The Second World War has just ended and the Secret Service has 'mislaid' two lists of German war criminals. Peter Everard Quayle is the head of the Department concerned and he was responsible for the compilation of the list. Instead of handing the job over to his agents...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-21
Collection : Dark Series ePub

Slim Callaghan had been hired by beautiful Cynthis Meraulton to stop her cousins getting her step-father's money. But when the old man is murdered, the only suspect with no alibi and a giant motive is Cynthis.Slim always played his cases the way they came, but it turned...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-21
Collection : Slim Callaghan ePub

Fourteen miles off the tail-end of Andros Island in the West Indies lies Dark Bahama. Many people have discovered they can find their heart's desires there; many have found, too, that even in paradise it pays to watch your step.Viola Steyning is young, wayward, rich and...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-21
Collection : Dark Series ePub

Shaun Aloysius O'Mara, intelligence agent for the British 'second bureau', has been ordered by his superiors to go to Paris to obtain information that will lead to the capture of the lone survivor of the Nazi espionage system.So whenShaun arrives in Paris he becomes a...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-21
Collection : Dark Series ePub

The sinister business of counter-espionage is played out by an array of magnificent characters. Quayle, compounded of wisdom, administrative genius and the ability to live without sleep, wine or women; Shaun O'Mara, who loves all those things, looks like an actor and is...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-21
Collection : Dark Series ePub

Stephen Burley was standing trial for the theft of £20,000 in cash from his employers, Rickard's Motors. Detective Sergeant Nick Atwell, the investigating officer in charge of the enquiries, had become uneasy about the case. Burley had fainted in the dock when he was...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-21
Collection : Murder Room ePub

The British Museum in Bloomsbury is home to one of the Caryatids, a statue of a maiden that acted as one of the six columns in a temple which stood on the Acropolis in ancient Athens. Lord Elgin had brought her to London in the nineteenth century, and even though now...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2014-01-16
Collection : Lord Francis Powerscourt ePub

These are stories of the sort loved by true fans of the greatest of all detectives, in which a client tells Holmes a strange tale, drawing him into a baffling mystery. Whether in fogbound London or deep in the English countryside, these action-packed stories, set during...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2014-01-16
Collection : Mammoth Books ePub

Even ghosts have secrets... Two deaths, ten years apart, give Flavia de Luce the distraction she needs at a time when her family are more remote and dysfunctional than ever. Especially when a bizarre series of deadly events is casting a long shadow over everyone at...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2014-01-16
Collection : Flavia de Luce Mystery ePub

A Harry Bosch short story from bestselling crime writer Michael Connelly. Also includes an extract from The Gods of Guilt. BOSCH TV STARTS FEBRUARY 2015!When the department's sorter takes a call from an anonymous witness to a cold case murder, she takes it straight to...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2014-01-14
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With the rumoured transfer of Chief of Police Mark Lane, London's competitive drug lords are on edge. In the past, Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles has managed to maintain the peace on the streets in an old-fashioned system of give a little, take a little. But...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-14
Collection : Harpur and Iles ePub

A houseful of paintings is stolen and the body of a finely dressed stranger is discovered at the home of art-loving drug dealer Mansel Shale. Meanwhile Detective Chief Inspector Colin Harpur and his boss, Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles, find their domain...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-14
Collection : Harpur and Iles ePub

Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles misses a crucial conference and is not able to give vital advice to a colleague,Assistant Chief Constable Esther Davidson. She is having big trouble from a local gang known as the Guild, and proposes to put an undercover spy into...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-14
Collection : Harpur and Iles ePub

Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and his amoral superior Assistant Chief Constable Desmond lles face a political and personal dilemma when they suspect fellow Officer Nivette of taking bribes from underworld villains, panicking Ralphy Ember and Mansel Shale.Is...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-14
Collection : Harpur and Iles ePub

Naomi Anstruther's undercover operation among the drug gangs - planned carefully by Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur - has ended in a bloody shoot-out.Naomi has escaped harm, but her lovers Donald McWater and Lyndon Evans are dead. Now the biggest danger to...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-14
Collection : Harpur and Iles ePub

Drug dealer Ralph Ember stumbles on a ghastly surprise when he and sidekick Beau Derek arrive at the house of yachtsman Barney Coss, his bulk supplier. Barney and his two women have been savagely murdered and the murderers, three drug rivals from London, are still in...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-14
Collection : Harpur and Iles ePub

The twenty-seventh title in the popular Harpur and Iles series.A street shooting leaves a mother and child dead on the school run. But was this a random attack? Unlikely, when it transpires that the victims were the wife and son of well-known drug baron Mansel Shale. ...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-14
Collection : Harpur and Iles ePub

A cash-in-transit raid goes pear-shaped when armed police show up. After all the smart planning and careful preparation someone must have talked - so think the relatives and friends of the jailed gang members. And it looks like the grass must have been the only raider...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-14
Collection : Harpur and Iles ePub

For years Colin Harpur's dubious boss, Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles, ran an 'arrangement' with Mansel Shale and Panicking Ralph Ember, owner of the Monty Club: Iles would protect their drug businesses if they ensured peace on the streets. But when a...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-14
Collection : Harpur and Iles ePub

Drug barons Ralph Ember and Mansel Shale have co-existed peaceably for years, tolerated by Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles as a way of keeping violence off the streets. But times are changing. In a downward spiral of paranoia and panic, Ember fears Shale has a...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-01-14
Collection : Harpur and Iles ePub