New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Century 04 April-June

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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Century APRIL-JUNE 04

Caldwell I& Thomason D The Rule of Four Published May 2004 by Century at Ł9.99 ISBN: 1844130053

Tom Sullivan is about to graduate from Princeton. He's intelligent and popular, but haunted by the violent death several years earlier of his father, an academic who devoted his life to studying one of the rarest, most complex and most valuable books in the world. Since its publication in 1499, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili has baffled scholars who have tried to understand its many mysteries. Coded in seven languages, the text is at once a passionate love story, an intricate mathematical labyrinth, and a tale of arcane brutality. Paul Harris, Tom's roommate, has deeply personal reasons of his own for wanting to unveil the secrets the book hides. When a long-lost diary surfaces, it seems the two friends have found the key to the labyrinth - but when a fellow researcher is murdered only hours later, they suddenly find themselves in great danger. And what they discover embedded in the text stuns them: the passion of a Renaissance prince, a hidden crypt, and a secret worth dying to protect-

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David Cohen Diana: Death of a Goddess Published June 2004 by Century at Ł17.99 ISBN: 184413590X

Psychologist and documentary film-maker David Cohen never expected to write a book about Diana, Princess of Wales, but when he was approached by one of the powers of a documentary he once made on the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Princess Grace of Monaco, he learned about some chilling similarities, and was set on a trail of a conspiracy to murder her.
What he discovered was the story of a young Englishwoman who found herself out of her depth in the company of drugs dealers, arms dealers and secret service operators. The result is a book highly revolutionary both in words and pictures.

David Cohen is a documentary filmmaker as well as being the associate editor of Psychology Today. He is considered something of an expert in 'cognitive dissonance' - the study of how rumours spread and sometimes spiral into conspiracy theories.

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Lindsey Davis Scandal Takes a Holiday Published June 2004 by Century at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0712625879

Lindsey Davis' sixteenth novel in the bestselling Marcus

Didius Falco series is a tale of scandal, piracy and deception. In the wealthy town of Ostia, our hero Falco appears to be enjoying a relaxing holiday. But when his girlfriend, Helena, arrives carrying a batch of old copies of the Daily Gazette - with the intention of catching up on the latest scandal - Falco is forced to admit to Petronius his real reasons for being there...
'lnfamia', the pen name of the scribe who writes the gossip column for the Daily Gazette, has gone missing. His fellow scribes have employed Falco to find him and bring him back from his lazy, drunken truancy However, Falco suspects that there is more to his absence than might first appear.
Before long, Falco's enquiries lead him into the world of piracy and the discovery of criminal traditions long believed dead. Is this the right path towards finding 'lnfamia'? Why would pirates have taken him? And if they have, will he be found alive?

'Modern, exciting and plausible' Sunday Times
'As always, Davis weaves a plot full of humour, surprises and domestic irony' Times Literary Supplement

Lindsey Davis was born in Birmingham but now lives in Greenwich. In 1999 she received the Sherlock Award for Best Comic Detective for her creation, Marcus Didius Falco.

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Margaret Doody Poison in Athens Published May 2004 by Century at Ł16.99 ISBN: 1844134628

Murder and mystery in ancient Athens.

It is the autumn of 330 BC, and three law cases are exciting Athens. Ergokles' case against the wealthy Orthoboulos for malicious wounding seems to come out well for the dignified man, but shortly afterwards he is found dead of poison, evidently hemlock. His second wife is accused of the crime, and her trial for poisoning sets Athens at odds, as sympathies divide. Her step- son is her greatest enemy, and seems sure that she has done the deed, but there are other candidates.
Meanwhile, the most beautiful woman in Athens, Phryne, is accused of impiety, a charge that can carry the death penalty. Stephanos, in treating himself to brother visits as she tries to recover not only from his wound but from having killed a man, gets close to danger, and his position as a witness could damage his prospects of marriage.
Misogyny, political wrath, and lack of judgment bring affairs to a boiling point, stimulating Aristotle to intervene lest the trial of the step-mother break Athens into fragments. He endeavours to solve the mystery with the help of Stephanos, and also with his assistant Theophrastos, who has made a special study of plants and thus of poisons...

