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...

DS Trimble and lawyer Francis Pettigrew join forces again to investigate the death of Mrs Pink, whose feet were discovered sticking out of a pile of leaves. Read More...

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...

Germany 1944. The Allied invasion is not far away - and the high command desperately needs to know where it will take place. It is time to activate one of Hitler's last spies in Britain - Catherine Blake, a 'sleeper' introduced by German Intelligence before the war, awaiting her orders. 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...

Emily Pollifax, widowed, kids grown up, bored. So she joins the CIA. Of course. Next mission: Turkey. 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...