This acrylic case contains 2 classic titles from the Design Index series
- Layout & Type. Also included the new revised Color Index.
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No evidence remained on the bodies of Alun Pitcher, a well-liked, wealthy, careful & cautious businessman, & his family after they'd been wrapped in brown paper & string, doused in petrol & ignited. The fires had destroyed any evidence, or so the pathologist & the local police believed. Defeated, the local force asks for outside help. Following success in solving a previous 'cold' case, Inspector Trevor Joseph & Sergeant Peter Collins are called in. Their superiors trust them to provide answers to the questions that have confounded the local force. Did the murderer or murderers possess knowledge of police procedure & criminal investigative methods that have resulted in the perfect, unsolvable crime? Why would anyone want to kill a well-liked family who have no known enemies? How did the murderer or murderers overcome three grown men & a woman without anyone seeing anything, or hearing a sound? &, most important of all, was all the evidence really destroyed? ...

John Palmer had never ventured far from the narrow-minded small town near Dublin where he was born & the cracks in his psyche are beginning to show despite his material success. But it is when John's childhood tormentor, Red, returns with a desire to rekindle a relationship with John's wife, that he decides to take control with a comprehensive, meticulous act of revenge that no one could foresee or ever forget. ...

Forbidden in Victorian Engl&, the grim & violent world of bare-knuckle fighting has gone underground.

So when a headless

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Maura Deverell has no wish to obey her cruel landlord's command to marry his crippled son Liam. She cannot even understand why the rich & powerful Riordans want her, a humble peasant girl, in their family. Then she is brutally raped by Liam's brother Padraig, who gloats that once she is under their roof, Maura will be at his mercy
- his sexual slave. Maura's mother will not let this vicious act go unavenged. She curses te Riordans & then, on her deathbed, exacts a promise from her daughter to leave the shores of her beloved Ireland for good. Maura's exile to the harsh industrial poverty of Birmingham is fraught with dangers. Even when she makes staunch friends, & discovers a protector in the shape of Aiden Shanley, Maura cannot help remembering the land of her birth & what might have been...
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As Sherlock Holmes once conceded to Dr. Watson, ' If we could fly out of that window hand in h&, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs & peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations & leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities & foreseen conclusions most stale & unprofitable.' & with such a spirit for investigation & discovery does David Grann set out in The Devil & Sherlock Holmes to unravel the truth of twelve great, real-life mysteries. Although Holmes is the subject of just one of the mesmerizing true stories in this collection, all twelve contain elements of intrigue. Many of the protagonists are sleuths: a Polish detective trying to determine whether an author planted clues to a real murder in his post-modern novel; an arson investigator racing to prove whether a man about to be executed is innocent; a legendary French con man questioning whether he is the one who is suddenly being conned; & scientists stalking a sea monster. Unlike the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, these tales are all true. The protagonists are mortal & pieces of the puzzle often elude them. Some of the characters are driven to deception & murder. Others go mad. But ultimately the stories contained in The Devil & Sherlock Holmes shed light on the human condition, & why some people on this earth devote themselves to good & others to evil. As Holmes put it, ' Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent'. ...

Europe, 1935. Preparing for a calamitous war throughout Europe, six homicidal 'lunatics' named the Devil's Six, are confined

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Evangeline Jenner is set to become the wealthiest Wallflower, once her inheritance comes due. But she must first escape the clutches of her unscrupulous relatives. But Evie has approached the rake Viscount St Vincent with a most outrageous proposition: marriage. Sebastian's reputation is so dangerous that 30 seconds alone with him will ruin any maiden's good name. She vows to never become one of the Viscount's discarded broken hearts & her proposal comes with a condition: no lovemaking after their wedding night. Meaning Sebastian will have to work harder at his seductions... or surrender his own heart for the first time in the name of true love. The Devil in Winter is the next alluring This book has 328 pages & is 17.7cm x 10.2cm x 2.1cm ...

Marlene Dietrich teams up with director & mentor Josef von Sternberg for the last of their collaborations, in this romantic drama about a love-triangle involving a femme fatale. Set against the background of Spain's Carnaval, young army officer Antonio ...

When Andrea first sets foot in the plush Manhattan offices of Runway she knows nothing. She’s never heard of the world’s most fashionable magazine. Or it’s feared & dawned-over editor, Miranda Priestly. Soon she knows way too much. She knows it’s a sacking offence to wear less than a three-inch heel to work – but there’s always a fresh pair of Manolos in the accessories cupboard. She knows that eight stone is fat. That you can charge anything – cars, manicures, clothes – to the Runway account, but you must never leave your desk, or let Miranda’s coffee get cold. That at 3am, when your boyfriends dumping you because you’re always working & your best friends just been arrested, if Miranda phones with her latest unreasonable dem&, you jump. Most of all, Andrea knows that Miranda is a monster boss who makes Cruella de Vil look like a fluffy bunny. But this is her big break, & its all going to be worth it in the end. Isn’t it? ...