Judges House
£6.99Exiled from Paris, Maigret discovers some disturbing secrets in a sleepy coastal town.
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Cellars Of The Majestic
£6.99Try to imagine a guest, a wealthy woman, staying at the Majestic with her husband, her son, a nurse and a governess – in a suite that costs more than a thousand francs a day. At six in the morning, she’s strangled, not in her room, but in the basement locker room. In all likelihood, that’s where the crime was committed. What was the woman doing in the basement? Who could have lured her down there, and how? Especially at an hour when people of that kind are usually still fast asleep.
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Unsuitable Job For A Woman
£8.99When student Mark Callender is found hanged in his room, Cordelia Gray is called into investigate. Is this another suicide or an ingenious murder?
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Monogram Murders
£9.99The new Hercule Poirot novel – another brilliant murder mystery that can only be solved by the eponymous Belgian detective and his ‘little grey cells’.
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Meditation On Murder
£7.99An original story from the creator and writer of the hit BBC One TV series, Death in Paradise, featuring on-screen favourite detective, DI Richard Poole.
Enhance your enjoyment of the series as, for the first time, Robert Thorogood brings the characters to life on the page in an all-new locked-room mystery.
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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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Notting Hill Mystery
£8.99This story is told by the insurance investigator Ralph Henderson, who is building a case against the sinister Baron R, suspected of murdering his wife in order to claim her life insurance. Henderson descends into a maze of intrigue, including a diabolical mesmerist, kidnapping by gypsies, slow-poisoners, a rich uncle’s will, and three murders.
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Hogs Back Mystery
£8.99Dr James Earle and his wife live in comfortable seclusion near the Hog’s Back, in the Surrey countryside. When Dr Earle disappears, Inspector French is called in to investigate. At first he suspects a simple domestic intrigue, but the case soon takes a more complex turn. Other people also vanish mysteriously, but if they have been murdered, what can be the motive? This fiendishly complicated puzzle is one that only the inspector can solve.
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Lock No 1
£6.99Cars drove past along with the trucks and trams, but by now Maigret had realised that they were not important. Whatever roared by like this along the road was not part of the landscape. What really counted was the lock, the hooting of the tugs, the stone crusher, the barges and the cranes, the two pilots’ bars and especially the tall house where he could make out Ducrau’s red chair framed by a window.
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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.
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The Sussex Downs Murder
£8.99Two brothers, John and William Rother, live together at Chalklands Farm in the beautiful Sussex Downs. Their peaceful rural life is shattered when John Rother disappears and his abandoned car is found. Has he been kidnapped? Or is his disappearance more sinister – connected, perhaps, to his growing rather too friendly with his brother’s wife?
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The Two-Penny Bar
£6.99When a condemned man reveals the whereabouts of an unpunished murderer, Chief Inspector Maigret puts his holiday on hold. His investigation takes him to a bar on the Seine where the old crime is upstaged by a killing and Maigret finds a new drinking companion.