Two damaged children: Teddy Brex, whom no-one loved, and so found it easier to relate to objects or things which never let him down; and Francine Hill, who was discovered sitting by the body of...

Racing through the backwoods of Massachusetts and on the verge of being taken down for one of the biggest and most disastrous bank heists the state has ever seen, Parker runs right into the barrel...

When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the 'Gaudy', the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks: scrawled obscenities, burnt effigies and poison-pen letters -...

Venetia Aldridge is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her brilliant career as a...

The year is 1977, and America is finally getting over the nightmares of Watergate and Vietnam and the national hangover that was the 1960s. But not everyone is ready to let it go. Not aging...

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...

On opposite sides of the city, two men are found beheaded on church grounds. Detective Inspector Oskar Reinhardt is baffled. Could the killer be mentally ill, someone the victims came into contact...

Now 18, Philippa, the adopted daughter of Maurice Palfrey, a well-known academic, has claimed her birth certificate from the Register Office and, with it, has made a terrible discovery. Some...

A service station on the M1: dimly lit, run down, poorly supervised, flickering lights, dark corners; a favorite stopover for long-distance truck drivers on their way up north from London. Behind...

A value-priced collection containing two of Dashiell Hammett's most legendary hardboiled detective novels. THE THIN MAN: Introducing Nick and Nora Charles, New York’s coolest crime-solving...

P. C. Harry Trasker is the third policeman in the Bath area to be shot dead in less than twelve weeks. The assassinations are the work of a sniper no one has been able to pin down. The younger...

In this fifth installment in the critically acclaimed Irene Huss series, three men are found brutally executed in one of Goteborg's most fashionable neighborhoods. All three men were involved in...

On assignment in Vienna, photographer Ian Jarrett falls suddenly and desperately in love with a woman he meets by pure chance, Marian Esguard. Back in England, he separates from his wife and goes...

Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard has just published a new book of poems, and has taken a brief respite from publicity on the remote Larksoken headland on the Norfolk coast. But he cannot so...

Toby Stephens stars in these thrilling dramatisations of Raymond Chandler’s classic Philip Marlowe mysteries.Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of...