New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Constable Robinson 06 April-June
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Constable Robinson APRIL-JUNE 06

M.C. Beaton Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham Pbk published April 2006 by Constable Robinson at £5.99 ISBN: 1845293207


The local ladies all deem Mr John a wizard, so when Agatha finds a few grey hairs on her head - and the rinse she tries at home turns her hair purple - she makes a beeline for the handsome Evesham hairdresser. And as well as sorting out her hair it soon becomes clear the charming man also has designs on her heart - but their future together is cut short when Mr John is fatally poisoned in his salon. Once again Agatha finds herself embroiled in a murder case. Was it one of Mr John's many customers, all of whom divulged to him their darkest secrets? It's time for Agatha to get to the bottom of this hair-raising mystery!

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M.C. Beaton Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death Pbk published April 2006 by Constable Robinson at £5.99 ISBN: 1845293193


Agatha Raisin's neighbouring village of Ancombe is usually the epitome of quiet rural charm, but the arrival of a new mineral water company - which intends to tap into the village spring - sends tempers flaring and divides the parish council into two stubborn camps. When Agatha, who happens to be the PR person for the company, finds the council chairman murdered at the basin of the spring, tongues start wagging. Could one of the council members have silenced the chairman before he could cast the deciding vote? It is up to Agatha, still nursing a bruised heart, to investigate the councillors, solve the crime - and promote the water company in the face of all this scandal!

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Caroline Benton The Path of the Dead Published April 2006 by Constable Robinson at £17.99 ISBN: 1845292693

A middle of the night call to a burnt-out house is pretty much routine for Devon Fire Brigade photographer Gus Tavender. Discovering a charred body locked in a secret room is not. But from that moment on, very little in her life can be classed as routine. The following day, at an incident on Dartmoor, she meets Judith, an old acquaintance from college days. A strange girl then, she seems equally strange now - but Judith has an agenda. She has come to learn the truth about her aunt's death. The old lady fell into a quarry while walking on the moor; a tragic accident, according to the police. But Judith has good reason to think otherwise - she has found her aunt's diaries. Living alone in the aunt's remote house, she enlists Gus's help and as the two women uncover more information - leading Gus to suspect a connection between the aunt's death and the body in the locked room - they are drawn into a murky world of corruption and violence, a world that someone will do anything to protect.

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David Dickinson Death Called to the Bar Published April 2006 by Constable Robinson at £17.99 ISBN: 1845291298

Queen's Inn is London's youngest and most fashionable Inn of Court. On 29th February 1902, at a Feast, senior barrister Alexander Dauntsey collapses into his soup and dies. He has been poisoned. Soon after his friend Woodford Stewart is shot dead, and Lord Francis Powerscourt is summoned to discreetly investigate the matter of the murdered barristers. His inquiries take him into the heart of legal London where the wills of the dead can reveal the crimes of the living. It takes him to the heart of a troubled marriage where lack of children imperils everything. And it takes him to Calne, a mysterious house in the country where the glorious past is boarded up and the treasures of generations hide beneath the dustsheets. There are many suspects: a jealous wife, a mistress fearful of being jilted, a work colleague beaten to the senior role in the Inn and a cuckolded husband who writes books about poisons. Powerscourt himself is put in grave danger before he finally solves the mystery of Death Called to the Bar.

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Olive Etchells Footprints of the Devil Published April 2006 by Constable Robinson at £17.99 ISBN: 184529159X

This is a murder mystery set on the wild Cornish coast. Championship surfer Dave Treganza returns to his native Cornwall for a surprise visit, only to find his sister-in-law and aunt in turmoil because Jonathan, his brother, has disappeared without a trace. And then, several days later, Johnny's murdered body is discovered down a derelict tin mine. The mine is within a few miles of the huge earth satellite station at Goonhilly Down and the police suspect a link between Johnny and the site. DCI Channon, who has had previous experience in suspected sabotage, is called in from the adjacent police authority to help in this investigation. The investigation proceeds without success, and then another murder occurs, devastating yet another family. And DCI Channon and his assistant, Sargeant Bowles, two very different men with clashing personalities, must work together to finally unmask a killer.

