Classic crime and mystery fiction

Broken Street ist ein Synonym für eine x-beliebige Straße in Uptown, New York.

Money in the bank had always been a persuasive factor in Bertha Cool's life - and Lamont Hawley represented a lot of it.

In this, the tenth Clinton Driffield mystery, the action moves away from a country setting to the English suburbs, inhabited by a cast of unusual diversity: an ambitious young policeman, a naive journalist, an elderly clerk with dreams of foreign travel and an unhappily married Frenchwoman.

Griselda and Con Satterlee are spending a second honeymoon in a cottage on Long Beach, and it's not going well.

These stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle, which were originally published, each one separately, between the years of 1891 and 1892, in the British newspaper The Strand Magazine and later compiled under the title of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, constitute the largest theme of his work and represent the cornerstone of detective stories.

In a gas-lit inn in the countryside a man lies dead.

By the CWA Gold Dagger award-winning author of Other Paths to GloryWhat does the chairman of the new Atlantic Defence Committee have to do with the American Civil War?

One of Ngaio Marsh's most ingenious novels.

US Federal agent John Dennison arrives in the UK to meet Chief Inspector Philip Hunter of Scotland Yard, and to find $300,000, smuggled ashore via Liverpool.

In the 'ads - wanted' section, no one said anything about murder.

Ein toter Koch, ein Luxusrestaurant in einer alten Burg am Meer und viele Verdächtige - Julie Roche ist zurück und ermittelt in einem spannenden Mordfall!

Suicide - or murder?

Gerry Steel's loyalty to the man he worked for is total, and he will stop at nothing to ensure that Sullivan, on trial on an attempted murder charge, goes free.

For the police it was an open and shut case: Stephen Lumley was guilty of taking part in the robbery at his uncle's jewellery shop.

More than half a century ago, Papa Drovek opened his small grocery store at the junction of two country roads.

'Kingpin among the mystery writers' New York Times'His Mason books remain tantalising on every page and brilliant' Scott Turow, bestselling author of Presumed Innocent Ellen Robb came into Perry Mason's office with a gun in her purse.

When a small-time clerk insures his life for $50,000 and then suddenly dies ten days later, it doesn't take a genius to work out something suspicious is going on.

Joey Luck and his daughter Cindy are small-time criminals going nowhere fast, until they join forces with Vin Pinna, a hardened criminal on the run from Miami.

Young Roderick Kinsmere was a country bumpkin when he strolled into the Great Court of Charles II's Whitehall Palace.

Dirk Wallace is handed a simple assignment - find out who's blackmailing Mrs Thorsen's daughter.

There can be no question that the contents of this book will prove extremely controversial.

Allan Guthries neuer Roman ist ein dunkler Trip durch sechs fieberhafte Stunden in Edinburgh - hypnotisierend, schockierend und urkomisch!

'Maurice Procter's Chief Inspector Martineau is one of fiction's best policemen' New York Times The Plumber's men are swift workers, who take murder in their stride.

Clay Burden married his wife Rhonda because he was tired of being on his own.

Newly extradited to England from California on charges of fraud, Philip Page faces a long prison sentence.

Selected by #1 bestselling author Lee Child: the twenty finest crime stories of the year.

Margot Dalziel, the well-known journalist, was due in London on Friday and expected at her rural cottage on Saturday.

'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphA con-man is swindling the poor folk of Harlem out of their life savings - and now all hell's broken loose.

'Waiting for her, he was on edge with expectation.

Secret Agent Mark Kirkland has been given the task of locating and retrieving three pornographic films.

'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves 'Let's be clear that it's not your professionalism which I question.

As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.

August 1875: Theodor Fontane begleitet seinen Freund Adolph Menzel nach Finow bei Eberswalde, wo der Maler letzte Skizzen für sein Gemälde "Das Eisenwalzwerk" anfertigen will.

In the darkness of World War Two, a murderer strikes.

How do you catch a killer when the murder goes unnoticed?

It looks like a trivial enough incident: a would-be petty thief makes his escape before he has stolen anything.

When Dave Fenner is hired to solve the Blandish kidnapping, he knows the odds on finding the girl are against him - the cops are still looking for her three months after the ransom was paid.

Anna, a young Englishwoman, is drawn to visit Russia partly out of interest, to see for herself the 'proletarian experiment', and partly by Otto, a glamorous but faithless newspaper editor.

When Claude Kendrick, owner of a shadily run art gallery in Paradise City, is approached by Ed Haddon, the King of art thieves, to find a buyer for a priceless icon of Catherine the Great, he believes his dreams have come true.

Crumley in scintillating form: an anarchic, savagely violent and brilliantly written lament for a vanishing past Evening StandardJames Crumley is the king of hard-boiled noir, credited with inspiring the next generation of crime writers including Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly and best known for his two private detectives, Milo Milodragovitch and C.

An inheritance comes with its own sinister dangers.

"e;Todd's astute character studies .

Philip Castleford was more than worried.

Andrew Basnett, retired botany professor, accompanies an old friend, whose sister has received a blackmail letter, to her home in a Berkshire village.

'His name remains one of the most important and recognisable in the crime fiction genre.

Un juez que en su juventud estuvo destinado en una remota provincia rusa entrega a un editor una novela sobre un crimen pasional, narrada en primera persona.

By the CWA Gold Dagger award-winning author of Other Paths to GloryTwo KGB rivals, General Zarubin and Professor Nikolai Andrievich Panin, confront each other on a point overlooking the British Channel.

'A star in our galaxy of crime writers' FINANCIAL TIMESSuperb crime fiction from the CWA Diamond Dagger Award Winner'Yorke practised deception artfully and with style' GUARDIAN'Mistress of the skilfully spun suspense novel' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHNesta Falconer, an attractive widow, lives with her fifteen-year-old daughter Philippa, managing brother-in-law Charles Falconer's household after the breakdown of his marriage.

Poke Tohola, a Seminole Indian, is on to a smart racket.