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Gallows’ Foot (Crime Club Choice)
- £25.00
- The death of Greta Marais--once so famous among model-girls--was a seven-day sensation to the newspapers. But to the unsuccessful, small-time actor Roger Brand, looking down at the sprawled corpses of his mistress, it implied a terrible and frightening predicament. It was so obvious that he had had the motive, the…
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Hangman Blind (An Abbess of Meaux Mystery 1) (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- November, 1382. The month of the dead. At the Feast of St. Martin in the fifth year of King Richard's reign, a nun rides out for York and the Abbey of Meaux. But this is no ordinary journey. Rival popes, a boy on the English throne and a volatile peace…
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Hard Frost (Jack Frost 4)
- £15.00
- Detective Inspector Jack Frost is having a hard time. A young boy is found dead in a rubbish heap, suffocated and with one finger cut off. Another boy is missing. A psychopath is stabbing babies as they lie sleeping in their cots. A fifteen-year-old has been abducted, then found naked…
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Hush-A-Bye (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- In 1983, Susan Moody (pen name of Susan Elizabeth Horwood) published her first novel, A Distant Shore, and one other historical novel under the pen name Susannah James before she turned to the genre of crime and suspense literature. More recently, she has also used the pen name Susan Madison.…
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Hyde (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- WINNER OF THE 2021 McILVANNEY AWARD. IAN RANKIN'S CHOICE FOR BOTH BEST MYSTERY BOOK OF 2021 (PBS), AND BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR (NEW STATESMAN) 'Russell writes a pacy, ever-twisting mystery that will keep you turning the pages.' - Ian Rankin 'When it comes to Gothic crime, Craig Russell is…
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Innocent Blood
- £20.00
- Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, believes herself to be the motherless, illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic father. At eighteen she exercises her right to find out the truth. What she discovers will change her life forever. Philippa enters a new and terrifying world and soon comes to realize that…
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Miss Marple’s 6 Final Cases and 2 other stories
- £25.00
- Published 3 years after Christie's death, this anthology brought together stories for the first time in one place in the UK. Contents: Sanctuary; Strange Jest; Tape-Measure Murder; The Case of the Caretaker; The Case of the Perfet Maid; Miss Marple Tells a Story; The Dressmaker's Doll; In a Glass Darkly.
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Original Sin
- £20.00
- Set in a long-established publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames. The Peverell Press, founded in 1792, is ripe for change. The chairman, Henry Peverell, has just died; his French partner, Jean-Philippe Etienne, has retired and Etienne's ruthless son Gerard has taken over as chairman. Gerard…
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Resurrection Men: A Rebus Novel (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- This is Rankin at his best, and, boy, that's saying something' TIME OUT. Rebus is off the case - literally. A few days into the murder inquiry of an Edinburgh art dealer, Rebus blows up at a colleague. He is sent to the Scottish Police College for 'retraining' - in…
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Sacred Games
- £25.00
- Sartaj, the only Sikh inspector in the whole of Mumbai, is used to being identified by his turban, beard and the sharp cut of his trousers. But 'the silky Sikh' is now past forty, his marriage is over and his career prospects are on the slide. When Sartaj gets an…
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Saints of the Shadow Bible
- £8.00
- Rebus is back on the force, albeit with a demotion and a chip on his shoulder. A 30-year-old case is being reopened, and Rebus's team from back then is suspected of foul play. With Malcolm Fox as the investigating officer, are the past and present about to collide in a…
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Service of All The Dead
- £200.00
- The fourth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. The sweet countenance of Reason greeted Morse serenely when he woke, and told him that it would be no bad idea to have a quiet look at the problem itself before galloping off to a solution. Chief Inspector Morse was alone…
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Shadow Ticket
- £25.00
- Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labour-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks heÕs found job security until he gets…
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Sleeping in the Ground: DCI Banks 24 (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- A terrible crime. No obvious motive. Banks is on the case. 'Top-notch police procedure' - Jeffery Deaver. A shocking mass murder occurs at a wedding in a small Dales church and a huge manhunt follows. Eventually, the shooter is run to ground and things take their inevitable course. But Banks…
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Social death: An Entertainment in 3 Months (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- When poor old Leerkopff is found dead in his Art Gallery the tongues of Sydney's fashionable society are set wagging. The suspects for murder include Bruno's ambitious young assistant, the 'grief stricken' mistress (who sells her story to the newspapers), an alcoholic client 'who confesses' to the polce, and even…
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Gallows’ Foot (Crime Club Choice)
- £25.00
