New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Constable Robinson 06 Oct-Dec

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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Constable Robinson OCT-DEC 06

Mike Ashley Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes & Impossible Mysteries Pbk published November 2006 by Constable Robinson at Ł7.99 ISBN: 1845293371

This work presents 30 impossible mysteries and bizarre crimes guaranteed to fascinate and intrigue. The delight in these stories is unravelling the puzzle and trying to work out what on earth happened. Stories include: a man alone in an all-glass phone booth, visible on CCTV and with no one near him, is killed by an ice pick; a man sitting alone in a room is shot by a bullet fired only once and that was over 200 years ago; a man enters a cable-car carriage alone and is visible the entire journey but is found dead when he reaches the bottom; a man vanishes at the top of the Indian rope trick and is found dead miles away; and a dead man continues to receive mail in response to letters apparently written by him after he'd died. The anthology includes several brand new stories never previously published, plus a range of extremely rare stories, many never reprinted since their first appearance in increasingly rare magazines.

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Mike Ashley Mammoth Book of Jacobean Whodunnits Pbk published October 2006 by Constable Robinson at Ł7.99 ISBN: 1845293037

This unputdownable new anthology from Mike Ashley presents 25 whodunnits set in those turbulent times - also the age of the Witchfinder General, 'revenge' tragedies and the colonization of America. Stories of murder and mayhem centre on the true role of Guy Fawkes, the English Civil War and the fate of Charles I, plus the lost colony of Roanoke and the tale of Pocahontas. This is a fast paced anthology for a thrilling time in British history.

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M.C. Beaton Agatha Raisin and the Deadly Dance Pbk published November 2006 by Constable Robinson at Ł5.99 ISBN: 1845293819

Can the feisty Agatha cut it as a private investigator? She soon learns that running her own detective agency in the Cotswolds is not quite like starring in a Raymond Chandler movie. But then walks in wealthy divorcee Catherine Laggat-Brown, and Agatha is given her first real case. Death threats, blackmail and physical attack soon follow, and once again Agatha is off scouring the Cotswolds for clues and showing friends and enemies alike what Raisin Investigations can do!

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M.C. Beaton Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House Pbk published November 2006 by Constable Robinson at Ł5.99 ISBN: 1845293800

Reports of a haunted house soon have Agatha snooping around, but it turns out the victim is a universally disliked old biddy and someone is playing a practical joke. And then the old lady is murdered - but for Agatha, solving a crime is much more fun than hunting a ghost! Very soon she's up to her usual tricks, involving the villagers, local police, and, of course, her handsome new neighbour...

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M.C. Beaton Agatha Raisin and the Curious Curate Pbk published October 2006 by Constable Robinson at Ł5.99 ISBN: 1845293797

Agatha is going through a man-hating phase and so is unmoved by news of the captivating new curate. But when she meets the golden-haired, blue eyed Tristan Delon, she is swept off her feet...along with every other female in the village. She is positively ecstatic when he invites her to dine with him but the next day Agatha is left with a hangover from hell and his cold corpse suggests that once again, she's in the frame for murder!

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M.C. Beaton Agatha Raisin and Love, Lies and Liquor Published October 2006 by Constable Robinson at Ł17.99 ISBN: 1845294440

Agatha Raisin thinks she's in for a treat when her old flame James Lacey invites her on a holiday, but to her horror, his idea of an exotic destination is a small, rundown town called Burryhill-on-Sea. Needless to say, the break doesn't go as planned. When a guest staying in the same hotel as Agatha and James is found murdered, Agatha quickly becomes prime suspect - and must solve this case from a prison cell!
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Peter Costello Conan Doyle: Detective Pbk published October 2006 by Constable Robinson at Ł7.99 ISBN: 1845294122

This fascinating book is based on a remarkable discovery: Sherlock Holmes' methods of deduction were actually those of his creator and used in order to solve real crimes; for Scotland Yard, Holmes really did exist in the form of Conan Doyle.

Peter Costello draws on new research to follow the tracks Conan Doyle left as he entered the real world of Sherlock Holmes; his fictional outpourings were the direct result of their author's hidden career as an amateur detective and criminologist.

