Mystery

Alexander McCall Smith / Corduroy Mansions (Hardback)

 Following on from the huge success of the "44 Scotland Street" series, Alexander McCall Smith 'moved house' to London's Pimlico and into his brand new daily novel, "Corduroy Mansions". The building...

Richard Osman / The Man Who Died Twice (Large Paperback)

 'Moving, hilarious, brilliantly suspenseful' Jeffery Deaver'A thing of joy' Kate Atkinson'The tonic we all need' Shari Lapena'This slick sequel will leave you buzzing' The TimesTHE SECOND NOVEL IN...

Boris Akunin / Special Assignments : Erast Fandorin 5 (Hardback)

  Two new adventures for Boris Akunin's well-loved, inimitable hero in which Erast Fandorin faces two very different adversaries: one, a deft, comedic swindler and master of disguise, whose...

James Runcie / Grantchester 1: Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death (Large Paperback)

 The first of the Grantchester Mysteries, and inspiration for the PBS/Masterpiece television series, finds Vicar Sidney Chambers beginning his career, as both a spiritual leader and a detective.It is...

R.C Hutchinson - Elephant and Castle - HB - 1949 - Vintage Crime

A novelist's curiosity of a crime committed in a back street not far from the Elephant and Castle in 1938. Dust jacket worn with chipping to the extremities.  Edgeworn dustjacket, heavy foxing ( age...

Boris Akunin / Pelagia and the White Bulldog (Hardback)

  In the dying days of the Nineteenth Century, the small Russian town of Zavolzhsk is shaken out of its sleepy rural existence by the arrival from St Petersburg of a Synodical Inspector with a...

C. J. Box / Off the Grid

 There's no hiding off the grid.Joe Pickett's old friend Nate Romanowski is off the grid, lying low while the FBI search for him. But they're not the only ones looking. Nate finds himself confronted...

M. C. Beaton / Death of an Outsider (Hamish Macbeth Series)

 The most hated man in the most dour town in Scotland is sleeping with the fishes, or - more accurately - has been dumped into a tank filled with crustaceans. All that remains of the murdered victim...

Alexander McCall Smith / La's Orchestra Saves the World (Hardback)

  Thank you for the music...It's 1939 and the war in Europe casts a long, all-encompassing shadow. In a sleepy town in Suffolk, the generous and determined widow, La, forms an amateur orchestra to...

Alexander McCall Smith The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency (4 Book Box Set)

Alexander McHall Smith The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency (4 Book Box Set) Contains  The Kalahari Typing School For Men  Morality for Beautiful Girls  Tears of the Giraffe   The No.1 Ladies'...

Elly Griffiths / The Woman In Blue ( Ruth Galloway Novels - Book 9 )

 The murder of women priests in Norfolk's spooky shrine town of Walsingham draws forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway into a thrilling new adventure.'Ever-more ingenious detective stories with a...

Alexander McCall Smith / Morality for Beautiful Girls (Large Paperback)

   The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency introduced the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency, Precious Ramotswe. This latest novel finds her expanding her business to take in the...

Colin Dexter / Death is Now My Neighbour: The Secret of Annexe 3

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Alexander McCall Smith / The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday

 ISABEL DALHOUSIE - Book 5Nothing captures the charm of Edinburgh like the bestselling Isabel Dalhousie series of novels featuring the insatiably curious philosopher and woman detective. Whether...

Louise Penny / The Brutal Telling ( Chief Inspector Gamache - Book 5 )

 The New York Times Bestseller'Penny . . . is at the top of her game' (Toronto Star)When Chief Inspector Gamache arrives in picturesque Three Pines, he steps into a village in chaos. A man has been...

Alexander McCall Smith / Blue Shoes and Happiness (Hardback)

  "Blue Shoes and Happiness" brings more adventures for Precious Ramotswe and her fine assistant Mma Makutsi, including an encounter with a cobra, a sinister blackmail plot and a rather...

John Banville / Snow (Large Paperback)

 'An outstanding novel and an absolute page-turner.' Irish Independent'A typically elegant country house mystery.' Guardian, Biggest books of the AutumnA CrimeReads Most Anticipated Book of 2020'The...

