 | The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: War of the Worlds
Release Date: November 17, 2009| Series: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger and Dr. Watson meet their match when the streetsof London are left decimated by a prolonged alien attack. Who could be responsiblefor such destruction? Sherlock Holmes is about to find out...Manly and Wade Wellman’snovel takes H.G. Wells's classic story of Martian invasion and throws Holmes into the mix, with surprisingand unexpected results.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomelydesigned detective stories. From the ea...
 |  | Naked Once More
Publication Date: October 1, 1990Jacqueline Kirby, former librarian turned bestselling novelist, is selected to write the sequel to the greatest blockbuster of all time, "Naked in the Ice". The original author, Kathleen Darcy, is missing and presumed dead. ...
|  | Thou Shell of Death (Nigel Strangeways Mysteries)
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|  | A Very Private Enterprise (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries)
Publication Date: November 15, 2007To his colleagues, co-workers and friends (did he have any real friends?), Hugo Frenchman was the consummate British civil servant. A bit dull, perhaps; a bit fussily fastidious, a bit of a stickler for protocol. But in the right position, even dullness can be a virtue. And as Her Majesty's "Head of Chancery" in India, Frenchman was the ideal man to make up the numbers at a diplomatic dinner party, keep the junior officers in line, and represent solid British values in Delhi.Indeed, Frenchman,s life was such a model of propriety that its two areas of untidi...
|  | The Mind Readers: Albert Campion #18
Publication Date: April 16, 2011| Series: Albert Campion (Book 18) Sam Ferris is an ordinary English schoolboy. Well, except for a few things. One: His father is an eminent scientist, based on a military research island off the English coast. Two: Sam is about to be interviewed by a solicitor, giving evidence, in a serious legal matter, against one of his favorite teachers. And three: Sam can read minds. But there's a four: Sam's uncle is Albert Campion. And Sam's story, in all its seemingly unrelated elements, gives his Uncle Albert quite a lot to be curious about. ...
|  | Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders
Release Date: October 25, 2005The Rumpole renaissance continues to build, and now the beloved barrister’s many followers have a special reason to rejoice: a sensational full-length Rumpole novel that at last relates the oft-mentioned but never revealed story of Rumpole’s first case, the Penge Bungalow affair. Looking back half a century into a very different world, Rumpole recalls a man accused of murdering his father and his father’s friend with a pistol taken from a dead German pilot. It was this trial and its outcome that put Rumpole on the map and shaped him into the ca...
|  | Hercule Poirot's Greatest Cases - 28 Audio CD's (BBC Dramatization)
Publication Date: November 14, 2007Collected in one fabulous set, Agatha Christie's peerless detective in fourteen of his greatest cases, presented by a full cast! Agatha Christie's greatest sleuth in fourteen of his greatest cases, including Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, and Evil Under the Sun. Drawn from Christie dramas that originally aired on BBC Radio 4, John Moffatt stars as the unruffled Poirot. The perfect present for any Poirot aficionado! The complete title list: Murder on the Links; The Murder of Roger Ackroyd; The Mystery of the Blue Train; Peril at End House; ...
|  | A Dangerous Mourning: A William Monk Novel (Mortalis)
Release Date: May 26, 2009| Series: Mortalis No breath of scandal has ever touched the aristocratic Moidore family–until Sir Basil’s beautiful widowed daughter is stabbed to death in her own bed, a shocking, incomprehensible tragedy.Inspector William Monk is ordered to investigate in a manner that will give the least possible pain to the influential family. But Monk, brilliant and ambitious, is handicapped by lingering traces of amnesia and by the craven ineptitude of his supervisor, who would like nothing better than to see Monk fail. With the help of nurse Hester Latterly, a pr...
|  | The Five Bells and Bladebone
Release Date: June 1, 2002When a dismembered corpse is found in the compartments of an antique secretaire a abattant, Marshall Trueblood, recipient of the precious piece of furniture, is the first to protest: "I bought the desk, not the body, send it back." Who would want to kill Simon Lean, the greedy nephew of the wealthy Lady Summerston?Leave it to Superintendent Richard Jury of Scotland Yard to suggest a connection to the murder of brassy Limehouse lady named Sadie Driver, found dead near Wapping Old Stairs...if that stone-cold body on the slipway is really Sadie. Not even her brother, T...
|  | Eleven Pipers Piping: A Father Christmas Mystery (Father Christmas Mysteries)
Release Date: October 30, 2012| Series: Father Christmas Mysteries The welcome return of C. C. Benison’s delectable series featuring Father Tom Christmas—“an irresistible addition to the ranks of clerical sleuths” (Julia Spencer-Fleming) Father Tom Christmas, the recently widowed vicar adjusting to life in the English village of Thornford Regis, would do almost anything to avoid attending the annual Robert Burns Supper at the local hotel. But as chaplain to a traditional Scottish pipe band, Father Tom must deliver the grace—and contend with wailing bagpip...
