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Deadly Secrets: The Posthumus Trilogy Book 3 Britta Bolt 9781444787351
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78The third in the atmospheric Amsterdam-set crime series, which combines the city's old-world charm with contemporary issues of corruption, immigration and crime.Pieter Posthumus wouldn't live... -
The Vintage Caper Peter Mayle 9780857384331
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Hollywood lawyer Danny Roth is the victim of a world-class wine heist - and he is devastated. Sam Levitt, former corporate lawyer, wine connoisseur, and expert on cultivated crime, is called in by... -
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The Man Who Wasn't Maigret: Portrait of Georges Simenon by Patrick Marnham 9780747508847 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £2.55Georges Simenon was, during his lifetime, the bestselling writer alive. He created Chief Inspector Maigret, one of the most-loved and sanest characters in modern fiction, but was himself an... -
Grandes enquetes: Maigret tend un piege/Le voleur paresseux by Georges Simenon 9782253158431
Booksplease Price: £11.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782253158431Author Georges SimenonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
The Marseille Caper Peter Mayle 9781849163576
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Sam Levitt, former corporate lawyer, wine connoisseur and expert on cultivated crime, is back in Marseille, for both work and pleasure - the lure of excitement and the pleasures of the region proving... -
Dead Behind the Eyes: A slickly plotted murder mystery set in France's Loire Valley Ian Moore 9780715655955
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'An engrossing, slickly plotted policier that will leave you wanting more' TOM BENJAMIN, author of the Daniel Leicester mysteries A HEADLESS MAN. A MISSING GIRL. A LIFE RULED BY SECRETS. When a... -
Dead Behind the Eyes Ian Moore 9780715655535
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.50A HEADLESS MAN. A MISSING GIRL. A LIFE RULED BY SECRETS... When a decapitated body washes up on the banks of the River Loire in the ancient city of Tours, the reluctant juge d'instruction Mattiew... -
The Typewriter Century: A Cultural History of Writing Practices by Martyn Lyons
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02This book captures the intensity of the relationship between writers and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded it... -
A Case of Matricide Graeme Macrae Burnet 9781916812178
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.58'A Case of Matricide demonstrates literary talent of the highest order ... few writers can rival Burnet.' The Spectator Chief Inspector Gorski returns ... In the unremarkable French town of... -
A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Lose yourself in this tale of young love by the 'best-loved English poet of the past 100 years.' (Sunday Times)Katherine Lind is a refugee who has become a librarian in a wartime Northern town. One... -
Inspecting Psychology: How the rise of psychological ideas influenced the development of detective fiction by David Cohen
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Inspecting Psychology takes a sleuth's magnifying glass to the interplay between psychology, psychiatry and detective fiction to provide a unique examination of the history of psychology. As... -
The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb 9780241640425
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphTwo young children hold the key to a secret stash of money - and a relentless psychopath... -
The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey 9780241639139
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphAbducted, beaten, hidden in an attic, a young woman stages an audacious escape. But is... -
The Health Resort in Modern European Literature: Transnational Trajectories Dr Henrike Schmidt 9781350377967
Booksplease Price: £94.26This innovative open access book reappraises the health resort in literature from its rise in the late Enlightenment period to the wellness age of the 21st century. Most of the existing body of... -
Passage of Arms by Eric Ambler 9780241606186
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.47'The man who lit the way for us all' Len DeightonAn Indian clerk, Girija Krishnan, sees the opportunity of his lifetime when he stumbles on an abandoned cache of arms hidden in the Malayan jungle. If... -
The Light of Day by Eric Ambler
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47'He took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul, where it all really happened' Frederick ForsythSmall-time hustler Arthur Abdel Simpson ekes... -
Down in the Valley: A Writer's Landscape by Laurie Lee
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A moving portrait of the landscape that shaped the life of Laurie Lee, the beloved author of Cider With Rosie 'Before I left the valley I thought everywhere was like this. Then I went away for 40... -
Whose Body?: Lord Peter Wimsey Book 1 by Dorothy L. Sayers
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The 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... -
Clouds of Witness: From 1920 to 2023, classic crime at its best Dorothy L Sayers 9781473621206
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The second book in Dorothy L Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey series introduced by crime novelist Ruth Dudley Edwards - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion... -
Five Red Herrings: Lord Peter Wimsey Book 7 by Dorothy L. Sayers
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Lord Peter Wimsey's fishing holiday is interrupted in Dorothy L Sayers' classic crime novel, introduced by writer and reviewer Barry Forshaw - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and... -
The Health Resort in Modern European Literature: Transnational Trajectories Dr Henrike Schmidt 9781350377974
