Crime and True Crime books are very popular and should carry a warning as they are true stories of horrific inhumanity and cruelty. Truth is often stranger than fiction.
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DAVID STUART DAVIES Book Number: 29430 |
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Meet The Crime Doctor, Professor Augustus S.F.X.Van Dusen - The Thinking Machine, Max Carrados - the incredible blind detective, the repulsive but brilliant Skin o' My Teeth, and the natty, ingenio...
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EDGAR ALLEN POE Book Number: 58180 |
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This collection of Poe’s best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterize his work. As well as the Gothic horror of such famous stories as 'The Pit and the Pendulum...
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JAMES MALCOLM RYMER Book Number: 64986 |
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With a new Introduction by Dick Collins. The exploits of Sweeney Todd, 'The Demon Barber of Fleet Street', have been recounted many times in plays, films and musicals, but the origins of the charac...
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The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her 18th birthday. That very night, the stone is stolen. Suspicion th...
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SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Book Number: 31854 |
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Featuring the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case. The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast "with blazing eyes and dripping jaws" which roams the ...
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Book Number: 23793 |
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With an Introduction by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. After Sherlock Holmes's apparently fatal encounter with the sinister Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, the great detective...
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SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Book Number: 33873 |
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This novel not only establishes the magic of the Holmes myth but also provides the reader with a dramatic adventure yarn, which ranges from the foggy, gas-lit streets of London to the burning plane...
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BEN FERGUSSON Book Number: 84751 |
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The multi-award winning novelist of 'The Spring of Kasper Meier' focusses his second book on German Southwest Africa (1884-1915) which shared its borders with present-day Namibia and Botswana. Ing...
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MARGARET YORKE Book Number: 85438 |
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A novel of follies, vanities and ambitions and real, unadulterated evil. Louise Widdows has never been happy in her marriage. Providing support and supplication in exchange for a secure roof over...
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MARK MORRIS Book Number: 85077 |
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Part crime novel, part fantasy, part science fiction, Mark Morris is now known as one of the best horror writers we have. Alex Locke is a reformed ex-con, forced back into London's criminal underw...
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KATHY AND BRENDAN REICHS Book Number: 85469 |
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Blending fascinating science and dead-on psychological portraits, this novel is from the Virals series featuring Tempe Brennan's great-niece, Tory. Life appears peaceful on Loggerhead Island. Res...
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BARBARA VINE Book Number: 85484 |
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In the long hot summer of 1976, a group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall. Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie hardly ask why they are there or how they are to live - they scavenge, steal...
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SHARON BOLTON Book Number: 85954 |
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The author in her foreword says that the novel is "The story of women, and witches. Of the children we love and must protect. And of the men who fear us." Florence Lovelady's career was made when ...
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CAROL K. CARR Book Number: 85737 |
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Whether running a brothel or running from danger as a spy for Her Majesty, India Black knows how to use the tricks of her trade. This time she's off to Scotland to ensure that the Queen doesn't en...
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Book Number: 86604 |
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Sherlock Holmes, Dr Watson and Lestrade face Moriarty, Jabez Wilson and Grimesby Roylott in this collection of 12 stories selected by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself from his 60-story canon. Publis...
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CAROL K. CARR Book Number: 85735 |
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India Black's double life operating a high-class brothel and running high-stakes espionage for Her Majesty's government can take its toll, but there's no rest for the weary, particularly when an in...
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PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Book Number: 86569 |
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Edith Howland's precious diary provides a reflective interlude in her busy day. This 'fine and chilling character study' (Newsweek) charts a diary gone wrong. As Edith's American 1950s suburban l...
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MICHAEL CONNELLY Book Number: 86861 |
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Detective Renée Ballard works the graveyard shift and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours to find a stranger rifling through old files. The intruder is none other than the legendary LA...
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HOWARD LINSKEY Book Number: 86875 |
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A soldier and a spy, an officer but not quite a gentleman. Captain Harry Walsh is an SOE secret weapon. Loathed by his own commanding officer, haunted by the death of his closest friend, and trap...
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CAROL K. CARR Book Number: 85736 |
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A 'Madam of Espionage Mystery'. India Black has all the attributes of a high-class madam needed to run a successful brothel - wit, beauty and the ability to lie with a smile. Luckily for Her Maje...
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EDWARD MARSTON Book Number: 79226 |
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Butchery outside a London brothel leaves Westfield's Men in disarray. While England is brought low by rumours of Queen Elizabeth's declining health, celebrated theatre company Lord Westfield's Men...
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KARIN SLAUGHTER Book Number: 87044 |
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When medical examiner Sara Linton and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver take a trip away from the small town of Heartsdale, it should be a straightforward weekend at the beach, but they decide to take ...
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WILL CAINE Book Number: 87067 |
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What if everything they told you was a lie? Following the recent success of TV series like The Capture, many people are frozen with fear knowing they are being watched by surveillance cameras all t...
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CHRIS PETIT Book Number: 87136 |
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Berlin 1943. August Schlegel hadn't touched anyone in years and even avoided shaking hands. He lives in a dark world. Why has he been placed on a homicide case when he works in financial crimes? ...
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MISS ANNA DEAN Book Number: 87149 |
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Author Louise Penny said of this "Bliss. Like being wrapped in a comforter and transported to 1805... Rich in suspense, period detail, humour and most of all characters. They come alive, and none m...
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MALIN PERSSON GIOLITO Book Number: 87152 |
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"Lying next to the left-hand row of desks is Dennis...from Uganda. He says he's 17, but he looks like a fat 25 year old... Samir and I are in the same class because Samir managed to be accepted to ...
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JOHN SANDFORD Book Number: 87160 |
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By the author of 29 Prey novels featuring Lucas Davenport who confronts an old nemesis in this thrilling new novel in this popular series. Lucas has not crossed paths with her before. A rich psyc...
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AGATHA CHRISTIE Book Number: 86994 |
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Agatha Christie, who was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1971 and died in 1976 at the age of 85, was the most widely published author of all time in any language, outsold only by the Bible and...
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KINGSLEY AMIS Book Number: 87189 |
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The novelist, poet and satirist Kingsley Amis who died in 1995 wrote this, the first James Bond novel published after the death of Ian Fleming in 1964. Exotic, an international setting, a beautifu...
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NICK STONE Book Number: 87202 |
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A fast-paced legal thriller and a nitty-gritty portrayal of London's seamier side. Publisher's Weekly starred this book with this review "The Machiavellian plotting, Old Bailey fireworks, and almo...
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