Mystery

Jonny Sweet / The Kellerby Code (Large Paperback)

The perfect country house crime novel: Knives Out in book form, packed with deadly charm.Edward is living in a world he can't afford and to which he doesn't belong. To camouflage himself, he has catered to his friends' needs: fetching drycleaning,...

Agatha Christie - 6 Book Lot : A Pocket Full of Rye, Why Didn't They Ask Evans, The Body in the Library, Sparkling Cyanide, At Bertram's Hotel, 4.50 From Paddington - Vintage Fontana PB's

A lot of 6 VINTAGE USED Agatha Christie books (all complete and unabridged) as follows - all with moderate to heavy edgewear , esp to spines, tanning to pages.  A Pocket Full of Rye - vintage Fontana PB  A wealthy family.A fatal cup of tea. Rex...

Agatha Christie - 4 Book Lot : The Hound of Death, Cards on the Table , Dead Man's Folly, Endless Night- Vintage Fontana PB's

A lot of 4 VINTAGE USED Agatha Christie books (all complete and unabridged) as follows - all with moderate to heavy edgewear , esp to spines, tanning to pages.  The Hound of Death - vintage PB A collection of macabre mysteries, including the...

Ann Cleeves / The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope #11) (Large Paperback)

A local myth. A deadly threat.A man's body is found in the early morning light by a local dog walker on the common outside Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. The victim is Josh, a staff member who was due to work the previous night but never...

Tarquin Hall / The Case of the Missing Servant: Vish Puri, Most Private Investigator (Large Paperback)

The first in a detective series that “immediately joins the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency as representing the best in international cozies” ( Booklist , starred review).Meet Vish Puri, India’s most private investigator...

Joyce Carol Oates ( Editor) / The Best American Mystery Stories 2005(Large Paperback)

Edited by the critically acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates, "The Best American Mystery Stories" brings together the genres finest from the past year. With stories from mystery veterans and newly discovered talents, this thrilling collection is sure...

Dann McDorman / West Heart Kill (Large Paperback)

A unique and irresistible murder mystery set at a remote hunting lodge where everyone is a suspect, including the erratic detective on the scene—a remarkable debut that gleefully upends the rules of the genre.An isolated hunt club. A raging...

Philip Gwynne Jones / The Venetian Masquerade

A game of blackmail and betrayal is played among the backstreets and canals of Venice . . .Carnevale is in full swing, the streets and waterways of Venice are crowded with masked revellers and Nathan Sutherland's birthday is about to be ruined.A...

Bernard Bannerman / Orbach's Judgement

Dave Woolf, solicitor and private eye, has had respectability thrust upon him. He also been saddled with the most sensational case of his career. High Court Judge Sir Russell Orbach is the pillar of the establishment and a doting guardian to the...

B.J. Daniels / Cowboy's Redemption & Premeditated Marriage: A Montana Western Mystery

Montana men and then some!Cowboy’s RedemptionA cult leader stole her baby. Now Lola Dayton is desperate for Colt McCloud’s help. Learning he’s a father is a shock to Colt’s system, but family secrets and the threat of danger...

Sarah Yarwood-Lovett / A Trace of Hares (Nell Ward Mystery #5)

A family wedding. An unsolved murder. Til death us do part?Dr Nell Ward is in the lush, emerald-green hills of Ireland to attend the wedding of two dear friends at a picture-perfect farmhouse. But family tensions are running high in the days...

Sarah Yarwood-Lovett / A Generation of Vipers (Nell Ward Mystery #4)

A killer is hiding in plain sight, like a snake in the long grass... When Dr Nell Ward stumbles across a woman's body amongst the purple heather on Furze Heath, she was on the lookout for nests of poisonous adders. But something is lurking out here...

L.C. Tyler / Herring in the Smoke

Twenty years ago Roger Norton Vane went for a walk in the Thai jungle and never returned. After years of wild speculation and fruitless searches, finally his death is to be made official and somebody will inherit his accumulated wealth.Ethelred...

Fiona Leitch / A Brush with Death ( A Nosy Parker Mystery)

Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker is back!When a body turned up at her last catering gig it certainly put people off the hor d'oeuvres. So with a reputation to salvage, Jodie’s determined that her next job for the village’s festival will go...

Mickey Spillane / Dead Street

THE FINAL CRIME NOVEL FROM THE KING OF PULP FICTION!For 20 years, former NYPD cop Jack Stang has lived with the memory of his girlfriend’s death in an attempted abduction. But what if she didn’t actually die? What if she somehow secretly...