Praise for Aristotle and Poetic Justice:
'ldyllic... violent... nostalgia for lovers of Greece... fun for classicists' Times Literary Supplement

Margaret Doody is a professor of literature at the University of Notre Dame. She is also the author of The True Story of the Novel.

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David Pirie The Dark Water (Murder Rooms S.) Published May 2004 by Century at Ł17.99 ISBN: 071267148X

Imprisoned in a dank cottage deep in the English countryside Arthur Doyle lies half-unconscious and at the mercy of his nemesis - Cream. Gathering all his dwindling strength he smashes a window and crawls to safety. With a sharp piece of broken glass he awaits his torturer's return, but the man has eluded him once more, leaving behind the rotting body of a local miser and thwarted in his attempt to obtain money for his 'deadly' cause. Securing the help of the remarkable pioneering criminal investigator Dr Joseph Bell the two men return to the scene of the crime but find few clues. London reveals little more except the possibility that their archenemy has gone to the Suffolk coast under the name of Dr Mere. Full of legend the local community fear the 'Dunwich witch' has returned with her evil curse. A man has died in suspicious circumstances and it seems many are unwilling to talk about it. More hideous crimes are yet to come as Dr Bell and Doyle move closer and closer to confronting Cream: Bell to capture a notorious villain, Doyle to avenge himself for a crime which robbed him of his future happiness. Dr Bell and Arthur Doyle are reunited once again in their quest to hunt down a c

The third novel in Pirie's critically acclaimed Conan Doyle cycle

David Pirie was a journalist and film critic before he became a screenwriter. Just a few of his numerous credits are the BAFTA nominated adaptation for the BBC of The Woman in White and his collaboration with Lars Von Trier on the script of the Oscar nominated film Breaking the Waves. David Pirie lives in Somerset.

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Chris Ryan The Increment Published June 2004 by Century at Ł16.99 ISBN: 1844133834

It is a long, hot summer and the country is suffering an epidemic of road rage. What isn't making the news headlines, though, is that the SAS's secret assassination squad, the Increment, is killing ex-soldiers. These two strands of violence become ever more tightly intertwined as Matt is drawn into an adventure that takes him to Russia and ends explosively in the UK. .

'Hard as nails' Mirror
'The SAS is to Chris Ryan what horse racing is to Dick Francis' Boys Toys
'Bone-crunching action...tough and fast-moving' Amazon 'Slick, polished and gut-wrenching stuff' Irish Times
'Chock full of military fat to chew on. …will keep you awake until dawn' FHM

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Colin Wilson Dreaming to Some Purpose: The Autobiography of Colin Wilson Published June 2004 by Century at Ł20.00 ISBN: 1844131882 Artwork by: Front cover image:(c) Paul Williams. Back cover image: © Dan Farson/Harper's Bazaar
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Colin Wilson wrote The Outsider, a brilliant account of the pain of being alive today, when he was just twenty four. Like Lord Byron. he woke up and found himself famous. The Outsider sold millions of copies around the world, and he was acclaimed as one of the leading intellectuals of the age. Because of his radically new attitudes he was - with John Osborne - dubbed an 'angry young man' in the article which originally coined that phrase. In this way a young man from a working class background suddenly found himself moving in the most colourful literary and artistic circles of the day. In his autobiography he tells stories about, among others, Aldous Huxley, Angus Wilson, John Osborne, Kingsley Amis, Kenneth Tynan, Francis Bacon and Norman Mailer - all observed with a true outsider's eye for absurdity. Always possessed of an unusually strong sexual drive, he shows a strong interest in the sexual experimentation which was such a feature of the sixties and seventies. But perhaps an even greater theme is his interest in trying to discover and develop ways of controlling his own consciousness, so that he could attain 'peak experiences' at will and also, at intervals keep madness at bay

Colin Wilson was born in Leicester in 1931. His book The Outsider first appeared in 1956 and was almost unanimously hailed by reviewers as a masterpiece.

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