Death at the Excelsior and Others is a compilation of short stories by Wodehouse, including: 'Death at the Excelsior', 'Misunderstood', 'The Best Sauce', 'Jeeves and the Chump Cyril', 'Jeeves in the Springtime', 'Concealed Art', and 'The Test Case'.
In the seventh novel in Julia Chapman's Dales Detective series, Date with Betrayal, betrayal is rife in the idyllic Yorkshire Dales as Samson O'Brien, owner of the Dales Detective Agency, is targeted by a hitman.
In The Man Who Was Thursday we are transported to a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard.
Fabulously funny, sharp and totally unputdownable first novel from a great new talent'My name is Katie Castle, and this is the story of how I had everything, lost it all, and then found it again, but not quite all of it, and not in the same form, and, if I'm perfectly frank (which, I have to confess, doesn't come naturally) not nearly so good.
The UK Top 20 bestseller and start of a laugh-out-loud, gripping, cosy mystery series from Katie MarshIt is 5:30 am on Clio's forty-fifth birthday and her hated ex is lying dead on her doorstep.
A delightfully twisty and darkly comic crime thriller, for fans of My Sister, the Serial Killer and How to Kill Your Family'A fast-paced, tension-building mystery with a shattering finale.
Das Abenteuer des Gentleman-Gauners und Meisterdiebs Arsène Lupin Arsène Lupin ist ein charmanter Dieb, ein liebenswerter Schwindler, ein galanter Frauenschwarm und als Meister der Verkleidung führt er die Polizei an der Nase herum.
Sie wollten schon immer wissen, wie Frauen Konkurrentinnen beim Schuhkauf ausknocken, man fachmännisch Tapeten an der Wand befestigt, und was ein Autor von Kurzgeschichten so verdient?
"Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green” is a collection of 18 essays by Jerome Klapka Jerome, an outstanding British writer and humourist (1859 – 1927).
All of which, being interpreted, meant that the first match of the Easter term had just come to an end, and that those of the team who, being day boys, changed over at the pavilion, instead of performing the operation at leisure and in comfort, as did the members of houses, were discussing the vital question - -who was to have first bath?
A remarkable mystery story in which valuables disappear from locked safes; written and whispered warnings come out of nowhere and a murder is committed behind locked doors--all in a modern New York apartment.
On the evening before his marriage, Sinclair loses a precious curiosity from his collection: an amethyst box, containing a tiny flask of deadly poison.
Fever Beach leads us, in pure Hiaasen-style, into the depths of Florida at its most Floridian: a sun-soaked bastion of right-wing extremism, white power, greed, and corruption.
When a local chess player is discovered dead, Detective Inspector John Logos of Cornwall's St Borstal Constabulary is called in to investigate what turns out to be a serial killer running amok in the sedate world of Cornish chess.
