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Duncan Forrester's research on an Aegean island is interrupted first by the murder of a British archaeologist, and then by the outbreak of the Greek Civil War. The worship of ancient gods may provide a clue to the murderer, but in such a tumultuous time, little is what it seems.

The Edgar Award–winning author of the Peter Duluth Mysteries (as Patrick Quentin) “keeps the reader guessing” in a mystery set at a British boys’ school (The New York Times). Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned outstanding detective novels...

It is the summer of 1728, and we are in the village of Sherburn, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, with its handsome church, boys’ grammar-school, ancient tavern and tranquil rural population. Below the church lies the site of the palace of the kings of Elmete. Nearby, across the common and past...

Inspector Wickfield and Sergeant Hewitt find themselves caught up in a saga of murder, illicit money-making and racist thuggery. A young girl’s body is found one morning on the banks of a canal. With help from a clairvoyant, the trail leads the investigating officers to London, and thence to Reading...

"War is coming - and that means our secret agents must get busy." August 1918. On his way to the Western Front, Captain Alan Clinton spends a night in Paris with a young Frenchwoman, Marie Roget. Seduced by Marie's charms, Clinton discloses British military secrets – with disastrous...

A British PI finds a body in a box in this mystery with “a nice twist waiting at the end” (Kirkus Reviews). As he leaves St Monkey’s after choir practice, PI Joe Sixsmith makes a heartbreaking discovery in the church graveyard: the body of a boy in a cardboard box. The police think it’s...

The first in the series starring a PI who’s “as sweet a hero as you’re likely to find in a rough multiracial neighborhood on the outskirts of London” (The New York Times Book Review). Joe Sixsmith has lost his job as a lathe operator—and is in the process of losing his hair, too—but...

A Little Laughter. A Little Mayhem. A Little MURDER...  For those who like cozy mysteries, humorous mysteries and police procedurals.  When beautiful Barbara Longman is found dead in a meadow, uprooted wild flowers strewn about her and, in her hand, a single marigold, British Detective...

Due racconti su Sherlock Holmes di Enrico Solito, un’apologia di Moriarty e la settima parte dell’Enciclopedia di Sherlock Holmes, di Enrico Solito e Stefano Guerra. Di seguito, le trame dei racconti. IL KRISHNA DI KANGRA: Holmes conosce Londra come le sue tasche e gli inseguimenti per i suoi...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of E. Phillips Oppenheim wich are "The Peer and The Woman" and "The Spymaster". E. Phillips...

Holmes and Watson unravel a mystery so exotic it stretches to the very ends of the British Empire After months without a case, the world’s greatest detective is aimless, his only stimulation the daily injection of his drug of choice. “Which is it to-day?” asks a disapproving Watson—“morphine...

Richard Hannay, the hero of 'The 39 Steps', returns as a member of ‘The Runagates Club’.  The club is a 1930s London dining society for gentlemen and is made up of ex-soldiers who meet once a month to share tales of adventure from their many heroic adventures across the globe.  Across...

THE COLLECTED MASTER CRIMINAL STORIES is a collection of a dozen stories following the exploits of master criminal Felix Gryde, "the Sherlock Holmes of malefactors." • The Head of the Caesars • At Windsor • The Silverpool Cup • The Morrison Raid Indemnity • Cleopatra’s Robe •...

The Flying Scotsman: a luxury train and the fastest way to travel between London and Edinburgh, has become the secret escape route for a European Prince who has narrowly escaped assassination at a royal wedding—an assassination intended to prevent the finalization of a treaty vital to British interests...