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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... -
![How to Skin a Lion: A Treasury of Outmoded Advice by Claire Cock-Starkey 9780712357821 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9954124/10970599/9780712357821__21666.1786539957.jpg?c=1 "How to Skin a Lion: A Treasury of Outmoded Advice by Claire Cock-Starkey 9780712357821 [USED COPY]")
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... -
![In the Company of Cats: Illustration Through the Ages by British Library 9780712357500 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/10104851/11121194/9780712357500__37126.1788333504.jpg?c=1 "In the Company of Cats: Illustration Through the Ages by British Library 9780712357500 [USED COPY]")
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... -
![Secret of High Eldersham by Miles Burton 9780712356091 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/10131248/11147567/9780712356091__71102.1789541609.jpg?c=1 "Secret of High Eldersham by Miles Burton 9780712356091 [USED COPY]")
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... -
The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35'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... -
A Book of Book Lists: A Bibliophile's Compendium by Alex Johnson 9780712352253
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55This 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... -
The 12.30 from Croydon by Freeman Wills Crofts 9780712356497
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55'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... -
Family Matters Anthony Rolls 9780712356695
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75'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... -
Dogs: A Literary Anthology by Catherine Bradley 9780712357760
RRP: $29.61Booksplease Price: $21.09'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... -
![The Philosophy of Beards by Thomas S. Gowing 9780712357661 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9655864/10672584/9780712357661__89385.1781279397.jpg?c=1 "The Philosophy of Beards by Thomas S. Gowing 9780712357661 [USED COPY]")
The Philosophy of Beards by Thomas S. Gowing 9780712357661 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $2.54'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... -
![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: $12.90Booksplease Price: $3.21This 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... -
Sea Monsters on Medieval by Chet van Duzer 9780712357715
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.40The 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... -
Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries by Martin Edwards
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.19Christmas 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: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Crimson 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: $12.90Booksplease Price: $9.55'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... -
The End of the Web George Sims 9780712356824
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.95Leo 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... -
The Writer Abroad: Literary Travels from Austria to Uzbekistan by Lucinda Hawksley 9780712357876
Booksplease Price: $18.80From 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... -
Beauty, What it is and How to Retain it by A Lady 9780712358859
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $11.48'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... -
![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: $11.60Booksplease Price: $2.70No 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... -
![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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $2.99Dr 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 Z Murders by J. Jefferson Farjeon 9780712356213 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9930703/10947230/9780712356213__43247.1786494317.jpg?c=1 "The Z Murders by J. Jefferson Farjeon 9780712356213 [USED COPY]")
The Z Murders by J. Jefferson Farjeon 9780712356213 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $2.83'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... -
The Methods of Sergeant Cluff Gil North 9780712356473
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.95After 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... -
Death on the Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay 9780712357265
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55For 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... -
Serpents in Eden: Countryside Crimes Martin Edwards 9780712357944
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75An 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: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75'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... -
Scarweather by Anthony Rolls 9780712356640
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75'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 Bard in Brief: Shakespeare in Quotations by Hannah Manktelow 9780712356336
RRP: $20.58Booksplease Price: $13.94Widely acknowledged to be the greatest dramatist in the English language, William Shakespeare is also one of the most quoted writers of all time. His plays and sonnets influenced the history of the... -
![The Cornish Coast Murder by John Bude 9780712357159 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9682835/10699555/9780712357159__88782.1781304531.jpg?c=1 "The Cornish Coast Murder by John Bude 9780712357159 [USED COPY]")
The Cornish Coast Murder by John Bude 9780712357159 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $2.54'Never, even in his most optimistic moments, had he visualised a scene of this nature - himself in one arm-chair, a police officer in another, and between them - a mystery.' The Reverend Dodd,... -
The Last Best Friend George Sims 9780712356848
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $6.23"The small man standing on the narrow ledge stared fixedly forward with eyes made wide and blank by terror." At 2pm on a Monday in 1966, Ned Balfour wakes in Corsica beside a beautiful woman. In the... -
Astrology in Medieval Manuscripts Sophie Page 9780712352109
Booksplease Price: $18.95The art of predicting earthly events from the movements of stars and planets has always been a source of fascination. Medieval astrologers, though sometimes feared to be magicians in league with... -
Around the World in 80 Maps Clare Hibbert 9780712356930
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.93Sumptuously illustrated with eighty maps from the British Library's unrivalled collection, this gorgeous children's book whisks its reader around the globe. Like that of Jules Verne's famous hero,... -
![Death of an Airman by Christopher St John Sprigg 9780712356152 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6177678/6254631/9780712356152__75747.1736596038.jpg?c=1 "Death of an Airman by Christopher St John Sprigg 9780712356152 [USED COPY]")
Death of an Airman by Christopher St John Sprigg 9780712356152 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $4.64Death of an Airman is an enjoyable and unorthodox whodunit from a writer whose short life was as remarkable as that of any of his fictional creations. When an aeroplane crashes, and its pilot is... -
Night in the Front Line: And Other Second World War Stories by Ann-Marie Einhaus 9780712356978
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $15.13The 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... -
![Mystery in White: A Christmas Crime Story by J. Jefferson Farjeon 9780712357708 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9682840/10699560/9780712357708__60916.1781304536.jpg?c=1 "Mystery in White: A Christmas Crime Story by J. Jefferson Farjeon 9780712357708 [USED COPY]")
Mystery in White: A Christmas Crime Story by J. Jefferson Farjeon 9780712357708 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $2.54'The horror on the train, great though it may turn out to be, will not compare with the horror that exists here, in this house.' On Christmas Eve, heavy snowfall brings a train to a halt near the... -
![British Writers by British Library 9780712305419 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9710972/10727651/9780712305419__58481.1781370748.jpg?c=1 "British Writers by British Library 9780712305419 [USED COPY]")
British Writers by British Library 9780712305419 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.50Booksplease Price: $3.57This three CD compilation forms part of the British Library's series of documentary recordings by English-Language authors and playwrights. Around 30 writers will be represented, talking about their... -
Murder of a Lady by Anthony Wynne 9780712356237
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Duchlan 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...