A #4 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From the twelve-million copy bestselling author of the Lewis trilogy comes a chilling new mystery set in the isolated Scottish Highlands.
'One of the great masterpieces of Japanese crime fiction' David Peace, author of Tokyo Year ZeroOne of Japan's great modern writers, this second half of Lady Joker brings Kaoru Takamura's breathtaking masterpiece to a gripping conclusion.
"e;Lady Molly of Scotland Yard"e; contains a wonderful collection of short stories by Baroness Orczy that centre around Molly Robertson-Kirk, a quick-witted detective who relies on brains rather than brawn to get to the bottom of mysteries that completely elude her male counterparts.
On the surface, this novel is a simple tale of a young man who encounters a shape-shifting devil, an early manifestation of a doppelganger, and the various misadventures that follow.
The novel begins with a prologue in the voice of an old man, Charles de Cresseron, that is set in Chapelizod, Ireland, roughly a century after the events of the novel proper.
Collected here in one omnibus edition are four novels and ten short stories by the incomparable Agatha Christie; that's over nine hundred pages and three hundred thousand words of some of the greatest murder mysteries ever written.
In The Man in the Brown Suit Anne Beddingfield's chance witnessing of a man being killed in a subway station leads her to become involved in a world of diamond thieves, murderers, and political intrigue where she and mystery readers meet the incomparable Colonel Race for the first time.
When Inspector Holt is called in to investigate the mysterious death of Gordon Stuart he discovers that there have been a series of deaths involving wealthy men in London recently.
Edgar Huntly, a young man who lives with his uncle and sisters on a farm outside Philadelphia, begins the novel determined to learn who murdered his friend Waldegrave.
Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished man who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker seemingly for her money, thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time, ridding the world of an evil parasite.
