE PUZZLE OF THE PURPLE SICKLEThe suicide of a sales clerk at the box office of a London cinema...
The Riviera Express
TP Fielden
‘A delicious adventure’ – Daily MailMurder on the Riviera ExpressGerald Hennessey – silver screen star and much-loved heart-throb – never quite makes it to Temple Regis, the quaint Devonshire seaside town on the English Riviera. Murdered on the...
A Quarter Past Dead
TP Fielden
‘One of the best in the genre’ THE SUN‘A fabulously satisfying addition to the canon of vintage crime’ DAILY EXPRESS‘A delicious adventure’ DAILY MAIL on The Riviera Express***Murder can strike at any hour…It’s the late 1950s in tranquil Temple...
Resort to Murder: A must-read vintage crime mystery
TP Fielden
‘A fabulously satisfying addition to the canon of vintage crime’ DAILY EXPRESS‘One of the best in the genre’ THE SUN‘Tremendous fun’ THE INDEPENDENTNo 1 Ladies Detective Agency meets The Durrells in 1950s DevonDeath stalks the beaches of...
The Groote Park Murder
Freeman Crofts Wills
From a murder in South Africa to the tracking down of a master criminal in northern Scotland, this is a true classic of Golden Age detective fiction by one of its most accomplished champions.When a signalman discovers a mutilated body inside a...
Inspector French: Sir John Magill’s Last Journey
Freeman Crofts Wills
From the Collins Crime Club archive, the sixth Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’.A MURDER MYSTERY WITHOUT A CLUEWhen Sir John Magill, the wealthy Irish industrialist, fails to show...
Paul Temple Intervenes
Francis Durbridge
Sir Graham Forbes of Scotland Yard often calls upon Paul Temple to help with his latest unfathomable case…In a small country lane, the well-known American, Myron Harwood, is found dead. The murder heralds the start of a spate of celebrity deaths...
Send for Paul Temple Again!
Francis Durbridge
Actress Norma Rice is found dead on a train, and the letters REX are scrawled in red chalk on her compartment window. It is the third death to occur in a mysterious string of murders and Scotland Yard are compelled to send once again for Paul...
Paul Temple and the Harkdale Robbery
Francis Durbridge
Paul and Steve are back to solve the latest hard-hitting case of robbery and murder. After a heist goes down at Harkdale bank, a gang of thieves flee and a car chase ensues.As police close in on them, the thieves come to a screeching dead...
Paul Temple: East of Algiers
Francis Durbridge
When Paul Temple is asked to do a simple favour for his wife Steve, he has no idea of the brutal repercussions about to follow.Flying from Paris, Temple and Steve are bound for Tunis to deliver a package to David Foster … until the parcel’s...
Below the Clock
David Brawn
A classic Golden Age detective novel set at the heart of Westminster, when the murder of the Chancellor of the Exchequer threatens to topple the whole House of Cards…Many highly dramatic and historic scenes have been enacted below the clock of...
The ABC Murders
Агата Кристи
Agatha Christie’s world-famous serial killer mystery, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.There’s a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way through the...
Sleeping Murder
Агата Кристи
The owner of a seaside villa is plagued by strange feelings about its past…Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past....
A Murder is Announced
Агата Кристи
Agatha Christie’s most ingenious murder mystery, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple, are agog with...
Cards on the Table
Агата Кристи
A flamboyant party host is murdered in full view of a roomful of bridge players…Mr Shaitana was famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he was a man of whom everybody was a little afraid. So, when he boasted to Poirot that he considered...
Trent’s Own Case
Martin Edwards
The second novel from the celebrated author of one of the most famous mystery classics ever written, Trent's Last Case.James Randolph is murdered early one evening and his body is found a few hours later. When the police arrive they discover...
Dead Man’s Folly
Агата Кристи
A charity murder game at a Devon house turns into the real thing…Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village f?te, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well known crime writer,...
Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case
Агата Кристи
A wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place…The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was his own daughter Judith,...
