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Murder at the Zoo Volume 1 by M. Glenda Rosen 9781951122492
RRP: $18.00Booksplease Price: $13.25When she was a young girl, Miranda Scott read dozens of mystery books by authors such as Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, and she loved characters like Sherlock Holmes. Then she began hearing... -
The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51'As sweetly profane a poet as American noir could have asked for' Ian Rankin'A friggin' masterpiece' Dennis Lehane'The stunner that reinvigorated the genre and jacked up a generation of future crime... -
In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'Puts Chandler to shame ... Hughes is the master we keep turning to' Sara ParetskyAfter the war, cynical veteran Dix Steele has moved to L.A., a city terrified by a strangler preying on young women... -
A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder in L.A. by Richard Rayner 9781849012058
Booksplease Price: $26.70In the roaring twenties Los Angeles was the fastest growing city in the world, mad with oil fever, get-rich-quick schemes, celebrity scandals, and religious fervor. It was also rife with organized... -
Plugged Eoin Colfer 9780755380213
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35'I love the voice. I love the dark streets. I love the story.' Harlan CobenDan, an Irishman who's ended up in New Jersey, finds himself embroiled in a world of murder, kidnapping and corrupt cops.Dan... -
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Cinnamon Kiss: Easy Rawlins 10 by Walter Mosley 9780753821077 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $3.01New York Times bestseller Walter Mosley's sizzling new novel pits Easy Rawlins against his greatest ever challenge.It is the Summer of Love as CINNAMON KISS opens, and Easy Rawlins is contemplating... -
A Man Named Doll by Jonathan Ames 9781782276999
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Meet Happy Doll Hank to his friends. He's a LA private detective living a quiet life along with his beloved half-Chihuahua half-Terrier, George. He's getting by just fine When he's not walking... -
Understanding Kate Atkinson by Brian Diemert 9781643361536
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23Best known for her Jackson Brodie series of detective novels, which were adapted into the BBC television series Case Histories, Kate Atkinson is the author of eleven novels, two plays, and a... -
What's the Matter with Mary Jane? by Candas Jane Dorsey
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43When childhood friend Pris breezes back into her life begging for help with a dangerous stalker, our heroine is thrust suddenly into the world of the Canadian uber-rich. When Pris's stalker is then... -
Understanding Paul Auster by James Peacock 9781611170528
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23Understanding Paul Auster is a comprehensive companion to the work of a writer who effectively balances a particular combination of Jewish American identity and European sensibility across an... -
Stainless: A Modern Romance by Todd Grimson 9781961341456
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.20A bloody, erotic love story from "the greatest horror writer you've never read . . . In Stainless, Todd Grimson set out to write 'the Ultimate, Final Vampire Novel'-and succeeded." (The Guardian) ... -
The Golden Gate: 'Historical detective noir at its best' Janice Hallett Amy Chua 9781838959517
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43SHORTLISTED FOR MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA BEST FIRST NOVEL EDGAR 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION ILP JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER 2024SHORTLISED FOR THE ITW THRILLER AWARDS... -
In the Heat of the Night by John Ball
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26A 50th anniversary edition of the classic crime novel that inspired the Oscar-winning film starring Sidney Poitier.'They call me Mr Tibbs!'A small southern town in the 1960s. A musician found dead on... -
Art of Classic Crime and Mystery Movies: From the Earliest Poverty Row Movies to the Films of the 1970s Ed Hulse 9780764369278
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $44.78From the earliest Poverty Row movies to the films of the 1970s, the story of the genre in 800 eye-popping posters Dive into the captivating realm of classic crime and mystery movies with The... -
Spade & Archer by Joe Gores
Booksplease Price: $26.70The stunning prequel to Dashiell Hammett's crime classic THE MALTESE FALCON.When Sam Spade gets drawn into the Maltese Falcon case, we know what to expect: straight talk, hard questions, no favours,... -
The Golden Gate by Amy Chua 9781838959487
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.42'An epic, devastating, majestic mystery. Clever, richly imagined and outright thrilling' Chris Whitaker Berkeley, California 1944: A former presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms... -
The Second Murderer: Journey through the shadowy underbelly of 1940s LA in this new murder mystery by Denise Mina 9781529920079
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66'Denise Mina is a one-of-a-kind storyteller' James Patterson"This is Marlowe.""Mr. Philip Marlowe?" She asked.I glanced at the clock. It was exactly eleven am, as if she had been waiting by thephone... -
Fortune Favours the Dead: A dazzling murder mystery set in 1940s New York Stephen Spotswood 9781472274816
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35The 'razor-sharp' first book in the charming, fast-paced Pentecost and Parker mystery series. Book Two, Murder Under Her Skin, coming December 2021!Meet your new favourite duo, audacious and iconic,... -
The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.22The Arrest isn't post-apocalypse. It isn't a dystopia. It isn't a utopia. It's just what happens when much of what we take for granted - cars, guns, computers, and airplanes, for starters - stops... -
The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock by Lucy Worsley 9781605989099
