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...

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...

'Lie low, wait, do nothing until you hear from us. First you must establish yourself..' Since these words, nearly thirty years ago, James Fenn - hero of the 1956 Hungarian uprising, one-time top Fleet Street journalist and KGB 'sleeper' agent - has been waiting to be called. From his Mediterranean island home he has almost forgotten his Soviet masters. 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...

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...