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Checkmate to Murder: A Second World War Mystery by E.C.R. Lorac
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55On a dismally foggy night in Hampstead, London, a curious party has gathered in an artist's studio to weather the wartime blackout. A civil servant and a government scientist are matching wits in a... -
Born of the Sun: Adventures in Our Solar System by Mike Ashley
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Terror in the steamy jungles of Venus, encounters on the arid expanse of Jupiter; asteroids mysteriously bursting with vegetation whizz past and reveal worlds beyond imagination orbiting the giver of... -
Menace of the Monster: Classic Tales of Creatures from Beyond by Mike Ashley 9780712352697
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75The fact that humanity is not alone in the universe has long preoccupied our thoughts. In this compelling new collection of short stories from SF's classic age our visions of `other' are shown in a... -
The Philosophy of Tea Tony Gebely 9780712352598
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.52How did drinking the infusions of a unique plant from China become a vital part of everyday life? This gift book presents an entertaining and illuminating introduction to the history and culture of... -
The Little Blue Flames and Other Nightmare Tales by A. M. Burrage by A. M. Burrage 9780712354127
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.82The supernatural tales of A M Burrage were recognised by contemporaries such as M R James and the critic E F Bleiler as some of the most imaginative and cleverly told ghost stories in the English... -
Chatterton Square E H Young 9780712353229
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55"'You don't mean you're going to divorce him?' Miss Spanner said with horror." A sophisticated, emotive novel, Chatterton Square concerns the complex web of relationships between two neighbouring... -
The Edinburgh Mystery: And Other Tales of Scottish Crime by Martin Edwards 9780712354851
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35"Cara!" Mr. Wilkinson stood on the jetty looking out at the long, low shadow of the island, dark against the setting sun. "A beautiful place, and a beautiful name." "It's the Gaelic word for a... -
Murder in the Basement by Anthony Berkeley 9780712353946
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55When two newlyweds discover that a corpse has been buried in the basement of their new home, a gruelling case begins to trace the identity of the victim. With all avenues of investigation approaching... -
Due to a Death Mary Kelly 9780712353144
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75"Her writing is moment by moment intense, and successful as such... What propels the reader through the pages is not the tug of 'who done it' nor the excitement of men with guns coming through doors,... -
London Particular by Christianna Brand 9780712355407
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55"You have to reach for the greatest of the Great Names (Agatha Christie, John Dickson Carr, Ellery Queen) to find Christianna Brand's rivals in the subtleties of the trade." - Anthony Boucher in the... -
Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries by Martin Edwards 9780712355452
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35"The Master? Dr. Greeby? You don't say so! Murdered? Dear me! Poor Greeby! This will upset my whole day's work." An Oxford Master is slain on campus during Pentecost. A headmaster faces... -
Not to Be Taken: A Puzzle in Poison 9780712355421
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55"...now we have Not to Be Taken, a compact and fascinating essay in the art of home detection." Torquemada in The Observer, 1938"The murder is by arsenic; and although the number of suspects is... -
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The Pocket Detective: 100+ Puzzles by Kate Jackson 9780712352963 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $3.34Polish off your magnifying glass and step into the shoes of your favourite detectives as you unlock tantalising clues and solve intricate puzzles. There are over 100 criminally teasing challenges to... -
Holy Ghosts: Classic Tales of the Ecclesiastical Uncanny by Fiona Snailham
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35"I confess I have a particular dislike to remain in a church after dusk; it recalls to my mind the most painful story I ever heard." A festering evil lurks in the grotesque carvings of a... -
Sailor Song: The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas Gerry Smyth 9780712353700
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $13.67Passed down in the oral tradition and sung traditionally as working songs, sea shanties tell the human stories of life at sea: hard graft, battling the elements, the loss of ships or pining for a... -
The Gothic Tales of Sheridan Le Fanu by J. T. Sheridan Le Fanu
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.16Sheridan Le Fanu was lauded by contemporaries such as M. R. James for his innovations in the ghost story and mystery genres, and his mastery of conjuring atmosphere and driving stories to thrilling... -
Death of a Bookseller by Bernard J Farmer
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.51An honest policeman, Sergeant Wigan, escorts a drunk man home one night to keep him out of trouble and, seeing his fine book collection, slowly falls in to the gentle art of book collecting. Just as... -
The Christmas Egg: A Seasonal Mystery by Mary Kelly 9780712353106
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09Chief Inspector Brett Nightingale and Sergeant Beddoes find the body of Princess Olga Karukhin, who fled from Russia at the time of the Revolution. Taking place in the three days leading up to... -
Fear Stalks the Village by Ethel Lina White 9780712355308
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35"Fear Stalks the Village has a sense of reality about it which few thrillers possess, and the characterisation is excellent. You will enjoy thrill upon thrill." - Tatler "To the connoisseur of... -
Fantasy: Realms of Imagination by Tanya Kirk
