In the Paris Bureau of the World Reporter, the pressure was on. Their New York chief wanted a story, and a good story, quick. An Iraqi named Colonel Arbil had been murdered in Switzerland, and the police were trying to find the woman in the bikini who had been his mistress and who had witnessed the crime. The Paris bureau was short of top reporters at the time. The assignment was handed, rather reluctantly, to Piet Maas. Read More...

Paris, 1892. The American historian Henry Adams, is looking for Miriam Talbott, a young American woman studying in Paris. But when he goes looking for Miriam, no one at her given address has seen her. And when another woman's body is fished out of the Seine and identified as hers, Adam knows she is in trouble and needs his assistance. Read More...

It was Bill Eldon's feel for homespun characters, cattle, and crops - and not the manoeuvres of the smart lawyers and politicians who call him dated - which proved to be the deciphering factor of the two cases in one volume: The Case of the Runaway Blonde, and The case of the Hungry Horse. Read More...

The Sword of Honour trilogy by Evelyn Waugh is his look at the Second World War. The protagonist is Guy Crouchback, heir of a declining aristocratic English Catholic family. Guy has spent his thirties at the family villa in Italy shunning the world after the failure of his marriage and has decided to return to England at the very beginning of the Second World War, in the belief that the creeping evils of modernity, gradually apparent in the Soviet Union and the Nazi Germany, have become all too clearly displayed as a real and embodied enemy. Read More...

Essays, or counsels, civil and moral. Bacon. Introduction by Brian Vickers. The Essays are written in a wide range of styles, from the plain and unadorned to the epigrammatic. They cover topics drawn from both public and private life, and in each case the essays cover their topics systematically from a number of different angles, weighing one argument against another. Read More...

Father Brown returns from the dead and solves his own murder, and applies the same gentle logic to seven more delightful mysteries. Read More...

"It may seem odd to class a man who has difficulty in rolling his umbrella... among the Supermen of detection, but Father Brown belongs among them." Read More...

Edwardian London: a city of cobbled streets, horse-drawn cabs, gaslights, and eccentrics. None were stranger than the member's of that gentle men's club known as the Club of Queer Trades. Read More...

It wasn't just a tank, it was the next generation Main Battle Tank with a radically new gun - and the Ministry of Defence had lost it. Or rather, the Jordanian Army had, for they had been lent it in the hope of an export order, and the tank had vanished in a revolt by an armoured brigade in the desert near the Gulf of Aqaba. Major Harry Maxim. Read More...

A swashbuckling history. The history of the far West was written on the land long before anyone put ink to paper or paint on totem pole. Before Mackenzie and Thompson risked their lives on the great rivers, native people hauled giant salmon from the clear waters. These people - ignored or misjudged in previous histories - are the main characters of Bowering's B.C. Read More...