RRP: $34.77Booksplease Price: $26.35Murder-a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And a very strange obsession. But where did this fixation develop? And what does it tell us about... -
Double Indemnity Richard Schickel 9781805750215
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.08Richard Schickel's study of Billy Wilder's 1944 noir classic Double Indemnity traces in fascinating detail the genesis and realisation of the film: its literary origins in James M. Cain's hard-boiled... -
Los Angeles in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the City of Angels by Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $31.58Los Angeles in the 1930s returns to print an invaluable document of Depression-era Los Angeles, illuminating a pivotal moment in L.A.'s history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West,... -
The Wheel of Doll by Jonathan Ames 9781782277705
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60A NAME FROM THE PAST When Mary DeAngelo walks into Happy Doll's office, she brings with her the scent of sandalwood perfume, a whole lot of cash, and the name of his old flame: Ines Candle. ... -
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Fortune Favours the Dead: The Extremely Entertaining 2020 Radio 2 Book Club Pick by Stephen Spotswood 9781472274816 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $3.47The 'razor-sharp' first book in the charming, fast-paced Pentecost and Parker mystery series. Book Two, Murder Under Her Skin, coming December 2021!Meet your new favourite duo, audacious and iconic,... -
The Other Side of Silence: Bernie Gunther Thriller 11 by Philip Kerr
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Blackmail, espionage and a mass murderer from his wartime past await Bernie Gunther on the French Riviera.'A brilliantly twisting tale of espionage and betrayal' Sunday TimesThe French Riviera, 1956... -
The House of Stairs by Barbara Vine
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09The House of Stairs - an unputdownable crime classic from bestselling author Barbara VineLizzie hasn't seen her old friend, Bell, for some fourteen years, but when she spots her from a taxi in a... -
The Ambitious City: A MacNeice Mystery by Scott Thornley
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15The gripping second installment of the MacNeice Mysteries reads like a crossover episode between Sons of Anarchy and Dexter, as Detective Superintendent MacNeice and his team face off against a gang... -
And Sometimes I Wonder About You by Walter Mosley 9781474600910
Booksplease Price: $21.92IN 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... -
Double Indemnity: The Complete Screenplay by Billy Wilder 9780520218482
RRP: $29.67Booksplease Price: $25.65On every level - writing, direction, acting - "Double Indemnity" (1944) is a triumph and stands as one of the greatest achievements in Billy Wilder's career. Adapted from the James M. Cain novel by... -
The Wrong Case James Crumley 9781784161941
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98Milo Milodragovitch is a once-successful divorce lawyer, who now prefers to spend his days drinking and staring out the window. That all changes when Helen Duffy walks into his office and asks him to... -
The Drowning Pool by Ross Macdonald
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26When Maude Slocum - beautiful, frightened and angry - comes to Lew Archer's office with a poison pen letter intended for her husband, he reluctantly agrees to help her. As he follows the Slocums... -
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... -
Little Tales of Misogyny: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Little Tales of Misogyny is Highsmith's legendary, cultish short-story collection. With an eerie simplicity of style, Highsmith turns our next-door neighbours into sadistic psychopaths, lying in wait... -
The Nine Tailors: Lord Peter Wimsey Book 11 by Dorothy L. Sayers 9781473621398
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35The eleventh book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series, introduced by writer Jill Paton Walsh - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion... -
The City in Literature: An Intellectual and Cultural History by Richard Lehan 9780520212565
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $35.91This sweeping literary encounter with the Western idea of the city moves from the early novel in England to the apocalyptic cityscapes of Thomas Pynchon. Along the way, Richard Lehan gathers a rich... -
The Count of 9 by Erle Stanley Gardner
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.80Erle Stanley Gardner was not just the creator of PERRY MASON - at the time of his death, he was the best-selling American author of all time, with hundreds of millions of books in print, including... -
The Day of the Locust and Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66In The Day of the Locust a young artist, Tod Hackett, arrives in LA full of dreams. But celebrity and artifice rule and he soon joins the ranks of the disenchanted that drift around the fringes of... -
So Many Doors by Oakley Hall
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.57A man sits in a cell on death row, sentenced to die for the murder of the beautiful woman called V. But as we learn the story of her death - and of her troubled, torrid life - one question haunts us:... -
Whose Body?: Lord Peter Wimsey Book 1 by Dorothy L. Sayers
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35The first book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series introduced by crime writer Laura Wilson - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion... -
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club: Classic crime for Agatha Christie fans Dorothy L Sayers 9781473621312
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35The fourth book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series, introduced by detective fiction writer Simon Brett - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's...