- The death of Greta Marais--once so famous among model-girls--was a seven-day sensation to the newspapers. But to the unsuccessful, small-time actor Roger Brand, looking down at the sprawled corpses of his mistress, it implied a terrible and frightening predicament. It was so obvious that he had had the motive, the…
- Add to basket
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Hangman Blind (An Abbess of Meaux Mystery 1) (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- November, 1382. The month of the dead. At the Feast of St. Martin in the fifth year of King Richard's reign, a nun rides out for York and the Abbey of Meaux. But this is no ordinary journey. Rival popes, a boy on the English throne and a volatile peace…
- Add to basket
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Hard Frost (Jack Frost 4)
- £15.00
- Detective Inspector Jack Frost is having a hard time. A young boy is found dead in a rubbish heap, suffocated and with one finger cut off. Another boy is missing. A psychopath is stabbing babies as they lie sleeping in their cots. A fifteen-year-old has been abducted, then found naked…
- Add to basket
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Hush-A-Bye (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- In 1983, Susan Moody (pen name of Susan Elizabeth Horwood) published her first novel, A Distant Shore, and one other historical novel under the pen name Susannah James before she turned to the genre of crime and suspense literature. More recently, she has also used the pen name Susan Madison.…
- Add to basket
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Hyde (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- WINNER OF THE 2021 McILVANNEY AWARD. IAN RANKIN'S CHOICE FOR BOTH BEST MYSTERY BOOK OF 2021 (PBS), AND BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR (NEW STATESMAN) 'Russell writes a pacy, ever-twisting mystery that will keep you turning the pages.' - Ian Rankin 'When it comes to Gothic crime, Craig Russell is…
- Add to basket
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Innocent Blood
- £20.00
- Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, believes herself to be the motherless, illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic father. At eighteen she exercises her right to find out the truth. What she discovers will change her life forever. Philippa enters a new and terrifying world and soon comes to realize that…
- Add to basket
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Miss Marple’s 6 Final Cases and 2 other stories
- £25.00
- Published 3 years after Christie's death, this anthology brought together stories for the first time in one place in the UK. Contents: Sanctuary; Strange Jest; Tape-Measure Murder; The Case of the Caretaker; The Case of the Perfet Maid; Miss Marple Tells a Story; The Dressmaker's Doll; In a Glass Darkly.
- Add to basket
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Original Sin
- £20.00
- Set in a long-established publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames. The Peverell Press, founded in 1792, is ripe for change. The chairman, Henry Peverell, has just died; his French partner, Jean-Philippe Etienne, has retired and Etienne's ruthless son Gerard has taken over as chairman. Gerard…
- Add to basket
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Resurrection Men: A Rebus Novel (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- This is Rankin at his best, and, boy, that's saying something' TIME OUT. Rebus is off the case - literally. A few days into the murder inquiry of an Edinburgh art dealer, Rebus blows up at a colleague. He is sent to the Scottish Police College for 'retraining' - in…
- Add to basket
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Sacred Games
- £25.00
- Sartaj, the only Sikh inspector in the whole of Mumbai, is used to being identified by his turban, beard and the sharp cut of his trousers. But 'the silky Sikh' is now past forty, his marriage is over and his career prospects are on the slide. When Sartaj gets an…
- Add to basket
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Saints of the Shadow Bible
- £8.00
- Rebus is back on the force, albeit with a demotion and a chip on his shoulder. A 30-year-old case is being reopened, and Rebus's team from back then is suspected of foul play. With Malcolm Fox as the investigating officer, are the past and present about to collide in a…
- Add to basket
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Service of All The Dead
- £200.00
- The fourth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. The sweet countenance of Reason greeted Morse serenely when he woke, and told him that it would be no bad idea to have a quiet look at the problem itself before galloping off to a solution. Chief Inspector Morse was alone…
- Add to basket
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Shadow Ticket
- £25.00
- Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labour-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks heÕs found job security until he gets…
- Add to basket
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Sleeping in the Ground: DCI Banks 24 (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- A terrible crime. No obvious motive. Banks is on the case. 'Top-notch police procedure' - Jeffery Deaver. A shocking mass murder occurs at a wedding in a small Dales church and a huge manhunt follows. Eventually, the shooter is run to ground and things take their inevitable course. But Banks…
- Add to basket
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Social death: An Entertainment in 3 Months (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- When poor old Leerkopff is found dead in his Art Gallery the tongues of Sydney's fashionable society are set wagging. The suspects for murder include Bruno's ambitious young assistant, the 'grief stricken' mistress (who sells her story to the newspapers), an alcoholic client 'who confesses' to the polce, and even…
- Add to basket