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In and out of Bloomsbury: Biographical Essays on Twentieth-Century Writers and Artists by Martin Ferguson Smith 9781526171931
Booksplease Price: $30.37These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists. Based on detailed research and presenting previously unpublished texts,... -
Oxford Fall Veronica Stallwood 9780747255130
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35Christopher Townsend, Development Officer of Bartlemas College, was reportedly drunk when he plunged from the top of the Tower of Grace. His tragic death does, however, lead to an offer of work for... -
Oxford Remains Veronica Stallwood 9780755300747
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35Tensions are running high at Bartlemas College, Oxford. Daisy Tompkins, a bright, attractive student has put in a formal complaint about her tutor, the odd and unpopular Joseph Fechan. Faith Beeton,... -
Oxford Shift Veronica Stallwood 9780747260097
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35Joyce Fielding walked out one afternoon into the streets of Oxford and just disappeared. And now, Kate Ivory has been hired to find her. Joyce is a respectable widow in her sixties and there is... -
Oxford Shadows by Veronica Stallwood
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35Oxfordshire appeared to be a haven of safety for many children sent away from the bombs falling on London in 1944, but for 10-year-old Chris Barnes, the result was death. Over 50 years later,... -
Oxford Mourning Veronica Stallwood 9780747253433
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35When novelist Kate Ivory first meets Dr Olivia Blacket, an academic at Leicester College, Oxford, the atmosphere is far from amicable. Olivia refuses to show Kate the fascinating material she is... -
Great Writers and the Cats who Owned Them Susannah Fullerton 9781851246540
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.56Throughout history, cats and writers have bonded together in a magical combination of comfort, companionship and inspiration. The famous authors featured here range from Samuel Johnson, whose cat... -
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Oxford Knot by Veronica Stallwood 9780747259909 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $2.83Novelist Kate Ivory is used to receiving letters, each week, from her readers. But when she receives a package containing a gold knot-ring, with no explanatory note, she is more than a little... -
Oxford Knot Veronica Stallwood 9780747259909
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35Novelist Kate Ivory is used to receiving letters, each week, from her readers. But when she receives a package containing a gold knot-ring, with no explanatory note, she is more than a little... -
Rose Cottage by Mary Stewart
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35'A comfortable chair and a Mary Stewart: total heaven. I'd rather read her than most other authors.' Harriet EvansSummer, 1947. Kate Herrick, a war widow, returns to her childhood home for a final... -
The Late Scholar by Jill Paton Walsh
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35'Cleverly plotted . . . Walsh's pitch-perfect re-creation of the charismatic leads is a delight' - Publishers Weekly'Delicious' - BooklistLord Peter Wimsey is delighted to discover that along with a... -
Death and the Oxford Box Veronica Stallwood 9780747244783
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35Dawn on a cold February morning and a mist hangs over Oxford, shrouding spires and domes. Feisty novelist Kate Ivory enjoys her early morning run with the (mainly) women's jogging group. It gets her... -
Oxford Double Veronica Stallwood 9780747268451
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35Writer Kate Ivory has new neighbours on either side of her terraced house. On one side lives Jeremy Wells, a diffident, charming Oxford academic. On the other live Laura and Edward Foster who are... -
Oxford Blue Veronica Stallwood 9780747260080
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35In order to come to terms with the death of a close friend, Kate Ivory has escaped Oxford and found sanctuary in a friend's cottage a few miles away. Here, in the peace of the countryside, she hopes... -
Murder in Midsummer: Classic Mysteries for the Holidays by Various
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.02A rock pool with a deadly secret. A bank holiday heatwave dominated by the murder of an unknown man. A sun-drenched picnic that ends in a sinister locked-room mystery. And an Adriatic holiday... -
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Murder in Midsummer: Classic Mysteries for the Holidays by Various 9781788161534 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $2.84A rock pool with a deadly secret. A bank holiday heatwave dominated by the murder of an unknown man. A sun-drenched picnic that ends in a sinister locked-room mystery. And an Adriatic holiday... -
The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.62A dark, taut psychological thriller by queen of crime, Margery Allingham, featuring an introduction by the New York Times bestselling author of detective fiction, Sara Paretsky.Part of the Macmillan... -
Sepulchre Street Martin Edwards 9781801100274
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.63'Martin Edwards is a true master of British crime writing' Richard Osman 'Highly recommended, with a touch of the gothic' Ann Cleeves How can you solve a murder before it's happened? 'This is... -
The Dead of Winter: Ten Classic Tales for Chilling Nights by Cecily Gayford 9781800817753
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.28Not everything that goes bump in the night brings gifts ... As the nights draw in, the veil between worlds thins, and all sorts of ghosts and ghouls come tumbling in. In the shadows, under the... -
Here Comes a Chopper by Gladys Mitchell
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.When a pair of ramblers, lost in the English... -
