Murder

 Murder at Morija by Tim Couzens (Paperback)   Just before Christmas in 1920, six people sat down to a meal at Morija, headquarters of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society in Basutoland (Lesotho). All six were taken violently ill, and one of them died. They had been poisoned. The dead man was Édouard Jacottet, an eminent scholar and missionary. There was no trial and subsequently no one was ever convicted of the murder.Who killed Jacottet? Drawing on the great tradition of the "locked room" detective story, Tim Couzens sets out, eighty years after the event, to solve the crime. Why was Jacottet killed? The answer lies buried deep in the past and is revealed here -- for the first time -- in a tale of heroism and courage, of sacrifice, deception, betrayal, and faith.  

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days Prime Suspect meets Ashes to Ashes as we see Jane Tennison starting out on her police career... The fourth in the Sunday Times bestselling Jane Tennison thrillers, MURDER MILE is set at the height of the 'Winter of Discontent'. Can Jane Tennison uncover a serial killer? February, 1979, 'The Winter of Discontent'. Economic chaos has led to widespread strikes across Britain. Jane Tennison, now a Detective Sergeant, has been posted to Peckham CID, one of London's toughest areas. As the rubbish on the streets begins to pile up, so does the murder count: two bodies in as many days. There are no suspects and the manner of death is different in each case. The only link between the two victims is the location of the bodies, found within a short distance of each other near Rye Lane in Peckham. Three days later another murder occurs in the same area. Press headlines scream that a serial killer is loose on 'Murder Mile' and that police incompetence is hampering the investigation. Jane is under immense pressure to catch the killer before they strike again.Working long hours with little sleep, what she uncovers leaves her doubting her own mind. Features Summary Prime Suspect meets Ashes to Ashes as we see Jane Tennison starting out on her police career... The fourth in the Sunday Times bestselling Jane Tennison thrillers... Author Lynda LaPlante Publisher Zaffre Publishing Release date 20180907 Pages 400 ISBN 1-78576-467-5 ISBN 13 978-1-78576-467-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days Agatha Christie's ingenious murder mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.Luke Fitzwilliam could not believe Miss Pinkerton's wild allegation that a multiple murderer was at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood - or her speculation that the local doctor was next in line.But within hours, Miss Pinkerton had been killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Mere coincidence? Luke was inclined to think so - until he read in The Times of the unexpected demise of Dr Humbleby... Features Summary Agatha Christie's ingenious murder mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Author Agatha Christie Publisher HarperCollinsPublishers Release date 20170209 Pages 272 ISBN 0-00-819630-3 ISBN 13 978-0-00-819630-1

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer - in case he or she decides to strike again. Features Summary Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.. Author Agatha Christie Publisher HarperCollinsPublishers Release date 20130926 Pages 274 ISBN 0-00-752750-0 ISBN 13 978-0-00-752750-2

HARDCOVER without DJ. Boards are soiled and with wear and tear. Inside clean and tightly bound. Sketches from real life as revealed by the searchlight of court trials. Read about the celebrated Cape Town murder case of 1938.

  Author: William C. Harvey  Title: Murder Abroad  This edition:1934 Pages:285 Condition: worn  

Like the mythic cities of Gotham or Gomorrah, London, Ontario was for many years an unrivalled breeding ground of depravity and villainy, the difference being that its monsters were all too real. In its coming to inherit the unwanted distinction of being the serial killer capital of not just Canada-but apparently also the world during this dark age in the city's sordid history- the crimes seen in London over this quarter-century period remain unparalleled and for the most part unsolved. From the earliest documented case of homicidal copycatting in Canada, to the fact that at any given time up to six serial killers were operating at once in the deceivingly serene "Forest City," London was once a place that on the surface presented a veneer of normality when beneath that surface dark things would whisper and stir. Through it all, a lone detective would go on to spend the rest of his life fighting against impossible odds to protect the city against a tidal wave of violence that few ever saw coming, and which to this day even fewer choose to remember. With his death in 2011, he took these demons to his grave with him but with a twist-a time capsule hidden in his basement, and which he intended to one day be opened. Contained inside: a secret cache of his diaries, reports, photographs, and hunches that might allow a new generation of sleuths to pick up where he left off, carry on his fight, and ultimately bring the killers to justice-killers that in many cases are still out there. Murder City is an explosive book over fifty years in the making, and is the history of London, Ontario as never told before. Stranger than fiction, tragic, ironic, horrifying, yet also inspiring, this is the true story of one city under siege, and a book that marks a game changer for the true crime genre.... Michael Arntfield (Author) Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Paperback: 360 pages Publisher: FriesenPress (February 14, 2018) Language: English ISBN-10: 1460261828 ISBN-13: 978-1460261828 Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

