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The Widow of Bath by Margot Bennett 9780712353748
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'There are a dozen clever deceptions in the book, twice as many as most writers would have given us.' - Julian Symons in Bloody Murder Hugh Everton was intent on nothing more than quietly drinking... -
Gold: The British Library Exhibition Book by Kathleen Doyle 9780712354462
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.40Gold is universally appreciated for its beauty and value. Since ancient times, people have found all kinds of ways to incorporate gold into handmade books and documents - gold writing, gold pages,... -
The Darkest of Nights by Charles Eric Maine 9780712352185
Booksplease Price: £6.16A vicious plague has broken out in China and spread to Japan. The world governments look on callously, until the shadow of the Hueste virus begins to sweep across the rest of the globe. The... -
Fear in the Blood: Tales from the Dark Lineages of the Weird Mike Ashley 9780712355650
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.97Sheridan Le Fanu and his niece, Rhoda Broughton. Louisa Baldwin and her nephew, Rudyard Kipling. Nathaniel Hawthorne, his son, Julian, and his grand-daughter, Hildegarde. Joan Aiken and her father,... -
Deadly Dolls: Haunting Tales of the Uncanny by Elizabeth Dearnley 9780712355704
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'The sleeping wood had wakened. Her pearl teeth crashed against his with the sound of cymbals and her warm, fragrant breath blew around him like an Italian gale.' Dolls, mannequins, humanoid toys... -
The Menu: Memorable Meals from Escoffier at the Ritz to a Suffragettes' Victory Dinner to the First Meal on the Moon by Eve Marleau 9780712353007
Booksplease Price: £24.62Fascinating and entertaining, the menu, as a record of the food we eat, tells us much about who we were and how we lived. From the historically significant to the unexpected, discover what was eaten... -
The Woman in the Hall by G. B. Stern 9780712355230
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.37She didn't want men to be in love with her. She wanted power and a dangerous gamble and the fun of winning and putting herself over as a sweet saviour, till at last she came to believe it herself... -
Women Writers Christmas Collection by 9780712354523
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.37The British Library Women Writers series is a curated collection of novels by female authors who enjoyed broad, popular appeal in their day. In a century during which the role of women in society... -
The Philosophy of Sheds by Alex Johnson 9780712355841
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02At a time when it feels like every year buildings get larger and more impersonal, sheds remain a beacon of ergonomic simplicity. Maybe it's the nostalgia of the ancient huts from which humanity... -
Foreign Bodies by Martin Edwards 9780712356992
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Today, translated crime fiction is in vogue - but this was not always the case. A century before Scandi noir, writers across Europe and beyond were publishing detective stories of high quality. Often... -
Thirteen Guests J. Jefferson Farjeon 9780712356015
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78No observer, ignorant of the situation, would have guessed that death lurked nearby, and that only a little distance from the glitter of silver and glass and the hum of voices two victims lay silent... -
Family Matters Anthony Rolls 9780712356695
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'The characters are quite extraordinarily living...A most original and grimly farcical situation' - Dorothy L. SayersRobert Arthur Kewdingham is an eccentric failure of a man. In middle age he... -
The End of the Web George Sims 9780712356824
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Leo Selver, a middle-aged antiques dealer, is stunned when the beautiful and desirable Judy Latimer shows an interest in him. Soon they are lying in each other's arms, unaware that this embrace will... -
Beauty, What it is and How to Retain it by A Lady 9780712358859
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £8.78'At night the teeth should be cleaned with a very soft brush of badger's hair.' 'Hair should be brushed for twenty minutes night and morning' 'Paint is used, we believe, by some absurd women, on the... -
Magna Carta: Manuscripts and Myths by Claire Breay 9780712358330
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72The Magna Carta is one of the most celebrated documents in English history and one of the British Library's greatest treasures. But despite this, the reinterpretations of it since 1215 have tended to... -
Pleasures of the Table: A Literary Anthology by Christina Hardyment 9780712357807
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £25.27This beautifully illustrated collection of food writing includes delectable scenes of cooking and feasting from novels and stories, poems that use food to tempt and seduce, and fine writing by and... -
Blood on the Tracks: Railway Mysteries by Martin Edwards
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Never had I been given a tougher problem to solve, and never had I been so utterly at my wits' end for a solution.' A signalman is found dead by a railway tunnel. A man identifies his wife as a... -
The Santa Klaus Murder by Mavis Doriel Hay
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Aunt Mildred declared that no good could come of the Melbury family Christmas gatherings at their country residence Flaxmere. So when Sir Osmond Melbury, the family patriarch, is discovered - by a... -
Fire in the Thatch: A Devon Mystery E. C. R. Lorac 9780712352604
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The Second World War is drawing to a close. Nicholas Vaughan, released from the army after an accident, takes refuge in Devon - renting a thatched cottage in the beautiful countryside at Mallory... -
The Notting Hill Mystery Charles Warren Adams 9780712356268
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78The Notting Hill Mystery has been widely described as the first detective novel. The story is told by the insurance investigator Ralph Henderson, who is building a case against the sinister Baron... -
