First in a series of brilliantly addictive tightly plotted murder mysteries featuring the irrepressible Poppy Fields. When Poppy Fields goes on an activity holiday to a remote Scottish island she is looking forward to a week of climbing hill-walking & horse riding. But things take a disastrous turn when their instructor has what appears to be a fatal abseiling accident. When Poppy discovers that his rope was cut & more of the instructors start to have accidents" she & best friend Graham suspect foul play & decide to investigate.

Features: Winner of the Red House Children's Book Award; with strongly realized characters fast-paced plots & a dash of wry humour award-winning chldren's author Tanya Landman gives Agatha Christie a run for her money; & reissued with a graphic new look by popular artist Scott Garrett."

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Second in a series of brilliantly addictive tightly plotted murder mysteries featuring the irrepressible Poppy Fields. When ageing starlet Baby Sugarcandy is found dead at the bottom of the stairs in her Hollywood mansion it is assumed she tripped. However an autopsy reveals she was dead before she fell... When a number of strange deaths follow Poppy Fields & best friend Graham decide to investigate.

Features: with strongly realized characters fast-paced plots & a dash of wry humour award-winning chldren's author Tanya Landman gives Agatha Christie a run for her money; & reissued with a graphic new look by popular artist Scott Garrett.

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Fourth in a series of brilliantly addictive tightly plotted murder mysteries featuring the irrepressible Poppy Fields. Poppy Fields & best friend Graham design a murder mystery trail for the school fayre choosing the headteacher to be the corpse at the end. But when the first person to finish discovers that the head really is dead Poppy & Graham set out on a real life murder trail.

Features: with strongly realized characters fast-paced plots & a dash of wry humour award-winning chldren's author Tanya Landman gives Agatha Christie a run for her money; & reissued with a graphic new look by popular artist Scott Garrett.

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Put on your inspector cap & let the mystery begin! On a dark & rainy night a man goes into an old mansion-then he mysteriously vanishes into thin air. Was he a victim of foul play? Or just in the wrong place at the wrong time? Your job is to find out what happened to him. Play in teams to solve the mystery using simple deductive reasoning. Youll need to answer: Who did it? How they did do it? Why did they do it? & where it happened. For 2 or more players ages 8 & up. Contains 1x 3-D mansion suspect cards method cards motive cards place cards guess tokens scoring pegs & instructions. Not suitable for children under the age of 8 years ...

The death of Princess Diana Princess of Wales sent shockwaves around the world. A nation was left in mourning but soon feelings of suspicion surfaced: was her death all that the Establishment might wish us to believe? Now after an exhaustive two-year probe investigative writer & former journalist Noel Botham has dared to reveal what the people of Britain have always believed
- that Diana's death was murder. Using his unique contacts in the secretive worlds of intelligence & royalty the author has uncovered the facts that prove Diana was
- as she herself predicted she would be
- the victim of a professional hit squad. He presents a clear account of what really happened on that fateful day of 31 August 1997. Why was the killing sanctioned? How was it executed? Was there really another car in the tunnel at the time of the crash? All of these questions & more including how the truth was covered up by an official whitewash are answered. This astounding book is what all enquiring minds have been waiting for blowing the lid off the secrets the Establishment does not want us to know. The Murder of Princess Diana" firmly lays to rest the theory that Diana's death was a tragic accident & finally gives the people of Britain the explanation they deserve."


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Agatha Christie's most audacious crime mystery reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans & book lovers. Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husb&. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Now tragically came the news that she had taken her own life with a drug overdose. But the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information. Unfortunately before he could finish the letter he was stabbed to death... ...

Based on exclusive access to newly discovered Russian documents the last word on the fate of the Romanov family. The overthrow & execution of Tsar Nicholas II & the Russian Imperial family is a cause celebre of twentieth-century history. Andrew Cooks re-investigation of the story finally solves one of the greatest mysteries of world history. The author draws upon new forensic evidence & newly discovered British & Russian Secret Service records reveal the truth about the familys murder the proposed British rescue of the Imperial family led by Major Stephen Alley & the Secret Service mission inside Russia after the familys reported deaths to discover the truth about their fate. ...

'I must say Jack I have been in some awful company before
- I have dined with torturers & Apaches & strict Plymouth Brethren &
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Thomas Chaloner has forged a living as spy to the Lord Chancellor the Earl of Clarendon since the early days of the Restoration. Now in February 1664 he is aware of an undercurrent of restlessness on the streets of London. The coffee houses are thick with rumours. There is anger at the new laws governing church attendance & a deepening contempt for the loucheness of the court. & there is murder. The infamous church-smasher Dick Culmer is killed among the tottering ramshackle buildings of London Bridge & Chaloner's investigations into the death link Culmer to a group of puritan conspirators. Further west in the opulence of Somerset House & in the Palace of White Hall Chaloner gradually realises that the ring-leaders of a rebellion are planning an explosive climax to achieve their goals. Desperately racing against time Chaloner is determined to thwart them
- as determined as they are to prevent him revealing their true intentions.. .
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When the engines finally met there was a deafening clash & the Brighton Express twisted & buckled tipping its carriages on to the other line. It was a scene of utter devastation. October 1854. As crowds of passengers rush to make the departure of the London to Brighton Express a man watches from the shadows nearby
- Chaos fatalities & unbelievable destruction are the scene soon after when the train derails just outside the Balcombe Tunnel. Could it simply be a case of driver error? Detective Inspector Colbeck thinks not. But digging deep to discover the intended target of the accident takes time something Colbeck doesn't have as the killer prepares to strike again.
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