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Foreign Bodies by Martin Edwards 9780712356992
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Today, 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: £8.70'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: £24.92This 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... -
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The Philosophy of Beards by Thomas S. Gowing 9780712357661 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £1.97'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... -
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Murder of a Lady by Anthony Wynne 9780712356237 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.19Duchlan 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... -
![Penguins, Pineapples and Pangolins: First Encounters with the Exotic by Claire Cock-Starkey 9780712356367 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9710975/10727654/9780712356367__72727.1781370750.jpg?c=1 "Penguins, Pineapples and Pangolins: First Encounters with the Exotic by Claire Cock-Starkey 9780712356367 [USED COPY]")
Penguins, Pineapples and Pangolins: First Encounters with the Exotic by Claire Cock-Starkey 9780712356367 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £3.62Can you remember seeing a giraffe for the first time? Tasting a pineapple? Touching a cactus? Probably not, because in these modern times everyone is very knowing - knowledge is at our fingertips and... -
Sea Monsters on Medieval by Chet van Duzer 9780712357715
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.49The sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps, whether swimming vigorously, gambolling amid the waves, attacking ships, or simply displaying themselves for our appreciation, are one of the most... -
Death on the Riviera by John Bude 9780712356374
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.02When a counterfeit currency racket comes to light on the French Riviera, Detective Inspector Meredith is sent speeding southwards - out of the London murk to the warmth and glitter of the... -
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: £7.74Bloomsbury 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... -
![The Lake District Murder by John Bude 9780712357166 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6227119/6304065/9780712357166__00954.1736783145.jpg?c=1 "The Lake District Murder by John Bude 9780712357166 [USED COPY]")
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 Hog's Back Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts 9780712357975 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9682845/10699565/9780712357975__62694.1781304540.jpg?c=1 "The Hog's Back Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts 9780712357975 [USED COPY]")
The Hog's Back Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts 9780712357975 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.32Dr James Earle and his wife live in comfortable seclusion near the Hog's Back, a ridge in the North Downs in the beautiful Surrey countryside. When Dr Earle disappears from his cottage, Inspector... -
The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'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... -
Serpents in Eden: Countryside Crimes Martin Edwards 9780712357944
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78An eclectic mix of crime stories written over half a century. From a tale of poison-pen letters tearing apart a village community to a macabre mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle, the stories collected... -
Portrait of a Murderer: A Christmas Crime Story by Anne Meredith 9780712356862
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'Powerful and impressive ...there is a fine inevitability in the plot structure which gives it true tragic quality' - Dorothy L. SayersAdrian Gray was born in May 1862 and met his death through... -
The Writer Abroad: Literary Travels from Austria to Uzbekistan by Lucinda Hawksley 9780712357876
Booksplease Price: £14.26From the grand tour to the global village, novelists and poets have made particularly observant travellers. Many writers have been prone to wanderlust, eager to explore the world and draw inspiration... -
Dogs: A Literary Anthology by Catherine Bradley 9780712357760
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £15.96'Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends'. - Alexander PopeThroughout the history of writing, dogs have captivated their owners with their loyalty and playfulness... -
![Thirteen Guests by J. Jefferson Farjeon 9780712356015 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9682822/10699542/9780712356015__62986.1781304520.jpg?c=1 "Thirteen Guests by J. Jefferson Farjeon 9780712356015 [USED COPY]")
Thirteen Guests by J. Jefferson Farjeon 9780712356015 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.09No 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... -
![Comic, Curious and Quirky: News Stories from Centuries Past by Rona F. Levin 9780712357722 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9710980/10727659/9780712357722__23982.1781370761.jpg?c=1 "Comic, Curious and Quirky: News Stories from Centuries Past by Rona F. Levin 9780712357722 [USED COPY]")
Comic, Curious and Quirky: News Stories from Centuries Past by Rona F. Levin 9780712357722 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £2.53This book is an eclectic collection of humorous, bizarre and quirky newspaper stories spanning the 1700s to 1900s. It reveals life's (often avoidable) daily perils such as the woman who poisoned her... -
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The Z Murders by J. Jefferson Farjeon 9780712356213 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.19'Jefferson Farjeon is quite unsurpassed for creepy skill in mysterious adventures.'Dorothy L. SayersRichard Temperley arrives at Euston station early on a fogbound London morning. He takes refuge in... -
Blood on the Tracks: Railway Mysteries by Martin Edwards
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'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... -
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: £8.02'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...