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  Murder in Transit - The...

  Edward Marston

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  'Full steam ahead' Daily Mail
  From the bestselling Railway Detective series
  1866. On a train bound for Portsmouth, an elegant woman shares a compartment with the lecherous Giles Blanchard. It is a lucky encounter for her, as she steps off the train after picking his pocket and in possession of scandalous material for a potential blackmail. It is a less fortuitous meeting for Blanchard, who will never reach his home on the Isle of Wight alive.
  Detective Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming are swiftly dispatched to sift through the evidence. With Queen Victoria poised to spend the summer on the island, a speedy resolution to the case is imperative for their superiors. Tracing Blanchard's killer is an endeavour freighted with difficulties, but will the fact that their inquiries lead them to the door of a royal residence be one complication too many?
  Perfect for fans of Anne Perry and Andrew Martin
  Readers love The Railway Detective
  'I recommend this story to all of the mystery lovers out there.'
  ?'This talented, prolific author never disappoints in creating a fascinating mystery amidst a carefully reconstructed historical setting.'
  'It kept me guessing until the very end.'
  'This starts with a bang and kept me hooked and turning pages.'
  The Railway Detective series has reached an incredible total of 25 books of mysteries and adventures, but each one can be read individually.

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  Wicked Whispers

  Nellie H. Steele

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  She’s embraced her gift, but this time, the whispers may be more wicked than she can handle. 
  Carly Ravenspell has spent months uncovering spirits' secrets, but when her latest vision leads her to the ominous Graymoor Lighthouse, the stakes are higher than ever. The chilling whispers from a ghostly music box pull her toward a past soaked in sorrow, a murder unsolved, and a spirit desperate for justice. 
  As Carly dives into the haunting mystery, she discovers a terrifying truth—she’s not just hearing the whispers, she’s part of them. Will she unravel the secrets before she, too, is lost to the echoes of the past? 
  If you love eerie mysteries, a heroine who won’t back down, and ghostly tales that keep you up at night, you’ll love Wicked Whispers, book 5 in Nellie H. Steele’s thrilling Whispers of Witchcraft series.

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  The Kingaconda

  James Carrac

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  Professor Shultz, working at a London hybridisation zoology centre, has achieved the unachievable by artificial fertilisation, creating the monster of all snakes. He successfully crossbred the largest venomous snake, the King Cobra, with the largest constricting snake, the Anaconda, producing an exceedingly large, very aggressive, and extremely dangerous snake he called The Kingaconda. This huge serpent can kill either by constriction or a venomous bite.
  
  The Kingaconda escapes from the facility, going on a killing spree and viciously killing anything and everything that crosses its path.
  
  Detective Inspectors Brett Webb and Brandon Walker are deployed to track down and kill the monster before the death count continues to rise.

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  The Sinking Admiral

  The Detection Club

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  The Floating Admiral was the first of the Detection Club’s collaborative novels, in which twelve of its members wrote a single novel. Eighty-five years later, fourteen members of the club have once again collaborated to produce The Sinking Admiral. 
  ‘The Admiral’ is a pub in the Suffolk seaside village of Crabwell, The Admiral Byng. ‘The Admiral’ is also the nickname of its landlord, Geoffrey Horatio Fitzsimmons, as well as the name of the landlord’s dinghy. None of them are as buoyant as they should be, for the pub is threatened with closure due to falling takings. 
  Tempers are already frayed due to the arrival of a television documentary team when Fitzsimmons is found dead in his tethered boat. The villagers assume a simple case of suicide and fear that their debt-ridden pub will now sink without trace. The journalists seem determined to finish the job by raking up old skeletons, but they weren’t banking on the fact that this story has been written by 14 extremely competitive crime writers – arch bamboozlers who will stop at nothing to save a good pub. 
  The Sinking Admiral, edited by the Detection Club’s outgoing President – author and broadcaster Simon Brett, OBE – continues a tradition established by the Detection Club’s founders in 1931 when Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, Freeman Wills Crofts and eleven other esteemed authors wrote The Floating Admiral, a ‘collaborative novel’ to challenge themselves, fox their readers and help to pay for the Club’s running costs. Now, 85 years later, 14 of today’s leading crime writers have repeated this unique game of literary consequences, producing an original, ebullient and archetypal whodunit that will keep readers guessing right up to what crime lovers insist on calling the dénouement… 
  The contributors to The Sinking Admiral are: 
  SIMON BRETT 
  KATE CHARLES 
  NATASHA COOPER 
  STELLA DUFFY 
  MARTIN EDWARDS 
  RUTH DUDLEY EDWARDS 
  TIM HEALD 
  MICHAEL JECKS 
  JANET LAURENCE 
  PETER LOVESEY 
  MICHAEL RIDPATH 
  DAVID ROBERTS 
  L.C. TYLER 
  LAURA WILSON 
  all members of The Detection Club. 
  The Sinking Admiral is a traditional British mystery, a genre that has been perfected by the members of The Detection Club. The best of detective fiction, it keeps the readers on their toes, guessing till the very end. 
  For fans of Simon Brett (Mrs Pargeter's Patio), Dorothy L. Sayers (Five Red Herrings), Georgette Heyer (Venetia), Anthony Horowitz (The Twist of a Knife), and Bernard J. Farmer (Death of a Bookseller).

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  The Lion and the Mouse - A Story...

  Charles Klein, Arthur Hornblow

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  A judge is destroyed by a financier who owns the newspapers, the senators and the courts — and the judge's daughter goes into the great man's house under another name to find the proof. Klein wrote the play, the biggest Broadway hit of its decade, and died on the Lusitania in 1915; this is the novel made from it. The lion is drawn from the trusts everyone in 1906 could name, and the mouse does the work. Forty-nine plates of horses, hounds, cattle and weather, from Richard Barrett Davis to George Bellows, give the trusts their natural setting: a world of breeds and bloodlines where the strong own the field.

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  The Sign of the Four - A...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories featuring the fictional detective.
  The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in the preceding novel, A Study in Scarlet (1887). It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan.

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