Mix Cellini (which he pronounces with an ‘S’ rather than a ‘C’) is superstitious about the number thirteen and has always felt dogged by ill-luck. In the house where he lives, there are...

Who would have believed that Alice Whittaker’s life could change? She was thirty-seven, rich but dowdy, with no career. Her life was a lonely failure, though she had got by with the one thing...

The latest victim in a series of apparently motiveless murders is found near Inez Ferry’s antique shop in Marylebone. Someone saw a shadowy figure running away, but the only other clues are that...

The body found under the hedge was that of a middle-aged woman. The grey eyes were wide and staring, and in them Detective Chief Inspector Wexford thought he saw a sardonic gleam. But that must...

Wexford had almost made up his mind that he would never again set eyes on Eric Targo. And yet there he was, back in Kingsmarkham, still with that cocky, strutting walk.Years earlier, when...

The dark, good-looking Guy is from a council flat. Leonora has a mews house in Holland Park, and her mother doesn't care for Guy - or the way he makes his money. His obsession with Leonora...

Concealed by a shroud of dirty brown velvet was what looked like a heap of rags. In the desolate subterranean car park of the Barringdean Shopping Centre, Reg Wexford had been too preoccupied to...

On a stormy February afternoon, little Stella Rivers disappeared and was never seen again. There were no clues, no demands and no traces. And there was nowhere else for Wexford and his team to...

Jock Lewis was supposed to have died in the Paddington rail crash - Minty had received a letter from Great Western. But, curiously, the police hadn't been in touch. And Jock had gone off with all...

A volume of five Wexford cases ranging from crimes of passion and violence in Kingsmarkham to a bizarre murder in Yugoslavia.

The Chinese government wanted advice on crime prevention and detection, and Scotland Yard’s Chief Superintendent Howard Fortune has assembled a team that includes the best detection experts, bar...

A man and his daughter lie dead after a car accident. Strangely, no other car was involved and no cause has been found. Wexford’s only option is to wait and hope that the one surviving victim,...

No one would have described Manningtree Grove as fashionable. Few would have found it especially interesting. But it was not an unpleasant place to live: the old railway line lay in a valley, and...

Sergeant Caleb Martin of Kingsmarkham CID had no idea just how terminally unlucky Friday 13th May would prove. Even alive, he could have had no inkling of the chain of bloody events that would...

Anita Margolis had vanished. There was no body, no crime – nothing more concrete than an anonymous letter and the intriguing name of Smith. According to headquarters, it wasn’t to be...