G. K. Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He went to St Paul's School and then on to the Slade School of Art. In 1900, he was asked to write a few magazine articles on art criticism, and from th...
G. K. Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He went to St Paul's School and then on to the Slade School of Art. In 1900, he was asked to write a few magazine articles on art criticism, and from th...
A spiderweb of dangerous relationships lies at the heart of V IS FOR VENGEANCE, Sue Grafton's daring new Kinsey Millhone novel. A suspicious suicide, a spoiled kid, a lovely woman, a professional s...
Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and The Woman in White is his first excursion into the genre. When the hero, Walter Hartright, on a moonlit night in north London, encounters a solitary, terr...
The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth. Basing his selection around the author'...
Introducing a new crime series based in Newcastle, with protagonist DCI Kate Daniels. Haunted by her failure to solve a brutal double murder in a sleepy Northumbrian village, Daniels is given anoth...
Introducing a new crime series based in Newcastle, with protagonist DCI Kate Daniels. Haunted by her failure to solve a brutal double murder in a sleepy Northumbrian village, Daniels is given anoth...
It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Ho...
The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction: a time when Sherlock Holmes was...
The first English translation of one of the Swedish crime writer's novels featuring Chief Inspecter Van Veeteran, first published in Sweden in the 1990s. 5 million copies of Nesser's novels have so...
For producer Larry, this is the film that could make his career. For rock star Gaia, this role could get her an Oscar. For Brighton and Hove, the publicity value of a major movie being filmed on lo...
First, the mystery man in the church with a bullet-wound… then, the riddle of a dead man’s buried treasure… the curious conduct oif a caretaker after a fatal riding accident&hel...
From International Number One Bestselling author Wilbur Smith. Hazel Bannock is the owner of Bannock Oil Corp. Her yacht is hijacked by Somalian pirates in the Indian Ocean and her nine...