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Paradise City Joe Thomas 9781529426618
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55'Brilliant' The TimesMario Leme is a low-ranking detective in the Sao Paulo civil police. Every day on the way to work he sets off early and drives through the favela known as Paraisopolis - Paradise... -
And Sometimes I Wonder About You by Walter Mosley 9781474600910
Booksplease Price: $22.03IN NEW YORK, IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM NO ONE ELSE CAN SOLVE, YOU CALL LEONID McGILL Ex-boxer, hard drinker, in a business that trades in cash and favours, McGill's an old-school P.I. working a city... -
Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent 9781501178474
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $15.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501178474Author Liz NugentFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon &... -
Playboy Joe Thomas 9781529426595
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55MAIL ON SUNDAY THRILLER OF THE MONTH Sao Paulo, 20 March 2016 A campaign for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff is in full swing, yet 100,000 people take to Avenida Paulista in Sao Paulo in... -
Kane Graham Hurley 9781035908271
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.05One man at the heart of American power must undertake a crucial wartime mission that will take him into enemy territory before he even leaves US soil.1941. Quincy Kane, former star of the Boston... -
The Real Cool Killers by Chester Himes
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'The toughest crime stories in print' Sunday TimesThe night's over for Ulysses Galen. It started going bad for the big Greek when a knife was drawn, then there was an axe, then he was being chased... -
Eddie Muller's Noir Bar: Cocktails Inspired by the World of Film Noir by Eddie Muller
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.65Eddie Muller-host of TCM's Noir Alley, one of the world's leading authorities on film noir, and cocktail connoisseur-takes film buffs and drinks enthusiasts alike on a spirited tour through the "dark... -
The Feral Detective Jonathan Lethem 9781786497512
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.39'A nimble and uncanny performance, brimming with Lethem's trademark verve and wit' Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground RailroadPhoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist... -
Kane: a gripping WWII spy thriller set in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor Graham Hurley 9781035908257
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51One man at the heart of American power must undertake a crucial wartime spy mission that will take him into enemy territory before he even leaves US soil.Washington DC, 1941.Quincy Kane, hero of the... -
The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window: Volume 1 by Raymond Chandler
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $21.12Raymond Chandler's first three novels, published here in one volume, established his reputation as an unsurpassed master of hard-boiled detective fiction. The Big Sleep, Chandler's first novel,... -
Laura by Vera Caspary
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66In the doorway of an elegant New York apartment, blood seeps over silk negligee, over polished wood floors and plush carpet: a beautiful young woman lies dead, her face disfigured by a single gun... -
Blind Man with a Pistol Chester Himes 9780241692615
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43The final novel in the trailblazing Harlem Detective series, set in a New York City at boiling pointBawdy and tough-talking, wickedly funny and wantonly sensual, Blind Man With a Pistol is a surreal... -
The Crazy Kill Chester Himes 9780241692639
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43A classic thriller from the Harlem Detective series, where love, jealousy and many-peopled mayhem aboundBig Joe Pullen is dead and his wake is getting boozy. When the opium-addicted Reverend Short... -
Yesterday Will Make You Cry Chester Himes 9780241692646
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Thrill-seeking white teenager Jimmy Monroe is serving a twenty-year sentence for robbery. The penitentiary is a place where terror and chaos reign, where corrupt guards inflict casual and insidious... -
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Stephanie Plum is down on her luck. She's lost her job, her car's on the brink of repossession, and her apartment is fast becoming furniture-free. Enter Cousin Vinnie, a low-life who runs a bail-bond... -
Charcoal Joe: The Latest Easy Rawlins Mystery by Walter Mosley
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Seymour Brathwaite, a young physicist, was found standing over the body of a murdered man. Charcoal Joe, one of the deadliest men in America, wants Brathwaite cleared. Easy Rawlins, a renowned Los... -
Sunset Song by Lewis Gibbon
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITHYoung Chris Guthrie lives a brutal life in the harsh landscape of northern Scotland, torn between her passion for the land, duty to her family and her love of books... -
The Pursuit of the Well-beloved and the Well-beloved by Thomas Hardy
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Hardy's two versions of a strange story set in the weird landscape of Portland. The central figure is a man obsessed both with the search for his ideal woman and with sculpting the perfect figure of... -
The Heat's On Chester Himes 9780241521106
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday TimesDetectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones have lost two criminals. Pinky ran off - but it shouldn't be hard to track... -
Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes 9780241639221
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphA con-man is swindling the poor folk of Harlem out of their life savings - and now all... -
The Big Sleep and Other Novels by Raymond Chandler 9780141182612
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $9.98One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since' Paul Auster, author of The New... -
The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith 9781857152623
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.41Three classic crime novels by a master of the macabre - The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, and Ripley's Game - appear here together in hardcover for the first time. Suave, agreeable, and... -
The Big Gold Dream Chester Himes 9780241692622
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Fast-paced and hard-boiled, this Harlem Detectives novel follows a pile of stolen money - or it would if anyone could find it... Alberta Wright drops dead on the street during a sermon by the... -
A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday TimesJackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds... -
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich 9780140252927 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $2.98Stephanie Plum is down on her luck. She's lost her job, her car's on the brink of repossession, and her apartment is fast becoming furniture-free. Enter Cousin Vinnie, a low-life who runs a bail-bond... -
The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Sam the Lion runs the pool-hall, the picture house and the all-night cafe. Coach Popper whips his boys with towels and once took a shot at one when he disturbed his hunting. Billy wouldn't know... -
The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.41As an operative for Pinkerton's Detective Agency Dashiell Hammett knew about sleuthing from the inside, but his career was cut short by the ruin of his health in World War I. These three celebrated... -
Red Dragon: (Hannibal Lecter) by Thomas Harris 9780099532934
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $8.36_________________________THE LEGENDARY THRILLER THAT CREATED DR HANNIBAL LECTERWill Graham was a brilliant profiler of criminals for the FBI - until he suffered terrible injuries in the process of... -
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 9780241956779
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women SelectionMuriel Spark's classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie features a schoolmistress you'll... -
The Woman Who Rode Away, St. Mawr, The Princess by D. H. Lawrence 9780141441665
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62The three works collected in this volume, all written in 1924, explore the profound effects on protagonists who embark on psychological voyages of liberation. In St Mawr, Lou Witt buys a beautiful,... -
Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'A bawdy, brazen rollercoaster of a novel . . . the wildest' The New York TimesA preacher called Deke O'Malley's been selling false hope: the promise of a glorious new life in Africa for just $1,000... -
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 9780241964002
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'One of the greatest books about growing up' James Wood, Guardian'You girls are my vocation . . . I am dedicated to you in my prime'Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress with a difference. She is... -
If He Hollers, Let Him Go Chester Himes 9780241692424
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43The searing debut novel by Chester Himes, 'written with youthful panache and a bellyful of anger' (Observer)Robert 'Bob' Jones - crew leader, shipyard worker, educated, employed - is finding life... -
Collected Stories by Raymond Chandler
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $24.34The only complete collection of shorter fiction by the undisputed master of detective literature, assembled here for the first time in one volume, includes stories unavailable for decades. When... -
All Shot Up by Chester Himes
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'Outrageous, shocking, wonderful' The New York TimesA golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hit-and-run victim's been hit so hard she got... -
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides... -
True Crime Story: The Times Number One Bestseller Joseph Knox 9781529176698
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66'A triumph. Dazzlingly original' Sunday Times'Riveting and relentless...A unique story, brilliantly told' Terry Hayes'Brilliant, compelling and original' Steve Cavanagh'Highly original and... -
The Galton Case by Ross Macdonald 9780141196633
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Twenty years ago, Anthony Galton vanished, along with his streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of the Galton fortune. Now his dying mother wants him found, and Lew Archer is on the case: is... -
Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son by Sholem Aleichem
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Tevye is the compassionate, lovable, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, and Tevye the Dairyman is a heartwarming and poignant account of life in turn-of-the-century Russia. Through the workaday... -
Selected Poems and Fragments by Friedrich Holderlin
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe's supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a...