New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Penguin 2003 April-June
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Penguin APRIL-JUNE 2003

P. Abrahams The Tutor Pbk published May 2003 by Penguin at £6.99 ISBN: 0141011297


When Scott and Linda Gardner hire a tutor for their wayward son, he's quickly embraced as part of the family. But while charming and capable, he's concealing his own dark agenda. As each family member takes him into their confidence they feed the threat he poses - only 11 year old Ruby seems able to sense the evil in him. In his most chilling book yet Peter Abrahams creates a living, breathing portrait of a family's hopes, fears and secrets. And of the menace they welcome into their home that threatens to destroy them.

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Barry Eisler Rain Fall Pbk published April 2003 by Penguin at £6.99 ISBN: 014101010X

A man dies of a heart attack while travelling on the Tokyo subway. Unpleasant, but apparently unremarkable. But he was killed by John Rain, a paid assassin who's speciality is death from 'natural causes'. And his death has unforseen consequences when Rain himself becomes a target. He has to discover who is after him and why, but most of all he has to stay alive. Set against a beautifully drawn Tokyo backdrop, RAIN FALL is atmospheric and intelligent, delving deeper into the complexities and secrets of Japanese society as the mystery unravels.

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Ian Fleming Casino Royale-Live and Let Die-Moonraker Pbk published June 2003 by Penguin at £10.99 ISBN: 0141187417


James Bond: charming, sophisticated, chillingly ruthless and very deadly. These, the first three Bond stories, have the decadence, violence and pace that mark all those to follow.

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E.W. Hornung Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman Pbk published April 2003 by Penguin at £7.99 ISBN: 0141439335


The Ides of March
A Costume Piece
Gentlemen and Players
Le Premier Pas
Wilful Murder
Nine Points of the Law
The Return Match
The Gift of the Emperor
In these stories, Raffles, the public-school gentleman, mixes his aptitude for cricket with his passion for crime. Here we see Raffles stealing from the nouveau riche and outwitting the law, thieving diamonds and bowling like a demon, all with the help of his accomplice and ex-fag Bunny.

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Chandan Mitra Corrupt Society. Published April 2003 by Penguin at £10.99 ISBN: 0670878758

India is currently ranked among the ten most corrupt nations in the world. From the much- discussed nexus between the political class, the bureaucracy, businessmen and syndicates of organized crime, right down to rapacious government clerks, municipality apparatchiks and small- time swindlers, illegal projects at the cost of the national exchequer are the order of the day. According to a conservative estimate, the parallel economy in India today is worth about Rs 33,000 crores--roughly equal to the Gross Domestic Product. Chandan Mitra's detailed and incisive study traces the history of corruption in the subcontinent, from the time of Kautilya to the Mughal era, the East India Company days and finally post-Independence India. Discussing how the malaise has become institutionalized, the author delves into details of the alleged Bofors kickbacks, the fodder and bank securities scams, and 'hawala' money-laundering, linking these to covert government practices of using corruption as an instrument of state policy. Again, describing the proliferation and legitimization of petty corruption in everyday life, he presents a riveting account of the blatant 'hafta', 'chai-pani', 'cut' and 'black' systems of bribery that are prevalent today. Mitra's bold and provocative analysis documents how perpetrators of corrupt practices are always ahead of the authorities in devising means of bypassing anti-corruption laws and dodging law enforcement. At the same time, outlining the authoritative steps taken by judicial activists to stem the graft, The Corrupt Society attempts to devise practical means of combating corruption. Critical and unsparing, this is a scathing, explosive account of a deeply entrenched and pervasive social evil. Excerpt: 'India clearly qualifies in Machiavelli's second category of a corrupt society, one in which the citizenry, while actively participating in the political process through elections, is primarily engaged in promoting its own ambitions to the detriment of the common good

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Satyajit Ray Stranger: Stories Pbk published April 2003 by Penguin at £9.99 ISBN: 0143027743

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Satyajit Ray Feluda's Last Case and Other Stories Pbk published April 2003 by Penguin at £8.00 ISBN: 0140257489

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Satyajit Ray Complete Adventures of Feluda v.2. Pbk published April 2003 by Penguin at £19.99 ISBN: 0141001259

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Satyajit Ray Complete Adventures of Feluda. v.1. Pbk published April 2003 by Penguin at £19.99 ISBN: 0141000147

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Satyajit Ray Emperor's Ring Pbk published April 2003 by Penguin at £6.00 ISBN: 0140236929

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Georges Simenon Lock 14. Pbk published June 2003 by Penguin at £6.99 ISBN: 014118728X


One rainy night, a canal worker stumbles across the strangled body of Mary Lampson in a stable near Lock 14. The dead woman's husband seems unmoved by her death and is curt and unhelpful when Maigret interviews him aboard his yacht. But gradually Maigret is able to piece together their story - a sordid tale of whisky-fuelled orgies and nomadic life on the canals. Can the answer to this crime be found aboard the yacht? Or is the murderer among the bargees, carters and lock-keepers who work the canal? In Lock 14, Simenon plunges Maigret into the unfamiliar canal world of shabby bars and shadowy towpaths, drawing together the strands of a tragic case of lost identity.

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Georges Simenon Inspector Cadaver Pbk published June 2003 by Penguin at £6.99 ISBN: 0141187255


Asked to help a friend's brother-in-law who is accused of murdering the lover of his daughter, Maigret arrives in a small French town and finds himself plunged into an atmosphere of animosity. He soon finds himself tangled up in a case that may ruin the very people whom he has come to help. He also has to deal with an old enemy - an ex-police officer nicknamed 'Inspector Cadaver' - who seems to be doing everything in his power to obstruct Maigret's investigations.

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