This story begins where Patrick O'Brian's devoted fans would want it to, with a sloop in the South China Sea barely surviving a killer typhoon. But the time is the 1930s, and the protagonist a teenaged American boy whose missionary parents have just died. In the company of his rough seafaring uncle and an elderly English cousin, an eminent archaeologist, Derrick sets off in search of ancient treasures in central Asia. Along the way they encounter a charismatic Chinese bandit and a host of bad...
The Calleshire Chronicles Volume Two (Calleshire Chronicles)
by Catherine Aird
Murder Keeps a Secret (The Reuben Frost Mysteries, #4)
by Haughton Murphy
Murder Has No Tongue (Murder Room) (Mr Crook Murder Mystery)
by Anthony Gilbert
A mysterious warning - will it end in murder?Classic crime fiction from one of the greats of The Detection Club Flora Horsley, wife of a MP, is warned by a palmist that she must leave her husband or she will die. Flora, believing that her husband is attempting to murder her, decides to leave him. The haunting fear of death already holds her in a terrifying and remorseless grip, but will she be able to escape its embraces?
Mrs. Hudson and The Wild West (Mrs. Hudson of Baker Street, #7)
by Barry Brown
George Drake, the former Commander at Scotland Yard and nemesis of John Raven, is out of prison having served a sentence for police corruption. In court, Drake vowed retribution on Raven, who was instrumental in his conviction, and now he's out to snare him. When heroin is planted on Raven's houseboat and in his wife Kirstie's camera both husband and wife are arrested, but what will it take for John Raven to clear their names? 'Quick moving and sure footed, with sharp, realistic London details...
Holmes in Time for Christmas: A Great Hiatus Year Adventure
by Ross K Foad
The Cotswolds Werewolf and Other Stories of Sherlock Holmes
by Peter K. Andersson
Johnny Simms, a young biology student from Columbia University, has just arrived in San Francisco for a wedding. The lucky bride-to-be is a childhood friend: twenty-year-old Nan Padgett. But the shy, unsure girl he used to know has suddenly blossomed into a radiant, confident, and ecstatically happy young woman. And why wouldn't she? Richardson Bartee, a handsome vintner from Southern California, swept her off her feet during a whirlwind courtship. Then comes the call from Nan's aunt Emily, her...
Dr. Sam Johnson, Detector (The Dr. Sam Johnson Mysteries, #1) (Ipl Library of Crime Classics)
by Lillian De La Torre
For over two hundred years, devotees of English literature have lost themselves in James Boswell's Life of Johnson, a biography of the great eighteenth-century thinker and writer, chronicling everything from kitchen chemistry experiments to tackling a pickpocket to his legendary investigation of the Cock Lane ghost. But Dr. Sam Johnson was more than a great thinker-he was also a talented sleuth. From the chilling affair of the waxwork cadaver to the thrilling search for the stolen seal of Engl...
The 47th Samurai / Night of Thunder (Bob Lee Swagger, 4-5)
by Stephen Hunter
Snake in the Grass (Scarlet Dagger Large Print Books) (Mr Crook Murder Mystery)
by Anthony Gilbert
He tried to help a woman in need - but she's the prime suspect in her husband's murder...Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection ClubCon Gardiner had no family; his work and his one-room flat filled most of his solitary existence, until one evening a strange girl in the street asked him to lend her a pound. Con was attracted to Caro Graves, and puzzled too; he couldn't see what would become of this girl who had just left her husband after a bitter quarrel, and who had nowhere to go...
The Witness at the Wedding (Fethering Village Mysteries) (A Fethering Mystery)
by Simon Brett
An engagement party for Carole Seddon's son takes a strange turn when the reclusive father of the bride mysteriously vanishes during the party, only to be found brutally murdered the following morning.
It is a complete mystery why anyone would choose to murder the trusted old butler of Norton Manor. Barrister turned amateur detective, Frank Amberley, has reason to suspect that the shooting involves the nervy young lady discovered at the scene of the crime, a snooping gentleman in the halls of Greythorne and then a second dead body. A dramatic tale of upstairs, downstairs and family secrets.
