The sudden demise of Mrs Tamworthy, poisoned with Hemlock at the local manor house, finds Agatha Raisin reluctantly taking a break from organising her yuletide celebrations in order to investigate the murder. With the help of young...
Detective or mystery stories
- Auteur:BEATON, M.C.Sommaire:
- Auteur:CORRIS, PeterSommaire:
When Oscar Bach's body was found crushed under rubble, his death was classified as another tragic statistic of the Newcastle earthquake. So how could he have been seen alive minutes after the quake?
- Auteur:LA PLANTE, LyndaSommaire:
Young detective Anna Travis has been assigned to her first murder case. They began eight years earlier; now the body count is up to six, all identical, the backgrounds of the girls very similar. But the profile of the murderer changes...
- Auteur:MURRAY, ChristopherSommaire:
Part detective story, part fable. About the power shifts in old rural communities as they are invaded by developers and turned into upmarket weekenders.
- Auteur:BARCLAY, TessaSommaire:
Lindsay Abercrombie is an ambitious young solicitor specialising in family law. When the senior partner asks her to take on a private case involving cosmetics millionairess Ursula Guyler, it turns out to be both a challenging and...
- Auteur:EVANS, GeraldineSommaire:
When Sir Rufus Seward is found dead, a wood chisel protruding from his back, DI Joe Rafferty receives a panicky call from his younger brother, Mickey, who fears he is in the frame for the murder.
- Auteur:PETERS, EllisSommaire:
In Maymouth's abandoned Saxon churchyard, the Treverra family vault conceals a mystery which, when a tomb is opened, casts a shadow two centuries long upon a more recent trail of violence.
- Auteur:CHRISTIE, AgathaSommaire:
An invitation to a murder turns out to be in deadly earnest, not a practical joke.
- Auteur:JACKSON, L. M.Sommaire:
When an old friend is brutally murdered by the unlikeliest of assailants, Sarah Tanner is the only witness. Unable to turn to the police, she reluctantly finds herself drawn back into the dark underworld of the Victorian metropolis....
- Auteur:BARCLAY, TessaSommaire:
His Serene Highness-otherwise known as plain Gregory Crowne-is on his travels, this time in Avignon to play a classical music concert for the Winter Festival. Much to his delight, girlfriend Liz Blair has found time to join him. But...
- Auteur:BARCLAY, TessaSommaire:
When Gregory Crowne is enlisted to help Gilles Guidon, eccentric son of a merchant banker, to assemble a jazz quintet for the Montreux Festival, he soon discovers that there is something wrong at the Banque Guidon.
- Auteur:CLEARY, JonSommaire:
Homicide detective Scobie Malone returns, to tackle one of his toughest cases yet: in the gay community of Sydney.
- Auteur:PERRY, AnneSommaire:
It is mid-December and Henry Rathbone travels to the Dreghorn family manor house near Ullswater. But despite the festive season and the beautiful surroundings, this is not a happy occasion; he is going to comfort the family following...
- Auteur:CHRISTIE, AgathaSommaire:
An elderly lady sleuth solves a series of murders in the West Indies.
- Auteur:HEYER, GeorgetteSommaire:
There are several suspects, but no weapon, when Ernest Fletcher is murdered, then a second murder occurs and a common factor is found.
- Auteur:PATTERSON, JamesSommaire:
A young man is found dead in a seedy hotel room, electrocuted in his bath with a toaster. This is the second electrocution murder Lindsay Boxer has come across and the message left in graffiti on the wall at the scene of the crime is...
- Auteur:FRANCIS, DickSommaire:
Easy-going young Benedict Juliard has no stronger ambition than to ride in steeple-chases as an amateur jockey. His father requests he does not jeopardize his political career, but enemies within politics can infiltrate even a horse...
- Auteur:ROBERTS, BarrieSommaire:
The summer of 1897 brings visitors flocking to London for Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. With them comes a Russian nobleman, as well as an English lady from Canada. This lady calls on Holmes and Watson for their assistance in...
- Auteur:CLARK, Mary HigginsSommaire:
Jean Sheridan, a college dean and prominent historian, sets out to her hometown on the Hudson, New York, to attend the twenty-year reunion of Stonecroft Academy, where she is to be honoured along with six other members of her class....
- Auteur:GREENWOOD, KerrySommaire:
No one has less interest in mysteries than baker Corinna Chapman. She's keeping an eye on the door for Daniel, her recently acquired lover, to walk back into her life. After a few weeks he returns, bruised and battered from a run...