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Grey Mask Patricia Wentworth 9781473673953
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02CLASSIC GOLDEN AGE MYSTERY PERFECT FOR FANS OF AGATHA CHRISTIEMiss Silver must foil a plot to murder a beautiful young heiress'Ranks with the best of the golden-age detectives' Daily MailFurious at... -
Grey Mask by Patricia Wentworth 9780340767900
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Furious at being jilted at the altar by Margaret Langton, Charles Moray left England behind him. Four years later he returns only to discover that a criminal gang has been using his house to plan a... -
The Private Eye Brian K Vaughan 9781534331648
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.13"Colorful and relevant..." -Slate "With stunning artwork, propulsive sequential-art storytelling, and a thought-provoking premise, this is truly one of a kind." -Booklist (starred review) From the... -
Wrecked by Joe Ide
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Isaiah Quintabe - IQ for short - has never been more successful, or felt more alone. A series of high-profile wins in his hometown of East Long Beach have made him so notorious that he can hardly go... -
Danger Point Patricia Wentworth 9781473673892
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02CLASSIC GOLDEN AGE MYSTERY PERFECT FOR FANS OF AGATHA CHRISTIEThe first wife died suddenly. Without Miss Silver's help, the new bride may be about to meet a similar fate'Ranks with the best of the... -
Smoke Joe Ide 9781474612043
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES PRODUCED BY SNOOP DOGG'The best new discovery I've come across in a long time' Michael Connelly 'Writing so sharp you may cut your fingers on the pages' Attica Locke'The... -
Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life Laura Thompson 9781472269560
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Laura Thompson's outstanding biography . . . is a pretty much perfect capturing of a life' - Kate MosseIt has been 100 years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable... -
Detectives in the Shadows: A Hard-Boiled History by Susanna Lee 9781421437095
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £16.40A century of American history reflected in the iconic private eye.Steadfast in fighting crime, but operating outside the police force-and sometimes even the law-is the private detective. Driven by... -
Hi Five by Joe Ide
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78THE TIMES BEST CRIME NOVELS OF THE YEARNEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLERS OF 2020: 'Playful, fresh, full of life'WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST MYSTERIES OF 2020: 'Among the most inventive and smartly written... -
Hi Five: An electrifying combination of Holmesian mystery and SoCal grit by Joe Ide 9781474608930
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.37'THE BEST NEW DISCOVERY I'VE COME ACROSS IN A LONG TIME' Michael Connelly'WRITING SO SHARP YOU MAY CUT YOUR FINGERS ON THE PAGES' Attica Locke'THE HOTTEST OF RECENTLY-EMERGED CRIME WRITERS' New York... -
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Clouds of Witness: Lord Peter Wimsey Book 2 by Dorothy L. Sayers 9780450001802 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.99A must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion Mysteries, Lord Peter Wimsey is the immortal amateur sleuth created by Dorothy L Sayers. The Duke of Denver, accused... -
Cover Her Face by James 9780743219570
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £14.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743219570Author JamesPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Black Mountain Chamberlain: John Chamberlain's Writings at Black Mountain College, 1955 by John Chamberlain 9780691204482
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £34.91The first publication of the unknown poetry of a major twentieth-century sculptorIn 1955, long before he became famous for his abstract metal sculptures, John Chamberlain lived at Black Mountain... -
L.A. Private Eyes by Dahlia Schweitzer 9780813596372
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £50.35L.A. Private Eyes examines the tradition of the private eye as it evolves in films, books, and television shows set in Los Angeles from the 1930's through the present day. It takes a closer look at... -
Shroud for A Nightingale by James
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £13.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743219600Author JamesPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Ladies' Bane Patricia Wentworth 9781473673922
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02CLASSIC GOLDEN AGE MYSTERY PERFECT FOR FANS OF AGATHA CHRISTIEMiss Silver must unravel a tangled web of marriage, mystery and murder'Ranks with the best of the golden-age detectives' Daily MailNo one... -
Cuba and the Tempest: Literature and Cinema in the Time of Diaspora by Eduardo Gonzalez 9780807856833
Booksplease Price: £41.90In a unique analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the country's borders, Eduardo Gonzalez looks closely at the work of three important contemporary Cuban authors: Guillermo Cabrera Infante... -
Spotlight Patricia Wentworth 9781473673939
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02CLASSIC GOLDEN AGE MYSTERY, PERFECT FOR FANS OF AGATHA CHRISTIEWhen a blackmailer is stabbed at his own celebration, Miss Silver must find the guilty party'Ranks with the best of the golden-age... -
In Love by Alfred Hayes 9781805331070
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37An exquisite depiction of a doomed love affair, set in noirish 1950s New York In a hotel bar, a disenchanted writer tells a beautiful stranger the story of his latest doomed love affair. Sipping... -
Writing America: Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee by Shelley Fisher Fishkin 9780813575971
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.54Winner of the John S. Tuckey 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award for Mark Twain Scholarship from The Center for Mark Twain Studies American novelist E.L. Doctorow once observed that literature "endows... -
The Literary Impact of The Golden Bough by John B. Vickery