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Keith McCarthy A World Full of Weeping Published May 2006 by Constable Robinson at £16.99 ISBN: 1845292170

An invitation to spend a week or two with childhood friends seemed like the perfect way to help Helena's recovery from cancer treatment. Helena had grown up with the Hickmans, had spent many happy holidays with them, and the fact that they lived in a Castle surrounded by forest on the edge of a lake only made it seem all the more perfect as a rest cure. Then, a man is found burned to death in a car on the edge of the Castle estate and this seemingly irrelevant occurrence creates unexpected disturbances in the lives of all those living in the Castle. Helena and Eisenmenger, caught in the middle of this, cannot understand the reason for this, but more is to come for there are secrets in the Castle - secrets that are of profound importance not only the to the Hickmans, but also to Helena.

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Elizabeth Peters Crocodile on the Sandback Pbk published May 2006 by Constable Robinson at £6.99 ISBN: 1845293886

The Crocodile on the Sandbank introduces the delightfully funny, unputdownable Amelia Peabody. In this first Egyptian mystery, our headstrong heroine decides to use her substantial inheritance to see the world. On her travels, she rescues a gentlewoman in distress - Evelyn Barton-Forbes and the two become friends. The two companions continue to Egypt where they face mysteries, mummies and the redoubtable Radcliffe Emerson, an outspoken archaeologist, who doesn't need women to help him solve mysteries - at least that's what he thinks!

'Between Amelia Peabody and Indiana Jones, it's Amelia - in wit and daring - by a landslide' The New York Times Book Review
 'A Writer so popular that the public library has to keep her books under lock and keys Washington Evening Post

Elizabeth Peters is a prolific and highly successful novelist with over fifty novels to her credit. She is internationally renowned for her mystery stories and was named Grandmaster by the Mystery Writers of America at the Edgar Awards. Elizabeth Peters has also written several non-fiction books and holds and PhD in Egyptology.

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Elizabeth Peters Serpent on the Crown Pbk published May 2006 by Constable Robinson at £6.99 ISBN: 1845292685


Autumn 1921. The Peabody–Emerson family are enjoying a fruitful period of excavation in Egypt. But when they hear the alarming tale of a man’s mysterious death their digging turns to detecting. His widow is convinced her husband was the victim of a curse and implores the Emersons to find and return the small ‘deadly’ statue that killed him to the tomb from which it was stolen – before it claims another life. From bitter experience, the Emersons know it would be a serious mistake to start chasing tomb robbers. But Amelia and co. soon start to find that the curse may be more real than they ever imagined . . .
‘She asks us to come directly to her room. She’s afraid to open the door, she says!’ Ramses took his mother’s arm. With the skill of long practice they wound their way through the procession of camels, donkeys and carriages that filled the street. ‘Which room?’ Nefret asked, looking up at the long façade of the hotel....
‘The one with the balcony? I’m surprised she didn’t.... Oh Good Lord! What’s that?’ There was no mistaking what it was, despite its distance from the ground. Sunset shone with theatrical intensity on the stone balustrade of the balcony and the form leaning over it. Man-high, shrouded, dead black, it seemed to drink the sun’s rays. As they stared in disbelief, the shape slowly bent forward and fell, 40 feet, toward the terrace below.

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Elizabeth Peters Tomb of the Golden Bird Published April 2006 by Constable Robinson at £17.99 ISBN: 1845293363

1922 - convinced that the tomb of the little-known King Tutankhamon lies somewhere in the Valley of the Kings, Emerson has tried to persuade his rivals Lord Carnavon and Howard Carter to hand over their digging rights in the valley to him - but they resist. So back in Luxor an incident at the hotel the clan is staying in turns their gifts for digging in another direction. Emerson and Ramses are lured into a trap by a group of villains who demand answers to the mysterious question, 'Where is he?' Their curiosity piqued, the duo is determined to uncover who 'he' is and why 'he' should be so important.

