Mr Davenport has written a witty and learned introduction on various methods of murder. He has explored the many possibilities, including a number that are not included in this anthology. The examples are drawn from history and fiction, and range from classical Greece and Biblical times to the present. Read More...

Bill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. This became all too apparent when, after nearly two decades in England, the world's best-loved travel writer upped sticks with Mrs Bryson, little Jimmy et al. and returned to live in the country he had left as a youth. Read More...

Here in one volume are two comic masterpieces by Bill Bryson, the books that have brought him acclaim as one of the funniest writers at work today. Read More...

When Palmer Stoat notices the black pickup truck following him on the highway, he fears his precious Rover Ranger is about to get carjacked. But Twilly Spree, the man tailing Stoat, has vengeance, not sport-utility vehicles, on his mind. Read More...

Jack Trigger is a frustrated journalist. His outspoken views have relegated him to the obituary page and the newspaper's florid owner has decreed that his byline will never again disgrace the front page. But jack has stumbled across a whale of a story that might just resurrect his career... Read More...

Fifteen years after Inspector Louis Markowitz adopted the wild child, no one in New York's Special Crimes section knew much about Kathy Mallory's origins. They only knew that the young cop with the soul of a thief could bewitch the most complex computer systems, could slip into the minds of killers with disturbing ease. Read More...

After bringing in a unanimous and very dubious acquittal in a murder case, only three of the original jurors remain alive. And someone, known only as the 'Reaper' because of the signature of a bloody scythe left at the crime scenes, is clearly determined to make a clean sweep of the terrified survivors. Read More...

Classic Crime. Who killed solo violinist Lucy Carless during a concert? Her first husband? Or her second? Or womanizer Bill Ventry? Or the clarinetist and fellow Polish emigré? Read More...

A cleverly planned murder and a brilliant picture of a High Court Assize Judge and his entourage. Read More...

31 short stories, many with a legal or criminal background. Read More...