Murder with a bicycle spoke. A technique perfected by Bantu gangs... It looks like a flea bite. Theresa Le Roux was a pretty young music teacher, who gave very private lessons. But for a mix-up at the undertakers no one would have known she had been murdered. Read More...

'Murder was not altogether a bad thing', mused Lieutenant Kramer of the Trekkersburg Murder Squad. But this one was. A twelve-year-old boy is found strangled and hideously mutilated. It looks like the work of a sex killer. Read More...

At first, it looked much like any other dead body. Breathtaking in its own way, of course, but nothing special... Then he saw that it far exceeded his expectations. He saw the arm bones fractured by a knot that must have been tightened by nothing less than a giant of a man, a human gorilla ... Read More...

The best songs and lyrical poems in the English language. Chosen and introduced by James Michie; illustrated with wood engravings by various artists selected by Simon Brett. Read More...

When Joe Corrigan awakens in a Pittsburgh hospital without any memory, he embarks ion a quest to recover his lost past. what he discovers is that his life no longer exists. As a director of a supersecret Oz Project, his job was to create a computerized environment virtually indistinguishable from reality. to test the effectiveness of his virtual world, he volunteered himself as one of its first human inhabitants. Read More...

Meet William Stern, the property magnate who became the world's largest personal bankrupt; the once super-successful Jim Slater who coined the phrase 'minus millionaire'; Spain's richest man who had his fortune taken away from him; France's most disagreeable businessman who once bragged 'I will never make a serious financial mistake', and did; the most eccentric Schlumpf brothers whose GBP60M collection of antique automobiles, including 123 vintage Buggatis, became the object of a government plot; and Eli Pinkas, the ever aloof Swiss businessman who defrauded 18 banks out of $300-$800M - all of it vanished since his apparent suicide. Read More...

The lifeblood of drug dealers, fraudsters...and tax evaders, an estimated $100 - $300 billion worth of illicit funds are currently circling the globe. Because the lion's share of it derives from drug trafficking, and because there is so much at stake, criminals have turned to white collar professionals to handle their financial interests. Once read, you will never see bankers, lawyers, accountants or politicians in quite the same light, but it is a pity the author never managed to speak to any insiders: this is a cut-and-paste collection of sensationalist newspaper articles written by people less well-informed than himself. Essential introduction none the less to the murky world of dodgy money. Read More...

Despite being one of the most popular games in the world, bridge is often thought to be a difficult game to learn. This is not true if it is learned from first principles, with an expert as the guide. Read More...

Superintendent Bone - a most unusual detective - discovered that many people wanted Nanny Gray dead. Not just those heirs of Sir Gareth Herne who were passed over when he left all his money to his old nurse. Read More...

Set of all five books in the series. Read More...