Classic crime fiction
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A game of scandal
£8.99A game of scandal
An all-female detective agency righting wrongs at the end of thenineteenth century; infiltrating a scandalous upper class world straightout of Bridgerton and using their wit and bravery to unmaska villain.
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A study in scarlet
£8.99A study in scarlet
Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader.
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Agatha Christie Bingo
£25.00Agatha Christie Bingo
Play bingo with the Queen of Crime – collect characters, clues and murder weapons on your bingo card to win!
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Agatha Christie Poirot Calendar 2025
£10.99Agatha Christie Poirot Calendar 2025
Hercule Poirot – ‘probably the greatest detective in the world’ – is celebrated in the official Agatha Christie Calendar, comprising 14 brand new cover designs from the best-selling books – with 365 ‘little grey cells’ in which to write your daily appointments!
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Agatha Christie Trivia
£20.00Agatha Christie Trivia
Put your little grey cells to the test with this dastardly deck of Christie questions!
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And Then There Were None
£9.99And Then There Were None
The book that topped the international online poll held in Agatha Christie’s 125th birthday year to discover which of her 80 crime books was the world’s favourite.
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As good as dead
£16.99As good as dead
THE THIRD AND FINAL THRILLING BOOK IN THE BESTSELLING AND AWARD-WINNING A GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO MURDER TRILOGY. Soon to be a major BBC series!
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Classic locked-room mysteries
£11.99Classic locked-room mysteries
An intriguing collection of baffling mysteries from such masters as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton.
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Death in Holy Orders
£9.99Death in Holy Orders
This story is set in an Anglican theological college on a desolate stretch of the East Anglian coast. When the body of one of the students is found, his wealthy father demands that Scotland Yard should re-examine the verdict of accidental death.
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Death of a Bookseller
£9.99Death of a Bookseller
An honest policeman, Sergeant Wigan, escorts a drunk man home one night to keep him out of trouble and, seeing his fine book collection, slowly falls into the gentle art of book collecting. Just as the friendship is blossoming, the policeman’s book-collecting friend is murdered. To solve the mystery of why the victim was killed, and which of his rare books was taken, Wigan dives into the world of ‘runners’ and book collectors, where avid agents will gladly cut you for a first edition and then offer you a lift home afterwards. This adventurous mystery, which combines exuberant characters with a wonderfully realised depiction of the second-hand book market, is sure to delight bibliophiles and classic crime enthusiasts alike.
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Death on the Lusitania
£9.99Death on the Lusitania
An atmospheric and immersive Agatha Christie-style historical crime novel, retelling the sinking of the RMS Lusitania as it sailed from New York to Liverpool in 1915.
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Guilty creatures
£9.99Guilty creatures
Feline-friends, canine-companions and aviary-associates are often the truest reflections of their owners and have played a crucial role in classic crime fiction – be they detectives, or delinquents. Encompassing all creatures great and small – from tales of commonplace critters like bees and earthworms, to distinctly more exotic incidents involving primates, lions and crocodiles (and the occasional red herring, of course) – sometimes the crime or the explanation goes beyond human comprehension and requires the acute perceptions of our animal counterparts. In this anthology, series consultant Martin Edwards gathers the lion’s share of animal tales from the Golden Age of Crime Fiction, with stories by Josephine Bell, Anthony Wynne, G.K. Chesterton and Arthur Conan Doyle.
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His last bow
£8.99His last bow
FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful, timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader of Sherlock Holmes short stories.
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Lady living alone
£9.99Lady living alone
Penelope Shadow is quite hopeless at female pursuits, such as housework, looking after children or darning a sock. One day she buys a typewriter and realizes that she has a flare for writing romantic novels. As one bestseller after another springs from her fertile mind, she is able to buy a house and live a comfortable life. Being equally inept at managing staff, she loses a number of housekeepers before employing a capable and attentive young man. When local gossip ensues, he declares his love and they are married. But are his motives true? Is she in danger? As events twist and turn, she has to summon the strength of her feisty heroines to work out what they would do in the novel’s denouement.
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Lessons in crime
£10.99Lessons in crime
An Oxford Master slain on campus during Pentecost. A pupil and teacher face off with a conniving uncle suspected of murder. A sociology student turns the tables on the lies and fictions of an English undergraduate. In the hush of the college library and the cacophonies of school halls, tensions run higher than is healthy and academic achievement can be to die for. Delving into the stacks and tomes of the British Library collections, Martin Edwards invites you to a course on the darker side of scholarly ambition with an essential reading list of masterful short stories.
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Lost and never found
£9.99Lost and never found
Oxford, city of rich and poor. A city of lost things – and buried crimes. At three o’clock in the morning, Emergency Services receives a call. ‘This is Zara Fanshawe. Always lost and never found.’ An hour later, the wayward celebrity’s Rolls Royce Phantom is found abandoned in dingy Becket Street. The paparazzi go wild. For some reason, news of Zara’s disappearance prompts homeless woman Lena Wójcik to search the camps, nervously, for the bad-tempered vagrant known as ‘Waitrose’. But he’s nowhere to be found either. Who will lead the investigation and cope with the media frenzy? Suave, Oxford-educated DI Ray Wilkins is passed over in favour of his partner, gobby, trailer-park educated DI Ryan Wilkins (no relation). You wouldn’t think Ray would be happy. He isn’t. And when legendary cop Chester Lynch takes a shine to Ray – and takes against Ryan – things are only going to get even messier.
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