Stanley Ellin - Dreadful Summit - Vintage Penguin Crime PB - 1964 ( Originally 1948)

The protagonist of Summit is George LaMain, a New York teen brought up on Kipling, Haggard and Dumas whose traumatic journey into the adult world begins when his father is savagely beaten. George...

Boris Akunin / Special Assignments : Erast Fandorin 5

  Boris Akunin's well-loved, inimitable hero faces two very different adversaries: one, a deft, comedic swindler and master of disguise, whose machinations send ripples spreading through the...

Boris Akunin / The Death of Achilles : Erast Fandorin 4 (Hardback)

  International intrigue, professional rivalry, the criminal underworld of nineteenth-century Moscow, and an irresistible femme fatale: if Erast Fandorin was hoping for a quiet homecoming, he is...

Elly Griffiths / The House at Sea's End ( Ruth Galloway Novels - Book 3 )

 Dr Ruth Galloway is called in by a team of archaeologists investigating coastal erosion on the north Norfolk coast, when they unearth six bodies buried at the foot of a cliff. They seem to have been...

Colin Dexter / The Daughters of Cain (Hardback)

 The eleventh Inspector Morse novel begins when a body is discovered in a set of rooms off a prestigious staircase in the most famous Oxford college of them all. Colin Dexter has won the Crime...

Peter Tremayne / Suffer Little Children (Sister Fidelma Mysteries Book 3)

 Sister Fidelma follows a trail that is as suspenseful as it is tortuous in the riveting third novel in Peter Tremayne's unputdownable series.PRAISE FOR THE SISTER FIDELMA SERIES: 'Tremayne's...

Alan Bradley / The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie : A Flavia de Luce Mystery Book 1

 Meet Flavia: Mystery Solver. Master Poisoner. 11 Years Old.England 1950. At Buckshaw, the crumbling country seat of the de Luce family, very-nearly-eleven-year-old Flavia is plotting revenge on her...

M.C. Beaton / Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham ( Agatha Raisin Series - Book 8 )

 The local ladies all deem Mr John a wizard, so when Agatha finds a few grey hairs on her head - and the rinse she tries at home turns her hair purple - she makes a beeline for the handsome Evesham...

M.C. Beaton / Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage ( Agatha Raisin Series - Book 5 )

The morning of Agatha's marriage to James Lacey dawns bright and clear. But her luck runs out in the church when Jimmy, the husband she had believed long dead, turns up large as life and twice as...

James Runcie / Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death : Grantchester Mysteries 1

   Grantchester Mysteries 1Now a major, prime-time six-part series Grantchester for ITVSidney Chambers, the Vicar of Grantchester, is a thirty-two year old bachelor. Sidney is an unconventional...

Colin Dexter / Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories

   Contains 10 mysteries including two Inspector Morse stories written especially for this anthology. By the author of "Last Bus to Woodstock", "The Jewel That Was Ours" and "The Way Through The...

Ellis Peters / The Raven in the Foregate

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Rufus King - A Variety of Weapons - Vintage PB Pulp USA 1943

Ann Lebrick cheerfully accepted an assignment to photograph the ocelots of Miss Estelle Marlow. On arrival at the Marlow estate, Black Tor, where she was to stay for a week, she found herself in...

Louise Penny / The Cruellest Month ( Chief Inspector Gamache - Book 3 )

   The New York Times Bestseller It's Easter, and on a glorious spring day in peaceful Three Pines, someone waits for night to fall. They plan to raise the dead... When Chief Inspector Gamache of...

G.K. Chesterton / Father Brown Stories

 With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence...

M.C. Beaton / Agatha Raisin and the Curious Curate

 He was a vicar to die for - and he did! Agatha is going through a man-hating phase and so is unmoved by news of the captivating new curate. But when she meets the golden-haired, blue eyed Tristan...

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...

Colin Dexter / SERVICE DEAD DEAD JERICHO DUO SPL

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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...

Boris Akunin / Leviathan (Hardback)

On 15th March 1878 Lord Littleby, an English eccentric and collector, is found murdered in his Paris house together with nine members of his staff. A gold whale in the victim's hand leads Erast...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Agatha Christie / Poirot Investigates

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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

Colin Dexter / The Way Through The Woods