  Author: E.X Ferrars  Title: Murder Among Friends  This edition:1947 Pages:192  Condition: Good 

Hardback. English. Hugh Keartland Publishers. 1968. 216pp. Good condition in hardcover with edgeworn (some paper loss) dw in protective plastic. A memoir of one of the detectives of the crack Johannesburg "murder squad".

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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Features Author Kerry Greenwood Publisher Poisoned Pen Press Release date 20170422 ISBN 1-4642-0820-4 ISBN 13 978-1-4642-0820-1

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Features Author Joe C. Ellis Publisher Upper Ohio Valley Books Release date 20170401 ISBN 0-9796655-7-4 ISBN 13 978-0-9796655-7-8

Just after midnight, a snowdrift stopped the Orient Ecpress in its tracks. The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of year, but by the morning there was one passenger fewer. An American lay dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside...Red herrings galore are put in the path of Hercule Poirot to try to keep him off the scent, but in dramatic denouement he succeeds in coming up with not one but two solutions to the crime. Brand new book!

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Features Author Wilfried Kaute Publisher Thomas Dunne Books Release date 20170612 Pages 244 ISBN 1-250-12869-2 ISBN 13 978-1-250-12869-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days There's a sleuth on the loose Part-time medical receptionist, part-time jewelry crafter, Gailynn MacDonald thinks she knows everything about everyone in Hum Harbour, Nova Scotia. That's the way she likes it. But when her former employer Doc Campbell turns up dead aboard his beached yacht, and her sister-in-law becomes the prime suspect, quirky, over-excitable Gailynn vows to unmask the killer. With Geoff Grant, Doc's handsome replacement, by her side Gailynn uncovers secrets and confronts childhood fears. And in the process she discovers that catching a killer is a lot like crafting her seaglass jewelry-- it's all in the details. Features Summary Part-time medical receptionist, part-time jewelry crafter, Gailynn MacDonald thinks she knows everything about everyone in Hum Harbour, Nova Scotia. That's the way she likes it... Author Jayne E Self Publisher Pelican Book Group Release date 20110930 Pages 264 ISBN 1-61116-099-5 ISBN 13 978-1-61116-099-4

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Hardback. English. Publisher: Faber & Faber. 1962. In fair condition. Lots of pencil notes throughout.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days It's Christmas, and Phryne has an invitation to the Last Best party of 1928, a four-day extravaganza being held at Werribee Manor house and grounds by the Golden Twins, Isabella and Gerald Templar. She knew them in Paris, where they caused a sensation. Phryne is in two minds about going when she starts receiving anonymous threats warning her against attending. She promptly decides to accept the invitation - after all, no one tells Phryne what to do. At the Manor, she is accommodated in the Iris room, and at the party meets two polo-playing women, a Goat lady (and goat), a large number of glamorous young men and a very rude child called Tarquin. The acolytes of the golden twins are smoking hashish and dreaming, and Phryne finds that the jazz is as hot as the drinks are cold and indulges in flirtations, dancing, and mint juleps. Heaven. It all seems like good clean fun until three people are kidnapped, one of them the abominable child, and Phryne must puzzle her way through the cryptic clues of the scavenger hunt to retrieve the hostages and save the party from disaster. Features Summary In her sixteenth adventure, the delectable Phryne Fisher has been invited to the Last Best party of 1928. When three of the guests are kidnapped Phryne finds she must puzzle her way through the scavenger hunt clues to retrieve the hostages. Author Kerry Greenwood Publisher Constable Release date 20180405 Pages 320 ISBN 1-4721-2677-7 ISBN 13 978-1-4721-2677-1

