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Death and the Conjuror by Tom Mead 9781804540916
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49An enthralling locked-room murder mystery inspired by crime fiction of the Golden Age, Death and the Conjuror is the critically acclaimed debut novel by Tom Mead. Selected as one of Publishers... -
Bodies from the Library 3 by Tony Medawar
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 18 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including uncollected stories by... -
The Magic Bullet: A Locked Room Mystery by Larry Millett 9781517910624
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65St. Paul, Minnesota. October 1, 1917. High above the city, a renowned local financier named Artemis Dodge lies facedown on the floor of his armored penthouse sanctuary, a single bullet hole in his... -
The Worship Warrior - Ascending In Worship, Descending in War Chuck D. Pierce 9780800797010
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.73Release the Rule of God Upon the Earth As God's people boldly enter His throne room in adoration and praise, we are clothed with His authority to claim the earth for His kingdom! The Worship Warrior... -
As If By Magic: And Other Miraculous and Locked-Room Mysteries Martin Edwards 9780712355636
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Impossible crime stories have delighted readers since the invention of detective fiction as puzzle-lovers sought more cerebral entertainment. Following on from Miraculous Mysteries, CWA Diamond... -
The Judas Window Carter Dickson 9780712355339
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02One of the greatest locked-room murder mysteries of all time, hailing from 1938, returns to baffle a new bevy of armchair detectives. James Answell, visiting his father-in-law Avery Hume in his... -
Tragedy at Ravensthorpe by J. J. Connington 9781471905957
Booksplease Price: £18.18'Mr J. J. Connington is a name revered by all specialists on detective fiction' Spectator In Clinton Driffield's second case he must tangle with a plethora of crimes including robbery, murder and... -
In Whose Dim Shadow by J. J. Connington 9781471906114
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.88In this, the tenth Clinton Driffield mystery, the action moves away from a country setting to the English suburbs, inhabited by a cast of unusual diversity: an ambitious young policeman, a naive... -
Fifty Best Mysteries by Eleanor Sullivan 9780786713479
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £17.99Fifty Best Mysteries is a who's who of mystery from the pages of the leading magazine in the field. Showcasing the best short fiction published in Ellery Queen magazine over the past sixty years,... -
The Case With Nine Solutions by J. J. Connington 9781471905971
Booksplease Price: £18.18'Mr J. J. Connington is a name revered by all specialists on detective fiction' Spectator When a locum doctor is called out one foggy night to a case of scarlet fever, he mistakes one house for... -
The Two Tickets Puzzle by J. J. Connington 9781471906299
Booksplease Price: £18.18'Mr J. J. Connington is a name revered by all specialists on detective fiction' Spectator When Oswald F. Preston is shot dead on the 10.35 local train from Horston, two obvious suspects are... -
The Dangerfield Talisman by J. J. Connington 9781471906336
Booksplease Price: £15.23In the first place there was the Dangerfield Talisman, an ancient golden armlet set with diamonds and valued at $50,000 - an unguarded treasure, which, although stolen more than once, always came... -
Who Killed Father Christmas?: And Other Seasonal Mysteries by Martin Edwards 9780712354783
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'The red robe concealed the blood until it made my hand sticky. Father Christmas had been stabbed in the back, and he was certainly dead.' The murder of Father Christmas at one of London's great... -
The Mill House Murders Yukito Ayatsuji 9781782278337
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A twisty and ingenious classic Japanese murder mystery from the author of The Decagon House Murders Every year, a small group of acquaintances pay a visit to the remote, castle-like Mill House,... -
Sherlock Holmes - The Vanishing Man Philip Purser-Hallard 9781785658426
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.60A brand-new Sherlock Holmes mystery from acclaimed author Philip Purser-Hallard. A Mysterious Disappearance It is 1896, and Sherlock Holmes is investigating a self-proclaimed psychic who... -
The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by John Carr 9780786712342
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.38This vivid biography, written by John Dickson Carr, a giant in the field of mystery fiction, benefits from his full access to the archives of the eminent Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,to his notebooks,... -
The Castleford Conundrum by J. J. Connington 9781471906077
Booksplease Price: £18.18Philip Castleford was more than worried. Were all those years he had spent attending to Winifred's whims, enduring her habits, to count for nothing? He hadn't minded it too much for he thought that... -
Murder Will Speak by J. J. Connington 9781471906152
Booksplease Price: £20.70Thief, criminal and probably a coward, would Hyson have had the courage to kill himself or did someone catch up with him? Did his death have anything to do with Mrs Telford, who committed suicide... -
The Murder Wheel by Tom Mead 9781837932542
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.58A sparkling return to the Golden Age of Crime Fiction, where even the most fiendish of mysteries can be unlocked by a keen eye and a sharp mind... 1938, London. Ambitious lawyer Edmund Ibbs has... -
The Unicorn Murders Carter Dickson 9780712369305
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The diplomat Sir George Ramsden is returning to Britain from France with the mysterious "unicorn" in tow. The legendary thief Flamande has declared that he will be on the same flight as Ramsden, in... -
