Classic crime and mystery fiction

No one asked Slim Callaghan to investigate - he just did it - and they had to like it.

It's wartime London.

Slim Callaghan is called to Devonshire to investigate a burglary at Margraud Manor, where valuable jewels - heirlooms of the Vendayne family insured for 100,000 - have disappeared.

A dame has to have more than beauty and breeding to stop Slim Callaghan doing things his way.

Slim Callaghan had been hired by beautiful Cynthis Meraulton to stop her cousins getting her step-father's money.

In his tenth and final adventure, set just after the end of the Second World War, Lemmy Caution is in Paris investigating the theft of secret State Department documents.

Cara, Gayda, Pearl: sizzling dames.

'Some wise guy - Confucius or somebody - said there was nothin' like the truth, which is a thing that I believe in - sometimes.

In his seventh adventure 'G' man Lemmy Caution is sent to investigate the murder of a female agent and the disappearance of a prominent scientist.

Blood's runnin' down my face from where this guy's just bust me, my nose feels like it's split in half.

Proceed with caution .

The fourth title in the Lemmy Caution seriesIn the morgue office there ain't anybody there at all.

Henrietta looked at Lemmy Caution with starry eyes.

In the second Lemmy Caution novel, the FBI man is sent by his bosses to Casablanca to investigate the disappearance of two million dollars, which have seemingly vanished into thin air.

In the first of the Lemmy Caution series, a group of organised gangsters are operating a 'snatch' racket, laying a plan - worked out in the minutest detail - to kidnap the daughter of an American millionaire while she is in England.

When Kate forsakes London to join her husband in the North of Scotland, it is more than a journey to an unfamiliar land.

From the church of St Udan's rises The Tower, threatening collapse unless a large sum can be raised to repair it.

Ian MacKellar seeks out Julia.

Mike Hurst, tormented by events that happened five years ago, returns to the cottage he still owns and the location of past revelations.

Steve and Helen Anderson move from their London flat into an isolated old house near the Lod River.

Millie Trent, the toast - or scandal, according to some - of a West Country sailing resort, is found drowned.

While hunting in the English countryside, Ben Selby stumbles upon the murdered body of Peter Gaston, a friend of some twenty years earlier.

Johnnie Slade harbours an obsessive love for fine glass objects, so his interest is piqued when he sees photographs of the fabulous Verzelini tazza in a magazine.

Curtis had killed a man, and he had paid the price.

Ainslie meets Mary Allison in an ancient Highland graveyard.

A vanishing corpse; a mistrustful policeman; a celebrated archaeologist and TV personality involved in the macabre rites of a primitive religious sect - these are just some of the dark ingredients of a novel whose every page is vibrant with menace.

Mark Hawkins is an engineer and a loner, who has always resented his adventurer-archaeologist brother, Dick.

By the time Jim Gilruth returns to Pakistan, twenty years after he served as a law officer in a small village near Lahore, colonial rule has given way to Pakistani officialdom.

Gifford knows that he must get away.

Peter Grant, sailing his boat in unfamiliar waters, is forced ashore on an island connected with the mainland by a causeway uncovered only at low tide.

When four friends stumble across the body of a fellow club member during a game of golf they suspect murder.

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

After Colin Reiver is acquitted of responsibility for killing a child in a car accident he sets out on a sea cruise in the hope that it might ease local feeling and the voice of his own conscience.

At first sight the case looks simple enough to private investigator Miles Bredon.

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When private investigator Miles Bredon and his wife, Angela, arrive for a weekend at the Hallifords' country house, they find themselves part of a singularly ill-assorted house party.

The enchanting islands in the Indian Ocean beckon irresistibly, though Copper Randal soon discovers that paradise has a darker side, and a sense of foreboding hangs in the hot stillness among the mango trees and coconut palms.

Dany Ashton is invited to spend a holiday at her stepfather's house in Zanzibar - the mysterious 'House of Shade', where Captain Rory Frost buried a fortune in gold a hundred years before - but even before her plane takes off there is a stolen passport, a midnight intruder, and a murder.

The Mau Mau terrorist uprising is now over, but when Victoria joins her family on their beautiful Rift Valley estate, the horrors continue.

Uncle Oswin thinks that Amanda's plan to go to Cyprus is rash and unwomanly.

By the bestselling author of The Far Pavilions, a superb, classic crime fiction novel from the author described as "e;outdoing Agatha Christie in palming the ace"e;Miranda Brand was uneasy even before the train left to take her to stay with her army cousin in divided Berlin.

When young Sarah Parrish takes a skiing holiday in Gulmarg, a resort high above the fabled vale of Kashmir, she anticipates an amusing but uneventful stay.

By the CWA Gold Dagger award-winning author of Other Paths to GloryAnthony Price ingeniously combines the machinations of British Intelligence with the legend of King Arthur in an extraordinary thriller that crackles with suspense from start to finish.

By the CWA Gold Dagger award-winning author of Other Paths to GloryThe evacuation of Philip Masson's body near Mrs Griffin's cottage resurrects several old ghosts that send the newshounds scurrying to dig in their clippings archives.

By the CWA Gold Dagger award-winning author of Other Paths to GloryA New Kind of War takes us back to the Greece and Germany of 1945 - as the old kind of war comes to its official end.

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.

By the CWA Gold Dagger award-winning author of Other Paths to GloryThe Russians are looking for a few good men, and they're doing most of their looking within the British University system.

By the CWA Gold Dagger award-winning author of Other Paths to GloryAn innocent enough advertisement, placed by General Maxwell, retired war hero and beloved squire of Duntisbury Royal, equally innocent hamlet nestled in the English countryside.

By the CWA Gold Dagger award-winning author of Other Paths to GloryIn the rural peace of modern England a war game recreates the slaughter of the Civil War.

By the CWA Gold Dagger award-winning author of Other Paths to GloryIn the fourth title of Anthony Price's gripping spy series, British Intelligence officer David Audley slips away to Italy without authorisation, taking his wife with him.