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...

The showpieces of human civilisation are its great cities and here are 19 of the world's greatest. Read More...

Selections from the diaries of Charles Greville, 1818-1860. Here revealed in all their outspoken frankness to the whole world, were the private diaries of a man who had known everyone of importance in public life for an entire generation. Read More...

The Cathedral of Chartres is, for almost every visitor, the greatest human artifact of the western world. It fills some of us with wonder and delight, others with awe and reverence. 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...

Service in English hotels can drive a man to drink, but rarely to suicide. Was Leonard Dickinson's death suicide? He'd washed the sleeping pills down with tea and lemon, but his family weren't having it and his life wasn't insured. Inspector Mallet orders kippers for his breakfast as he begins the investigation, but gets only red herrings. Read More...