Scarweather by Anthony Rolls 9780712356640
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'My friend Ellingham has persuaded me to reveal to the public the astounding features of the Reisby case. As a study in criminal aberration it is, he tells me, of particular interest, while in... -
The Lake District Murder John Bude 9780712357166
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37'Luke flung the light of his torch full onto the face of the immobile figure. Then he had the shock of his life. The man had no face! Where his face should have been was a sort of inhuman, uniform... -
The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books Martin Edwards 9780712356961
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53The main aim of detective stories is to entertain, but the best cast a light on human behaviour, and display both literary ambition and accomplishment. Even unpretentious detective stories, written... -
Seven Dead J. Jefferson Farjeon 9780712356886
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Ted Lyte, amateur thief, has chosen an isolated house by the coast for his first robbery. But Haven House is no ordinary country home. While hunting for silverware to steal, Ted stumbles upon a... -
Night in the Front Line: And Other Second World War Stories by Ann-Marie Einhaus 9780712356978
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.00The Second World War sparked the writing of hundreds of short stories, by servicemen and women as well as civilians. They appeared in magazines and collections during and after the war, and addressed... -
Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries by Martin Edwards
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Christmas is a mysterious, as well as magical, time of year. Strange things can happen, and this helps to explain the hallowed tradition of telling ghost stories around the fireside as the year draws... -
Crimson Snow: Winter Mysteries by Martin Edwards
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Crimson Snow brings together a dozen vintage crime stories set in winter. Welcome to a world of Father Christmases behaving oddly, a famous fictional detective in a Yuletide drama, mysterious tracks... -
The Philosophy of Beards by Thomas S. Gowing
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.40'The absence of Beard is usually a sign of physical and moral weakness.' 'Take two drawings of the head of a lion, one with and the other without the mane. You will see how much of the majesty of... -
Murder of a Lady by Anthony Wynne 9780712356237
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Duchlan Castle is a gloomy, forbidding place in the Scottish Highlands. Late one night the body of Mary Gregor, sister of the laird of Duchlan, is found in the castle. She has been stabbed to death... -
Quick Curtain Alan Melville 9780712357890
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Quick Curtain is a witty detective story, originally published in 1934. It is one among many books that enjoyed brief popularity during the "Golden Age of murder" between the two world wars but... -
A Book of Book Lists: A Bibliophile's Compendium by Alex Johnson 9780712352253
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40This is a book of book lists. Not of the '1,001 Books You MUST Read Before You Die' variety but lists that tell stories. Lists that make you smile, make you wonder, and see titles together in... -
Mapping the Heavens by Peter Whitfield 9780712352659
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.30Throughout history people have sought ways in which to map the heavens. From the sources of mathematics and mythology sprang the classic star chart, the finest examples of which are both scientific... -
The 12.30 from Croydon by Freeman Wills Crofts 9780712356497
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Crofts constructs his alibi with immense elaboration...The story is highly successful, and Mr Crofts is to be congratulated upon his experiment' - Dorothy L. SayersWe begin with a body. Andrew... -
Death on the Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay 9780712357265
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils to be feared: unladylike behaviour among her students, and bad publicity for the college. So her prim and cosy world is... -
Photographs and Words by Michael Katakis 9780712309141
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.40Michael Katakis has spent his life travelling with a camera and writing a journal. This is the resulting book. For the past 25 years he has collaborated with the social anthropologist Kris Hardin in... -
Bloomsbury: Beyond the Establishment Matthew Ingleby 9780712356565
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.40Bloomsbury lies at the heart of cultural and intellectual London, famed for its museums, universities and literary heritage. Matthew Ingleby's new history ranges across the neighbourhood to explore... -
The Book of the British Library by Michael Leapman 9780712358378
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.40As well as holding some of the world's most prized cultural treasures, the British Library is the repository of the nation's collective memory. Owing its origin to the generosity and far-sightedness... -
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The Lake District Murder by John Bude 9780712357166 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.25'Luke flung the light of his torch full onto the face of the immobile figure. Then he had the shock of his life. The man had no face! Where his face should have been was a sort of inhuman, uniform... -
The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'All his stories are amusing, intriguing, and he is a master of the final twist' - Agatha Christie'One of the most stunning trick stories in the history of detective fiction' - Julian SymonsGraham... -
The Methods of Sergeant Cluff Gil North 9780712356473
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16After battling for justice, at great personal risk, in his first recorded case, Sergeant Caleb Cluff made a swift return to duty in this book. The story opens one wet and windy night, with the...