An expose of Triad culture in pre-British Hong Kong. A triad concerned by China's elimination policy towards criminal organisations may have only one hope left - a young homeless girl who talks to ghosts.
Detective And Mystery
- Author:GASH, JonathanSummary:
- Author:GREGSON, J. M.Summary:
When a novice young prostitute is killed in the town of Brunton after her first night, Inspector Peach tries to solve the crime.
- Author:HILL, SusanSummary:
In this fourth Det. Chief Supt. Simon Serrailler novel, a gunman is terrorising young women. What, if anything, links the apparently random murders? And is the marksman with the rifle the same as the killer with the handgun?
- Author:DAMS, Jeanne MSummary:
Dorothy interrupts a chat with a young man on the London train to get some coffee. When she returns, the man is dead.
- Author:DIAMOND, SarahSummary:
When Anna's husband is offered a job in the small Dorset village of Abbots Newton, she's as happy to move as he is. Her career as a novelist is going nowhere - and she hopes the country might inspire her. She then discovers...
- Author:RHEA, NicholasSummary:
Arriving in the small Yorkshire village of Roberthorpe to investigate the death of an elderly, church-going man, DS Mark Pemberton can think of only one word when he sees the crime scene - execution.
- Author:WALTERS, MinetteSummary:
November 1978. Britain is on strike. The dead lie unburied, rubbish piles in the streets and somewhere in West London a black woman dies in a rain-soaked gutter. A young woman who finds her believes the dead woman was murdered.
- Author:CLARK, Mary HigginsSummary:
Nicholas Spencer, charismatic head of the medical research company, Gen-Stone, and involved in the development of an anticancer vaccine, suddenly disappears. His private plane crashes, but there is no body. He has also looted Gen-Stone...
- Author:SAVARIN, Julian JaySummary:
Gordon Gallagher, ex-RAF and ex-top secret agent, is still trying to put the past behind him. An unidentified man, a French politician and journalist Miranda Lacey had each been the target of an assassin's bullet. Only Miranda...
- Author:Buell, JohnSummary:
When heroin-addicted call girl Elizabeth Lucy dies in a fall from a swanky penthouse terrace, homicide detective Henderson is assigned to the case. Was it murder? Suicide? Through his investigation, Henderson uncovers a frightening...
- Author:NICOLE, ChristopherSummary:
When Lady Miranda Lichton determines to marry a wealthy Bolivian rancher, her family is concerned, and when they discover that Ramon Cuesta grows cocaine on a global scale and will resort to murder when necessary, its time to call in DS...
- Author:JAMES, P. DSummary:
When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, booked into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar, she had every prospect of a successful operation...
- Author:INNES, MichaelSummary:
Sir John Appleby finds mystery and adventure in an English country house.
- Author:SMITH, Alexander McCallSummary:
The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency consists of one woman - the engaging and sassy Mma Precious Ramotswe, who sets up shop in Botswana. She specialises in missing husbands, wayward daughters, con men and imposters. When she sets...
- Author:CHRISTIE, AgathaSummary:
Bound for the Riviera, detective Hercule Poirot has boarded Le Train Bleu, an elegant, leisurely means of travel, free of intrigue. Then he meets Ruth Kettering. The American heiress,bailing out of a doomed marriage, is en route to...
- Author:CHRISTIE, AgathaSummary:
An intricately plotted mystery made all the more atmospheric by the shadowy presence of Mr Harley Quin.
- Author:James, P. D.Summary:
he Dupayne, a small private museum on the edge of London's Hampstead Heath devoted to the interwar years 1919-39, is in turmoil. The trustees--the three children of the museum founder, old Max Dupayne--are bitterly at odds over...
- Author:ADAMS, FrancisSummary:
The murder of a Melbourne beauty turns David Stuart, journalist and admirer, into a sleuth.
- Author:FOLLETT, KenSummary:
Light-hearted crime caper centres on the search for a lost Modigliani painting, created while the artist was high on hashish. An art historian is the first to come across the possible existence of the painting, and the race to find it...
- Author:BARNARD, RobertSummary:
Actress Caroline Fawley is enjoying life. Her wealthy lover, supermarket owner Marius Fleetwood, has set her and her children up in a grand house in Marsham. But Caroline's life is shattered when a young man unexpectedly appears...
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