Results for: books tagged ‘Murder Mystery’
The Last Sherlock Holmes Story: Michael Dibdin
In the late seventies an extraordinary document came to light which for fifty years had been held on deposit by the bankers of the deceased John Herbert Watson MD - ... More
The Skull Beneath the Skin: P. D. James
Hired to protect a beautiful but neurotic actress, Cordelia Gray soon becomes embroiled in a case as dangerous to her own life as it is mysterious.Clarissa Lisle hopes to make ... More
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman: P. D. James
Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of ... More
The Murder Room: P. D. James
Commander Dalgliesh investigates a horrible death at the Dupayne, a private museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath, dedicated to the years 1919-1939. One of the museum galleries displays exhibits ... More
The Blackpool Highflyer: Andrew Martin
A superbly atmospheric thriller of sabotage, suspicion and steam, The Blackpool Highflyer brings a new twist to tales of Edwardian England and amateur sleuthing. Assigned to drive holidaymakers to the ... More
The Necropolis Railway: Andrew Martin
When railwayman Jim Stringer moves to the garish and tawdry London of 1903, he finds his duties are confined to a mysterious graveyard line. The men he works alongside have ... More
Immaculate Deception: Reg Gadney
An assassin for hire; a monster of cold intellectual genius, his homicidal drives fuelled by a voracious sexual appetite, hungry for revenge, whose dark genius plagues law enforcement agencies worldwide ... More
The Lighthouse: P. D. James
Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high ... More
Critique of Criminal Reason: Michael Gregorio
At the dawn of the Enlightenment, as the pursuit of criminal justice is evolving into a science, young Prussian magistrate Hanno Stiffeniis is confronted by a case of extraordinary evil.The ... More
The Lost Luggage Porter: Andrew Martin
York, Winter, 1906 – two brothers have been shot to death. Meanwhile, Jim Stringer meets the Lost Luggage Porter, humblest among the employees of the North Eastern Railway company. He ... More
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