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...

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...

Now, in addition to the other famous adventures of Flash Harry contained in the Flashman papers, come three new episodes in the career of this eminent if disreputable adventurer. Read More...

Phillip Redfern, a young solicitor, finally reaches his objective - a gold mine in the Yukon belonging to a client who suddenly changed his Will and disappeared. The shadow of the gold rush is always there...and in the Halliday Arm is a tug towing a barge-load of cedar logs with the Halliday curse on it. Read More...

We are in Oxford in the 1660s' a time, and place, of great intellectual, scientific, religious and political ferment. Robert Grove, a fellow of New College, is found dead in suspicious circumstances. A young woman is accused of his murder. We hear about the events surrounding his death from four witnesses: .... Read More...