The Paddington Mystery
John Rhode
A special release of the very first crime novel by John Rhode, introducing Dr Priestley, the genius detective who would go on to appear in more than 70 bestselling crime novels during the Golden Age.When Harold Merefield returned home in the...
The Passing of Mr Quinn
Mark Aldridge
Reprinted for the first time in almost 90 years, this original novelisation of the very first Agatha Christie film is a unique record of the Queen of Crime’s movie debut and a bold attempt to turn one of her favourite short stories into a...
The Rynox Mystery
Philip MacDonald
A classic Golden Age crime novel, and the first time Philip MacDonald wrote a crime novel without a detective.‘Rynox’ is at that point where one injudicious move, one failure of judgement, one coincidental piece of bad luck will wreck it. So why...
A Caribbean Mystery
Агата Кристи
An exotic holiday for Miss Marple is ruined when a retired major is killed…As Jane Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever...
Dead to Begin With
Vivian Conroy
‘Highly recommend for any cozy mystery fans.’ – Holly (Goodreads)Looking for a new fun cozy crime series? Then spend some time at the coast with Vicky Simmons amateur sleuth!Coming home can be murderVicky Simmons is looking for the simple life....
Grand Prize: Murder!
Vivian Conroy
‘Light and entertaining, Grand Prize: Murder! combines colorful characters with a twisty, puzzling plot that kept me glued to the book.’ – Mystereity ReviewsWhen death comes to townInviting the bestselling cozy crime author Bella Brookes to town...
Written into the Grave
Vivian Conroy
‘the best book in the series to date’ – Rachel GilbeyCan fiction kill?Vicky Simmons’s life was supposed to be relaxing after she moved back home to the coast of Maine, but instead of baking bread and gardening she’s been chasing down killers and...
Death of an Effendi
Michael Pearce
Shortlisted for the Ellis Peters Award for best historical crime novel, this is an engrossing murder mystery set in the Egypt of the 1900s, featuring the inimitable Mamur Zapt.It’s 1909, and Cairo is the murder capital of the world. But the...
The Murder Pit
Mick Finlay
1896: A missing daughter. Three dead children. A sinister connection between a farm and an asylum.Arrowood must catch the killer before he strikes again – and before Sherlock Holmes or the police take the credit…
Dmitri and the Milk-Drinkers
Michael Pearce
Witty and irreverent, this is the first in an irresistible crime series set in Tsarist Russia in the 1890s from the award-winning Michael Pearce.Tsarist Russia in the 1890s. Dmitri Kameron, a young lawyer, must deal with the disappearance of a...
Dmitri and the One-Legged Lady
Michael Pearce
The second in the delightfully witty and diverting new crime series set in Tsarist Russia from the award-winning Michael Pearce.A dreamy province of Tsarist Russia in the 1980s. An ambitious young lawyer. And the One-Legged Lady, one of the most...
The Face in the Cemetery
Michael Pearce
A classic murder mystery from Michael Pearce’s award-winning series, set in Egypt in the 1900s, in which the Mamur Zapt confronts the secrets of his past.It is the beginning of the war and the Mamur Zapt, Gareth Owen, British head of Cairo’s...
The Mystery at Stowe
Vernon Loder
First published by Collins in 1928, this was the first of 22 mystery novels by Vernon Loder, one of the most popular British mystery-thriller writers of his generation.When a guest at Stowe House is found dead, killed by a lethal dart, suspicion...
The Norfolk Mystery
Ian Sansom
The first book in The County Guides – introducing an exciting new detective series.The County Guides are a series of detective novels set in 1930s England.The books are an odyssey through England and its history.In each county, the protagonists...
A Cure for All Diseases
Reginald Hill
The highly anticipated return of Dalziel and Pascoe, the hugely popular police duo and stars of the long-running BBC TV series, in a new psychological thriller.Some say that Andy Dalziel wasn't ready for God, others that God wasn't ready for...
Deadheads
Reginald Hill
‘Humour and topicality along a cold enigmatic trail of murder’ ObserverLife is on the up for Patrick Aldermann: his Great Aunt Florence has collapsed into her rose bed leaving him Rosemont House with its splendid gardens.But when his boss,...
