Blackstone Fell
£9.99Yorkshire, 1606. A man vanishes from a locked gatehouse in a remote village. 300 years later, it happens again. Rachel Savernake investigates a locked-room puzzle in this Gothic mystery.
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Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries
£8.99Talented sportsmen inexplicably go absent without leave, crafty gamblers conspire in the hope of making a killing, and personal rivalries and jealousies come to a head on fields of play. The classic stories in this new British Library anthology show that crime is a game for all seasons.
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Gallows Court
£18.99London, 1930. A headless corpse; a suicide in a locked room; a shocking death during an illusionist’s show. Scotland Yard is baffled by the sequence of ghastly murders unfolding across the city.
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Blood On The Tracks
£8.99In an era of cancellations and delays, alibis reliant upon a timely train service no longer ring true, yet the railway detective has enjoyed a resurgence of popularity in the 21st century. Both train buffs and crime fans will delight in this selection of 15 railway-themed mysteries, featuring some of the most popular authors of their day alongside less familiar names.
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Continental Crimes
£8.99A man is forbidden to uncover the secret of the tower in a fairy-tale castle by the Rhine. A headless corpse is found in a secret garden in Paris – belonging to the city’s chief of police. And a drowned man is fished from the sea off the Italian Riviera, leaving the carabinieri to wonder why his socialite friends at the Villa Almirante are so unconcerned by his death. These are three of the scenarios in this new collection of vintage crime stories compiled by Martin Edwards.
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Murder At The Manor
£8.99The English country house is an iconic setting for some of the greatest crime fiction. This new collection gathers together stories written over a span of about 65 years, during which British society, and life in country houses, was transformed out of all recognition.
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Silent Night Christmas Mysteries
£8.99Christmas is a mysterious, as well as magical, time of year. Strange things can happen, and this helps to explain the hallowed tradition of telling ghost stories around the fireside as the year draws to a close. Christmas tales of crime and detection have a similar appeal. This book introduces readers to some of the finest Christmas detective stories of the past.
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Resorting To Murder Holiday Mysteries
£8.99Holidays offer us the luxury of getting away from it all. So, in a different way, do detective stories. This collection of vintage mystery stories combines both those pleasures. From a golf course at the English seaside to a pension in Paris, and from a Swiss mountain resort to the cliffs of Normandy, this new selection shows the enjoyable and unexpected ways in which crime writers have used summer holidays as a theme.
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Capital Crimes London Mysteries
£8.99With its fascinating mix of people – rich and poor, British and foreign, worthy and suspicious – London is a city where anything can happen. The possibilities for criminals and for the crime writer are endless. London has been home to many of fiction’s finest detectives, and the setting for mystery novels and short stories of the highest quality. ‘Capital Crimes’ is an eclectic collection of London-based crime stories, blending the familiar with the unexpected in a way that reflects the personality of the city.