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Not to Be Taken: A Puzzle in Poison 9780712355421
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88"...now we have Not to Be Taken, a compact and fascinating essay in the art of home detection." Torquemada in The Observer, 1938"The murder is by arsenic; and although the number of suspects is... -
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The Pocket Detective: 100+ Puzzles by Kate Jackson 9780712352963 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €3.11Polish off your magnifying glass and step into the shoes of your favourite detectives as you unlock tantalising clues and solve intricate puzzles. There are over 100 criminally teasing challenges to... -
Weird Woods: Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain by John Miller
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62Woods play an important and recurring role in horror, fantasy, the gothic and the weird. They are places in which strange things happen, where you often can't see where you are or what is around you... -
The Black Spectacles by John Dickson Carr
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.42A sinister case of deadly poisoned chocolates from Sodbury Cross's high street shop haunts the group of friends and relatives assembled at Bellegarde, among the orchards of 'peach-fancier' Marcus... -
A Children's Literary Christmas: An Anthology Anna James 9780712352796
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11Immerse yourself in some truly festive magic with this brand-new collection of the finest Christmas stories, prose, songs and poetry from some of the greatest writers in the English language... -
The Pocket Detective: 100+ Puzzles Kate Jackson 9780712352963
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €7.39Polish off your magnifying glass and step into the shoes of your favourite detectives as you unlock tantalising clues and solve intricate puzzles. There are over 100 criminally teasing challenges to... -
The Philosophy of Gin by Jane Peyton 9780712353601
RRP: €12.00Booksplease Price: €8.14Few if any alcoholic drinks have the dramatic and multi-faceted history of gin. In this fascinating new instalment of the British Library's pocket philosophies, gin is explored through its origins in... -
Into the London Fog: Eerie Tales from the Weird City by Elizabeth Dearnley 9780712353762
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62As the smoky dark sweeps across the capital, strange stories emerge from the night. A seance reveals a ghastly secret in the murk of Regent's Canal. From south of the Thames come chilling reports of... -
He Who Whispers by John Dickson Carr 9780712354684
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €8.84'It almost seemed that the murder, if it was a murder, must have been committed by someone who could rise up unsupported in the air...' When Miles Hammond is invited to a meeting of the Murder... -
A Literary Christmas: An Anthology by British Library 9780712352765
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.86This seasonal compendium collects together poems, short stories, and prose extracts by some of the greatest poets and writers in the English language. Like Charles Dickens's ghosts of Christmas Past... -
Big Ben Strikes Eleven by David Magarshack 9780712354837
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88The discovery of Sir Robert Boniface's body on the floor of his blue limousine was made quite accidentally on a sultry Friday evening towards the end of June. The industrial and financial tycoon, and... -
Someone from the Past: A London Mystery by Margot Bennett 9780712354738
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88Then I felt his warm hand grow cold, it was as if he had been reminded of death. He wasn't looking at me any more, but obliquely, across the restaurant. I turned round.' Sarah has been receiving... -
The Undying Monster: A Tale of the Fifth Dimension by Jessie Douglas Kerruish 9780712354936
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88'Where grow pines and firs amain, Under Stars, sans heat or rain, Chief of Hammand, 'ware thy Bane!' The Hammand family have been hounded by an ancient curse for generations; now, after the close... -
The Book Lover's Bucket List: A Tour of Great British Literature Caroline Taggart 9780712353243
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €15.34Exploring the gardens, monuments, museums, and churches with walks both urban and rural, from the Bronte parsonage in Haworth to Zadie Smith's North London and Shakespeare's Stratford, The Book... -
Final Acts: Theatrical Mysteries Martin Edwards 9780712354073
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62Behind the stage lights and word-perfect soliloquies, sinister secrets are lurking in the wings. The mysteries in this collection reveal the dark side to theatre and performing arts: a world of... -
The Open Door: and Other Stories of the Seen and Unseen by Margaret Oliphant 9780712353540
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €16.00'There was not a soul to be seen, up or down; and the trees stood like ghosts, and the silence was terrible, and everything clear as day. You don't know what silence is until you find it in the light... -
The Night Wire: and Other Tales of Weird Media by Aaron Worth 9780712354110
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62A mysterious news signal reports cosmic doom from an otherworldly location. X-ray evidence suggests the impossible truth that a sculptor is becoming one with his creation. A gramophone channels the... -
The White Priory Murders: A Mystery for Christmas Carter Dickson 9780712354226
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €8.84James Bennett has been invited to stay at White Priory for Christmas among the retinue of the glamorous Hollywood actress Marcia Tait. Her producer, her lover, the playwright for her next hit and her... -
Fearsome Fairies: Haunting Tales of the Fey by Elizabeth Dearnley 9780712354301
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.83'You see - no, you do not, but I see - such curious faces: and the people to whom they belong flit about so oddly, often at your elbow when you least expect it, and looking close into your face, as... -
Death of an Author by E.C.R. Lorac 9780712354677
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88'I hate murders and I hate murderers, but I must admit that the discovery of a bearded corpse would give a fillip to my jaded mind.' Vivian Lestrange - celebrated author of the popular mystery... -