Booksplease Price: £30.54This innovative open access book reappraises the health resort in literature from its rise in the late Enlightenment period to the wellness age of the 21st century. Most of the existing body of... -
Unnatural Death: Lord Peter Wimsey Book 3 by Dorothy L. Sayers
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The third book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series, introduced by crime writer Minette Walters - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion... -
Strong Poison: Lord Peter Wimsey Book 6 by Dorothy L. Sayers
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.71The sixth book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series, introduced by actor Edward Petherbridge - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion... -
Gaudy Night: Lord Peter Wimsey Book 12 by Dorothy L. Sayers
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The twelfth book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series, introduced by actress Dame Harriet Mary Walter, DBE - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's... -
A Kind of Anger by Eric Ambler
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.47'A thriller of the highest quality - ironic, witty, literate, ingenious, understated and unflaggingly suspenseful' The New York Times Book ReviewThe last time anyone saw Lucia Bernardi, she was... -
Defective Inspectors: Crime-fiction Pastiche in Late Twentieth-century French Literature: Crime Fiction Pastiche in Late-Twentieth-Century French Literature by Simon Kemp
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Defective Inspectors: Crime-fiction Pastiche in Late Twentieth-century French LiteratureAbout the AuthorSimon KempBook InformationISBN 9780367603847Author Simon KempFormat Pape -
Have His Carcase: Lord Peter Wimsey Book 8 by Dorothy L. Sayers
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The eighth book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series, introduced by bestselling thriller writer Lee Child - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's... -
Lord Peter Views the Body: Lord Peter Wimsey Book 5 by Dorothy L. Sayers
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A book of short stories featuring Dorothy L Sayers' classic character Lord Peter Wimsey, introduced by thriller writer Christopher Fowler - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and... -
Writing Audio Drama by Tim Crook
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £34.59Writing Audio Drama is a comprehensive and intelligent guide to writing sound drama for broadcasting and online production. The book uses new and original research on the history of writing radio... -
The Ghost Riders of Ordebec: A Commissaire Adamsberg novel by Fred Vargas 9780099569558
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54'People will die,' says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters. She refuses to speak to anyone besides Commissaire Adamsberg. Her daughter has seen a vision: ghostly horsemen who target... -
Adventure, Mystery and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture by John G. Cawelti 9780226098678
Booksplease Price: £33.24In this first general theory for the analysis of popular literary formulas, John G. Cawelti reveals the artistry that underlies the best in formulaic literature. Cawelti discusses such seemingly... -
French Crime Fiction, 1945-2005: Investigating World War II Margaret-Anne Hutton 9781138274969
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44In the first major study of representations of World War II in French crime fiction, Margaret-Anne Hutton draws on a corpus of over a hundred and fifty texts spanning more than sixty years. Included... -
The Nine Tailors: Lord Peter Wimsey Book 11 by Dorothy L. Sayers 9781473621398
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The 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... -
Gaston Bachelard: Critic of Science and the Imagination Cristina Chimisso 9780415869096
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98In this new study, Cristina Chimisso explores the work of the French Philosopher of Science, Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) by situating it within French cultural life of the first half of the century... -
Dog Will Have His Day by Fred Vargas
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Shortlisted for the CWA International DaggerHOW DO YOU SOLVE A MURDER WITHOUT A BODY?Keeping watch under the windows of the Paris flat belonging to a politician's nephew, ex-special investigator... -
Simenon: The Man, The Books, The Films: A 21st Century Guide by Barry Forshaw
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The legendary Georges Simenon was the most successful and influential writer of crime fiction in a language other than English; Andre Gide called him 'the greatest French novelist of our times'. ... -
Murder on a Winter's Night: Ten Classic Crime Stories for Christmas Cecily Gayford 9781788168014
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78In the bleak midwinter ... murder awaits. The halls might be decked, and the mistletoe hung, but in these ten classic crime stories you're more likely to come across a corpse under the Christmas... -
Sex, Drugs and Creativity: Searching for Magic in a Disenchanted World Dustin Kahoud 9781138956087
RRP: £135.00Booksplease Price: £128.38In Sex, Drugs, and Creativity: The Search for Magic in a Disenchanted World, Kahoud and Knafo take a close look at omnipotent fantasies in three domains: sex, drugs, and creativity. They demonstrate... -
Sex, Drugs and Creativity: Searching for Magic in a Disenchanted World Dustin Kahoud 9781138956094
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59In Sex, Drugs, and Creativity: The Search for Magic in a Disenchanted World, Kahoud and Knafo take a close look at omnipotent fantasies in three domains: sex, drugs, and creativity. They demonstrate...