Mr Marble is in serious debt, desperate for money to pay his family's bills, until the combination of a wealthy relative, a bottle of cyanide and a shovel offer him the perfect solution. In fact,...

The newly promoted Commodore returns to the scene of his first naval action - the Baltic. In a gripping adventure in the northern waters Hornblower must use all his skill and experience to prevent...

The nineteenth century dawns and the Napoleonic Wars rage as Horatio Hornblower faces the fury of the French and Spanish fleets combined.

Amidst the hissing of wet wads, the stifling...

The midshipman who was seasick in Spithead... Shaking off this label, a shy and lonely seventeen-year-old, Horatio Hornblower, embarks on a memorable career in Nelson's navy on HMS Justinian. In...

Hornblower sails the South American waters and comes face to face with a mad, messianic revolutionary in a story that ripples with risk and gripping adventure. And throughout his escapades...

At the Universal Advertising Agency in London a murder is being planned. Three men have been discovered taking bribes and face the grim prospect of the dole queue, unless they can get rid of the...