Classic crime and mystery fiction

The third of the Tiger Mann adventures calls on the master of counter-espionage to act as unofficial bodyguard to a visiting Arab king.

Secret agent Tiger Mann has his wedding interrupted by a call to look into the defection of a top Russian spy, Gabin Martrel, who has requested asylum in the US but won't provide any information.

Tiger Mann, sleuth and expert in counter-espionage, is lunching with a friend when he notices a girl enter the restaurant.

Morgan the Raider got his name from the famous pirate of old, as he stands convicted of stealing $40 million.

Deep was back in town after a twenty-five-year exile - to inherit an empire and avenge a death.

Everyone thought Mike Hammer was dead, shot in a drugs war battle on the docks of New York.

From the moment he walks into his Manhattan office to find his beloved secretary Velda knocked unconscious, and a brutally murdered stranger occupying his office chair, PI Mike Hammer is on the warpath.

The killing of Lippy Sullivan is only a one-column squib in the morning papers.

PI Mike Hammer is moving through the dark streets of New York City when he hears a child's terrible scream.

This is some household.

New York PI Mike Hammer has traced his lost love and secretary, Velda, who went missing seven years ago.

Seven years of hitting the hard stuff have taken it out of PI Mike Hammer.

'The characters talk straight from the hip and the Wyoming landscape is its own kind of eloquence' New York TimesCraig Johnson's first short story, 'Old Indian Trick', featured one of the earliest appearances of Sheriff Walt Longmire.

The tenth novel in the New York Times bestselling Longmire series, featuring Sheriff Walt Longmire.

Corruption, murder, beauty and innocence .

'An acknowledged literary landmark' [Robert Graves] from 'The dean of the school of hard-boiled fiction' [New York Times]The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey.

'Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the best' THE TIMESMiss Gabriel Dain Leggett is young and wealthy, with a penchant for morphine and religious cults.

The character Sam Spade is now the subject of a brand new TV series, MONSIEUR SPADE, starring Clive Owen.

Lewis Cane fought with the French Resistance during the Second World War and gained a justified reputation as a tough and resourceful man.

Joe Gores collects here fourteen stories spanning the five decades of his varied writing career.

Honolulu: Port of Call is a unique collection of short stories of the Hawaiian islands brought together by Joe Gores: thirteen tales by legendary writers including Jack London, Herman Melville, W.

Brendan Thorne, ex-army Ranger and master CIA sniper, has turned his back on violence.

It's 1953, and Pierce Duncan leaves college an innocent.

It began with the murder of a beautiful woman, the adulterous wife of a mild-mannered professor.

Once Eddie Dain had a life: a beautiful wife, a happy young son and a thriving business catching soft-core bad guys by computer.

Hollis Fletcher has no idea why someone has tried to kill him.

After eight hard years in San Quentin prison, Runyan is out and ready to lead a quiet life - an honest life.

The gang was restless, just looking for idle fun.

On a Hollywood studio lot, a dancing bear - a Gypsy in a fur suit - does a little sly pickpocketing.

In 1955, aged twenty-three and fresh from a Master's in English Literature, Joe Gores knew he wanted to be a writer.

Their job is to bring back the goods bought but not paid for by San Francisco's deadbeats.

A respectable citizen trips on a store escalator.

The facts: an 'irregular' collection could cost Dan Kearny his shield.

The bank gives Chandra the dancer final notice; Daniel Kearny Associates take her red Caddy, then the trouble starts.

Ballard has seventy-two hours to find out who attacked his partner, Bart Heslip, who's lying in the hospital in a coma.

'Rewarding, inventive and enjoyably perplexing' Sunday TimesA colleague writes an obituary for a fellow scientist and Nobel Prize winner, somewhat relishing his death; a train in the Scottish Highlands takes the wrong track during a snowstorm, resulting in a death, possibly murder; a publisher's reader reports on a hospital romance novel that bizarrely ends with a gory, Ripper-style murder.

A gothic tale of deception, murder and mystery set in Victorian England.

One of them is the link to Davidian.

Jose Aragon is a ranch hand between jobs.

'Nobody but Dorothy Hughes can cast suspense into such an uncanny spell, and she's never done it better' San Francisco Chronicle'An excellent novel .

One-way ticket to death .

Private First Class Johnnie Brown is on a break in New York, with just two days to spend however he likes before shipping out to fight the Nazis.

Diplomatic corps man Piers Hunt watches the glittering lights of Broadway from his Hotel Astor room.

Who killed Louie Lepetino?

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

Alone in New York City, Lizanne Steffasson comes face to face with reality when her dream of acting on Broadway collapses.

Superb Art Deco suspense set in the glamorous world of high society New York from 'An author with a flair for terror' The New Yorker'If you wake up in the night screaming with terror, don't say we didn't warn you' New York TimesOnce the dashing, top-hatted twins, Danny and David, who share nice college boy laughs, have the marble, they will do to Griselda what they have done to the others.

Oldtown is a picturesque, historic place, with a square of characterful houses nestling at its centre, and is home to retired colonial masters and friendly locals.

The roar of a lion is not the kind of music one expects to hear at night in the stillness of the English countryside.