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Features Author Alyssa Maxwell Publisher Kensington Publishing Release date 20180622 Pages 304 ISBN 1-4967-0330-8 ISBN 13 978-1-4967-0330-9

Author: Barbara Stanners Publisher:  Phoenix Education Australia (2010) ISBN-10: 1921586222 ISBN-13: 9781921586224 Condition: Very Good Binding: Softcover Pages: 169 Dimensions: 29 x 20.5 x 1 cm +++ by Barbara Stanners +++ For a synopsis, click on the image.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Features Author Stewart Dill Publisher Blusky Publishers Release date 20190402 Pages 374 ISBN 0-692-93767-6 ISBN 13 978-0-692-93767-9

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Duchlan Castle is a gloomy, forbidding place in the Scottish Highlands. Late one night the body of Mary Gregor, sister of the laird of Duchlan, is found in the castle. She has been stabbed to death in her bedroom - but the room is locked from within and the windows are barred. The only tiny clue to the culprit is a silver fish's scale, left on the floor next to Mary's body.Inspector Dundas is dispatched to Duchlan to investigate the case. The Gregor family and their servants are quick - perhaps too quick - to explain that Mary was a kind and charitable woman. Dundas uncovers a more complex truth, and the cruel character of the dead woman continues to pervade the house after her death. Soon further deaths, equally impossible, occur, and the atmosphere grows ever darker. Superstitious locals believe that fish creatures from the nearby waters are responsible; but luckily for Inspector Dundas, the gifted amateur sleuth Eustace Hailey is on the scene, and unravels a more logical solution to this most fiendish of plots.Anthony Wynne wrote some of the best locked-room mysteries from the golden age of British crime fiction.This cunningly plotted novel - one of Wynne's finest - has never been reprinted since 1931, and is long overdue for rediscovery. Features Summary Duchlan Castle is a gloomy, forbidding place in the Scottish Highlands. Late one night the body of Mary Gregor, is found in the castle, stabbed to death in her bedroom - but the room is locked from within and the windows are barred... Author Anthony Wynne Publisher The British Library Publishing Division Release date 20160101 Pages 269 ISBN 0-7123-5623-1 ISBN 13 978-0-7123-5623-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Television producer Laurie Moran is elated when the pilot for her reality drama Under Suspicion is a success. Even more, the program - a cold case series that revisits unsolved crimes by recreating them with those affected - is off to a fantastic start when it helps solve an infamous murder in the very first episode. Now Laurie has the ideal case to feature in the next instalment of Under Suspicion: the Cinderella Murder. When Susan Dempsey, a beautiful and multi-talented UCLA student, was found dead, her murder left numerous questions. Why was her car parked miles from her body? Had she ever shown up for the acting audition she was due to attend at the home of an up-and-coming director? Why does Susan's boyfriend want to avoid questions about their relationship? And why was Susan missing one of her shoes when her body was discovered? With the help of lawyer and Under Suspicion host Alex Buckley, Laurie knows the case will make a great program, especially when the former suspects include Hollywood's elite and tech billionaires. The suspense and drama are perfect for the silver screen - but is Cinderella's murderer ready for a close-up? Features Summary In her first ever collaboration, Mary Higgins Clark partners with bestselling author Alafair Burke to deliver a brand new suspense series. Author Mary Higgins Clark (Author), Alafair Burke (Author) Publisher Simon & Schuster Release date 20150807 Pages 303 ISBN 1-4711-3849-6 ISBN 13 978-1-4711-3849-2

