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SAYING «I DO» HAD NEVER BEEN SO DANGEROUS…She bet her badge and her honor when she bent the rules to hunt the deadly sniper who'd declared open season on newlyweds. Now police detective Katelyn O'Malley would answer to hotshot Sergeant Joe Rico, her new boss – and temporary fiance.OR SO DESIRABLEJoe had a plan to draw the sniper out – by dangling his and Katelyn's very public whirlwind «marriage» …
‘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 4.30 from Paddington, the loss of this great man throws Temple Regis’ community into disarray.Not least Miss Judy Dimont –corkscrew-haired reporter for the…
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 is already dead, found hanging from a screw by her own silk stocking. Reports of similar deaths across the capital strengthen his conviction that this is no…
‘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 Regis, Devon.For holidaymakers it’s a glorious time of breathtaking scenery, picnics on beaches, and flocks of tourists on their summertime holidays.But fo…
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 be a relaxing holiday in the city of dreaming spires. Late one night, however, he discovers the dead body of an elderly woman lying in a toyshop and is co…
Никто еще не знает, что она сотворила… Зимней ночью 1850 года младеница Лили Мортимер оказалась подброшена к воротам парка, где ее нашел констебль полиции. Из Лондонского Госпиталя для найденышей ее отправили на воспитание в приемную семью. Лили наслаждалась жизнью на ферме «„Грачевник“», но по законам в шесть лет ей пришлось вернуться в Госпиталь – в ужасное и несправедливое место. Повзрослев, Ли…
After eight idyllic months in the Mediterranean, Lady Julia Grey and her detective husband are ready to put their investigative talents to work once more. At the urging of Julia's eccentric family, they hurry to India to aid an old friend, the newly widowed Jane Cavendish.Living on the Cavendish tea plantation with the remnants of her husband's family, Jane is consumed with the impending birth of …
Четыре года назад трое учеников престижной школы Сент-Амброуз обнаружили в лесу тело жестоко убитого учителя мистера Ларкина. Полиции так и не удалось найти преступника… Теперь в город возвращается любимица Ларкина – Бринн Галлахер, мечтающая о карьере криминального журналиста. Она твердо намерена узнать, кто же расправился с любимым всеми педагогом, у которого, казалось, не было врагов. Но так ли…
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 railway tunnel near Groote Park, it seems to be a straightforward case of a man struck by a passing train. But Inspector Vandam of the Middeldorp police isn…
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 – and each time the victim is found with a small white piece of cardboard, bearing the inscription ‘The Marquis’.When a woman is pulled from the river wit…
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 end.All the police have to do is retrieve the money … but the only thing the thieves have on them is an Oxford Dictionary! And when Paul Temple returns home, he …
Join these brave men and women for edge-of-your-seat suspense and happily-ever-after romance!TIME WAS RUNNING OUT…Thea Sarazin thought she was attending her friend's wedding at a remote castle in the mountains, but when she arrived, destiny had other ideas. Her senses were on red alert when she discovered that one of the wedding guests was Spence Cannon–the man she had almost married. Determined n…
The eighth classic instalment in this genre-changing series of novels starring Detective Inspector Martin Beck. This new edition has an introduction by Michael Connolly.In one part of town, a woman robs a bank. In another, a corpse is found shot through the heart in a room locked from within, with no firearm in sight. Although the two incidents appear unrelated, Detective Inspector Martin Beck bel…
OUT OF THE SHADOWS…Sarah Harper gasped when she saw the rugged lawman on the porch of her bed-and-breakfast. She didn't know his last name, but for three years his blue eyes had haunted her. She saw them every night in her dreams–and every morning, twinkling in her toddler's face….Jake Russell sought only a roof over his head and a warm bed. He never expected it to be her roof…or her bed. But Sara…
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 well-connected young woman. She has been shipped off to Siberia, in one of the prison wagons outside the Court House. But is this a bureaucratic bungle or s…