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Mike Hammer - Killing Town by Mickey Spillane
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.03While undercover in upstate New York, Hammer is accused by police of murdering a young woman near the freight yards. Roughed up by the cops and facing a murder charge, Hammer's fate is looking bleak... -
The Stories of Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury 9781841593265
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €22.46p-Included here are famous tales like 'Sound of Thunder', in which the carelessness of a group of time-travellers leads to disastrous consequences, and 'The Veldt', in which two seemingly innocent... -
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 9780241655573
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79Joseph Conrad's haunting Modernist masterpiece, now in the beautifully designed Penguin Clothbound Classics seriesHeart of Darkness has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic,... -
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Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen 9780552772532 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €2.86Joey Perrone is a woman with a mission. She's just been pushed overboard from a cruise liner by Chaz, her scumbag husband, and survived to tell the tale. But rather than reporting him to the police,... -
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My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John Updike 9780141042596 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €2.61John Updike was a master storyteller, and this collection, from his final years, reveals that up to the end he remained the finest short-story writer of his generation.'Magnificent, exhilarating,... -
News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Gabriel Garcia Marquez's News of a Kidnapping is a powerful retelling of actual events from a turbulent period of Colombian history. 'She looked over her shoulder before getting into the car to be... -
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.98One of the twentieth century's great undisputed masterpieces, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano includes an introduction by Michael Schmidt in Penguin Modern Classics.It is the fiesta 'Day of the... -
Collected Stories W. Somerset Maugham 9781857152760
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.10Though W. Somerset Maugham was also famous for his novels and plays, it has been argued that in thethe short story he reached the pinnacle of his artwas his true metier. These expertly told tales,... -
All Shot Up by Chester Himes
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.46'Outrageous, shocking, wonderful' The New York TimesA golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hit-and-run victim's been hit so hard she got... -
Black is the Night: Stories inspired by Cornell Woolrich by Maxim Jakubowski
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €15.76A gritty and thrilling anthology of 28 new short stories in tribute to pulp noir master, Cornell Woolrich, author of 'Rear Window' that inspired Alfred Hitchock's classic film. Featuring Neil... -
Licks of Love: Short Stories And a Sequel, 'Rabbit Remembered' by John Updike
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.02Collected with a dozen wonderful stories, all set in classic Updike territory, the short novel 'RABBIT REMEMBERED' is a major work in its own right - a riveting return to Updike's most celebrated... -
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.51'My guest was lying sprawled on his back. There was a long knife through his heart which skewered him to the floor'Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is... -
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 9780099519003
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.13'The first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels' T S EliotWhen Rachel Verinder receives a gift of an astonishing yellow diamond from her bitter old uncle for her eighteenth... -
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth 9781857151978
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.58THE RADETSKY MARCH is subtle and touching study of family life at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Writing in the traditional form of the family saga, Roth nevertheless manages to bring to his... -
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On Java Road: ‘The bastard child of Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith’ METRO by Lawrence Osborne 9781529114959 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €5.74A veteran British journalist living in Hong Kong investigates the disappearance of a student protestor amidst the pro-democracy demonstrations in this unsettling new novel from the acclaimed author... -
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €7.18Stephanie Plum is down on her luck. She's lost her job, her car's on the brink of repossession, and her apartment is fast becoming furniture-free. Enter Cousin Vinnie, a low-life who runs a bail-bond... -
Mr Hire's Engagement by Georges Simenon
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Georges Simenon's chilling portrayal of tragic love, persecution and betrayal.'One sensed in him neither flesh nor bone, nothing but soft, flaccid matter, so much so that his movements were hard to... -
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70The air of Eastwick breeds witches - women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven. Into... -
The Thin Red Line James Jones 9780141393247
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70'Moves so intensely and inexorably that it almost seems like the war it is describing' The New York Times Book Review'Is it really worth it to die, to be dead, just to prove to everybody that you're... -
Charcoal Joe: The Latest Easy Rawlins Mystery by Walter Mosley
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54Seymour Brathwaite, a young physicist, was found standing over the body of a murdered man. Charcoal Joe, one of the deadliest men in America, wants Brathwaite cleared. Easy Rawlins, a renowned Los... -