Uncanny Ireland: Otherworldly Tales of the Strange and Sublime Maria Giakaniki 9780712355209
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €16.00'Suddenly the upper rim of the clear setting sun disappeared behind the hill of Knockdoula, and it was twilight. Each child felt the transition like a shock ... and the rounded summit of Lisnavoura,... -
Crimes of Cymru: Classic Mystery Tales of Wales by Martin Edwards
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62"Ahoy, my lad!" he bellowed back. "I didn't expect you so early. Come for a dip! The water's fine. Everything is-" Then it happened. Mystery and murder runs amok amidst ominous peaks and icy... -
Yesterday's Tomorrows: The Story of Classic British Science Fiction in 100 Books by Mike Ashley
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €17.46Join Mike Ashley on a characterful tour of the most ingenious and often forgotten books from the rich history of classic British science fiction. From the enrapturing tales of H. G. Wells to the... -
The Theft of the Iron Dogs: A Lancashire Mystery by E.C.R. Lorac 9780712354639
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88E.C.R. Lorac must be seriously considered for the position of leading writer of classic detective stories.' - Birmingham Post While hot on the heels of serial coupon-racketeer Gordon Ginner, Chief... -
Castle Skull: A Rhineland Mystery John Dickson Carr 9780712353267
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.14'That is the case. Alison has been murdered. His blazing body was seen running about the battlements of Castle Skull.' And so a dark shadow looms over the Rhineland where Inspector Henri Bencolin... -
Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks by Pam Lock 9780712354097
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88'Suddenly he tripped and fell his length over a prostrate body... he marvelled that so rough an impact should not have kicked a groan out of the drunkard...' With a stiff measure of the... -
The Wheel Spins: aka The Lady Vanishes by Ethel Lina White 9780712354882
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88'Then the rhythm of the train changed, and she seemed to be sliding backwards down a long slope. Click-click-click-click. The wheels rattled over the rails, with a sound of castanets.' Iris Carr's... -
Death in Fancy Dress Anthony Gilbert 9780712353403
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.14This classic country house mystery, first published in 1933, contrasts the splendours and frivolities of the English upper classes with the sombre overhang of the First World War and the irresistible... -
The Lindisfarne Gospels: Spirituality, Art and Identity - The British Library Guide by Eleanor Jackson 9780712354813
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60The Lindisfarne Gospels is an extraordinary book and one of the British Library's greatest treasures. It was hand-written and decorated over 1,300 years ago by a single supremely gifted scribe-artist... -
Death of Jezebel Christianna Brand 9780712354912
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88"A very neat version of the 'sealed room' mystery ... provides [Miss Brand] with excellent opportunities to indulge her sense of character and her pleasantly malicious wit, as well as her gift for... -
Minor Hauntings: Chilling Tales of Spectral Youth by Jen Baker 9780712353199
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88There was a faint rustling sound, like some small silk thing blown in a gentle breeze. He sat up straight, stark and scared, and a small wooden voice spoke in the stillness. "Pa-pa," it said, with a... -
Surfeit of Suspects George Bellairs 9780712352383
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.14Following a mysterious explosion, the offices of Excelsior Joinery Company are no more; the 3 directors are killed and the peace of a quiet town in Surrey lies in ruins. When the supposed cause of... -
The Widow of Bath by Margot Bennett 9780712353748
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88'There are a dozen clever deceptions in the book, twice as many as most writers would have given us.' - Julian Symons in Bloody Murder Hugh Everton was intent on nothing more than quietly drinking... -
Out of the Past: Tales of Haunting History Aaron Worth 9780712355605
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88A tale of callous murder and deranged revenge rings out from fifteenth century Italy. A witch-finder's great triumph is also the herald of his own doom in sixteenth-century Britain. A prisoner's fate... -
Before the Fact by Francis Iles 9780712355506
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €8.84'Some women give birth to murderers, some go to bed with them, and some marry them. Lina Aysgarth had lived with her husband for nearly eight years before she realized that she was married to a... -
Beyond Time: Classic Tales of Time Unwound by 9780712353205
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.14Time travel has long been a staple of science fiction. Removing the bonds of time on a story allows for many interesting possibilities, but it also presents complicated problems and paradoxes. In... -
Death in Ambush: A Lost Christmas Murder Mystery by Susan Gilruth 9780712355889
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62In a tranquil Kentish village, Dr Sandys and his wife are preparing for Christmas with their guest, Liane 'Lee' Crauford. Festivities start badly when their party is spoiled by an enigmatic widow new... -
Twice Round the Clock by Billie Houston
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88"It is past the half-hour. My time is coming nearer with every tick of the clock." Horace Manning, scientist, recluse and 'closed book' even to his friends is found dead in his study at 4am,... -
Suddenly at His Residence: A Mystery in Kent by Christianna Brand
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.56"Christianna Brand is not merely a purveyor of thrills or a maker of puzzles. She is a novelist." - The Daily Telegraph While the Blitz bombards London, the boisterous grandchildren of Sir Richard... -
The Philosophy of Cheese by Patrick McGuigan
RRP: €12.00Booksplease Price: €8.88Patrick McGuigan is a British food journalist and cheese writer, who contributes to The Telegraph, Delicious and The Financial Times, among many other titles. He has travelled the world, from the...