Mystery

M.C. Beaton / Death of a Dentist (Hamish Macbeth Series)

 Just when Hamish most needs him - the dentist turns up dead... In Scotland, where thrift and a 'nice set of dentures' are generally admired, dental surgeon Dr Frederick Gilchrist's cheap rates and penchant for pulling teeth have gained him a...

Agatha Christie - The Mysterious Mr Quin - Vintage Fontana PB 1977 ( Originally 1930)

A 1977 Fontana Books edition of The Mysterious Mr Quin, first published in 1930.  Previous owners name to the title page, usual browning to page block. creasing to spine.    The enigmatic Mr Quin is a harbinger of love - and death. His...

Sophie Hannah / The Monogram Murders ( New Hercule Poirot Mysteries - Book 1 )

   The new Hercule Poirot novel - another brilliant murder mystery that can only be solved by the eponymous Belgian detective and his `little grey cells'.Since the publication of her first book in 1920, Agatha Christie wrote 33 novels, two...

Ellis Peters / The Summer of the Danes

 In April 1144 Brother Cadfael leaves his monastery once more, this time in the company of Heledd, a young woman desperate to escape from an arranged marriage, and the youthful Brother Mark, who is representing the bishop on a mission of church...

Elly Griffiths / The Crossing Places ( Ruth Galloway Novels - Book 1 )

Dr Ruth Galloway is called in when a child's bones are discovered near the site of a pre-historic henge on the north Norfolk salt marshes. Are they the remains of a local girl who disappeared ten years earlier - or are the bones much older? DCI Harry...

Michael Russell / The City of Shadows ( Stefan Gillespie Novels - Book 1 )

Longlisted for the CWA John Creasy New Blood Dagger Award 2013 and shortlisted for CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger Award 2014 `She looked up at the terraced house, with the closed shutters and the big room at the end of the long unlit corridor where the...

Colin Dexter / SERVICE DEAD DEAD JERICHO DUO SPL

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle / The Best of Sherlock Holmes

Selected, Edited and Introduced by David Stuart Davies. The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth. Basing his selection around the author's...

Robert Robinson - Landscape With Dead Dons - Gollancz Crime HB

A hardcover Gollancz Crime Detective reissue, 1982 of the 1956 novel, Landscape With Dead Dons, in the classic Gollancz yellow jacket. Not an ex library copy, as was the fate of many Gollancz titles.  Landscape with Dead...

Agatha Christie / Evil Under the Sun

A beautifu woman is strangled to death on a remote beachIt was not unusual to find the beautiful bronzed body of the sun-loving Arlena Stuart stretched out on a beach, face down. Only, on this occasion, there was no sun she had been strangled.Ever since...

Boris Akunin / Murder on the Leviathan

Paris, 1878: Eccentric antiquarian Lord Littleby and his ten servants are found murdered in Littleby s mansion on the rue de Grenelle, and a priceless Indian shawl is missing. Police commissioner Papa Gauche recovers only one piece of evidence from the...

Jeffrey Ashford - Enquiries Are Continuing - Mystery Guild Book 1965 Crime

Mystery. A boy drowned, a girl attacked and a constable burnt to death were supposed to be s̀traight forward' cases, but Inspector Kerry finds he has to fight against the odds for the truth to be revealed. Originally 1964

W.J. Burley / Wycliffe and the Dunes Mystery

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Colin Dexter / The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn

Chief Inspector Morse is called in to investigate the murder of an Oxford academic, and finds the dons in uproar. The code of integrity had been breached and Quinn's death was not a matter of how and why but when.All of our books are second hand, and...

Colin Dexter / The Last Bus to Woodstock

The death of Sylvia Kaye featured dramatically in the Oxford Mail. By Friday evening Inspector Morse had informed the nation that the police were looking for a dangerous man - facing charges of wilful murder, sexual assault and rape. Other books...

Boris Akunin / The Winter Queen

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James Runcie / Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death

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M.C. Beaton / Death of a Village (Hamish Macbeth Series)

Scottish policeman Hamish Macbeth tries to avoid a dreaded promotion while solving assorted crimes and crossing swords with pretty reporter Elspeth Grant in his 18th outing (after 2002's Death of a Celebrity). Macbeth knows something is amiss in the...

Colin Dexter / Service of all the Dead

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Colin Dexter / The Dead of Jericho

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Colin Dexter / The Jewel that was Ours

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Malcolm Pryce / Aberystwyth Mon Amour

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Ellis Peters / Monk's Hood

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Colin Dexter / The Secret of Annexe 3

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Colin Dexter / The Way Through The Woods

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Colin Dexter / The Riddle of the Third Mile

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Colin Dexter / Death is now my Neighbour

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Colin Dexter / The Remorseful Day

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Colin Dexter / Last Seen Wearing

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Colin Dexter / The Wench Is Dead

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Colin Dexter / The Daughters Of Cain

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