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The Wheel Spins: aka The Lady Vanishes by Ethel Lina White 9780712354882
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'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: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09This 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: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07The 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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92"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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92There 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: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09Following 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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92A 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: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.88'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: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09Time 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: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75In 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... -
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Murder After Christmas by Rupert Latimer 9780712353892 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $3.39"A war's on and a murder has been committed-and we sit here talking nonsense about almond whirls and mince pies!" Good old Uncle Willie-rich, truculent and seemingly propped up by his fierce... -
Weird Woods: Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain by John Miller
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Woods 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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.41A 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: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Immerse 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: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.25Polish 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: $13.40Booksplease Price: $9.09Few 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: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75As 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: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.88'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: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59This 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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92The 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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Then 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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'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: $25.45Booksplease Price: $17.13Exploring 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: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Behind 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: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.86'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: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75A 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: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.88James 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: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.67'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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'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: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.86'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,... -
The Port of London Murders Josephine Bell 9780712353618
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45When the San Angelo drifts into port in the Thames Estuary, telephones begin to ring across the capital and an intricate series of events is set in motion. Beset by dreadful storms in the Bay of... -
The Ways of Ghosts: And Other Dark Tales by Ambrose Bierce by Ambrose Bierce
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Motionless now and in absolute silence, she awaited her doom, the moments growing to hours, to years, to ages; and still those devilish eyes maintained their watch. Ambrose Bierce was one of... -
Weekend at Thrackley by Alan Melville
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'I'm taking a revolver to Thrackley. You never know with blokes like Carson. I hate these harmless, potty people - they're always up to something.' Jim Henderson is one of six guests summoned by... -
Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries Martin Edwards 9780712353212
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09Talented sportsmen inexplicably go absent without leave, crafty gamblers conspire in the hope of making a killing, and personal rivalries and jealousies come to a head on fields of play... The... -
Buddhism: Origins, Traditions and Contemporary Life by Jana Igunma 9780712352390
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.64Buddhism is one of the major world religions today, with approximately 500 million followers worldwide and nearly 300,000 in the UK. Following the Buddha's Enlightenment in north India in the 5th... -
War Among Ladies by Eleanor Scott 9780712354622
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Miss Cullen finds herself in a dreadful predicament. Four years from retirement, she can no longer meet the educational standards expected nor control her pupils at Besley High School for girls. She... -
Death in Captivity: A Second World War Mystery by Michael Gilbert 9780712352130
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75A man is found dead in an escape tunnel in an Italian prisoner-of-war camp. Did he die in an accidental collapse - or was this murder? Captain Henry `Cuckoo' Goyles, master tunneller and amateur... -
The End of the World: and Other Catastrophes by Mike Ashley 9780712352734
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09Sound the sirens! The end is here, and it comes in many forms in this new collection of apocalyptic short stories from the classic age of science fiction. Join humanity on the brink of destruction in... -
Two-Way Murder by E.C.R. Lorac 9780712353830
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09A lost novel from the golden age of crime, published for the very first time. It happened on a dark and misty night; the night of the ball at The Prince's Hall, Fordings. Abuzz with rumours...