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The Hamilton and Dove Cases start with I'm Not Crazy, British crime fiction with a personable side. A rapper is suffocated before his concert, stirring gang tension in London. Assigned the case, family-man Inspector Hamilton and near-mute Officer Dove are thrust into a web of deception, greed, and madness. Can they catch the killer before London's first gang war erupts?

Along the canals of Venice, Bognor investigates a mogul’s medieval murder Flush with cash from the success of his latest insipid blockbuster, aspiring film mogul Irving Silverburger takes to Venice to soak himself in luxury. Instead, he is quickly soaked in blood. Cruising down the canal...

The eleventh book in the Libby Sarjeant series of British murder mysteries which features a retired actress as the female sleuth and are based in the picturesque village of Steeple Martin. Libby Sarjeant is invited to look into the provenance of a jewelled Anglo-Saxon reliquary which has appeared...

The tenth book in the Libby Sarjeant series of British murder mysteries which feature a retired actress as the female sleuth and are based in the picturesque village of Steeple Martin. Libby Sarjeant and her friend Fran Wolfe are asked to look into the sudden and unexplained death of a devoted churchgoer....

In her third book author Molly Carr has, for the moment, abandoned the Watson-Fanshaw Detective Agency in favour of discovering as much as possible about Doctor Watson. Radically different in style from her first two books, the investigation will nevertheless be of interest to students of military history,...

“Charles Todd hasn’t made a misstep yet in his elegant series featuring Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge, and A Matter of Justice keeps the streak going.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer   The Washington Post calls the Ian Rutledge novels by Charles Todd, “one of the best historical...

"My name is Darnia Storm. I was a stunning glamour model, now I'm a beautiful actress. I adore men - and love women. But not everyone shares my amazing success. Jealousy and bitterness are now my co-stars. Someone is stalking me, but who? I need help..." Trench takes the Lead, and Old Tom directs the Show from backstage...

"When the adventurous Zarl Osterley is invited to an English country house for the weekend, she is told to bring her monkey Percy. She also takes her friend, who is disguised as a maid and monkey-minder. "During their stay the peaceful, idyllic atmosphere of Tattingwood Hall is...

London in the early 1990s; supposedly the New Age ‘caring ’90s’. But the streets, it turns out, are not paved with gold, but covered with the homeless living in sleeping-bags and cardboard boxes, and often littered with a far more dangerous form of flotsam. For Angel, the city divides into...

A country house party. A fabulous heirloom. A daring theft.A priceless diamond necklace, known as the Lockington Legacy, has been stolen. The newly opened Gemini Detective Agency has been approached to recover it. However, there is one small problem. The owner refuses to let them tell anyone it...

Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr Standfast (1919); Hannay's first and best-known adventure,...

New illustrated edition with original drawings by Walter Paget and Frederic Dorr Steele. 'The Adventure of the Dying Detective', in some editions simply titled 'The Dying Detective', is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Arthur Conan Doyle, at first published...

From one of Britain’s masters of crime writing, here are two stories to whet your appetite, presented in bargain-price format. The title story, Lost, introduces the only detective to be given a lead role in a Russell James story (a beguiling character, he is the ex-priest turned detective Joe Venables,...

A missing girl... The manipulative aristicrat, Marcus Dreadbury. A local gangster with a drug-dealing problem. The Manor's locked room, with a dusty handle. Stables, but with no sign of any horses. A subterranean stream. Marcus' madcap father. And a Manor-House full of surprises. Trench...