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Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley
RRP: £25.00£13.33** Shortlisted for the @CrimeFest H.R.F. Keating Award **'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR'A riveting portrait' - GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR***'Christie lovers should read this biography... -
Agatha Christie: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Lucy Worsley 9781529303919
RRP: £10.99£7.05'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR'A riveting portrait'- GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR***'Worsley's sparkling biography brings a fresh eye to Christie's life and work, firmly busting the myth... -
Holmes & Watson by S. C. Roberts 9780712352161
RRP: £10.00£3.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorS.C. Roberts (1887-1966) was a publisher, university administrator, noted Sherlockian, and first president of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London. He served as... -
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World by Mark Aldridge
RRP: £12.99£8.32From the very first book publication in 1920 to the recent film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably the world's favourite fictional detective. ... -
Agatha Christie's Complete Secret Notebooks: Stories and Secrets of Murder in the Making by John Curran
RRP: £16.99£11.87Agatha Christie's Complete Secret Notebooks brings together for the first time Secret Notebooks and Murder in the Making, two volumes that explore the fascinating contents of her 73 notebooks. This includes illustrations, deleted extracts, unused ideas,... -
A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie by Kathryn Harkup
RRP: £11.99£8.43Shortlisted for the BMA Book Awards and Macavity Awards 2016 Fourteen novels. Fourteen poisons. Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's all made-up ... Agatha Christie revelled in the use of poison to kill off unfortunate victims in her books;... -
Agatha Christie: Plots, Clues and Misdirections: Thirty-three ways the Queen of Crime deceives us by Sally and Tony Hope 9781915853189
RRP: £9.99£7.11Why do Agatha Christie's novels continue to inspire each generation? The answer is the quality and range of her puzzles: her rich and varied structures of deception. Christie broke the mould of detective fiction and rewrote the implicit rules of the... -
The Sherlock Holmes Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
RRP: £19.99£14.20Learn about the world's greatest detective in The Sherlock Holmes Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Sherlock Holmes in this overview guide to the... -
Talking about Detective Fiction by P. D. James
RRP: £10.99£7.32From the birth of crime writing with Wilkie Collins and Dostoevsky, through Conan Doyle to the golden age of crime, with the rise of Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham, P. D. James brings a lifetime of reading and writing crime fiction to... -
Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism by Patricia Merivale
RRP: £29.99£28.65Although readers of detective fiction ordinarily expect to learn the mystery's solution at the end, there is another kind of detective story-the history of which encompasses writers as diverse as Poe, Borges, Robbe-Grillet, Auster, and Stephen King-that... -
Uncle Silas by Sheridan Le Fanu 9780198864356
RRP: £10.99£7.77'The old woman opened the door, and the next moment I was in the presence of Uncle Silas.' In Victorian Derbyshire, 17 year old orphan and heiress Maud Ruthyn is sent to live at the claustrophobic Bartram-Haugh house with her mysterious Uncle Silas... -
Simenon: The Man, The Books, The Films: A 21st Century Guide by Barry Forshaw
RRP: £12.99£8.68The legendary Georges Simenon was the most successful and influential writer of crime fiction in a language other than English; Andre Gide called him 'the greatest French novelist of our times'. Celebrated crime fiction expert Barry Forshaw's informed... -
Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder by David Bordwell
RRP: £28.00£21.36Narrative innovation is typically seen as the domain of the avant-garde. However, techniques such as nonlinear timelines, multiple points of view, and unreliable narration have long been part of American popular culture. How did forms and styles once... -
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle 9780198856047
RRP: £7.99£5.79'There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life.' In Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet a popular cultural phenomenon is born. We meet two of the most famous characters in modern literary history: the... -
Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide by Barry Forshaw 9780857303356
RRP: £24.95£16.48Are you a lover of crime fiction looking for new discoveries or hoping to rediscover old favourites? Then look no further. There are few contemporary crime fiction guides that cover everything from the golden age to current bestselling writers from... -
Crime Fiction: A Very Short Introduction by Richard Bradford
RRP: £8.99£6.45Crime fiction has been one of the most popular genres since the 19th century, but has roots in works as varied as Sophocles, Herodotus, and Shakespeare. In this Very Short Introduction Richard Bradford explores the history of the genre, by considering... -
Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World by Mark Aldridge
RRP: £25.00£16.83From the very first book publication in 1920 to the upcoming film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably the world's favourite fictional detective. ... -
Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy by Dr Steven Powell
RRP: £14.99£11.47THE TELEGRAPH'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR 2024 EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE H.R.F KEATING AWARD FOE BEST BIOGRAPHICAL/CRITICAL BOOK "As gripping and twisted as a James Ellroy novel." - Ian Rankin "A masterpiece of... -
Annotated Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
RRP: £23.00£15.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804168885Author Raymond ChandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Burned and Broken: A gripping detective mystery you won't be able to put down by Mark Hardie
RRP: £7.99£2.91A gripping mystery about a woman trying to find out the truth behind the death of her best friend and introducing a brilliant detective duo - perfect for fans of Peter James, Angela Marsons and James Oswald. A DEAD GIRLA vulnerable young woman, fresh... -
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 9780198856702
