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...

Jonathon Swift was quite right; in the eighteenth century 'the Dark continent' was barely known. And it was in order to 'cast light upon its darkness' that the African Association was formed by the rich members of a fashionable dining club in London in 1788. The book opens with the pioneering journey to Ethiopia of the Scottish laird James Bruce...it ends with the travels of the lonely arrogant journalist H.M. Stanley... 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...