Unexpectedly sent to Moscow to manage his firm's stand at a world fair, Cristopher Battle feels that he may not be up to the job. Then his chairman is murdered and, after the discovery of a second body, Battle is convinced that the Russian Security Police are trying to...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2016-01-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

Disillusioned with life in the South of France, Hurford accepts an assignment for British Intelligence. He is told that, under the cover of a teaching post in Moscow, he will simply be expected to relay information back to Britain from a highly prized source.Once in...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2016-01-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

With the Entente Cordiale still in its infancy, the Sûreté had assigned Inspector Gautier to keep a protective eye on English visitors to Paris for the racing at Longchamps. But it was not the English who engaged Gautier's attention, but an Irish surgeon - Michael...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2016-01-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

An actress, a politician - and a murder by poison where no one is above suspicion.Classic crime fiction from one of the greats of the era. Marjorie Hyde, a gifted but unsuccessful actress, is happily married. Like many members of her profession she is temperamental, and...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2016-01-14
Collection : Mr Crook Murder Mystery ePub

It's often the ordinary people who spot the murderer - whether they know it or not...Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club'Few murders would go unhung,' said plump, cynical Arthur Crook, 'if people used their eyes more.It's the man selling violets...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2016-01-14
Collection : Mr Crook Murder Mystery ePub

Arriving home one night, Ronnie Bart, an English journalist, finds a woman in his apartment. She is wearing only his dressing gown and eating the remains of his breakfast. Her stay is brief, for she is soon arrested by the police, accused of murdering a young man.Trying...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2016-01-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

A skilfully planned murder in Portugal; a clever con-game in Texas; a body washed up on the Galloway coast. What have these far-flung events in common? In a word: whisky. And not any kind of whisky, but a fine malt.Bruce Sanderson is on a ten-day holiday in the...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2016-01-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

A mysterious warning - will it end in murder?Classic crime fiction from one of the greats of The Detection ClubFlora 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...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2016-01-14
Collection : Mr Crook Murder Mystery ePub

When the valet of a German baron visiting Paris is stabbed to death, the murder is not allowed to interfere with the glittering social life of the Belle Epoque.Inspector Gautier has scarcely begun to investigate the murder when he is instructed to make secret enquiries...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2016-01-14
Collection : Inspector Gautier Series ePub

Irish immigrant Molly Murphy and her New York City P.I. business are in the midst of a sweeping influenza epidemic and a fight for women's suffrage that lands her in jail. Her betrothed, Police Captain Daniel Sullivan, finds her, but he hardly has time to bail her out,...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2016-01-12
Collection : Molly Murphy ePub

Irish immigrant and private detective Molly Murphy is thrilled to have a ticket to see world-famous illusionist Harry Houdini. But before he can even take the stage, the opening act goes horribly wrong - and the sensational Signor Scarpelli's lovely assistant is sawed...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2016-01-12
Collection : Molly Murphy ePub

It's wintertime in New York, and for the first time since Irish immigrant Molly Murphy started her early-twentieth-century detective agency, she is completely snowed in with work. While she's proving to be quite the entrepreneur and is very much in demand by some of...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2016-01-12
Collection : Molly Murphy ePub

In THE BITTER SEASON, Tami Hoag - the Sunday Times bestselling author of A THIN DARK LINE - returns with book six in the gripping Kovac & Liska detective series. 'As good as Michael Connelly or Karin Slaughter at their best.' Mark Edwards, No. 1 Kindle bestsellerA...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2016-01-12
Collection : Kovac & Liska ePub

Making a killing in the market...A bomb takes out a CIA station chief in Geneva. A serial killer strikes apparently at random across the UK. In Algeria a terrorist network that controls the illicit trade in guns, drugs, oil and cigarettes is preparing to murder a...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2016-01-07
ePub

Meet Alice Quentin, a forensic psychologist who'll do anything to crack a case - even if it means putting herself in danger, in this collection of three gripping novels. CROSSBONES YARD: the discovery of a body in a former graveyard pulls Alice Quentin into a terrifying...

Editeur : Mulholland Books
Parution : 2016-01-07
ePub

A classic murder mystery by acclaimed author Bernard Knight.When a beautiful woman is found dead in a wrecked car, it’s assumed that she simply lost control and crashed while drunk – a sad but not unfamiliar story. Soon, though, a series of events makes the police...

Editeur : Headline Accent
Parution : 2015-12-31
Collection : The Sixties Crime Series ePub

Part 2 in the fast-paced and thrilling new episodic novella series from award-winning Markus Heitz. The gods are back, the world is in uproar - and only one man will seek the truthNOVEMBER, 2019I've never believed in any kind of god.But that's a problem when they start...

Editeur : Jo Fletcher Books
Parution : 2015-12-17
Collection : The Return of the Ancient Gods ePub

'Tis the season for murder, mayhem, and mistletoe from New York Times bestselling author Tasha Alexander.In this new short story from Tasha Alexander, Lady Emily - called "Victorian London's most colourful and delightfully eccentric sleuth"* - and her dashing husband...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2015-12-15
Collection : Lady Emily Mysteries ePub

Tiger Mann, sleuth and expert in counter-espionage, is lunching with a friend when he notices a girl enter the restaurant. To his friend, the girl is Edith Caine, a UN translator. ButTiger knows her as Rondine Lund, an Austrian who was a Nazi spy during the war. He had...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-12-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

When a young chambermaid is found dead, bitten by a cobra concealed in the bed of notorious libertine Armand de Périgord, Inspector Jean-Paul Gautier is certain that she was not the intended victim. The charismatic de Périgord is very wealthy and has never married, and...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-12-14
Collection : Inspector Gautier Series ePub