Bones and Silence
Reginald Hill
Winner of the Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year…’Reginald Hill is on stunning form…the climax is devastating’ Marcel Berlins, The TimesWhen Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel witnesses a bizarre murder across the street from...
Arms and the Women
Reginald Hill
‘Luminously written, thrilling, unexpectedly erudite, and beautifully structured’ Geoffrey Wansell, Daily MailWhen Ellie Pascoe finds herself under threat, her husband DCI Peter Pascoe and Superintendent Andy Dalziel assume it’s because she’s...
Dialogues of the Dead
Reginald Hill
New Dalziel and Pascoe novel from Britain’s finest male crime writer: ‘Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction’ Tom Hiney, ObserverA man drowns. Another dies in a motorbike crash. Two accidents …...
Death’s Jest-Book
Reginald Hill
Reginald Hill’s best-selling duo, Dalziel and Pascoe, return in this brilliant, complex and ultimately moving crime novel: ‘Reginald Hill is probably the best living crime writer in the English-speaking world’ – IndependentEx-convict and...
The Wire in the Blood
Val McDermid
Val McDermid’s Number One bestselling crime series, featuring psychological profiler Dr Tony Hill and Jacko Vance – protagonist of new novel THE RETRIBUTION – in the suspenseful and ferociously readable thriller that led to the much-loved TV...
The Torment of Others
Val McDermid
The Number One bestselling crime series featuring Tony Hill, hero of TV’s Wire in the Blood, written by the award-winning Val McDermid. This is a psychological thriller – and serial killer – that will keep you up at night.For some, there is...
The Judgement of Strangers
Andrew Taylor
The second novel in Andrew Taylor’s ground-breaking Roth trilogy, which was adapted into the acclaimed drama Fallen Angel. A haunting thriller for fans of S J Watson.It is 1970. David Byfield, a widowed parish priest with a dark past and a...
Inspector French and the Cheyne Mystery
Freeman Crofts Wills
From the Collins Crime Club archive, the second Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’.THE RETURN OF INSPECTOR FRENCHWhen young Maxwell Cheyne discovers that a series of mishaps are the...
The Wychford Poisoning Case
Anthony Berkeley
One of the earliest psychological crime novels, back in print after more than 80 years.Mrs Bentley has been arrested for murder. The evidence is overwhelming: arsenic she extracted from fly papers was in her husband’s medicine, his food and his...
The Silk Stocking Murders
Anthony Berkeley
A classic Golden Age crime novel, and one of the first to feature a serial killer.Investigating the disappearance of a vicar’s daughter in London, the popular novelist and amateur detective Roger Sheringham is shocked to discover that the girl...
Inspector French’s Greatest Case
Freeman Crofts Wills
From the Collins Crime Club archive, the first Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’.THE FIRST INSPECTOR FRENCH MYSTERYAt the offices of the Hatton Garden diamond merchant Duke and...
Booked for Murder
V. McDermid L.
Lindsay Gordon investigates the murder of a bestselling author and discovers that, beneath the glittering facade, the London publishing world is a hotbed of seething rivalries, soured relationships and desperate power plays. Fifth in the...
A Killing Mind
Luke Delaney
The fifth novel in the DI Sean Corrigan series – authentic and terrifying crime fiction with a psychological edge, by an ex-Met detective. Perfect for fans of Mark Billingham, Peter James and Stuart MacBride.A serial killer stalks the streets…In...
The Moving Toyshop
Edmund Crispin
As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse – discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best.Richard Cadogan, poet and would-be bon vivant, arrives for what he thinks will...
Holy Disorders
Edmund Crispin
As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse – discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best.Holy Disorders takes Oxford don and part time detective Gervase Fen to the...
A Darker Domain
Val McDermid
Val McDermid, creator of TV’s Wire in the Blood, mixes fact with fiction, dealing with one of the most important and symbolic moments in recent history.Twenty-five years ago, the daughter of the richest man in Scotland and her baby son were...
