Inspector French: Sudden Death (Wills Crofts Freeman)(Paperback)

Inspector French: Sudden Death (Wills Crofts Freeman)(Paperback)

To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, 'The King of Detective Story Writers', this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.Anne Day is the new housekeeper at Frayle, the home of Mr Grinsmead and his invalid

Inspector French: Death on the Way (Wills Crofts Freeman)(Paperback)

To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, 'The King of Detective Story Writers', this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.Work on the widening of the Southern Railway's route along the Dorset coast is halted

Inspector French and the Sea Mystery (Wills Crofts Freeman)(Paperback / softback)

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the fourth Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed 'The King of Detective Story

Inspector French: Sir John Magill's Last Journey (Wills Crofts Freeman)(Paperback / softback)

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the sixth Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed 'The King of Detective Story

Inspector French and the Box Office Murders (Wills Crofts Freeman)(Paperback / softback)

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the fifth Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed 'The King of Detective Story

Inspector French and the Mystery on Southampton Water (Wills Crofts Freeman)(Paperback)

To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, 'The King of Detective Story Writers', this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.The Joymount Rapid Hardening Cement Manufacturing Company on the Solent is in serious

Inspector French and the Crime at Guildford (Wills Crofts Freeman)(Paperback)

To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, 'The King of Detective Story Writers', this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.A weekend board meeting brings a jewellery firm's accountant to the managing director's

The Ponson Case (Detective Club Crime Classics) (Wills Crofts Freeman)(Paperback)

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the forgotten second novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed 'The King of Detective Story Writers'.When the body of Sir William Ponson is found in the Cranshaw River near his home of Luce Manor, it is assumed to be an accident - until the evidence points to

The Pit-Prop Syndicate (Detective Club Crime Classics) (Wills Crofts Freeman)(Paperback)

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the third standalone novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, dubbed 'The King of Detective Story Writers'.Seymour Merriman's holiday in France comes to an abrupt halt when his motorcycle starts leaking petrol. Following a lorry to find fuel, he discovers that it belongs

Antidote to Venom (Crofts Freeman Wills)(Paperback / softback)

George Surridge, director of the Birmington Zoo, is a man with many worries: his marriage is collapsing; his finances are insecure; and an outbreak of disease threatens the animals in his care. As debts and pressure increase will Surridge commit the most devious

Hog's Back Mystery (Crofts Freeman Wills)(Paperback / softback)

Dr James Earle and his wife live in comfortable seclusion near the Hog's Back, a ridge in the North Downs in the beautiful Surrey countryside. When Dr Earle disappears from his cottage, Inspector French is called in to investigate. At first he suspects a simple domestic intrigue - and begins to

The Groote Park Murder (Detective Club Crime Classics) (Wills Crofts Freeman)(Paperback)

From a murder in South Africa to the tracking down of a master criminal in northern Scotland, this is a true classic of Golden Age detective fiction by one of its most accomplished champions.When a signalman discovers a mutilated body inside a railway tunnel near Groote Park, it seems to be a

Mystery in the Channel (Wills Croft Freeman)(Paperback / softback)

Two wealthy business men are found shot dead on a Yacht with no murder weapon in sight. Inspector Joseph French is called onto the scene uncovering a business on the brink of collapse, millions missing and the toughest challenges of his

Death of a Red Heroine - Inspector Chen 1 (Xiaolong Qiu)(Paperback / softback)

Appointed to Die (Charles Kate)(Paperback)

Death at the Deanery - sudden and unnatural death. Someone should have seen it coming. For even before Stuart Latimer arrives as the new Dean of Malbury, shock waves are reverberating through the tightly-knit and insular Cathedral Close, with sweeping changes afoot. And the reality is even worse

Death Bed (Russell Leigh)(Paperback)

Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel relocates to London to take on another thrilling murder investigationWhile Geraldine strikes up a friendship with her new sergeant, the bodies of two black girls are discovered in quick succession in North London. Concerned about a reaction from the local black

A Widow's Courage (Jacobs Anna)(Paperback)

Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death, Stella comes into some money unexpectedly and decides to make a new start in the country. She settles on Ellin Valley, where she quickly begins to make friends. She falls in love with a cottage in Birch End, but an unscrupulous man

This Body of Death - An Inspector Lynley Novel: 16 (George Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Elizabeth George's masterly new novel brings Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley back onto centre stage in an intricate crime

The Summer House Party (Fraser Caro)(Paperback)

Affairs, lusts and a sudden death thread through this hugely evocative multi-generational tale set in a grand country house in

Heir to Greyladies (Jacobs Anna)(Paperback)

Hampshire, 1900. With the sudden death of her father, the life of fifteen-year-old Harriet Benson changes forever. Forced from her home to escape the advances of her leering stepbrother Norris, Harriet is sent into service to provide for the family. Arriving at the grand Dalton House, she meets the

Frozen Charlotte (Bell Alex)(Paperback / softback)

Following the sudden death of her best friend, Sophie hopes that spending the summer with family on a remote Scottish island will be just what she needs. But the old schoolhouse, with its tragic history, is anything but an escape. History is about to repeat itself. And Sophie is in terrible

The Sky Is Everywhere (Nelson Jandy)(Paperback)

Adrift after her sister Bailey's sudden death, Lennie finds herself torn between quiet, seductive Toby--Bailey's boyfriend who shares her grief--and Joe, the new boy in town who bursts with life and musical genius. Each offers Lennie something she desperately needs... though she knows if the two of

Sudden Death (Enrigue Alvaro)(Paperback / softback)

As Caravaggio, the libertine of Italy's art world, and the loutish Spanish poet Quevedo aim to settle scores over the course of one brutal tennis match, the old European order edges closer to eruption. Across the ocean, in early sixteenth-century Mexico, the Aztec Empire is under the fatal grip of

Death is Now My Neighbour (Dexter Colin)(Paperback / softback)

Inspector Morse takes on another intriguing case in Colin Dexter's detective mystery