A famous?and famously anti-Semitic?professor has been killed, shot in his own library, and the police, eager to close the books on the murder, have arrested a young Jewish man who was conveniently on
The Barnabas publishing dynasty is no stranger to mystery; after all, the founder?s nephew is legendary for having disappeared in broad daylight. Yet the discovery of one of the Barnabas cousins, dead
In the 1920s, on a hill near Peking (now Beijing), a team of scientists discovered a huge cache of human bones, some more than half a million years old. Collectively dubbed ?Peking Man,? they were one
?Pig? Peters made Albert Campion?s life a misery at prep school, and now that he?s dead, Campion is hard-pressed to squeeze out a tear. Still, he does attend the funeral. Not because he much regrets t
Swaddled in snow, the town of Breckham Market looks like a tourist?s dream of the Little English Village?the sort of place where the worst that can happen is a spot of teenage vandalism at the church
From Yorkshire to Thornton Lacey is only a morning?s drive, but for Peter Pascoe it?s a journey into the past, a chance to kick back with his closest friends from college. On arrival, though, he finds
Lemuel Stanhope-Swift, sixth Viscount Bessacarr and semi-professional cad, has been on the lam from British justice, holed up in a tropical paradise and slowly drinking himself to death with a success
It?s 1944 and Theo Cazalle is returning to the family he left in Bonnemort, an estate deep in the French countryside, when he went off to fight with the Free French. Memories of Bonnemort have sustain
Three old men shuffle off their mortal coil on the same chilly night. There seems at first to be nothing to connect their deaths to each other, much less to the sulferous whiffs of police corruption t
There shouldn't be anything unusual about the death of an elderly widow, until a man appears at her graveside, claiming to be her long-lost son. He's entitled to shed all the tears he likes, but wheth
Returning to the darker themes of Tiger in the Smoke, Allingham introduces a serial killer who is haunting London's Theatreland. The sparring between Sergeant Luke (who thinks he's got the case sewn u
The golden sprig of a rich aristocratic family, Timothy Kinnit is about to marry the girl of his dreams. But when rumors start to circulate about his parentage, the young lady's father puts the kibosh
"It's midsummer in British Columbia, and it's murderously hot. For the vacationing Karl Alberg, that becomes more than a metaphor when he discovers a body on the beach, fresh from a fatal plunge into
For this small farming community in upstate New York in the 1920s, the Jazz Age might as well be playing out on the moon. Around here, folks? concerns pretty much stay the same as one decade slides in
Dangerous Davies earned his nickname the same way that fat men nicknamed Tiny earn theirs. He is known as the last detective not because there are no others like him, but because he is, in nearly ever
Faith Zanetti has suddenly found herself in a country she never thought she?d visit: The land of middle-class motherhood, complete with a desk job. Faith yearns to be chasing stories, ideally someplac
Sammy Starling was once a notable villain, but for some years he?s been a semi-respectable businessman with two passions: His beautiful young wife and his stamp collection. And now, it seems, he?s a v
Old William Faraday is dead, apparently of natural causes. Another man is dead too, and it was certainly murder. Mr Campion and his family are back in Pontisbright, along with Magersfontein Lugg and D
Even though the police insist that Judith Hayes's friend, George, killed himself--after all, several people saw him jump, right in front of the moving train--Judith is not convinced. First in a du
John Grey, a newly minted lawyer in Cromwell's England is back in this follow-up to A Cruel Necessity. This time around, a mis-delivered letter has left Grey with more information about a murderous pl
