Ex-jockey Freddie Croft runs a fleet of horse boxes, and one of the rules for his drivers is never to pick up a hitchhiker. One driver does and ends up with a dead passenger, and Freddie must fight to save his business and his life.
Detective And Mystery
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Auteur:FRANCIS, DickSommaire: - Auteur:TROY, BarrySommaire:
When Paddy Brett is found murdered in Bullock Harbour, Dublin, he leaves behind a widow, two children and a sizeable fortune. If they can find it.....
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Auteur:WOODS, Paula L.Sommaire:Vicki Park is found bludgeoned and bound, her body dumped in an alley. But who was the homeless man who identified Park's body and then disappeared? Why was the body moved from one alley to another just a block away? And was the...
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Auteur:SCOTTOLINE, LisaSommaire:Attractive, sexy, and tough-minded, Cate Fante has just become a federal judge - though she isn't quite sure she belongs. At only thirty-six, Cate feels as if she's joining the world's most exclusive retirement village...
- Auteur:GREENWOOD, KerrySommaire:
If there's one thing Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire can't abide, it's people not eating well. So when a strange cult, which denies the flesh and eats only famine bread turns up, along with a body found in a park...
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Auteur:HAILEY, ArthurSommaire:A Catholic priest turned detective is asked to hear a criminal's confession as he faces the death penalty. He is convicted of 18 murders, but he only did 16 of them and the cases have to be re-opened.
- Auteur:CHRISTIE, AgathaSommaire:
The story of Hilary Craven's involvement in a unique organisation which arranges the escape of scientific geniuses.
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Auteur:CLARK, Mary HigginsSommaire:Regan Reilly's businessman father Luke goes missing just before Christmas, and Regan turns for help to her parent's Central Park South neighbours, Willy and Alvirah. She shares a talent for detection, and an accommodating...
- Auteur:MacInnes, HelenSommaire:
On assignment to write a series on Mediterranean archaeology, Ken is baffled by the disappearance of his photographer. He enlists the help of an attractive woman.
- Auteur:Walsh, Jill PatonSommaire:
When Sir Julius Farran dies suddenly, followed shortly after by his unpleasant son-in-law, St Agatha's College is in real danger of bankruptcy. With Imogen Quy's one-time lover one of the prime suspects, she decides to find...
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Auteur:HILL, ReginaldSommaire:Three times DCI Pascoe has wrongly accused dead-pan joker Franny Roote. This time he's determined to leave no gravestone unturned as he tries to prove that the ex-con and aspiring academic is mad, bad and dangerous to know.
- Auteur:Fraser, AntheaSommaire:
A French student disappears from an English university and Inspector Webb has a more complicated case than expected. Plenty of suspects and past events make it a difficult one to crack.
- Auteur:BRINDLEY, LouiseSommaire:
A wealthy London suburb is no protection against crime. Gerry Frayling is trying to get fit and beautiful before her wedding to Bill Bentine, her literary agent. Whilst jogging she is met by a distraught woman who has found a body on...
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Auteur:BEATON, M.C.Sommaire:Returning from holiday Hamish becomes unaccountably worried - it's as if he senses a dark cloud of evil hanging over Lochdubh. He soon learns that there is a newcomer to the village, a woman called Catriona Beldame, and that the...
- Auteur:UPFIELD, ArthurSommaire:
Inspector Bonaparte realises that a swagman's murder in outback N. S. W. is a complex matter.
- Auteur:GREGSON, J. MSommaire:
Superintendent Lambert and Detective Sergeant Hook's latest investigation involves the tempting prospect of nabbing drug dealer and gangland boss James Berridge, via police informer Charlie Pegg.
- Auteur:UPFIELD, ArthurSommaire:
Inspector Bony and the men on a lonely sheep station await the drying up of a lake to reveal a murder.
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Auteur:JAMES, P. DSommaire:When a student is found dead at an Anglican theological college in a remote part of East Anglia, Commander Dalgliesh decides to combine a holiday in the county of his youth together with offering some help to the local police.
- Auteur:KAYE, M. MSommaire:
Amanda Derlington sets out to explore the beautiful island of Cyprus. She is excited by new friends and particularly by the attentions of the attractive and mysterious Steven Howard. But suddenly she finds herself in a nightmare of...
- Auteur:KAYE, M. MSommaire:
Amidst the stark, grey ruins of post-World War Two Berlin, Miranda Brand stumbles upon newly murdered corpses. And it is up to intrepid Captain Lang to rescue her from treachery, and capture her heart in the process!
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