Why should blood on the floor make anyone mad against automobiles and telephones and desks. Why. This is what happened. There were dogs in the house but they were no bother. Listen carefully.'In the spring of 1933 Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas were living in their country house at Bilignin, France. With money earned from the best-selling 'Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas' they installed electricity, had a telephone put in their house and bought a large car. But with these improvements came...
Dancing with Death (Rue Morgue Vintage English Mysteries)
by Joan Coggin
The definitive companion to the POIROT novels, films and TV appearances. 'My name is Hercule Poirot and I am probably the greatest detective in the world.' The dapper, moustache-twirling little Belgian with the egg-shaped head, curious mannerisms and inordinate respect for his own 'little grey cells' has solved some of the most puzzling crimes of the century. Yet despite being familiar to millions, Poirot himself has remained an enigma - until now. From his first ap...
Reservations for Death (Duncan Maclain Mysteries, #9)
by Baynard Kendrick
Richard Hudson, woman chaser and used car salesman, possesses a pimp's understanding of the ways in which women (and men) are most vulnerable. One day Richard decides to make an ambitious film, which turns into a fiasco. Enraged, he exacts revenge on all who have crossed him. "No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford. " -- Elmore Leonard
First Come, First Kill (Captain Heimrich Mysteries) (Nightingale Mystery in Large Print)
by Frances Lockridge and Richard Lockridge
The Calleshire Chronicles Volume Four (Calleshire Chronicles)
by Catherine Aird
A Cruel Necessity (John Grey, #1) (A John Grey Historical Mystery, #1)
by L.C. Tyler
Two-time Edgar nominee LC Tyler is best known for his series featuring Ethelred and Elsie - a third-rate novelist and his gloriously vulgar agent, respectively. And so he should be: He's twice won Britain's Last Laugh" award for the Best Humorous Mystery of the Year. But with A Cruel Necessity, the first in the John Grey series, Tyler takes a sharp turn into the shadows. There are still some chuckles to be had, but not many: This is England in the year 1657, Oliver Cromwell is in power, and joy...
Jane and the Genius of the Place (Jane Austen Mystery) (Being a Jane Austen Mystery, #4)
by Stephanie Barron
For everyone who loves Jane Austen...The fourth engaging mystery in the series that recasts the well-loved author as a sleuth! In the waning days of summer, Jane Austen is off to the Canterbury Races, where the rich and fashionable gamble away their fortunes. It is an atmosphere ripe for scandal—but even Jane is unprepared for the shocking drama that unfolds. A flamboyant French beauty, known for her brazen behavior, is found gruesomely strangled in a shabby chaise. While many urge the arres...
Kissed A Sad Goodbye (Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James, #6) (Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James)
by Deborah Crombie
In the past: It is September 1939 and thousands of children are being evacuated from London. Among them 12-year-olds Lewis Finch and William Hammond, both billeted on the Surrey estate of the formidable Regina Burne-Jones. Both become allies, then friends, and thus begins a story of choice and betrayal the repercussions of which will echo down the years . . . In the present: Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James are called out to investigate a death in London's East End. A young woman known as Annabell...
Religious Body (Calleshire Chronicles, #1) (Sloan and Crosby, #1)
by Catherine Aird
A Shadowed Livery (Inspector James Given Investigations, #1)
by Charlie Garratt
In the dying days of September 1938 the murderer of a Jewish shopkeeper is hanged in Birmingham. After witnessing the execution, Inspector James Given, who brought the killer to justice, is surprised to find he has been taken off the investigation into attacks on Jews to pursue a very different case.Two people have been found dead in the grounds of a Warwickshire house: it seems clear that Lady Isabel Barleigh has shot her disabled son on the eve of his wedding then turned the weapon on herself....
The Felse Investigations Volume One (Inspector George Felse Mystery)
by Ellis Peters
The Drill Is Death (Nathan Shapiro Mysteries, #3)
by Frances Lockridge and Richard Lockridge