A Baffling Murder at the Midsummer Ball (Kinsey T. E.)(Paperback)

A Baffling Murder at the Midsummer Ball (Kinsey T. E.)(Paperback)

A locked room. A mysterious death. Just another gig for the Dizzy Heights.When London's finest jazz musicians, the Dizzy Heights, are booked to play the glitzy Midsummer Ball at a country house in Oxfordshire, they expect a weekend filled with flappers and toffs having a roaring good time.But the

A Picture of Murder (Kinsey T. E.)(Paperback)

Late October 1909, and the season of ghouls and things that go bump in the night has descended on the village of Littleton Cotterell.Lady Hardcastle and her trusted lady's maid, Florence, find themselves hosting a colourful cast of actors whose spooky moving picture, The Witch's Downfall, is being

In the Market for Murder (Kinsey T. E.)(Paperback)

Spring, 1909, and Lady Hardcastle, amateur sleuth and all-round eccentric, is enjoying a well-deserved rest. But a week after a trip to the cattle market, Spencer Caradine, a local farmer, turns up dead in the pub, face-down in his beef and mushroom pie. Once again, it is up to Lady Hardcastle and

Murder in Midsummer - Classic Mysteries for the Holidays(Paperback / softback)

Book And The Brotherhood (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

It's the midsummer ball at Oxford, and a group of men and women - friends since university days - have gathered under the stars. Included in this group is David Crimond, a genius and fervent Marxist. Years earlier the friends had persuaded David to write a philosophical and political book on their

Wallace Case - Britain's Most Baffling Unsolved Murder (Wilkes Roger)(Paperback / softback)

From the bestselling author of Blood Relations, a compelling account of Britain's most baffling unsolved murder, described by P. D. James as 'more mysterious and fascinating than any crime

The Burning Issue of the Day (Kinsey T. E.)(Paperback)

January 1910. A journalist has been killed in a suspicious blaze. Everything points to a group of suffragettes, but the apparent culprit insists she is innocent.When Lady Hardcastle receives a letter from a suffragette requesting her urgent help, the retired spy turned sleuth knows only she stands

Dark Truths (Cross A. J.)(Paperback)

Criminologist Will Traynor is brought in to assist the police on a baffling murder investigation when a shocking discovery reveals links to a past crime. Aware of Traynor's troubled past, Detective Inspector Bernard Watts is sceptical that Traynor will bring anything useful to the investigation

The Fatal Flying Affair (Kinsey T. E.)(Paperback)

August 1911. Emily Hardcastle and her inimitable lady's maid Florence Armstrong are enjoying a fine summer until Harry, Lady H's brother, turns up out of the blue with a mystery for them to solve.A routine parachute test at a local aeroplane factory has gone horribly wrong--with pilot Dickie Dupree

Death Around the Bend (Kinsey T. E.)(Paperback)

When Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Florence, are invited to Lord Riddlethorpe's country estate for a week of motor racing and parties, they both agree it sounds like a perfectly charming holiday. But when one of the drivers dies in a crash during the very first race, they discover that what seemed

Death Beside the Seaside (Kinsey T. E.)(Paperback)

July 1910. Lady Hardcastle and her tireless sidekick Flo have finally embarked on a long-overdue seaside break. But just as they're wavering between ice creams and donkey rides, their fellow guests start to go missing--and the duo find themselves with a hysterical hotel manager and a case to

K is for Killer (Grafton Sue)(Paperback / softback)

The alphabet mysteries continue with another murder case for private investigator Kinsey

The Deadly Mystery of the Missing Diamonds (Kinsey T. E.)(Paperback)

Missing diamonds. Mysterious deaths. And all that jazz.London, 1925. With their band the Dizzy Heights, jazz musicians Ivor 'Skins' Maloney and Bartholomew 'Barty' Dunn are used to improvising as they play the Charleston for flappers and toffs, but things are about to take a surprising

The Hook (O'Mara Tim)(Paperback)

Teacher Raymond Donne finds himself embroiled in another baffling murder case when his friend MoJo is found dead on the school roof, pierced by an arrow. On the rooftop of Raymond Donne's school, Maurice 'MoJo' Joseph's lifeless body is found with an arrow sticking out of its back. Mojo had

F is for Fugitive (Grafton Sue)(Paperback / softback)

The alphabet mysteries continue with another murder case for private investigator Kinsey

C is for Corpse (Grafton Sue)(Paperback / softback)

The alphabet mysteries continue with another murder case for private investigator Kinsey

A Quiet Life in the Country (Kinsey T. E.)(Paperback)

Lady Emily Hardcastle is an eccentric widow with a secret past. Florence Armstrong, her maid and confidante, is an expert in martial arts. The year is 1908 and they've just moved from London to the country, hoping for a quiet life.But it is not long before Lady Hardcastle is forced out of her

Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Garca Mrquez Gabriel)(Paperback)

A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to

Curtains for Three (Stout Rex)(Paperback)

In these three baffling mysteries of motive and murder, even the great Nero Wolfe finds himself stumped. First there is the case of the two passionate lovebirds who want to make sure that neither is a cold-blooded killer. Then it's off to the races, where Wolfe must choose from a stable of five

Murder at the Natural History Museum (Eldridge Jim)(Paperback)

Murder at Roaringwater (Foster Nick)(Paperback / softback)

Murder at Roaringwater is the inside story of the final days of young Frenchwoman, Sophie Toscan du Plantier. This is a violent, unresolved murder, where the victim seemed to have a premonition of her own terrible end. For six years, Nick Foster has been piecing together the life and death of

Murder at the Lanterne Rouge (Black Cara)(Paperback)

The twelfth Aim e Leduc investigation set in Paris Lost secrets of the Parisian Knights Templar, dangerous Chinatown sweatshops, dirty policemen, and botched affairs of the heart--the 12th Aim e Leduc mystery is the most exciting yet Aim e Leduc is happy her longtime business partner Ren has

T is for Trespass (Grafton Sue)(Paperback / softback)

The alphabet mysteries continue with a surprising case for private investigator Kinsey

Murder on the Left Bank (Black Cara)(Paperback)

A confession fifty years in the making puts everyone's favorite Paris d t ctive tr s chic, Aim e Leduc, on a collision course with the 'Hand,' a cabal of corrupt Parisian cops among who masterminded her father's murder--and among whose ranks he might have once found membership. When a friend's