|  | The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Scroll of the Dead
Release Date: November 17, 2009| Series: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Holmes attends a seance to unmask an impostor posing as a medium, Sebastian Melmoth,a man hell-bent on obtaining immortality after the discovery of an ancient Egyptianpapyrus. It is up to Holmes and Watson to stop him and avert disaster...In thisfast-paced adventure, the action moves from London to the picturesque Lake Districtas Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson once more battle with the forces of evil.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomelydesigned detective storie...
|  | With Intent to Deceive (Tommy Hambledon)
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|  | Incident at Badamya
Release Date: February 28, 1990"Gilman keeps you turning the pages."UPIAfter Gen Ferris's missionary father commits suicide in 1950, it is up to her to get out of Burma alone. She has one hundred dollars in her knapsack, a slingshot, a magical Burmese puppet, and the New York City address of an aunt she doesn't know. But Gen is captured by Red Chinese forces and imprisoned with six other lost travelers. She vows to escape, not believing that her destiny lies in captivity, never dreaming of the forces that will finally come to her aid.... ...
|  | Henrietta Who?
Publication Date: February 15, 2008Larking was a typical English village and like the thousand other villages it resembled Larking had its secrets, as Inspector C.D. Sloan was to discover after the postman found the murdered body of Grace Jenkins in the road that led to her thatched cottage. But the real mystery involved Grace's daughter Henrietta since no one could really explain exactly who Henrietta really was. ...
|  | The Skeleton in the Closet (St. Martin's Minotaur Mysteries)
Publication Date: March 15, 2002| Series: St. Martin's Minotaur Mysteries Ever since the death of his father, poor Fellworth Dolphin has slaved away as a waiter to support his miserly, cold-hearted mother. When his mother suddenly dies, Fellworth is shocked to discover that she has left him a sizable inheritance. confused, Fell teams up with Maggie, a plain girl with a similar background, to investigate the source of the riches. But what they find is a closet full of skeletons...Is it really possible Fell's father was involved in a long-ago train robbery? Who's the mysterious woman in the po...
|  | Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (Agatha Christie Mysteries Collection)
Release Date: March 13, 2012| Series: Agatha Christie Mysteries Collection While playing an erratic round of golf, Bobby Jones slices his ball over the edge of a cliff. His ball is lost, but on the rocks below he finds the crumpled body of a dying man. The man opens his eyes and with his last breath says, "Why didn't they ask Evans?" Haunted by those words, Bobby and his vivacious companion, Frankie, set out to solve a mystery that will bring them into mortal danger. . ....
|  | A Spoonful of Poison (Agatha Raisin Mysteries, No 19)
Release Date: September 1, 2009Agatha Raisin’s detective agency has become so successful that now all she wants is some R&R. But as soon as she cuts back her hours, Agatha remembers that when she has too much quality time, she doesn’t know what to do with it. So it doesn’t take much for the vicar of a nearby village to persuade her to help publicize the church fête—especially when the fair’s organizer, George Selby, happens to be a gorgeous widower. Problem is: Several of the offerings in the jam-tasting booth turn out to be poisoned…and the festi...
|  | Death Is Now My Neighbor
Release Date: January 21, 1997Oxford, England. A shot rings out in the early morning on Bloxham Drive. A young woman is murdered while having breakfast in her apartment.At nearby Lonsdale College, the peaceful quadrangle seems insulated from the everyday realities of the entire outside world, let alone this recent murder. Yet Lonsdale is not as tranquil as it appears. The Master of the college is about to retire, and two senior dons, Denis Cornford and Julian Storrs, are discreetly competing to succeed him. Meanwhile, their wives are involved in a ...
|  | Service for Two (A Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery)
Release Date: May 1, 1994| Series: A Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery Keeping guests comfortable and entertained at the Pennyfoot is no easy matter when foul play is afoot. During the funeral of Dr. McDuff, chaos breaks loose when it's discovered that a stranger's murdered body is in the casket. Cecily Sinclair must straighten things out before the hotel's reputation is ruined. ...
|  | The Case Has Altered
Release Date: November 1, 1998The thirteenth mystery for Richard Jury finds the detective investigating the murder of two women in the Lincolnshire fens. Both victims are connected to the wealthy owner of the Fengate estate: one a kitchen maid, and the other, the owner's ex-wife. But Jury has more at stake than just catching a killer, as the prime suspect is a woman who's presence in his life is becoming meaningful in a way he can't explain.... ...
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