Agatha Christies first ever Miss Marple mystery reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans & book lovers. Anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe declared the parson brandishing a carving knife above a joint of roast beef would be doing the world at large a service! It was a careless remark for a man of the cloth. & one which was to come back & haunt the clergyman just a few hours later. From seven potential murderers Miss Marple must seek out the suspect who has both motive & opportunity. ...

A facsimile first edition hardback of the Miss Marple books published to mark the 75th anniversary of her first appearance & to celebrate her new-found success on television. When The Murder at the Vicarage was published in October 1930 little did the literary world realise that Agatha Christie already famous for her early Poirot titles was introducing a character who would become the best-loved female sleuth of all time. The 14 Marple books would appear at intervals over the next 49 years with Miss Marples Final Cases published in 1979 three years after Agathas death. To mark the 75th anniversary of Miss Marples first appearance & to celebrate her renewed fortunes as a primetime television star this collection of facsimile first editions will be the perfect way to enjoy these books in their original form -- 12 novels & two short story collections. Reproducing the original typesetting & formats from the first editions from the Christie familys own archive copies these books sport the original covers which have been painstakingly restored from the best available copies reflecting five decades of iconic cover design. ...

Murder at Wrotham Hill takes the killing in October 1946 of Dagmar Petrzywalski as the catalyst for a compelling & unique meditation on murder & fate. Dagmar a gentle eccentric spinster was the embodiment of Austerity Britains prudence & thrift. Her murderer Harold Haggers litany of petty crimes abandoned wives sloughed-off identities & desertion was its opposite. The texture of their lives & the impression their experiences made on their characters fated their meeting on that bleak autumn morning
- & determined the manner in which both would meet their death. Featuring Englands first celebrity policeman Fabian of the Yard the celebrated forensic scientist Keith Simpson & historys most famous & dedicated hangman Albert Pierrepoint this is a gripping & deeply moving book.
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An Alex Delaware thriller
- compulsive intriguing & unputdownable Alex Delaware's relationship with his longterm partner is on
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It is drawing near to the end of term & the University at Cambridge is in turmoil over the opening of a new Common Library. There is an attack on one of the masters at a meeting to discuss the matter & a body is found floating in the pond in the librarys garden on the eve of its opening. Meanwhile there are rumours of a large force of dangerous smugglers lurking in the Fens. Aided by their friend Sheriff Tulyet Bartholomew & Michael must thwart the invaders before the Feast of Corpus Christi the following week. To fail might mean the destruction of the town... ...

Detective Inspector Delaney is looking forward to spending Christmas with Kate Walker & his young daughter Siobhan but the past always had a way of ruining Jack's best-laid plans. & this holiday season is no different! A year previously Delaney was responsible for the arrest of Michael Robinson a viciously violent rapist. Robinson always claimed he was set up by the police but before he could be brought to trail he was brutally attacked in prison & left for dead. He didn't die however & a year later out of hospital & fit for trial
- he is pointing the finger squarely at Delaney for the assault that nearly killed him. & not only that
- it looks like he has a case! & everything is about to get a whole lot worse for the Detective Inspector when Robinson walks free from court. There are new faces at White City
- & with them come old crimes old bones & old scores to settle! It seems that Delaney is not the only one in West London with a past they'll take any measures to hide. & as the body count starts to climb
- it looks like Jack himself might be about to join the club.



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Five grand for a couple of hours work? It seems easy money but the deal ex-mercenary Max Iversson is chasing has gone disastrously wrong. Two of his friends are dead. & now he wants to find out whos behind their killings. Detective Sergeant John Gallan is also looking for answers. Hes investigating the fatal poisoning of a nightclub doorman. But leads are scarce & when they do appear so do bodies. What neither man knows is that they are heading towards a devastating confrontation that will see one of them staring down the wrong end of a gun. ...

Games should be fun but for two expert teams across the country they're literally murder
- because the winning team is the one
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Chief Superintendant Ian Hunter of the CID retired is a good old fashioned copper. He has been at the heart of the investigations into some of the Lancashires most notorious murders including the Handless Corpse Case the Black Panther & the Mad Dog of Pudsey. In this revealing book Detective Hunter tells us how in these & other hideous murders across the counrty the perpetrators were finally brought to justice. Modern science can certainly help to convict a criminal but as these accounts show all too clearly without instinct observation & sheer bloody hard work at the start no case would ever be solved. ...

An archaeologist's wife is murdered on the shores of the River Tigris in Iraq... It was clear to Amy Leatheran that something sinister was going on at the Hassanieh dig in Iraq; something associated with the presence of ' Lovely Louise' wife of celebrated archaeologist Dr Leidner. In a few days' time Hercule Poirot was due to drop in at the excavation site. But with Louise suffering from terrifying hallucinations & tension within the group becoming almost unbearable Poirot might just be too late... ...