Mystery

Liz McSkeane / Canticle (Large Paperback)

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Desmond Bagley / The Vivero Letter (Vintage Paperback)

Jeremy Wheale's well-ordered life is torn apart when his brother is murdered by a mob hit man, whose bait was a family heirloom - a sixteenth-century gold tray. The trail takes Wheale from Devon to...

Dick Francis / Smokescreen (Vintage Paperback) (2)

Famous actor Lincoln Edwards takes a short trip to South Africa to check on a dying friend's race horses which haven't been running as well as they ought. He survives two murder attempts, but might...

Dick Francis / Slay Ride (Vintage Paperback) (1)

Set in Norway, this is a thriller in which an English jockey has gone missing and it is written by the former National Hunt Jockey and author of many thrillers     All of our Vintage books are Pre...

Dick Francis / Smokescreen (Vintage Paperback) (1)

Edward Lincoln had scaled the Himalayas, survived deadly car chases, defeated scores of assassins. As a film action man he'd even suffered stoically at the hands of sadistic directors. After...

Dick Francis / Dead Cert (Vintage Paperback) (2)

Jockey Bill Davidson's accident seems suspicious to his friend Alan Yorke who goes back to check the fence where Bill Davidson fell, and finds length of wire on the ground. The wire disappears before...

Agatha Christie / The Secret of Chimneys (Vintage Paperback)

A bit of adventure and quick cash is all that good-natured drifter Anthony Cade is looking for when he accepts a messenger job from an old friend. It sounds so simple: deliver the provocative memoirs...

Len Deighton / Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy (Vintage Paperback) (1)

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Macdonald Ross / The Instant Enemy (Vintage Paperback)

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Trevanian / The Main (Vintage Paperback)

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Agatha Christie / Dumb Witness (Vintage Paperback) (1)

Emily Arundel changed her will only days before her death, and Hercule Poirot must "determine which of the victim's disgruntled relatives did not have a motive for murder."--Cover.     All of our...

Agatha Christie / The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (Vintage Paperback) (1)

First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding...then the discovery of a corpse in a chest...next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder...the strange case of the dead man who...

Agatha Christie / Murder on the Links (Vintage Paperback)

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Agatha Christie / They Do It with Mirrors (Vintage Paperback) (1)

E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on They Do It with Mirrors;2) "The Marples": the complete guide to all the cases of crime literature's foremost female detective...

Agatha Christie / Mrs McGinty’s Dead (Vintage Paperback) (1)

Mrs McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion fell immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bently, whose clothes revealed traces of the victim's blood and hair. Yet something...

Agatha Christie / Mrs.McGinty's Dead (Vintage Paperback)

Poirot, disillusioned by the "senseless cruel brutality" of modern crime, pays no attention to the sad case of Mrs McGinty, an old woman apparently struck dead by her lodger for thirty pounds that...

Agatha Christie / The Body in the Library (Vintage Paperback) (1)

The very-respectable Colonel and Mrs Bantry have awakened to discover the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing evening dress and heavy make-up, which is now smeared across her cold...

Dick Francis / Blood Sport (Vintage Paperback)

Gene Hawkings must travel to Kentucky, on the orders of his boss, to spend three weeks looking for kidnapped stallions. But before he leaves, Gene's survival skills are called on closer to home,...

John Creasey / The Sleep (Vintage Paperback)

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Steve Shagan / The Formula (Vintage Paperback) (1)

A police chief is murdered and a note among his papers leads to mysterious deaths, the Overworld of Big Oil and multinational cartels.     All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown...

Dick Francis / Trial Run (Vintage Paperback) (1)

Randall Drew is sent to Moscow on a delicate investigation involving a mysterious woman who is threatening a royally-connected candidate for the Moscow Olympic Games.     All of our Vintage books are...

James Hadley Chase / Why Pick on Me? (Vintage Paperback)

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Dorothy Leigh Sayers / Murder Must Advertise (Vintage Paperback)

The tenth book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series, introduced by bestselling crime writer Peter Robinson -- a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's...

Oscar Saul / The Dark Side of Love (Vintage Paperback)

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Leslie Waller / Trocadéro (Vintage Paperback) (1)

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Roger L. Simon / Big Fix (Vintage Paperback)

?Introduction by Academy Award winning actor Richard Dreyfuss, who portrayed Moses Wine in the acclaimed screen adaptation of 'The Big Fix.' With a new afterword by Roger L. Simon. Who Killed the...

Carolyn Keene / The Message in the Hollow Oak (Vintage Paperback)

Nancy Drew tackles a mystery professional detectives have failed to solve--finding a valuable centuries-old message in a hollow oak tree in Illinois. 4 plates.     All of our Vintage books are Pre...

Phil Rickman / The Fabric of Sin

Garway church was built by medieval Knights Templar, whose stone coffin lids can be seen in its altar steps and window sills. After seven centuries, the Welsh Border village is still shadowed by...

Sara Paretsky / V.I. For Short

'What does the V. stand for, Warshawski?' 'My first name' VI Warshawski is Chicago's finest private eye. VI FOR SHORT looks at the themes of family, honour, trust and friendship as VI proves once...