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days 'Superb - one of the best real-life copy books ever written.' Lee Child In a true crime cross between James Ellroy and David Simon's The Wire, A Good Month for Murder follows twelve homicides, three police-involved shootings and the furious hunt for an especially brutal killer in Washington D.C. After gaining unparalleled access to the homicide unit in Prince George's County, which borders the nation's capital, bestselling author Del Quentin Wilber begins shadowing the talented, often quirky detectives who get the call when a body falls. After a quiet couple of months, all hell breaks loose: suddenly every detective in the squad is scrambling to solve one shooting and stabbing after another. Meanwhile, the entire unit is obsessed with a stone-cold 'red ball', a high-profile case involving a seventeen-year-old honour student attacked by a gunman who kicked down the door to her house and shot her in her bed. This is the inside story of how a team of detectives carry out their almost impossible job. Murder is the police investigator's ultimate crucible: to solve a killing, a detective must speak for the dead. A Good Month for Murder is a compelling true crime account which shows what it takes to succeed when the stakes couldn't possibly be higher. Features Summary A true-crime masterpiece which crosses James Ellroy with The Wire Author Del Quentin Wilber Publisher Macmillan Release date 20170628 Pages 288 ISBN 1-5098-3053-7 ISBN 13 978-1-5098-3053-4

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days From a murder in South Africa to the tracking down of a master criminal in northern Scotland, this is a true classic of Golden Age detective fiction by one of its most accomplished champions. When a signalman discovers a mutilated body inside a railway tunnel near Groote Park, it seems to be a straightforward case of a man struck by a passing train. But Inspector Vandam of the Middeldorp police isn't satisfied that Albert Smith's death was accidental, and he sets out to prove foul play in a baffling mystery which crosses continents from deepest South Africa to the wilds of northern Scotland, where an almost identical crime appears to have been perpetrated. The Groote Park Murder was the last of Freeman Wills Crofts' standalone crime novels, foreshadowing his iconic Inspector French series and helping to cement his reputation (according to his publishers) as `the greatest and most popular detective writer in the world'. Like The Cask, The Ponson Case and The Pit-Prop Syndicate before it, here were a delightfully ingenious plot, impeccable handling of detail, and an overwhelming surprise `curtain' from a masterful crime writer on the cusp of global success. This Detective Club classic is introduced with an essay by Freeman Wills Crofts, unseen since 1937, about `The Writing of a Detective Novel'. Features Summary From a murder in South Africa to the tracking down of a master criminal in northern Scotland, this is a true classic of Golden Age detective fiction by one of its most accomplished champions. Author Freeman Wills Crofts Publisher Collins Crime Club Release date 20170420 Pages 288 ISBN 0-00-815933-5 ISBN 13 978-0-00-815933-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days 'A fascinating book, by turns riveting and unsettling, and wonderfully rich in period detail.' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday In 1860, a 70 year old widow turned landlady named Mary Emsley was found dead in her own home, killed by a blow to the back of her head. What followed was a murder case that gripped the nation, a veritable locked room mystery which baffled even legendary Sherlock Holmes author, Arthur Conan Doyle. With an abundance of suspects, from disgruntled step children concerned about their inheritance and a spurned admirer repeatedly rejected by the widow, to a trusted employee, former police officer and spy, the case led to a public trial dominated by surprise revelations and shock witnesses, before culminating with one of the final public executions at Newgate. This is the case Conan Doyle couldn't solve and, after confounding the best detectives for years, has finally be solved by author Sinclair McKay. Discover 'whodunit' as the real murderer is revealed for the first time exclusively in this captivating study of a murder case in the nineteenth century, a story never told before. Features Summary In 1860, a 70 year old widow turned landlady named Mary Emsley was found dead in her own home, killed by a blow to the back of her head. What followed was a murder case that gripped the nation... Author Sinclair McKay Publisher Aurum Press Ltd Release date 20180607 Pages 320 ISBN 1-78131-804-2 ISBN 13 978-1-78131-804-1