When the beloved Queen of the British theatre is murdered in a cloud of perfume, the case literally reeks with likely suspects.
Detective or mystery stories
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Author:MARSH, NgaioSummary: -
Author:ASHFORD, JeffreySummary:When Jerome Dean leaves home for a shoot at Ister, he has every reason to expect an enjoyable day. When the gun next to him fires low, a man rises out of a patch of brambles and collapses, later to die in hospital. It is the beginning...
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Author:GILSTRAP, JohnSummary:A camping trip turns into a nightmare when Bobby and Susan Martin stumble on a kidnapping plot hatched by a local drug lord. In rescuing a young child and in the process of shooting dead a police officer, the young couple embarks on a...
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Author:EVANOVICH, JanetSummary:Stephanie Plum feels her career as a bounty hunter has run its course. She's been shot at, spat at, mooned at, fire-bombed and attacked by dogs. It's time for a change; time to find the kind of job her mother can tell her...
- Author:GODDARD, RobertSummary:
Lance Bradley's old friend Rupert Alder has vanished leaving a trail of chaos behind him. Lance decides it's too risky to get involved but, finding he is already involved, soon realises the only way out is to get in deeper...
- Author:FRANCIS, DickSummary:
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.
- Author:TROY, BarrySummary:
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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Author:SCOTTOLINE, LisaSummary: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...
- Author:GREENWOOD, KerrySummary:
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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Author:CLARK, Mary HigginsSummary: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...
- Author:Walsh, Jill PatonSummary:
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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Author:HILL, ReginaldSummary: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.
- Author:BRINDLEY, LouiseSummary:
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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Author:BEATON, M.C.Summary: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...
- Author:GREGSON, J. MSummary:
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.
- Author:UPFIELD, ArthurSummary:
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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Author:JAMES, P. DSummary: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.
- Author:KAYE, M. MSummary:
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!
- Author:JOHN, Katherine & RomillySummary:
Five guests sit around the breakfast table but this morning they are quite subdued, because the sixth guest has been murdered.
- Author:ELLIS, JulieSummary:
Recently widowed Laura Roberts investigates a spate of kidnappings in Alabama: the latest victim is the nephew of a friend and worse, previous victims were all killed.
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