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Hurricane by John D. MacDonald 9781471911408
Booksplease Price: $31.61A hurricane of terrifying intensity is looming over Florida. Along a state highway, a handful of foolhardy souls trying to outrun the storm are forced to seek shelter in an abandoned house. Thrown... -
Dead Straight by Donald MacKenzie 9781471905773
Booksplease Price: $31.61The ad in the Daily Telegraph read: 'Wanted: a man of resource and courage to act as companion'. Ex-con Macbeth Bain must stay on the right side of the law, and this job seems like the perfect... -
Guilt by Hilary Norman 9781471908408
Booksplease Price: $31.61When she was thirteen years old, Abigail Allen was responsible for killing her parents and boyfriend. Guilt has become Abigail's constant companion. She has reconciled herself to living alone - until... -
The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink by Erle Stanley Gardner 9781471908583
Booksplease Price: $31.61Perry Mason orders a double serving of trouble the night he and Della Street dine at an intimate restaurant after a hard day at law. In the middle of their steaks a waitress flees the premises in... -
Money With Menaces by Donald Thomas 9781471904516
Booksplease Price: $37.01Wednesday 5 January is a black day in the police calendar of dockland Canton and its Art Deco resort of Ocean Beach. It dawns in freezing mist and icy roads. It ends with a vanload of drugs hijacked,... -
The Visitor by Anthony Gilbert 9781471910302
Booksplease Price: $31.61A blackmailer - murdered. And the suspect in fear for her life... Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club Margaret Ross knew she had to pay off the blackmailer, Samson, or else her... -
No Escape by Hilary Norman 9781471908385
Booksplease Price: $31.61Some people find it hard to trust Robin Allbeury, a wealthy lawyer and an expert on marital secrets, who runs an unorthodox sideline helping troubled wives escape from their abusive marriages. For... -
Deep, Dark and Dead by Donald MacKenzie 9781471905896
Booksplease Price: $29.70The charge against Shane Stafford was assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Stafford had attacked gossip columnist Gavin Legge. Legge had been engaged to Shane's twin sister. In Shane's view Legge... -
The Injudicious Judge by Michael Underwood 9781471904738
Booksplease Price: $29.70Her Honour Judge Celia Kilby does not suffer fools gladly. Criminals, counsel and clerks all feel the lash of her tongue, and all know her bark is as vicious as her bite. So when she receives an... -
A Hobby of Murder by Elizabeth Ferrars 9781471906909
Booksplease Price: $31.61Retired professor Andrew Basnett had been at a loose end since he'd finished writing his book, and a country visit with friends seemed just the diversion he needed. But when seven friends gather to... -
Crime Upon Crime by Michael Underwood 9781471904592
Booksplease Price: $29.70Not much was known about Arthur Kedby in the West End Club that he frequented. 'He doesn't look much like a secret agent,' remarked one member, but in general that was what he was believed to be. But... -
Smooth Justice by Michael Underwood 9781471908149
Booksplease Price: $31.61In Bloomsbury Magistrate's Court, stipendiary magistrate Donald Ferney reigned supreme. Ferney sought to acquire the public image of the 'kindly magistrate' and his remarks, even his judgements, were... -
More Deadly than the Male by James Hadley Chase 9781471903311
Booksplease Price: $35.45George Fraser, a lonely, timid fellow, lives in a dream world of gangsters, gunfights and beautiful women. He begins to imagine himself as the toughest gangster of them all to bolster up his feeling... -
The Ghosts' High Noon by John Dickson Carr 9781471905414
Booksplease Price: $35.45Jim Blake, journalist and successful spy novelist, is sent to New Orleans to do a story on James Claiborne Blake, a congressional hopeful in the 1912 election. But even from New York he senses... -
We Haven't Seen Her Lately by Elizabeth Ferrars 9781471907029
Booksplease Price: $31.61What has happened to Aunt Violet? Helen Gamlen isn't sure anything has, but when Martin Andras turns up unannounced on her doorstep one night, implying that her aunt has disappeared, she feels she... -
Missing From Her Home by Anthony Gilbert 9781471910340
Booksplease Price: $31.61A missing child - and she might not be the last victim... Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club Angela Toni, only nine years old, has been missing for several days, and it is... -
Uncertain Death by Anthony Gilbert 9781471910180
Booksplease Price: $31.61A missing wife, a husband suspected - and only the incorrigible private investigator can save them both. Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club On the day that Emily Tate... -
Villains' Paradise: Britain's Underworld from the Spivs to the Krays by Donald Thomas 9781471916656
Booksplease Price: $40.37With the war over, the forties, fifties and sixties have the aura of a golden age. But nostalgia is deceptive. From teenage Teddy Boy razor gangs and casual stabbings at dance halls to the... -
Snake in the Grass by Anthony Gilbert 9781471910029
Booksplease Price: $31.61He tried to help a woman in need - but she's the prime suspect in her husband's murder... Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club Con Gardiner had no family; his work and his... -
A Crime Apart by Michael Underwood 9781471908064
Booksplease Price: $29.70A woman is murdered in a London suburb and the police investigation into her death is meticulously undertaken. Trying to solve the riddle is Detective Chief Inspector Chudd, newly appointed and still... -