Sherlock Holmes - Masters of Lies by Philip Purser-Hallard
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.18A brand-new, brilliantly twisty Sherlock Holmes mystery from 'best kept secret of British genre writing' - British Fantasy Society When investigating what seems to be a suicide, Holmes and... -
London Particular by Christianna Brand 9780712355407
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40"You have to reach for the greatest of the Great Names (Agatha Christie, John Dickson Carr, Ellery Queen) to find Christianna Brand's rivals in the subtleties of the trade." - Anthony Boucher in the... -
Bloodhounds: 4 by Peter Lovesey
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The fourth uniquely stylish crime novel, from the award-winning Peter Diamond series.'Darling, if ever I've met a group of potential murderers anywhere, it's the Bloodhounds.' Thus says one of the... -
A Very Murderous Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season by Cecily Gayford
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.17The Christmas season is one of comfort and joy, sparkling lights and steam rising from cups of mulled wine at frosty carol services. A season of goodwill, as families and friends come together to... -
Wobble to Death: The First Sergeant Cribb Mystery Peter Lovesey 9780751572520
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The first book in the Sergeant Cribb series, from Peter Lovesey.In Victorian London, race-walking, or 'wobbles', are all the rage. So on a Monday morning in November 1879 the crowds gather for... -
The White Priory Murders: A Mystery for Christmas Carter Dickson 9780712354226
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.37James 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... -
Invitation to a Dynamite Party: The Fifth Sergeant Cribb Mystery by Peter Lovesey
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £4.01The beloved Sergeant Cribb series by Peter LoveseyThe year is 1884. London is being terrorised by a series of bomb blasts - even within Great Scotland Yard! Reluctantly, Sergeant Cribb attends a... -
A Will to Kill by RV Raman 9781782277323
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67MIST, MOUNTAINS, MURDER. Ageing millionaire Bhaskar Fernandez has invited his relatives to the remote, and possibly haunted, Greybrooke Manor, high up in the misty Nilgiris. He knows his guests... -
A Life for a Life by Carol Wyer
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72Nobody can get into the mind of an erratic killer-except an unpredictable detective. When a young man is found lying on a station platform with a hole in his head, DI Kate Young is called in to... -
Sherlock Holmes - The Monster of the Mere Philip Purser-Hallard 9781789099263
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.18When Watson's holiday in the Lake District takes a sinister twist, he and Holmes must uncover the truth hidden by superstitious locals, folklore and rumours of prehistorical monsters far away from... -
The Tattoo Murder Akimitsu Takagi 9781782278283
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Can you solve the mystery of the tattoo murder? Tokyo, 1947. At the first post-war meeting of the Edo Tattoo Society, Kinue Nomura reveals her full-body snake tattoo to rapturous applause. Days... -
Love Lies Bleeding (A Gervase Fen Mystery) by Edmund Crispin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse - discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best. Castrevenford school... -
A Cut for a Cut by Carol Wyer
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72DI Kate Young can't trust anybody. Not even herself. In the bleak countryside around Blithfield Reservoir, a serial murderer and rapist is leaving a trail of bloodshed. His savage calling card:... -
The Dark Side of G.K. Chesterton: Gargoyles and Grotesques by John C Tibbetts 9781476684970
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £33.98This is a critical study of the great British man of letters, G.K. Chesterton, with chapters devoted to the novels, stories, and essays that explore the darker fringes of his wild imagination... -
A Truth for a Truth by Carol Wyer
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72DI Kate Young's team is hunting for a killer. What they don't know...is that the killer is her. DI Kate Young has known for years that her boss, Superintendent John Dickson, is a violent and evil... -
The Case of the Gilded Fly: A Gervase Fen Mystery by Edmund Crispin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88The very first case for Oxford-based sleuth Gervase Fen, one of the last of the great Golden Age detectives. As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse, this is the perfect entry... -
The Labyrinth House Murders Yukito Ayatsuji 9781805335276
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95PRAISE FOR YUKITO AYATSUJI'S MYSTERIES 'Very clever indeed' Anthony Horowitz 'From the first page you know you're in the hands of a master... Flawless' Ian Moore, author of Death and Croissants 'You... -
Ghosts from the Library: Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (A Bodies from the Library special) by Tony Medawar 9780008514846
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12A brand new anthology of previously unpublished and uncollected supernatural mysteries by some of the masters of the Golden Age - thrills, spills and chills perfect for Halloween. ... -
A Soul for a Soul by Carol Wyer 9781662506154
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72The syndicate have taken everything from her. It's time to take them down-or die trying. DCI Kate Young never meant to shoot Superintendent John Dickson at the reservoir that night-even if, as a... -
Murder Under the Sun: Classic Mysteries for Summer by Cecily Gayford 9781805222163
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'So great ... it's criminal' SAGA 'With Cecily Gayford in charge, we are on safe ground' DAILY MAIL From beneath the beach umbrella, all might seem idyllic - children playing, sunbathers...