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... ...

Every memory holds forbidden places places of shame or terror not willingly revisited sometimes merely a cruel word said in haste & never forgotten a mean or thoughtless action but sometimes that memory is a monster foul murder left untried. The year is 1860 & Inspector Faro has been transported back to one of the darkest moments of his career
- the chase of the notorious Macheath across the Scottish border to the Kent countryside. Whilst there Faro meets an old school friend Erland Flett who is working alongside the artist William Morris & the Pre-Raphaelites whose unconventional lifestyle is a startling revelation. Erland is about to marry a beautiful but mysterious young lady Lena Hamilton. Faro recognises her as the famous Madeleine Smith accused of murdering her lover but never convicted. Now Faro realises that he must apprehend Macheath & save his friend from certain death at the hands of the ruthless Miss Smith
- & time is running out.

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DEAD ONE MINUTE Young Harriet & her brother Austin have always been scared of the quarry where their stone mason father works. So when they find him dead on the cold ground they scarper quick smart & look for some help. ALIVE THE NEXT? When help arrives however the quarry is deserted & there is no sign of the body. Were the children mistaken? Is their father not dead? Did he simply get up & run away? A SINISTER DISAPPEARING ACT It seems like another unusual case requiring the expertise of Kate Shackleton. But for Kate this is one case where surprising family ties makes it her most dangerous
- & delicate
- yet.. .

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Are librarians meek & mild bookish types with orthopedic shoes & granny glasses? Or are they ruthless killers with voracious appetites for wine women & song? Can a young widow solve a murder with the help of a Chicago policeman & an affinity for Sherlock Holmes? The Murder in the Library reveals all. It is elementary my dears. ...

Murder stolen plans a mysterious death & a menage a trois
- four intriguing novellas featuring Hercule Poirot... How did a woman
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A facsimile first edition hardback of the pre-war Poirot book of four novellas -- Murder in the Mews The Incredible Theft Dead Mans Mirror & Triangle at Rhodes. How did a woman holding a pistol in her right hand manage to shoot herself in the left temple? What was the link between a ghost sighting & the disappearance of top secert military plans? How did the bullet that killed Sir Gervase shatter a mirror in another part of the room? & who destroyed the eternal triangle of love involving renowned beauty Valentine Chantry? Hercule Poirot is faced with four mystifying cases -- Murder in the Mews The Incredible Theft Dead Mans Mirror & Triangle at Rhodes -- each a miniature classic of characterisation incident & suspense. To mark the 80th anniversary of Hercule Poirots first appearance & to celebrate his renewed fortunes as a primetime television star this title in a collection of facsimile first editions is the perfect way to experience Agatha Christie. Reproducing the original typesetting & format of the first edition from the Christie familys own archive this book sports the original cover which has been painstakingly restored to its original glory. ...