It is 1941. While the 'war of chaos' rages in the skies above London an unending fight against violence murder & the criminal underworld continues on the streets below. One ordinary day in an ordinary courtroom forensic pathologist Dr Keith Simpson asks a keen young journalist to be his secretary. Although the 'horrors of secretarial work' don't appeal to Molly Lefebure she's intrigued to find out exactly what goes on behind a mortuary door. Capable & curious ' Miss Molly' quickly becomes indispensible to Dr Simpson as he meticulously pursues the truth. Accompanying him from sombre morgues to London's most gruesome crime scenes Molly observes & assists as he uncovers the dark secrets that all murder victims keep. With a sharp sense of humour & a rebellious spirit Molly tells her own remarkable true story here with warmth & wit painting a vivid portrait of wartime London. ...

' Akunin is an outstanding novelist... Fandorin is a beautifully drawn character who more than lives up to comparisons with Hercule Poirot or Sherlock Holmes... The characters are delightful & you can imagine them in a Woody Allen version of an Agatha Christie novel... Akunin's work is gloriously tongue-in-cheek but seriously edge-of-your-seat at the same time' Daily Express On 15th March 1878 Lord Littleby an English eccentric & collector is found murdered in his Paris house together with nine members of his staff. A gold whale in the victim's hand leads Erast Fandorin to board the Leviathan the world's largest steamship as the murderer is one of the 142 first class passengers. Commissioner Gauche of the French police has narrowed down the suspects to ten & they are forced to eat together at every meal time in the ship's Windsor Suite until 'the Crime of the Century' is solved. But is the murderer really at the table & can Erast Fandorin discover his or her identity before Gauche? As more passengers are murdered & the Leviathan heads towards Calcutta Fandorin needs all his investigative skills to find the truth. ...

On a French golf course a millionaire is found stabbed in the back! An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course. But why is the dead man wearing his sons overcoat? & who was the impassioned love-letter in the pocket for? Before Poirot can answer these questions the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second identically murdered corpse! ...

BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffat as Hercule Poirot. When Poirot arrives in France following an urgent appeal for help he finds he is too late. His client a South American millionaire has been stabbed to death & his body flung into a freshly dug open grave on the golf course adjoining the property. Meanwhile the millionaire's wife is found bound & gagged in her room. Poirot launches an investigation & the baffling mystery begins to unfold. ...

Agatha Christies most famous murder mystery reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans & book lovers. Just after midnight a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment stabbed a dozen times his door locked from the inside. Isolated & with a killer in their midst detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer -- in case he or she decides to strike again. ...

Eleven months after discovering a brutal double murder in a sleepy Northumbrian town Detective Chief Inspector Kate Daniels is still haunted by her failure to solve the case. Then the brutal killing of a man on Newcastles Quayside gives Daniels another chance to get it right & her first case as Senior Investigating Officer. When Daniels recognises the corpse but fails to disclose the fact her personal life swerves dangerously into her professional life. But much worse she is now being watched. As Daniels steps closer to finding a killer a killer is only a breath away from claiming his next victim... ...

This work features maths with the laughs added in! How can maths rescue someone in deadly peril? Which famous mathematician was murdered? How did time begin? Find out in Murderous Maths"
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Never dared before Murderous Maths of Everything is one big book with ALL the answers to EVERYTHING in maths. & it's in cool colour too! Readers can join the cast of crazy characters on a tour of the Murderous Maths building to discover the darkest & deadliest mathematical secrets. Discover how to make birthdays last twice as long how the number 1 starts fights how triangles lead to murder & much more. Put an end to maths misery once & for all. ...

Much has been written about the soldiers executed during WW1 for military offences all of whom were conditionally pardoned in 2006. However until now very little attention has been paid to the cases of men who were tried under the Army Act & executed for murder. The British Army has always been reticent about publicising courts martial & eighty years elapsed before the government was compelled to prematurely declassify the written proceedings of First World War capital courts martial. Even then public attention tended to concentrate on cases involving soldiers who had been shot at dawn for offences other than homicide & virtually nobody was inclined to seek a posthumous pardon or judicial review for the murderous Tommies. This meant neither the victims nor the convicted mens families were able to discover details about the murder cases. Though readily identifiable online via much-visited war cemetery websites until now there has been no readily accessible historically reliable & balanced narrative about the activities & courts-martial of all the murderous Tommies of the Western Front. This book provides for a full account of the cases involving twelve soldiers & one officer whose homicidal misdeeds were committed in France & Flanders while hostilities were in progress. Drawing on contemporary records this carefully researched work chronicles the circumstances in which each of these men either slaughtered one of their comrades or an unarmed civilian. It examines the murderers motives & presents a balanced analysis of each case including a detailed assessment of the extent to which each condemned man was granted a fair hearing by officers who sat in uneasy judgement as well as those involved in confirming the death sentences. ...