Bored socialite Phryne Fisher leaves the tedium of the London season for adventure in Australia!Tea-dances in West End hotels, weekends in the country with guns and dogs... Phryne Fisher - she of the grey-green eyes and diamante garters - is rapidly tiring of the...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2013-04-18
Collection : Phryne Fisher ePub

Another runaway adventure with glamorous heroine Phryne Fisher!When Phryne Fisher arranges to go to Ballarat for a week, she eschews the excitement of her Hispano-Suiza for the sedate safety of the train. But as the passengers sleep, they are all overcome by chloroform...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2013-04-18
Collection : Phryne Fisher ePub

A young woman has a new position - but will she listen to the voice warning her not to cross the threshold of that sinister house...Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection ClubNora Deane, a young nurse, has been instructed to report to 12 Askew Avenue,...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-04-14
Collection : Mr Crook Murder Mystery ePub

Some men are born to be murderedClassic crime from one of the greats of the Detection ClubLewis Bishop was born to be murdered - the perfect victim, a man whom many had every reason to hate and fear. When he is suddenly shot dead one night he leaves behind him only...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-04-14
Collection : Mr Crook Murder Mystery ePub

Forget The Girl on the Train - meet the woman who watches from her window, and finds herself caught up in murder...Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club'Watching, fascinated and horrified, he saw thin fingers creep around the edge of the black...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-04-14
Collection : Mr Crook Murder Mystery ePub

A seemingly-innocent advert; a missing widow. And it's the detective who's in the most danger...Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection ClubDetective Arthur Crook is browsing the newspaper on the morning of 14 April 1947, when an advertisement jumps out...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-04-14
Collection : Mr Crook Murder Mystery ePub

One reviewer referred to the well-loved third novel in Latimer's Bill Crane series as 'rough, rowdy and rum-soaked'. And true to form, just as in his previous investigations, Crane drinks his way through his current case, that of a young suicide whose body disappears...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-04-14
Collection : A Bill Crane Mystery ePub

Private eye Bill Crane is back, in his fifth and final case, working and drinking as usual with his old sidekick, Doc Williams, and a new member of the gang, Ann Fortune, who is posing as his girlfriend - and disapproves of his carousing. The trio has been sent to a...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-04-14
Collection : A Bill Crane Mystery ePub

Private detective William Crane and his constant (drinking) companion Doc Williams travel to Florida to protect millionaire Penn Essex and his sister Camelia from harm. They have been receiving threatening notes, and Camelia is eventually kidnapped and held to ransom. ...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-04-14
Collection : A Bill Crane Mystery ePub

With six days remaining until he goes to the electric chair for the murder of his wife, wealthy broker Robert Westland needs help, fast. He insists that he has been framed, and Bill Crane, a private detective with a method and manner all his own, must prove his client's...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-04-14
Collection : A Bill Crane Mystery ePub

Blackmail leads to murder - but which of the blackmailer's victims is guilty of such a brutal crime?Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection ClubJames Chigwell is a blackmailer, a human spider who fattens on the blood of other men - on their misfortunes...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-04-14
Collection : Mr Crook Murder Mystery ePub

Murder, politics and Nazi sympathisers - Arthur Crook has his detection skills pushed to the limit., with a most unlikely conspirator...Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club'The lobby of the House of Commons was very full on the momentous afternoon...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-04-14
Collection : Mr Crook Murder Mystery ePub

A chilling day of murder in the midst of post-World War II austerityClassic crime from one of the greats of the Detection ClubIn the spring of 1946, the redoubtable Lady Bate arrives at The Downs, built by the eccentric Colonel Anstruther years before. The aftermath of...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-04-14
Collection : Mr Crook Murder Mystery ePub

'From the way her buttocks looked under the black silk dress, I knew she'd be good in bed'So begins the most hardboiled of Latimer's novels, whose notoriety meant that it was only published in unexpurgated form in the States in 1982, 40 years after its original...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-04-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

In his first case, William Crane goes undercover in a private sanatorium to solve a theft, and makes no secret of the fact that he believes himself to be a great detective, even presenting himself as Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin. Indeed, he manages to dazzle the...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-04-14
Collection : A Bill Crane Mystery ePub

Perhaps it really started when scriptwriter Richard Blake, finishing last-minute revisions in the early hours of the morning, found the naked blonde on his driveway. Nobody ever saw her again, but she turned out to be a vital clue. The movie's fading star is Caresse...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-04-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

A man is accused of murdering his wife - and all the evidence points to his guilt.Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club'No author is more skilled at making a good story seem brilliant' Sunday ExpressIt was a dark night, clammy with fog; an evil...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-04-14
Collection : Mr Crook Murder Mystery ePub

Lawyer-detective Arthur Crook always believes his clients are innocent... despite the evidence to the contrary.Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection ClubA famous art collector's car discovered at the bottom of a cliff after he was supposed to have taken...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-04-14
Collection : Mr Crook Murder Mystery ePub

How do you catch a killer when the murder goes unnoticed?Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection ClubThe victim was certainly deserving of death, but not the hard, cruel death he found. No one deserved that . . .At first, the killer goes unsuspected....

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-04-14
Collection : Mr Crook Murder Mystery ePub

In the darkness of World War Two, a murderer strikes... Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club'No author is more skilled at making a good story seem brilliant' Sunday Express'He stood very still for a moment. He said he had a sixth sense that warned...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-04-14
Collection : Mr Crook Murder Mystery ePub