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First published by Collins in 1928, this was the first of 22 mystery novels by Vernon Loder, one of the most popular British mystery-thriller writers of his generation. When a guest at Stowe House is found dead, killed by a lethal dart, suspicion naturally falls on the resident collector of...

Butler-detective Helen Thorpe returns to help a wannabe influencer get her life in order—and solve the murders of her fellow content creators—in this hilarious sequel to Mindful of Murder by bestselling author Susan Juby When Buddhist butler Helen Thorpe is loaned out to help Cartier...

Three locked rooms. Three impossible crimes. One determined sleuth. Miranda Abbott is back in a new mystery from the bestselling authors of I Only Read Murder and Mystery in the Title The famous are descending on the town of Happy Rock. This time, the stars are not of the screen but of the page...

It's the winter of 1923 and Professor Annalee Spain―a clever but overworked theologian at a small Chicago Bible college--receives a cryptic telegram calling her home to Denver to solve the murder of her beloved but estranged father. For a young Black woman, searching for answers in a city ruled by the KKK could mean real danger. Still, with her literary hero Sherlock Holmes as inspiration, Annalee launches her hunt for clues, attracting two surprising allies.

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the first original novel to feature Ben the Cockney tramp, the unorthodox detective character created by J. Jefferson Farjeon, author of Mystery in White. Strange things are happening in the untenanted houses of Jowle Street. There are unaccountable creakings and weird knockings on the door of no.29, where a homeless ex-sailor has taken up residence.

Ben the tramp, self-confessed coward and ex-sailor, is back in the Merchant Service and shipwrecked in the Pacific. Ben the tramp, self-confessed coward and ex-sailor, is back in the Merchant Service and shipwrecked in the Pacific. Tired of being homeless and down on his luck, the incorrigible...

Die grüne Idylle trügt... Hobby-Detektivin Paislee Shaw geht erneut auf Mörderjagd. Der zweite Band der charmanten schottischen Cosy Crime-Reihe. Paislees Strickwarengeschäft "Cashmere Crush" im charmanten schottischen Shire Nairn ist die einzige Einnahmequelle für die alleinerziehende Mutter und ihre hungrige Meute. Als sie aus heiterem Himmel von ihrem Vermieter Shawn Marcus einen Räumungsbefehl bekommt, setzt sie alles daran, ihn umzustimmen.

It's not easy sharing a flat. Especially when you're 95 years old. Change is afoot at Sunset Grove retirement home, and its residents aren't impressed. Under threat from falling masonry, best friends Irma and Siiri are forced out of their home to negotiate 21st-century living in the centre of Helsinki. Their new surroundings throw up an endless number of daily challenges, from caring for the ailing Anna-Lisa to the mystery of which of the many remotes controls the TV.

Für Paislee Shawn ist ein Traum in Erfüllung gegangen: Sie ist glückliche Besitzerin des Strickwarengeschäfts "Cashmere Crush“ und hat für sich, ihren Sohn Brody, ihren Großvater und ihren schwarzen schottischen Terrier Wallace im charmanten Shir Nairn ein Zuhause aufgebaut. Deshalb freut sich Paislee besonders, als sie die Gelegenheit bekommt, dem Örtchen etwas zurückzugeben. Um Geld für die Tafeln in Nairn zu sammeln, spendet sie ein selbstgestricktes Kaschmirpulloverset.