Simon Serrailler is on sabbatical on a Scottish island recovering from an exhausting murder investigation when he is urgently summoned back to Lafferton. Two local prostitutes have been found strangled. By the time Serrailer has reached the town another girl has vanished. Is this a vendetta against prostitutes by someone with a warped mind? Or a series of killings by an angry punter? Then the wife of the new Dean at the Cathedral goes missing
- has the killer widened their net or is there more than one murderer at large?
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The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives criminal agents & debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction: a time when Sherlock Holmes was esconsced in his rooms at 221B Baker Street & London was permanently wreathed in a sinister fog. These gripping tales of mystery suspense & clever puzzles are wonderfully entertaining & in them you will meet The Crime Doctor Professor Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen
- The Thinking Machine Max Carrados
- the incredible blind detective the repulsive but brilliant Skin o My Teeth & the natty ingenious French sleuth Eugene Valmont. On the other side of the law there are gentleman crooks Raffles & Simon Carn
- the Prince of Swindlers. The stories include: The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe The Stolen Cigar Case by Bret Harte The Swedish Match by Anton Chekhov Nine Points of the Law by E.W. Hornung The Ghost at Massingham Mansions by Ernest Bramah & The Great Pearl Mystery by Baroness Orczy."


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The Glasgow Orchestra are rehearsing to perform but little do they know of the sequence of events happening backstage. When George Millar the orchestras leader is brutally murdered in his dressing room his colleagues are shocked. But the show must go on. Enter DCI Lorimer & psychologist Solomon Brightman to investigate. What they uncover is a series of irrevocably tangled relationships between the orchestra members. Up until his death Millar had been involved in homosexual relationships with several other orchestra members & was well known for playing his lovers off against one another
- but were his controversial dalliances really enough to incite cold-blooded murder? A thrilling dark tale from one of Scotlands finest writers of human envy & intrigue.
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In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE Jennifer Worth a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells more stories about the people she encountered. There's Jane who cleaned & generally helped out at Nonnatus House
- she was taken to the workhouse as a baby & was allegedly the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat. Peggy & Frank's parents both died within 6 months of each other & the children were left destitute. At the time there was no other option for them but the workhouse. The Reverend Thornton-Appleby-Thorton a missionary in Africa visits the Nonnatus nuns & Sister Julienne acts as matchmaker. & Sister Monica Joan the eccentric ninety-year-old nun is accused of shoplifting some small items from the local market. She is let off with a warning but then Jennifer finds stolen jewels from Hatton Garden in the nun's room. These stories give a fascinating insight into the resilience & spirit that enabled ordinary people to overcome their difficulties.
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In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE Jennifer Worth a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells more stories about the people she encountered. There's Jane who cleaned & generally helped out at Nonnatus House
- she was taken to the workhouse as a baby & was allegedly the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat. Peggy & Frank's parents both died within six months of one another & the children were left destitute. At the time there was no other option for them but the workhouse. The Reverend Thornton-Appleby-Thorton a missionary in Africa visits the Nonnatus nuns & Sister Julienne acts as matchmaker. & Sister Monica Joan the eccentric ninety-year-old nun is accused of shoplifting some small items from the local market. She is let off with a warning but then Jennifer finds stolen jewels from Hatton Garden in the nun's room. These stories give a fascinating insight into the resilience & spirit that enabled ordinary people to overcome their difficulties.
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This fascinating volume takes a look at some of the strange & unexplained hauntings reported across Britains canal & waterways network: echoes in dark tunnels; stone steps stained red with blood spilled long ago; ghostly footsteps accompanying barges beneath a bridge
- Mixing long-established ghostly tales with first-hand accounts Allan Scott-Davies presents a grisly collection of supernatural stories. From the screaming ghost near Market Drayton to the Roman soldier in Chester guarding the canal the drowning man at Lapworth & the white lady of the Hatton flight all is revealed with a map of locations & for some of the more haunted sites a guided tour map. This illustrated book is sure to delight lovers of the waterways & paranormal alike.
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A compelling novel of complicated love from one of Ireland's greatest living writers. It is the Second World War & tragedy strikes many families in Irel&. But it is also a thrilling time in which to be a child & Polly spending months at her grandparents' house by the sea barely notices the adults' grief & their efforts to escape the tyranny of religion & family expectation. However in time Polly too will have a secret. No one else knows the location of her beloved uncle Sam barely older than Polly herself who is meant to be in Cambridge but is dreaming of Communist Cuba while his decimated family fears losing another son. & as Polly shyly approaches womanhood her love for Sam turns into something more explosive. ...

Larry Logan is a small-time TV star with a mile-wide ego. Gutted when his latest show is axed hes less than impressed when the only work he can get is fronting a fake game show
- actually an undercover police sting to entrap criminals. His reluctance evaporates when the show rockets his career back to prime time stardom. & when lovely shy Stephanie enters his life he thinks he finally has it made. But Larry doesnt know how dangerous those criminals are. He shafted some dangerous men
- & they want revenge.

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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...