It began as an entertainment: eight people, many of them enemies, gathered for a winter weekend by a host with a love for theatre.... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7540-0697-2
Author:  Ngaio Marsh

Lord Peter Whimsey and his wife Harriet Vane are settling into their new life together in 1930s London.... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7540-5439-X
Author:  Dorothy L Sayers ,  Jill Paton Walsh

Sherlock Holmes may have been the most famous detective of the 19th century, but he had many worthy rivals.... ... Read More

ISBN:  N/A
Author:  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ,  Robert Barr ,  Baroness Orczy

Young Ricky Alleyn had come to the island to try to write, but village life was tedious, until he saw the stable-hand in the ditch.... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7540-0816-9
Author:  Ngaio Marsh

Solving the mystery of the Primrose Path Home proves to be the first of a collection of great new cases, as Rumpole defies hospital and returns triumphantly to defend the innocent.... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7540-8356-X
Author:  John Mortimer

When the body of a night watchman is found sprawled in the shadow of a rare 19th-Dynasty mummy case, panic ensues... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-9886-9
Author:  Elizabeth Peters

The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-9643-2
Author:  Elizabeth Peters

When ad man Victor Dean falls down the stairs in the offices of Pym`s Publicity, a respectable London... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-1165-8
Author:  Dorothy L Sayers

French`s department store was famous for the rare merchandise it offered its elite clientele. But no one there... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-1285-9
Author:  Ellery Queen

Accompanying a recently widowed friend on a package-deal vacation to Corfu, Mrs. Pargeter - also... ... Read More

ISBN:  1-85089-648-8
Author:  Simon Brett

While Mrs Pargeter is spending a few days at a health farm with a friend, someone loses their life... ... Read More

ISBN:  1-85695-571-0
Author:  Simon Brett

When Mrs Pargeter takes up residence in a select development of executive homes, she soon discovers... ... Read More

ISBN:  N/A
Author:  Simon Brett

The Continental Op (an operative in a detective agency) is called out to the grim mining town of Personville, customarily referred to as Poisonville and corrupt from top to bottom.... ... Read More

ISBN:  1-856957-07-1
Author:  Dashiell Hammett

Wrightsville is a typical American town, buried in the great American heartland, up to its neck in good old... ... Read More

ISBN:  07861-1292-1
Author:  Ellery Queen

It was a horrible death - Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die. Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-9837-0
Author:  Ngaio Marsh