Joe Gores / Hammett (Vintage Paperback)

From Chinatown's dark alleys to the fog-shrouded Golden Gate, crooked politicians ran San Francisco. To Hammet, retired Pinkerton detective and struggling writer, it was all just grist to his...

Len Deighton / Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy (Vintage Paperback)

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Desmond Bagley / Tightrope Men (Vintage Paperback)

Giles Denison's life is turned upside down when he awakes to find himself in a luxurious hotel in Oslo and, peering into the bathroom mirror, discovers the face of another man! He has been kidnapped...

Martin Cruz Smith / Gorky Park (Vintage Paperback) (3)

A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical...

Alistair Maclean / Puppet on a Chain (Vintage Paperback)

A taut thriller that moves from narcotic squad in England to Holland. Twists and turns, beautiful puppets used in a macarbre and sinister way. How on earth does the "hero" survive? Can only happen in...

Alistair Maclean / Fear is the Key (Vintage Paperback) (1)

A classic novel of ruthless revenge set in the steel jungle of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico – and on the sea bed below it. Now reissued in a new cover style.A sunken DC-3 lying on the Caribbean...

Stanley Ellin / Mirror, Mirror on the Wall (Vintage Paperback)

Small Sticker On Front End Page. Minor Creasing And Wear To Spine And Edges Of Covers, Number Written In Pen On Front Cover. Pages Slightly Yellowed     All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the...

Dick Francis / Forfeit (Vintage Paperback)

Brett Checkov was a fleet street racing corresponsdent with an unnerving talent for tipping non-startersfor big races.But the advice he give James Tyrone,a few minutes before he fell to his death was...

Robert Ludlum / The Scarlatti Inheritance (Vintage Paperback)

Her weapons: money and power. Her target: the most dangerous man in the world—her own son. Elizabeth Wyckham Scarlatti has a plan, a desperate, last-minute gamble designed to save the world from her...

Martin Cruz Smith / Gorky Park (Vintage Paperback) (2)

A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical...

Dick Francis / Smokescreen (Vintage Paperback)

Famous actor Lincoln Edwards takes a short trip to South Africa to check on a dying friend's race horses which haven't been running as well as they ought. He survives two murder attempts, but might...

Dick Francis / Nerve (Vintage Paperback)

Jockey Rob Finn was on a winning streak, but now he's coming in last on horses that are expected to do well. Frustrated, he searches for the reason and runs into trouble.     All of our Vintage books...

Tom Sharpe / Wilt (Vintage Paperback) (3)

Wilt is given to elaborate and vindictive fantasies about his wife, the massive, domineering Eva. But when Eva becomes a Missing Person, following an embarrassing incident at a party they both...

Laura Joh Rowland / Bundori

Samurai and ex-policeman, Sano Ichiro tries to follow bushido (the Way of the Warrior) in a society whose ancient ways have been forgotten. Suddenly one of those ways reappears: bundori - a severed...

Laura Joh Rowland / The Perfumed Sleeve

When a high ranking official is found brutally murdered, the Shogun's most honourable investigator, Sano Ichiro, is thrown into another case filled with danger and political intrigue     This book is...

Laura Joh Rowland / The Dragon King's Palace

It is June 1694, and Reiko, the wife of Sano Ichiro; Reiko's friend, Midori; the shogun's mother; and Lady Yanagisawa, the wife of the shogun's powerful second-in-command, are kidnapped and...

Shaun Clarke / Red Hand

Belfast, 1999. The corrupt Ulster Protestants engage in close combat against a deep-cover law-enforcement team with SAS members and led by an ex-SAS soldier. Mayhem and carnage erupt against the...

Laura Joh Rowland / The Way of the Traitor

Sano Ichiro, Most Honourable Investigator to the shogun, is sent to the island of Kyushu. Sano finds a Dutch visitor has been murdered, an enemy impedes his investigations, and, also, that failure to...

Colleen L. Reece / Wednesday Witness

Juli Scott and Shannon Riley are closer than ever following the heart-stopping weeks beginning with Trouble on Tuesday. Their friendship, plus the loyalty and encouragement of the girls? families,...

Anthony Read / The Baker Street Boys

It is 1897, Queen Victoria s diamond jubilee year, and the Baker Street Boys are helping Sherlock Holmes to solve a case involving a mysterious American when Holmes himself disappears. Only the Boys...

Alison Rattle / V for Violet

Battersea, 1961. London is just beginning to enter the swinging sixties. The world is changing - but not for sixteen-year-old Violet. She was born at the exact moment Winston Churchill announced...

George Dawes Green / The Kingdoms of Savannah

The apotheosis of Southern Gothic Noir' NEIL GAIMAN 'Compelling characters and vivid settings make this impressive Southern narrative stand out among the best... not to be missed' KARIN SLAUGHTER 'A...

Carol O'Connell / The Man Who Lied to Women (Hardback)

When a homicide report states that the woman lying on the autopsy table is none other than the mysterious "Kathy" who can bewitch the most complex computer system, the real Kathy, now a detective in...