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $28.51'Fantasy, we know, from the oldest stories in the oldest languages, has always been with us.' - Neil Gaiman, 'Preface' Fantasy is an expansive genre, encompassing sprawling epics, ancient... -
A History of America in 100 Maps Susan Schulten 9780712352178
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $29.89In this richly visual narrative, acclaimed historian Susan Schulten explores five centuries of American history through maps. From the voyages of European discovery to the digital age, she reveals... -
Jumping Jenny by Anthony Berkeley 9780712354707
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55'Mr. Anthony Berkeley deserves all gratitude for his energetic efforts to escape from the thraldom of formula... If you are hard-boiled and disillusioned about detectives, you will find this tale... -
Green for Danger Christianna Brand 9780712354905
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35It is 1942, and struggling up the hill to the new military hospital, Heron's Park, Kent, postman Higgins has no idea that the sender of one of the seven letters of application he is delivering will... -
The Chianti Flask Marie Belloc Lowndes 9780712353298
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75"[Belloc Lowndes] brings to the making of a mystery a literary sense and an imagination that puts life into the tale and into the readers." - The Observer An enigmatic young woman named Laura... -
Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries by Martin Edwards 9780712353441
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35"Curiously enough," said Dr. Manners, "I know a story in which the detection of a murder turned on the behaviour of a bird: in this instance a jackdaw." Since the dawn of the crime fiction... -
Murder by the Book: Mysteries for Bibliophiles Martin Edwards 9780712353694
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35'If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a major character is a bookseller or a librarian.' - Otto Penzler A bookish puzzle threatens an... -
Medieval Women: Voices & Visions: The Book of the British Library Exhibition Eleanor Jackson 9780712355902
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $32.22This beautifully illustrated, large format volume accompanies the British Library’s major Autumn exhibition which seeks to recover women’s voices, visions and experiences in Britain and Europe from... -
Women Writers Christmas Collection by 9780712354523
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.51The 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... -
Calamity in Kent John Rowland 9780712357838
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55In the peaceful seaside town of Broadgate, an impossible crime occurs. The operator of the cliff railway locks the empty carriage one evening; when he returns to work next morning, a dead body is... -
Resorting to Murder: Holiday Mysteries Martin Edwards 9780712357487
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Holidays offer us the luxury of getting away from it all. So, in a different way, do detective stories. This collection of vintage mysteries combines both those pleasures. From a golf course at the... -
Death of Anton by Alan Melville 9780712357883
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75'There's more crime going on in Carey's Circus than in the whole underworld of London. Theft, immorality, blackmail - you'll find all the pretties here.'Seven Bengal tigers are the star attraction of... -
Verdict of Twelve Raymond Postgate 9780712356749
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75A woman is on trial for her life, accused of murder. The twelve members of the jury each carry their own secret burden of guilt and prejudice which could affect the outcome.In this extraordinary... -
Seven Dead J. Jefferson Farjeon 9780712356886
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Ted 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... -
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How to Skin a Lion: A Treasury of Outmoded Advice by Claire Cock-Starkey 9780712357821 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $3.91Have you ever wondered how to pan for gold, train a falcon or make a love potion? Could you restore a drowned person, smoke your own bacon or correctly address a Maharajah? If not, fear not - you... -
Golden Letters: Writing Traditions in Indonesia by A. Gallop 9780970808301
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $63.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970808301Author A. GallopFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint -
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In the Company of Cats: Illustration Through the Ages by British Library 9780712357500 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $3.57A visual celebration of the mystery and magnificence of cats, from charming kittens and affectionate families to bold hunters and battle-scarred toms. More than 100 illustrations depict cats at... -
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Secret of High Eldersham by Miles Burton 9780712356091 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $3.47Samuel Whitehead, landlord of the Rose and Crown, is a stranger in the lonely East Anglian village of High Eldersham. When the newcomer is stabbed to death in his pub, and Scotland Yard are called to... -
Twice Round the Clock by Billie Houston
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55"It is past the half-hour. My time is coming nearer with every tick of the clock." Horace Manning, scientist, recluse and 'closed book' even to his friends is found dead in his study at 4am,... -
Suddenly at His Residence: A Mystery in Kent by Christianna Brand
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.28"Christianna Brand is not merely a purveyor of thrills or a maker of puzzles. She is a novelist." - The Daily Telegraph While the Blitz bombards London, the boisterous grandchildren of Sir Richard... -
The Philosophy of Cheese by Patrick McGuigan
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $9.55Patrick McGuigan is a British food journalist and cheese writer, who contributes to The Telegraph, Delicious and The Financial Times, among many other titles. He has travelled the world, from the...