RRP: £8.99£6.45Arthur Conan Doyle famously killed off Sherlock Holmes in 1893, in the short story 'The Final Problem', but was tempted to bring him back to life ten years later, in the thirteen tales that comprise The Return of Sherlock Holmes. While the outcry... -
The Hooded Gunman: An Illustrated History of Collins Crime Club by John Curran
RRP: £40.00£28.84Winner of the 2019 H.R.F. Keating Award for best biography or critical book related to crime fiction! A lavish full-colour celebration of the 2000 books by more than 250 authors published by the iconic Crime Club between 1930 and 1994. ... -
FBI Myths and Misconceptions: A Manual for Armchair Detectives by Jerri Williams 9781732462441
RRP: £12.99£12.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732462441Author Jerri WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Jerri WilliamsPublisher Jerri WilliamsWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm... -
Books to Die For by John Connolly 9781473612181
RRP: £25.00£15.95Winner of the 2013 Agatha, Anthony and the Macavity Awards for Best Crime Non-Fiction.With so many mystery novels to choose from and so many new titles appearing each year, where should the reader start? What are the classics of the genre? Which are the... -
The Sherlock Holmes Handbook by Ransom Riggs
RRP: £15.99£10.09The first Sherlock Holmes adventure appeared in 1888, but today the detective is more popular than ever-witness the upcoming release of "Sherlock Holmes", starring Robert Downey Jr. as the legendary Victorian sleuth and Jude Law as his faithful... -
Sherlock Holmes Handbook: Second Edition by Christopher Redmond 9781554884469
RRP: £19.00£14.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554884469Author Christopher RedmondFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Dundurn Group LtdPublisher Dundurn Group LtdWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm)... -
G.W.M. Reynolds Reimagined: Studies in Authorship, Radicalism, and Genre, 1830-1870 by Jennifer Conary 9781032416380
RRP: £35.99£33.58This essay collection proposes that G.W.M. Reynolds's contribution to Victorian print culture reveals the interrelations between authorship, genre, and radicalism in popular print culture of the nineteenth century. As a best-selling author of popular... -
After Agatha: Women Write Crime by Sally Cline
RRP: £16.99£11.62After Agatha: Women Write Crime is the first book to examine how British, American and Canadian female crime writers pursue their craft and what they think about crime writing. Hundreds of women who identified as lesbian, bisexual, heterosexual,... -
Brit Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to British Crime Fiction, Film & TV by Barry Forshaw
RRP: £8.99£6.26Barry Forshaw is acknowledged as a leading expert on crime fiction from European countries, but his principal area of expertise is in the British crime arena. After the success of earlier entries in the series, Nordic Noir and Euro Noir, he returns to... -
Agatha Christie: A Life in Theatre: Curtain Up by Julius Green
RRP: £16.99£11.87A revealing and witty new examination of how Agatha Christie became the world's most successful and popular female playwright, including details of never-before-published scripts and stories. Agatha Christie is revered worldwide for her books... -
The Ethical Detective: Moral Philosophy and Detective Fiction by Rachel Haliburton 9781498536820
RRP: £35.00£31.88Detective fiction and philosophy3/4moral philosophy in particular3/4may seem like an odd combination. Working within the framework offered by neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics, this book makes the case that moral philosophers ought to take murder mysteries... -
Nineteenth Century Detective Fiction: An Analytical History by Leroy Lad Panek 9781476687520
RRP: £39.99£32.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476687520Author Leroy Lad PanekFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint McFarland & CompanyPublisher McFarland & CompanyWeight(grams) 152g -
Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium to Her Journals by Elizabeth Peters 9780060538118
RRP: £29.95£23.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Agatha Awards (Nonfiction) 2003. Short-listed for Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Critical/Biographical) 2004.Book InformationISBN 9780060538118Author Elizabeth... -
Time to Be in Earnest by P. D. James 9780571203963
RRP: £10.99£7.32P. D. James's extraordinary memoir of her early life and time starting out as a novelist, as well as diaries recording her in old age.In this intriguing and very personal book, part diary, part memoir, P. D. James considers the twelve months of her life... -
Euro Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to European Crime Fiction, Film & TV by Barry Forshaw 9781843442455
RRP: £8.99£6.26Euro Noir by Britain's leading crime fiction expert Barry Forshaw (author of Nordic Noir) examines the astonishing success of European fiction and drama. This is often edgier, grittier and more compelling than some of its British or American equivalents,... -
American Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to US Crime Fiction, Film & TV by Barry Forshaw 9781843449188
RRP: £12.99£8.68Barry Forshaw is acknowledged as a leading expert on crime fiction and film. Following his books on Nordic Noir, Brit Noir and Euro Noir he now tackles the largest and, some might argue, most impressive body of crime fiction from a single country, the... -
The Judge Dee Novels of R. H. van Gulik: The Case of the Chinese Detective and the American Reader by J. K. Van Dover 9780786496211
£55.91The Judge Dee Novels provides a comprehensive survey of Robert van Gulik's series of novels (1949-1968) featuring the Tang dynasty magistrate, Judge Dee. In addition to providing a synopsis of each of the Judge Dee stories (with commentaries on the... -
Maigret's World: A Reader's Companion to Simenon's Famous Detective by Murielle Wenger 9781476669779
RRP: £21.99£17.97Georges Simenon's 75 novels and 28 short stories featuring Chief Inspector Jules Maigret provide us with a great deal of information about the French police detective-but only in small, episodic doses. As readers become acquainted with Maigret one detail... -
Historical Noir by Barry Forshaw
RRP: £9.99£2.91It's one of the most successful - and surprising - of phenomena in the entire crime fiction genre: detectives (and protodetectives) solving crimes in earlier eras. There is now an army of historical sleuths operating from the mean streets of Ancient Rome... -
Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days by Jared Cade 9780720613902
RRP: £16.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780720613902Author Jared CadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Peter Owen PublishersPublisher Peter Owen Publishers