Murder played out in the spotlight of maximum publicity Does celebrityhood preclude a fair trial? Can the famous get away with behaviour off limits to most ordinary mortals? Here in a fascinating diagnosis of the shifting nature of high-profile justice is the fullest...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Mammoth Books
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Joe Sandilands has been despatched to France to stay as the guest of a glamorous French war-widow on her Champagne estate. The widow is determined thatJoe should support her claim that a mysterious shell-shocked soldier, suffering from amnesia and a loss of speech is...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Joe Sandilands
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Reason to be afraid - over 50 unsolved cases of serial murder Fact: murderers and serial killers do not always get caught. Behind every headline of a newsworthy conviction lie other cases of vicious murderers who got away, and who remain somewhere among us. Here in one...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Mammoth Books
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Mystery conundrums from crime's finest storytellersPresenting 30 impossible mysteries and bizarre crimes guaranteed to fascinate and intrigue. The delight in these stories is unravelling the puzzle and trying to work out what on earth happened.Stories include:• A man...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Mammoth Books
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In May 1901 the Salisbury Galleries announce the biggest exhibition of the Old Master Paintings ever seen in Europe. Excitement is intense. But before it opens, one of Britain's leading art experts, Christopher Montague, is found murdered in his study. When Lord Francis...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Lord Francis Powerscourt
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1904: Powerscourt comes out of retirement for one last time, heading for Russia in one of the strangest cases of his career.A British diplomat has been discovered, his throat cut, on one of the bridges spanning the Nevskii Prospekt in St Petersburg. It transpires the...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Lord Francis Powerscourt
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This collection of criminal conundrums are more than whodunits, they're howdunits and are intended to stretch your powers of deduction to the limits.

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Mammoth Books
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Charles Dickens created some of the most memorable characters in English literature. But just what became of the convict that frightened young Pip in Great Expectations? Was he guilty, or framed? And what really did become of Edwin Drood? Was the case ever solved? Mike...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Mammoth Books
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Mike Ashley's brilliant new collection of whodunnits presents stories that reflect all the excitement, escapism and eccentricity of the 1920s. The Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, the Age of Wonderful Nonsense - this was a decade when everyone went a little bit crazy. It...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Mammoth Books
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Glasgow 1492. Gil Cunningham remarked later that if he had known he would find a corpse in the university coalhouse, he would never have gone to the Arts Faculty feast.In this mysterious adventure Gil Cunningham returns to his old university for the Nicholas Feast,...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Gil Cunningham
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When the peat-cutters came to report the dead man, Gil Cunningham was up in the roof-space of his mother's house, teaching his new young wife swordplay.They believe the corpse to be that of a local missing man. His wife and the widow who runs the local coalmine are sure...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Gil Cunningham
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Vicky Bliss is the first to admit she doesn't know a thing about Egyptology. But her familiarity with criminality brings an intelligence agency to her office with an offer she can't refuse: they want her as an undercover operative on a luxury Nile cruise because certain...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Vicky Bliss
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1905. A young man called James Delaney is dying in a New York hospital. The doctors and the nuns cannot save him. When his life is spared his tycoon father takes it as a miracle and organizes a family pilgrimage to the resting place of the boy's name saint, Saint James...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Lord Francis Powerscourt
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Prospects for the 1907 archaeological season in Egypt are looking somewhat dull to Amelia. As a result of Emerson's less-than-diplomatic behaviour, they have been demoted to examining only the most boring tombs in the Valley of the Kings - mere leftovers, really.And...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Amelia Peabody
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Find a murderer - and save the Queen's Jubilee!It is 1897 and the London is preparing for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. But a corpse is with no head or hands is dragged out of the Thames. The dead man was old and proserously dressed, but there are no other clues to...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Lord Francis Powerscourt
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A gripping Temperance Brennan novel from world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, the international #1 bestselling crime thriller writer and the inspiration behind the hit TV series Bones.In the run up to the biggest NASCAR race week of the year, Dr Temperance...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-09-01

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Senseless is the first in a two-part series by Mary Burton - America's dark mistress of crime. Every Serial Killer Knows . . . The vicious burns scarring the victims' flesh reveal the agony of their last moments. Each woman was branded with a star, then stabbed through...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-09-01

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A Dead Hand is a dark tale of crime in Calcutta, by Paul Theroux.Jerry Delfont is a travel writer with writer's block. Lounging in Calcutta one day, he receives a mysterious letter. It comes from an American philanthropist, Mrs Merrill Unger. An Indian friend of her son...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-09-01

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'There's a scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.'From the moment Dr John Watson takes lodgings in Baker Street with the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, he...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-09-01

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Treachery and ambition collide with devastating consequences... With a traitor among his ranks, Pitt has a difficult case on his hands in Dorchester Terrace, the twenty-seventh novel in Anne Perry's Thomas Pitt mystery series. Perfect for fans of C. J. Samson and Ann...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Thomas Pitt Mystery
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