Mike Hollow / The Pimlico Murder

Armistice Day, 1940. The nation remembers the Great War while a new and harrowing conflict rumbles on. The Blitz Detective, John Jago, must set aside his own painful memories to investigate a suspicious death in Pimlico, south-west London. The body of a...

Mahsuda Snaith / The Things We Thought We Knew

Ten years ago, two girls’ lives changed forever.Now one of them is ready to tell their story. *** 'A quirky lovable mystery and a brilliant, heartbreaking debut' Stylist'A new face of fiction [and] an original coming of age novel' Observer *** The...

Hannah Dennison / Scoop! (Vicky Hill #2)

From the author of A Vicky Hill Exclusive! comes a delightful and dizzy new mystery with a sleuth like no other...Obit writer Vicky Hill suspects foul play when she learns of a suspicious a champion hedge cutter, electrocuted after accidentally...

Hannah Dennison / Expose! (Vicky Hill #3)

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Hannah Dennison / Thieves! (Vicky Hill #4)

When the body of a woman is found in a shallow stream, aspiring investigative journalist Vicky Hill suspects there's a connection between the murder and the string of recent silver thefts plaguing the small town of Gipping-on-Plym. And since both her...

Edmund Crispin - Frequent Hearses - Penguin Crime

Amodern reprint edition using the green and white period style Penguin Crime cover design.  Crease to spine, otherwise very good.  Stars, starlets, floozies and factotums of the film world - Gervase Fen suspects them all.When young actress...

Tasha Alexander / Uneasy Lies the Crown

Lady Emily must stop a serial killer whose sights are set on the new king . . . Lying on her deathbed, Queen Victoria asks to speak privately with trusted royal agent Colin Hargreaves, slipping him a letter with her last Une sanz pluis. Sapere aude. 'One...

Dorothy Dunnett / Dolly and the Singing Bird

Tina Rossi, an opera singer discovers her lover, a top research scientist, dead at their secret meeting place and Johnson Johnson, an artist and amateur detective, helps her unravel the mystery. Also known as Rum Affair/ Photogenic Soprano...

Per Wahlöö / Murder on the Thirty-First Floor

A chilling dystopian classic crime story from the godfather of Scandinavian crime fictionIn an unnamed country, in an unnamed year sometime in the future, Chief Inspector Jensen of the Sixteenth Division is called in after the publishers controlling the...

Per Wahlöö / The Steel Spring

A chilling dystopian classic crime story from the godfather of Scandinavian crime fictionChief Inspector Jensen is a policeman in an unnamed European country where the government has criminalised being drunk, even in private at home, and where the city...

Alex Keegan / Kingfisher

A Caz Flood Mystery.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing...

Leonie Swann / Three Bags Full

On a hillside near the cosy Irish village of Glennkill, a flock of sheep gather around their beloved shepherd George, who lies murdered, his body pinned to the pasture with a spade.Fortunately, George has left behind an unusually intelligent group of...

Mandy Morton / The Michaelmas Murders (The No.2 Feline Detective Agency - Book 5)

As the town’s annual Michaelmas Flower and Produce Show approaches, it is doom and bloom on the allotments as a dead body is found on Bonny Grubb’s onion patch. Baronial landowner Fluff Wither-Fork is beside herself and calls in the No. 2...

Mandy Morton / The No 2 Feline Detective Agency (The No.2 Feline Detective Agency - Book 1)

Hettie Bagshot has bitten off more than any cat could chew. As soon as she launches her No. 2 Feline Detective Agency, she's bucketed into a case: Furcross, a home for slightly older cats, has a nasty spate of bodysnatching, and three of the residents...

Colin Cotterill / Curse Of The Pogo Stick

The fifth Dr. Siri Paiboun mysterySeven female Hmong villagers kidnap Dr. Siri on orders from the village elder who hopes that Yeh Ming, the thousand-year-old shaman who shares the doctor's body, will consent to exorcise the headman's daughter. He fears...

Steven Saylor / A Murder on the Appian Way (Roma Sub Rosa - Book 5)

In a Rome torn by riots and pulled apart by rival factions, Gordianus the Finder must uncover the truth about the murder of Publius Clodius, a populist politician whose assassination threatens to destroy the Republic. The fifth in the highly praised...