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £55.68Frazer, with Freud, Marx, and Jung, is one of the thinkers who have had a deep and pervasive influence on modern literature. One of the great nineteenth-century syntheses, The Golden Bough was the... -
Shot/Countershot: Film Tradition and Women's Cinema by Lucy Fischer 9780691609218
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.90Do films made by women comprise a "counter-cinema" radically different from the dominant tradition? Feminist film critics contend that women filmmakers do present from a distinctive vision, or... -
Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria by Wendy Griswold 9780691058290
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £51.87Greed, frustrated love, traffic jams, infertility, politics, polygamy. These--together with depictions of traditional village life and the impact of colonialism made familiar to Western readers... -
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Needless Alley: The critically acclaimed noir crime debut by Natalie Marlow 9781399801812 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £5.81An FT Best Summer Thriller 2023'Creates an atmosphere of mounting menace' The Times'Conjures up a backdrop so vivid you can taste the smoke in the air' Val McDermid, author of 1989BIRMINGHAM, 1933... -
Widespread Panic James Ellroy 9781529157581
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Freddy is an ex-L.A. cop on the skids. He snuffed a cop killer in cold blood - and it got to him bad. Now he's a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp - and, most notably, the head... -
Needless Alley: The critically acclaimed noir crime debut by Natalie Marlow
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.86An FT Best Summer Thriller 2023'Creates an atmosphere of mounting menace' The Times'Conjures up a backdrop so vivid you can taste the smoke in the air' Val McDermid, author of 1989BIRMINGHAM, 1933... -
Fixit by Joe Ide 9781474612128
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'The best thing to happen to mystery writing in a very long time' NEW YORK TIMES Isaiah Quintabe's first love, Grace, has been kidnapped by maniacal hitman Skip Hanson, who is determined to punish... -
Needless Alley: The critically acclaimed historical crime debut Natalie Marlow 9781399801812
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02An FT Best Summer Thriller 2023'Creates an atmosphere of mounting menace' The Times'Conjures up a backdrop so vivid you can taste the smoke in the air' Val McDermid, author of 1989BIRMINGHAM, 1933... -
The Burglar Who Counted The Spoons by Lawrence Block
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42The long-awaited eleventh novel in the Bernie Rhodenbarr series.Everybody's favourite burglar returns in an eleventh adventure that finds him and his lesbian sidekick Carolyn Kaiser breaking into... -
Rose Gold: Easy Rawlins 13 by Walter Mosley 9781780227856
Booksplease Price: £18.18When four armed policemen turn up at Easy Rawlins's door, he thinks he's in trouble. He is. They want him to find Rosemary Goldsmith, the daughter of a millionaire arms dealer. And Easy can't afford... -
Hangman's Holiday: Lord Peter Wimsey Book 9 by Dorothy L. Sayers
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The ninth book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series, introduced by crime writer David Mark - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion... -
In the Teeth of the Evidence: Lord Peter Wimsey Book 14 by Dorothy L. Sayers
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Dorothy L Sayers' amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey returns in this collection of mysteries, introduced by crime writer Elizabeth George. A must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery... -
The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture by Alfred Bendixen
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This collection of essays by leading scholars insists on a larger recognition of the importance and diversity of crime fiction in U.S. literary traditions. Instead of presenting the genre as the... -
Striding Folly: Lord Peter Wimsey Book 15 by Dorothy L. Sayers
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Dorothy L Sayers' amateur sleuth returns in this collection of three stories, featuring a brand new introduction from crime writer Catriona McPherson. A must-read for fans of the inimitable Lord... -
Busman's Honeymoon: Lord Peter Wimsey Book 13 by Dorothy L. Sayers
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The thirteenth book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series, introduced by crime writer Natasha Cooper - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion... -
Murder Must Advertise: Lord Peter Wimsey Book 10 by Dorothy L. Sayers
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.78'Think MadMen in prewar London' The GuardianThe tenth book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series, introduced by bestselling crime writer Peter Robinson - a must-read for fans of... -
Razzmatazz: A Novel by Christopher Moore 9780062434135
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28New York Times Bestseller"Smart and funny and all sorts of raunchy in the best way." - San Francisco ChronicleRepeat New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore returns to the mean streets of... -
Blonde Faith: Easy Rawlins 11 Walter Mosley 9780753823446
Booksplease Price: £20.70Easy Rawlins is back in an electric new story and facing his greatest set of challenges to dateEasy Rawlins comes home one day to find Easter, the daughter of his friend Christmas Black, left on his... -
All I Did Was Shoot My Man: Leonid McGill 4 by Walter Mosley 9781780220963
Booksplease Price: £20.70An electric new novel starring PI Leonid McGill from the inimitable Walter Mosley, creator of the Easy Rawlins series.Seven years ago Zella Grisham was arrested for illegal possession of a firearm,... -
Razzmatazz: A Novel by Christopher Moore
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.45New York Times Bestseller"Smart and funny and all sorts of raunchy in the best way." - San Francisco ChronicleRepeat New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore returns to the mean streets of...