London, 1852: the world's capital city of crime; a city where murder and hangings are public entertainment, where reporters and balladeers vie with one another to be first to the next grisly, exclusive revelation. Among the panoply of killers awaiting execution is Chokee Bill, whose stranglings have set the capital abuzz. One of the balladeers, Henry Owler, is determined to extract a true confession from the killer. However, Chokee Bill claims he is innocent and that the real Fiend is still on t...
Sherlock Holmes and the Man Who Lost Himself (Linford Mystery) (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
by Val Andrews
A Mistake Through the Heart (Bram Stoker Mystery)
by Raymond Buckland
The Troubadour's Tale (Oxford Medieval Mysteries, #5)
by Ann Swinfen
A Sandal from East Anglia - Large Print (New Sherlock Holmes Mystery, #9)
by Craig Stephen Copland
December 1938. Moscow. Josef Stalin has lost some gold. He is not a happy man. He asks his henchman Beria to track it down. September 1940 London. Above the city the Battle of Britain rages and the bombs rain down. On the streets below, DCI Frank Merlin and his officers investigate the sudden disappearance of Polish RAF pilot Ziggy Kilinski while also battling an epidemic of looting unleashed by the chaos and destruction of the Blitz. Kilinski's fellow pilots, a disgraced Cambridge don, Stalin...
Duelling, derring-do, and dastardly deeds are all in a day's work for Liberty Lane, a new heroine for fans of Georgette Heyer and Sarah Waters's Victorian novels. A public spat between two dancers at a London theatre has a dramatic conclusion that wasn't in the script: one dead, the other arrested for murder. As far as the jury's concerned, it's an open-and-shut case, but Liberty Lane believes otherwise. Soon she's leading her own investigation, in a desperate race against th...
A Child of the Jago (Victorian, #106) (Academy Victorian Classic)
by Arthur Morrison
Morrison's descriptions of the fearful physical conditions are based directly on what he saw. He conjures up an extraordinarily vivid picture of a world which, even as he wrote, was about to vanish in one of the first of the slum clearance schemes.
Mrs Jeffries Weeds the Plot (Mrs. Jeffries, #15) (Camden S.)
by Emily Brightwell
Mrs. Jeffries, housekeeper for Scotland Yard Inspector Witherspoon, investigates when a corpse turns up next door and three attempts are made on the life of eccentric heiress Annabeth Gentry.
No stranger to sprawling country estates, well-heeled Daisy Dalrymple is breaking new ground at Wentwater Court to cover a story for Town & Country magazine. But her interview gives way to interrogation when suave Lord Stephen Astwick meets a chilly end on the tranquil skating pond. With evidence that his death was anything but accidental, Daisy joins forces with Scotland Yard so the culprit can't slip through their fingers like the unfortunate Astwick slipped through the ice ... Praise for Th...
The Curse on Mitre Square & the Lodger
by John Francis Brewer and Marie Belloc Lowndes