Francis Pettigrew is on holiday in Exmoor and stumbles over a body. The body mysteriously disappears... Read More...

Francis Pettigrew is seconded to the wartime civil service, and a murderer strikes... Read More...

It was after a very pleasant summer weekend that Richard Chandos and Jonah Mansel resolved to join forces and help an old friend retrieve some priceless family heirlooms from his home in Austria. But when they arrive at the castle where the jewels are hidden, they find that others, with less philanthropic leanings, have already been there. Read More...

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is the first ever fully realised Ghost-Horror-Detective-Whodunit-Time-Travel-Romantic-Musical-Comedy Epic. Dirk Gently himself is a detective - well, a sort of detective. There is a long and honourable tradition of great detectives and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. Read More...

The first classic of the Golden Age of English Detective fiction, deliberately written to puncture the dread solemnity of the Sherlock Holmes stories, the ingenious plot and self-mocking hero ensure lasting popularity. It's got everything: a dead American, missing false teeth and a relieved widow. Read More...

In a city where every form of crime and vice flourishes, corruption is king, fabulous wealth stands on the shoulders of unspeakable want, and there are no limits to larceny. It is New York in 1871, where the disinherited son of a monstrous millionaire sees his dead father alive - and sets off a train of mystery and revelation that takes the reader into the darkest heart of evil and avarice in a thriller that only E L Doctorow could have written. Read More...

Dead nudes weren't news in the 87th precinct. Neither were muggings, hippies, hookers or jewellery-stealing ghosts. So why does Detective Brown find himself looking for Snow White? Read More...

The Big Bad Apple on Christmas Eve is no place for an orange grower from Florida. Not even Vietnam was this bad. Crazy killers, crazier bimbos, cops, actors and crack dealers are all after his blood. Read More...

Steven Fraser was relieved to be leaving Indonesia at the end of his contract. Corruption and brutality had been increasingly the order of the day in the newly independent state of Sunda. But Fraser's trip home had barely begun when he tumbled into the thick of a military coup ... Read More...

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...