Anthony Horowitz
Author
Series
Magpie murders volume 1
Language
English
Description
A "brilliant and strikingly original reimagining of the classic whodunit (a la Agatha Christie) with a contemporary mystery wrapped around it"--
After working with bestselling crime writer Alan Conway for years, editor Susan Ryeland is intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus P�und, who solves mysteries in sleepy English villages. His traditional formula has proved hugely successful, so successful that Susan must continue to put up with...
Author
Series
Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 2
Hawthorne and Horowitz
Detective Daniel Hawthorne volume 02
Detective Daniel Hawthorne volume 2
Hawthorne and Horowitz
Detective Daniel Hawthorne volume 02
Detective Daniel Hawthorne volume 2
Language
English
Description
"You shouldn't be here. It's too late . . . "
These, heard over the phone, were the last recorded words of successful celebrity-divorce lawyer Richard Pryce, found bludgeoned to death in his bachelor pad with a bottle of wine - a 1982 Chateau Lafite worth 3,000, to be precise.
Odd, considering he didn't drink. Why this bottle? And why those words? And why was a three-digit number painted on the wall by the killer? And, most importantly, which of...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. The death of Moriarty has created a poisonous vacuum which has been swiftly filled by a fiendish new criminal mastermind who has risen to take his place. Ably assisted by Inspector Athelney Jones of Scotland Yard, a devoted student of Holmes's methods of investigation and...
Author
Series
Diamond brothers mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Nick is framed for a jewel robbery, he and his brother, the bumbling detective Tim Diamond, attempt to clear his name by capturing the master criminal known as the Fence.
5) The switch
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
When wealthy, spoiled, thirteen-year-old Tad Spencer wishes he were someone else, he awakens as Bob Snarby, the uncouth, impoverished son of carnival workers, and as he is drawn into a life of crime he begins to discover truths about himself and his family.
Author
Series
Diamond brothers mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
p2004, c1986,1995
Language
English
Description
After his older brother, a fledgling private detective, agrees to safeguard a package for a dwarf who does not live long, thirteen-year-old Nick scampers to solve the mystery while also trying to stay one step ahead of an assortment of thugs.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A successful theatrical director, Simon Fletcher, returns to Badger's Drift, his head filled with disturbing childhood memories. Soon after, a local property developer becomes the first in a string of baffling murders. Barnaby and Troy investigate the murders, looking for a common thread.
Series
Foyle's war volume 4
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2003, �2001-2002
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Foyle uncovers a plot to steal art treasures and a murder in the English countryside during the early days of World War II.