Have a Change of Scene by James Hadley Chase 9781471903809
Booksplease Price: $29.70Larry Carr is a diamond expert in need of a break. So when his psychiatrist suggests he has a change of scene, he jumps at the opportunity to move to Luceville, a struggling industrial town, and... -
The Spreewald Collection by Donald MacKenzie 9781471905872
Booksplease Price: $29.70Scott Hamilton is a professional thief, one who would never turn down an opportunity to steal something really worthwhile - in this case, a priceless collection of Ming Dynasty jade statuettes, whose... -
The Investigation by Dorothy Uhnak 9781471906541
Booksplease Price: $31.61In a peaceful, residential section of Queens, Kitty Keeler's young sons have gone missing. Both she and her husband say they have no idea where the children are. Then New York Police Department cop... -
Cool Sleeps Balaban by Donald MacKenzie 9781471905759
Booksplease Price: $29.70Scott and Usher both need money, and they need it badly. One to save his farm, the other his future. Usher is an experienced criminal and housebreaker, but Scott is a rookie - he's desperate for... -
Believe This . . . You'll Believe Anything by James Hadley Chase 9781471903908
Booksplease Price: $29.70Clay Burden married his wife Rhonda because he was tired of being on his own. Val had walked out on him - and if he couldn't have Val, maybe marriage might make him forget her. Six years later,... -
The Cup and the Lip by Elizabeth Ferrars 9781471907241
Booksplease Price: $31.61Why, on a wet and stormy night, did the old and very ill novelist Dan Braile decide to take a walk? When he doesn't come back his family are at first reluctant to call the police, despite the fact... -
Shem's Demise by Michael Underwood 9781471908101
Booksplease Price: $31.61Every autumn an old reprobate, tramp and scrounger, mysteriously known as Shem, drifts into the village of Long Gaisford. Kenny, a young boy, likes Shem. It's not his fault that the well-meant tip he... -
Anything but the Truth by Michael Underwood 9781471908125
Booksplease Price: $31.61On trial is young tearaway Ian Tanner, accused of the accidental but reckless hit-and-run killing of his own buddy. What really happened? The answer involves a ruthless gang, a gang that nearly... -
The Uninvited Corpse by Michael Underwood 9781471904752
Booksplease Price: $29.70Vernon Gray is the oldest and richest of the residents of the four flats on the sixth floor of a block in his small seaside town. After seeing her on TV, he has instructed Rosa Epton to draft his... -
Sergeant Verity and the Imperial Diamond by Francis Selwyn 9781471904271
Booksplease Price: $35.45Sergeant Verity's second adventure sees him sweltering under the Indian sun, as mutiny brings pillage and war to Bengal. Attached to the Intelligence Department in Calcutta, Verity is given the task... -
No Peace for the Wicked by Elizabeth Ferrars 9781471907180
Booksplease Price: $31.61Antonia Winfield sensed someone was following her. She'd seen a man in a brown suit. He was even behind her in the travel agents where she'd booked her holiday abroad. But perhaps she'd just imagined... -
The Swaying Pillars by Elizabeth Ferrars 9781471907203
Booksplease Price: $31.61Helena Sebright is given a three-month job in the newly independent African state of Uyowa. She is to escort a seven-year-old girl to stay with her grandparents there, and to bring her back to her... -
Footsteps Behind Me by Anthony Gilbert 9781471910005
Booksplease Price: $31.61He knows their darkest secrets - but they are even more ruthless than him, with murder in mind... Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club Teddy Lane has sunk into the sordid depths... -
Raven and the Ratcatcher by Donald MacKenzie 9781471905032
Booksplease Price: $31.26When John Raven is somehow connected to the case of a criminal abortion that ended in death he finds himself embroiled with his old nemesis, former Chief Superintendent Drake of Scotland Yard. But... -
Frog in the Throat by Elizabeth Ferrars 9781471906787
Booksplease Price: $31.61When Virginia Freer spends a weekend with her friends the Boscotts the last person she expects to meet is the lying, light-fingered charmer who was her husband. She and Felix have been separated for... -
A Savage State of Grace by Donald MacKenzie 9781471905490
Booksplease Price: $31.26When ex-Detective Inspector John Raven goes on jury duty, the trial he attends is the prosecution of an Englishman and his German girlfriend for heroin smuggling. Raven is convinced the girl has been... -
Just a Matter of Time by James Hadley Chase 9781471903762
Booksplease Price: $29.70Even for a redhead, Helen Dester was wild - she'd driven one guy to drink and made another jump out of a top-floor window. Glyn Nash realises that to tangle with her will be dangerous. But he has no... -
Menaces, Menaces by Michael Underwood 9781471907982
Booksplease Price: $29.70The first 'menaces' brought Herbert Sipson, professional blackmailer, to the dock, charged with having demanded GBP10,000 from a bingo company under threat of bombing their premises. The second is a... -
The Lonely Side of the River by Donald MacKenzie 9781471905735
Booksplease Price: $35.45Defrauding an insurance company is not an unusual crime, but the way Stephen Venner planned to do it was not only unusual but macabre. But then Stephen Venner was a totally selfish and amoral man,... -
Beware the Curves by Erle Stanley Gardner 9781471909009
Booksplease Price: $31.61John Dittmar Ansel walked into the Cool-Lam office and asked them to trace a man named Karl, who, six years before, gave him an idea for a story. Donald Lam - always the suspicious one - immediately...