The mysterious killer Kira has managed to take another life Baffled by Kira&s ability to seemingly strike anyone anywhere Interpol have called in the legendary detective "L" Now the cat & mouse game begins L must feed Kira specific targets in order to deduce Kira&s location & ultimately his identity Meanwhile Kira continues to enact his supernatural brand of homicidal justice racing toward completing his list & disappearing without a trace Death Note Confrontation is a two-player game in which one player takes on the role of L trying to locate & capture Kira & the other plays as Kira punishing those he sees deserving of the ultimate penalty Each player uses their character&s specified notebook & either as L reveals criminal targets & to systematically locate Kira or as Kira eliminates those targets in order to gain enough victory points Players 2 Ages 16 Playing time 30 minutes ...

In an alternative continuity in the Death Note setting ace detective L's name has been placed in a Death Note He has twenty-three days to bring a terrorist group to justice or they will use a deadly new virus to change the worldby killing off most of humanity ...

The eponymous nosy parker in Death of a Busybody is Miss Ethel Tither She has made herself deeply unpopular in the quintessentially English village of Hilary Magna since she goes out of her way to snoop on people & interfere with their lives On being introduced to her the seasoned reader of detective stories will spot a murder victim in the making Sure enough by the end of chapter one this unpleasant lady has met an extremely unpleasant fate She is found floating in a cesspool having been bludgeoned prior to drowning in the drainage water This is in every way a murky business; realising that they are out of their depth the local police quickly call in the Yard Inspector Thomas Littlejohn George Bellairs' series detective arrives on the train & in casting around for suspects he finds that he is spoiled for choice The amiable vicar supplies him with a map showing the scene of the crime; maps were a popular feature of traditional whodunnits for many years & Bellairs occasionally included them in his books as he does here ...

She couldn't paint to save her life
- so someone's given her a lesson by taking it! Most newcomers don't stay long in remote Lochdubh
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When Fergus Macleod Lochdubh's abusive drunk dustman is put in charge of the local recycling centre & is dubbed the ' Environment Officer' Hamish Macbeth smells trouble Sure enough Fergus imbued with his new powers becomes a bullying tyrant & when his body is found stuffed in a recycling bin no one is sorry
- including his long-suffering family But Macbeth is surprised to find that many of the despicable dustman's victims refuse to talk
- & when violence strikes again the lanky lawman must quickly unearth the culprit among a litter of suspects before the killer makes a clean getaway!

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Her table manners were a crime But she didn&t deserve to die! There&s not a cloud in Hamish Macbeth&s sky
- just plenty of warm
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When society widow & gossip columnist Lady Jane Winters joins the local fishing class she wastes no time in ruffling the feathers
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One of the great World War I antiwar novels
- honest chilling & brilliantly satirical Based on the author's experiences on the
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A tart with a heart of stone Maggie Baird is neither kind or generous but she is very very rich So when her car catches fire with her inside it there are five likely candidates for the role of murderer All five had been houseguests at her luxurious Highlands home
- Maggie&s timid niece & four former lovers one of whom Maggie had intended to pick for a husband All five are utterly broke & all had ample opportunity to tamper with Maggie&s car So finding out who did it will require all of PC Hamish Macbeth&s extraordinary common sense & insight into human nature; especially when the killer appears to be the wrong person entirely
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Amazing news is spreading like wildfire across the Scottish countryside the most famous of all Highland bachelors police sergeant Hamish Macbeth is planning to marry at last! Everyone in the village of Lochdubh adores Josie Mc Sween Hamish's newest constable & blushing bride-to-be While locals think she is quite a catch Hamish has a severe case of pre-nuptial jitters after all if it wasn't for the recent murder of a beautiful woman in a neighbouring village there wouldn't be a wedding in the first place For it was a mysterious Valentine's Day card
- delivered to the victim before her death
- which initially drew Hamish & Josie together in the investigation & now as they work side by side they soon discover that the woman's list of admirers was endless
- confirming Hamish's suspicion that love can be deaf blind & deadly!


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