On Java Road by Lawrence Osborne
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €16.17A veteran British journalist living in Hong Kong investigates the disappearance of a student protestor amidst the pro-democracy demonstrations in this unsettling new novel from the acclaimed author... -
The Franchise Affair: Their country house will soon play host to a nightmare... by Josephine Tey
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91'An ingenious book' SARAH WATERS'Permanent classics in the detective field . . . no superlatives are adequate' THE NEW YORK TIMESMarion Shape and her mother are quiet and ordinary villagers, enjoying... -
The Pursuit of the Well-beloved and the Well-beloved by Thomas Hardy
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64Hardy's two versions of a strange story set in the weird landscape of Portland. The central figure is a man obsessed both with the search for his ideal woman and with sculpting the perfect figure of... -
The Heat's On Chester Himes 9780241521106
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday TimesDetectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones have lost two criminals. Pinky ran off - but it shouldn't be hard to track... -
What Maisie Knew by Henry James
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70What Maisie Knew is Henry James's damning portrait of adultery, jealousy and possession on the decadent fringe of English upper-class society. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an... -
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan 9780141031262
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.71Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter... -
Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes 9780241639221
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphA con-man is swindling the poor folk of Harlem out of their life savings - and now all... -
The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 9780140011302
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.71Perhaps more than any other book The Thirty-Nine Steps has set the pattern for the story of the chase for a wanted man. And, of the many writers who have attempted this kind of thing since Buchan,... -
The Hound of the Baskervilles, A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 9781841593630
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.16This beautiful hardback collection features the world's most famous detective in his most classic adventures. We begin with A Study in Scarlet, the novel that introduces the most famous characters in... -
The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith 9781857152623
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.91Three classic crime novels by a master of the macabre - The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, and Ripley's Game - appear here together in hardcover for the first time. Suave, agreeable, and... -
The Collected Stories by Ernest Hemingway
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.50Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) is celebrated as a novelist and man of action. He is perhaps most famous for WHOM THE BELL TOLLS and A FAREWELL TO ARMS. But he was equally prolific as a writer of short... -
The Underground Man by Ross Macdonald
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.46When a chance encounter makes him a witness to the abduction of a child, private detective Lew Archer can't help but be drawn into the case, pursuing a trail that leads all too quickly to murder... -
The Best of Wodehouse by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.91P.G. Wodehouse was, by common consent, the most brilliant writer of English comedy in the 20th century, equally celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic. He achieved the unusual distinction of... -
The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.91As an operative for Pinkerton's Detective Agency Dashiell Hammett knew about sleuthing from the inside, but his career was cut short by the ruin of his health in World War I. These three celebrated... -
Double Down Max Allan Collins 9781789091410
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.20Veteran thief Nolan tangles with a skyjacker and vigilante in two full-length novels from Grandmaster Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition), collected in one volume for the first time ever. It Takes... -
On Java Road: ‘The bastard child of Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith’ METRO by Lawrence Osborne 9781529114959
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91A veteran British journalist living in Hong Kong investigates the disappearance of a student protestor amidst the pro-democracy demonstrations in this unsettling new novel from the acclaimed author... -
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan 9780141441177
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.16A gripping tale of adventure that has enthralled readers since it was first published, John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps is edited with an introduction and notes by Sir John Keegan in Penguin... -
A German Requiem by Philip Kerr
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.08The third in the late Philip Kerr's universally acclaimed Berlin Noir trilogy, A German Requiem sees detective Bernie Gunther enter the new and terrifying world of post-war Vienna. In the bitter... -
Film Noir and Los Angeles: Urban History and the Dark Imaginary Sean W. Maher 9780367547998
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €52.54This book combines film studies with urban theory in a spatial exploration of twentieth century Los Angeles. Configured through the dark lens of noir, the author examines an alternate urban history... -
The Actor by Donald E. Westlake 9781803367743
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.95NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Donald E. Westlake's lost masterpiece MEMORY, adapted for the screen as THE ACTOR."An unsparing look at a man adrift, it's a fitting final dispatch from a master."--Time...