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R T. Raichev The Hunt for Sonya Dufrette Published April 2006 by Constable Robinson at £17.99 ISBN: 1845293347

On the day of the Royal Wedding in July 1981 at a house party by the Thames, a little girl vanishes. Her doll is found floating in the river, but of the child herself there is no sign. Twenty years on and Antonia Darcy, divorcee and assistant librarian at the Military and Naval Club, still puzzles over the disappearance of Sonya Dufrette and the bizarre behaviour of her father, the awful Lawrence Dufrette, his exotic wife, Lena, and the intelligent but austere Lady Mortlock - not to mention the strange absence of the nanny. Ably assisted by her new admirer, Major Payne, Mrs Darcy embarks on a mission to solve the labyrinthine mystery of the long-lost child's disappearance.

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Derek Robinson Red Rag Blues Published April 2006 by Constable Robinson at £16.99 ISBN: 1845292995

Pit two unstoppable conmen against each other, throw in a truckload of dollars, add enough political paranoia to send all America looking under its beds for Reds, cue in the CIA, the KGB, MI6 and the Mafia, all dressed to kill, and you have "Red Rag Blues".
This is the USA, 1953. One conman is senator Joe McCarthy, high priest of America's holy war on Red treachery. The other conman is Luis Cabrillo. Once he made a fortune as a freelance in counter-intelligence. Now he's flat broke. The two men embrace each other like clams. Luis sells Joe a steady stream of bogus Commie treachery. Both men prosper. But Luis's dodgy past is catching up with him...Also meet: Julie Conroy, Luis's girlfriend, a corker of a New Yorker; Soviet spy Kim Philby, recently tipped to head MI6; and young Bobby Kennedy, who really did serve and admire Joe McCarthy in 1953. "Red Rag Blues" is a black comedy inspired by the true state of America as the McCarthy witch-hunt reached its climax of ranting and raving, when it was nothing to laugh about.

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Steven Saylor A Gladiator Dies Only Once Pbk published April 2006 by Constable Robinson at £6.99 ISBN: 1845292340


Fresh from his duel of wits with Cleopatra in The Judgement cf Caesar, Gordianus the Finder, detective of ancient Rome, returns in this new collection of short stories. Nine tales of mystery, murder and intrigue take Gordianus from the seamy streets of Rome to elegant villas on the Bay of Naples, and from a Sicilian graveyard with a deadly secret to a bloody battlefield in Spain. Whether against the spectacular backdrop of a chariot race, or settling a domestic dispute with his beautiful Egyptian concubine Bethesda, Gordianus is always on the case. As in Sayior's previous collection, The House of the Vestals, all the stories in A Gladiator Dies Only Once take place early in Gordianus's career. Often at his side, rapidly growing up, is the mute boy Eco, his adopted son. Frequently conferring with Gordianus is his good-hearted patrician friend, Lucius Claudius Cicero, the great lion of the Roman law courts, makes several appearances. Sertorius, the rebel general who set up a rival Roman state in Spain, casts a shadow across the book from beginning to end, and makes a haunting appearance in the story "The White Fawn." In the title story, a beautiful Nubian actress begs to Gordianus to solve an impossible problem: how can she have just seen her beloved brother in the marketplace, when she previously saw him die a gruesome death as a gladiator?

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Roger Wilkes Mammoth Book of Famous Trials Pbk published April 2006 by Constable Robinson at £7.99 ISBN: 1845293045


The 35 most famous trials of the 20th century, as recorded by the people who were there including Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Brian Masters, Damon Runyon and other star turns in true crime writing. Among the cases featured: the longest ever US trial, of deadly duo Bianchi and Buono for the Hillside Stranglings of 12 young women; Brady and Hindley - the iconic case of multiple child murder by a couple obsessed with sadism, Nazism and pornography; America's trial of the 1990s - O.J. Simpson; the media frenzy around Bruno Hauptmann's alleged kidnap and murder of the infant son of American hero, Charles Lindbergh; gagged press during the 1968 trial of eleven-year-old Mary Bell, convicted for killing two little boys; Oscar Wilde - one of the earliest trials to earn blanket press coverage; and the nine-month trial of 'one of the most evil, satanic men who ever walked the face of the earth', Charles Manson.

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