Classic Crime Fiction

One after the other, half a dozen monks are found murdered in the most bizarre of ways. A learned Franciscan who is sent to solve the mysteries finds himself involved in the frightening events.

Award-winning Paul Tremblay?s debut noir novels back in print after a decade, for fans of Raymond Chandler?s The Big Sleep, Raymond Carver and Dashiell Hammett. This omnibus brings Paul Tremblay?s debut novels - classic noirs, The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland - back in to print for the first time in over 10 years. Darkly comedic and carrying all the hallmarks of Tremblay?s later work, they introduce Mark Genevich, a narcoleptic detective...

Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world's most heinous villains - a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brother's children to make his crown secure? Or could Richard have been the victim, turned into a monster by the the...

The body was that of a tall, stout man wearing only a pair of gold pince-nez. Lord Peter Wimsey knew what the corpse was supposed to be. His problem was to find out the truth about whose body had found its way into Mr Alfred Thipps' bathroom.

On a trip to the South of France, the shy heroine of 'Rebecca' falls in love with Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower. Although his proposal comes as a surprise, she happily agrees to marry him. But as they arrive at her husband's Cornish estate, Manderley, a change comes over Maxim, and the young bride is filled with dread. Friendless in the isolated mansion, she realises that she barely knows him. In every corner of every room is the phantom of...

He was the best source the Department ever had, but now he desperately wanted to come over the Wall. 'Brahms Four' was certain a high-ranking mole was set to betray him and there was only one Englishman he trusted. So they decided to put Bernard Samson back into the field after five sedentary years of flying a desk.

An adventure thriller in which an anonymous Englishman who in the spring of 1963, was hired by Colonel Marc Rodin, Operations Chief of the OAS to assassinate General De Gaulle.

1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. When one of the party dies suddenly they realise they may be harbouring a murderer among their number.

Horror stories, science fiction, detective stories and satirical sketches - the variety of Poe will chill and delight

When George Abbershaw is invited to Black Dudley Manor for the weekend, he has only one thing on his mind - proposing to Maggie Oliphant. Unfortunately for George, things don't quite go according to plan. A harmless game turns decidedly deadly and suspicions of murder take precedence over matrimony.