Kate Sedley / The Three Kings of Cologne (Hardback)

The new Roger the Chapman novel When the remains of Isabella Linkinhorne, who disappeared twenty years earlier and was known to have had three secret lovers, are discovered on nunnery land, Roger the Chapman is called in. Faced with the task of tracking...

Dashiell Hammett / The Big Knockover and Other Stories (Vintage Paperback)

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Arthur Conan Doyle / Sherlock Holmes Mysteries (Vintage Paperback)

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Dashiell Hammett / The Maltese Falcon (Vintage Paperback)

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Wilkie Collins / The Woman in White (Vintage Paperback).

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Columbo: A Christmas Killing (Vintage Paperback)

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Dick Francis / Enquiry (Vintage Paperback)

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Lisa Hall / The Case of the Singer and the Showgirl

A gripping, twisty, time-hop mystery     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain...

Ada Moncrieff / Murder at the Theatre Royale

It's Christmas at London's Theatre Royale and journalist Daphne King is determined to solve an extraordinary mystery...December 1935. Director Chester Harrison's production of A Christmas Carol has had a troubled run on its tour of regional theatres...

Ten Modern Mystery Stories (Vintage Paperback)

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M.E. Rabb / Missing Persons : Case 1 - The Rose Queen

Sophie and Sam Shattenberg are two Jewish sisters from Queens, New York. Both love knishes and kosher pickles. Both have said ''I'm wawkin' here!'' to cab drivers and meant it. When the unthinkable happens and their father dies, the girls are devastated...

Tom Hindle / Murder on Lake Garda

One happy couple.Two divided families.A wedding party to die for.On the private island of Castello Fiore - surrounded by the glittering waters of Lake Garda - the illustrious Heywood family gathers for their son Laurence's wedding to Italian influencer...

Victoria Laurie / Killer Insight ( Psychic Eye Mystery - Book 4)

When her relationship with FBI agent Dutch Rivers skids to a halt, Abby Cooper is fully aware that a wedding isn't the best post-breakup scenario. But when a friend from the Mile High City finds herself short one bridesmaid, it doesn't take a...

Hugh L Nelson - Dead Giveaway - Vintage HB Crime - 1951

First UK EDITION, 1951, the first edition was published in the US in 1949. Classic noir era crime fiction A Captain Steve Johnson mystery set in San Francisco. Steve, now a Captain, has the half promise of becoming head of homicide if he stays clear of...

John Gardner / The Revenge of Moriarty (Hardback) ( A Professor Moriarty Novel)

With riches accumulated from an American crime spree, Professor Moriarty proceeds to annihilate his enemies. He murders the leaders of Europe 's underworld one by one, then prepares his most hideous revenge for his arch-enemy, Sherlock Holmes. Will...

Alexander McCall Smith / Double Comfort Safari Club (Large Paperback) ( No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Book 11 )

Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are called to a safari lodge in Botswana's Okavango Delta to carry out a delicate mission on behalf of a former guest. The Okavango makes Precious appreciate once again the beauty of her it is a paradise of teeming...

Alexander McCall Smith / Morality for Beautiful Girls ( No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Book 3) (Large Paperback)

The third book in the multi-million copy bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency seriesThe one with the boy who might have been raised by lionsFacing financial trouble, the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is obliged to move into the same premises as...

Edgar Wallace / The Face in the Night (Large Paperback)

The green face hangs in the Room of Horror and around it grows a living, baffling legend of mystery and murder. At 2.00 a.m. the Embankment fog is thick and black. Men are gathered round a body. The dead man was clubbed and then thrown into the...

Alys Clare / The Chatter of the Maidens ( Hawkenlye Mysteries - Book 4 )

The serenity of Hawkenlye Abbey has been disturbed by the arrival of a new nun and her two young sisters. Recently orphaned, Alba has left her convent in Ely to take her grieving sisters from the scene of their sorrow. Abbess Helewise is not...

Magdalen Nabb / The Marshal's Own Case ( Marshal Guarnaccia Mystery - Book 7 )

The marshal must leave his snug world at the Pitti Palace to seek a criminal in the shadowy haunts of prostitutes, pimps, and tricks. No one believes that he can navigate in this milieu, much less identify a killer, but once again he confounds their...

K.J. Larsen / Liar, Liar ( Cat DeLuca Mysteries - Book 1)

Liar, Liar, the first book in the Cat DeLuca Mysteries, has it all: a strong plot, memorable characters, and an astonishing finish.Cat DeLuca’s short, stormy marriage to run-around Johnnie Ricco was a crash course in infidelity. It taught her...