The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Mary Stewart, one of the great British storytellers of the 20th century, transports her readers to rural Northumberland for this tale of romance, ambition, and deceit - a perfect fit for fans of... -
The Moon-Spinners by Mary Stewart
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Transport yourself to the idyllic hills of mid-century Crete in this tale of peril and intrigue, from the original queen of romantic suspense and author of Madam, Will You Talk? 'Mary Stewart is... -
Murder in Autumn by Lesley Cookman 9781035405664
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35The deliciously twisty twenty-fourth novel in the much-loved Libby Sarjeant series by Lesley Cookman. Libby Sarjeant is proudly hosting an original production of Much Ado About Nothing at the Oast... -
Murder on the Edge: A twisting and completely addictive mystery by Lesley Cookman
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35'With fascinating characters and an intriguing plot, this is a real page turner' Katie FfordeSuper-sleuth Libby Sarjeant is back with her most puzzling case yet . . . a mysterious death at the local... -
The Ethical Detective: Moral Philosophy and Detective Fiction by Rachel Haliburton 9781498536806
Booksplease Price: $133.40Detective fiction and philosophy3/4moral philosophy in particular3/4may seem like an odd combination. Working within the framework offered by neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics, this book makes the case... -
The Floating Admiral by The Detection Club
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterton and nine other writers from the legendary Detection Club collaborate in this fiendishly clever but forgotten crime novel first published 80 years... -
Bodies from the Library 2: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense by the Queens of Crime and other Masters of Golden Age Detection by Tony Medawar
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 15 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including newly discovered... -
Murder Takes a Holiday: Classic Crime Stories for Summer Various 9781788165754
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81The summer holidays are a chance to escape from it all, to shrug off the troubles and cares of everyday life, and lounge on warm sands or sip a cool drink in the shade of a city square. But, as the... -
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The Lighthouse by P. D. James 9780571229185 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $3.33Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who... -
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Murder at the Old Vicarage: A Christmas Mystery by Jill McGown 9781509809639 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $3.38'A murder so baffling it might even have stumped Agatha Christie's Miss Marple' Philadelphia Inquirer______________________________A WHITE CHRISTMASDeepening snow has isolated the village of Byford... -
A Certain Justice by P. D. James
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Now a major Channel 5 series'The Queen of Crime.' New York TimesVenetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is... -
The Attenbury Emeralds by Jill Paton Walsh
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35'A delight.' - Irish Times'A pitch-perfect Golden Age mystery . . . a gem of a period puzzle' - Financial TimesThirty years ago, Lord Peter Wimsey encountered the Attenbury emeralds. The recovery of... -
Of Modern Dragons and Other Essays on Genre Fiction by John Lennard 9781847600691
RRP: $27.45Booksplease Price: $26.24These essays explore some of the best genre fiction of the last 40 years, including work by Reginald Hill, Thomas Harris, Dorothy L. Sayers, Nora Roberts, J. D. Robb (since 2000 the world's... -
Devices and Desires by P. D. James
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.64THE EIGHTH NOVEL IN THE MULTIMILLION-COPY BESTSELLING ADAM DALGLIESH SERIES FROM THE 'QUEEN OF ENGLISH CRIME' (Guardian) 'Magnificent . . . a compelling human drama.' Evening Standard 'A wonderful... -
The Private Patient by P. D. James
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Now a major Channel 5 series'The Queen of Crime.' New York TimesWhen the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into a private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring... -
Death in Holy Orders by P. D. James
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Now a major Channel 5 series'The Queen of Crime.' New York TimesWhen the body of a theology student is found on a desolate stretch of coast in East Anglia, his wealthy father demands that Scotland... -
The Murder Room by P. D. James
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Now a major Channel 5 series'The Queen of Crime.' New York TimesCommander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne Museum in Hampstead, and with its sinister murder room celebrating... -
Murder by the Seaside: Classic Crime Stories for Summer Cecily Gayford 9781800810631
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66It's the height of summer. As the heat shimmers on the streets and ice cream melts onto sticky fingers, tempers begin to rise and old grudges surface. From Cornish beaches to the French Riviera, it's... -
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Murder by the Seaside: Classic Crime Stories for Summer by Cecily Gayford 9781800810631 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $2.86It's the height of summer. As the heat shimmers on the streets and ice cream melts onto sticky fingers, tempers begin to rise and old grudges surface. From Cornish beaches to the French Riviera, it's... -
Hanged Man's House by Elizabeth Ferrars 9781471907227
Booksplease Price: $20.91Dr Charles Gair was found hanged, but that is not what killed him. This was the first of the bizarre surprises awaiting those who penetrated the home of the head of the Martindale research...