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Bill James Girls Published November 2006 by Constable Robinson at Ł17.99 ISBN: 1845293320

For years Panicking Ralph Ember and Mansel Shale have run profitable drugs empires in peaceful cooperation with each other, and ACC Iles will blind-eye their trade as long as it keeps violence off the streets. But this happy arrangement is threatened by foreign dealers moving in and offering punters not just drugs, but exploited girls from Eastern Europe. And bloody gang warfare threatens as a scrabble for territory ensues.

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Stephen Jones Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 06 Pbk published October 2006 by Constable Robinson at Ł7.99 ISBN: 1845293150

Here is the latest edition of the world's premier annual showcase of horror and dark fantasy fiction. It features some of the very best short stories and novellas by today's masters of the macabre - including Peter Atkins, Cliver Barker, Glen Hirschberg, Joe Hill and Caitlin R. Kiernan. "The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror" also features the most comprehensive yearly overview of horror around the world, lists of useful contact addresses and a fascinating necrology. It is the one book that is required reading for every fan of macabre fiction.

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Bill Knox To Kill a Witch Published November 2006 by Constable Robinson at Ł17.99 ISBN: 1845294262

For the Glasgow police, fishing a corpse out of the Clyde always spells trouble. In this instance, the woman had clearly been murdered, and in second place, it transpired the victim came from Monkswalk, an affluent suburb where police officers are as welcome as debt collectors. But Thane and Moss's problems are only beginning when they discover that their victim was also the neighbourhood witch...

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Michael Pearce A Dead Man in Athens Published October 2006 by Constable Robinson at Ł17.99 ISBN: 1845293444

This title is set in Athens, 1913, the capital of a country on the brink of war. The new Greek prime minister, Venizelos, tired of the Ottoman overlords, has what he calls the Great Idea - a vision of a new Greece which unites all the Greek people scattered around the Mediterranean. Not such a great idea, in the view of other countries, among them Britain, which believes in letting sleeping dogs lie. And cats. Including the one recently poisoned in Athens and which belonged to the exiled former Sultan. Unfortunately, as is the way with the Balkans, rumours start flying around; one being that this was a sighting shot for the ex-Sultan himself. This, in the Balkans, could start a war and so Britain has to sit up and take notice. Something has to be done. Fast. And - please, urge the diplomats - low-key. The lowest key of all is to send out a police officer from Scotland Yard to investigate, and, as it happens, the Foreign Office has a person in mind: Seymour, of the CID, who has had some experience of this sort of thing before...

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Elizabeth Peters Guardian of the Horizon Pbk published December 2006 by Constable Robinson at Ł6.99 ISBN: 1845295633

The Emersons’ journals chronicling the 1907–8 season have been discovered, revealing hitherto unknown events from Amelia Peabody’s remarkable career! Banned from the Valley of the Kings, their excavation at an abrupt end, Amelia and her distinguished husband, Emerson, have returned to England with their son, Ramses, and foster daughter, Nefret. Ramses is secretly in love with Nefret and about to flee to Germany to escape temptation. But a mysterious visitor provokes a change in plans for Ramses and the others. After a decade without contact, Prince Tarek from the Lost Oasis has written to the Emersons, asking for help. His only surviving son is ill, and his throne may be threatened . . . Guided by only a crumbling map that took them to the Oasis a decade earlier, the Peabody–Emerson clan head for the Sudan. There they confront forces secretly arrayed against them; there Ramses must face up to his feelings for Nefret.

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Nicholas Rhea Prize Murder Published October 2006 by Constable Robinson at Ł17.99 ISBN: 1845293754

While seeking the legendary Holy Trough of Blackamoor, D I Montague Pluke comes across a corpse; the dead man, Pluke discovers, has been shot. It is soon established that the victim was a suspect in a murder investigation, and so the eccentric Pluke is pitched headlong into an investigation, which spans both sides of the Pennines, leading him from the beauty of the great outdoors to the seamy backstreets of Manchester.

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David Roberts A Grave Man Pbk published October 2006 by Constable Robinson at Ł6.99 ISBN: 1845293177

Verity Browne and Lord Edward Corinth are attending the memorial service in Westminster Abbey for Lord Benyon, killed a few months before when the Hindenburg airship burst into flames as it docked in New Jersey. Seated a few rows in front of them is the distinguished archaeologist Professor Pitt-Messanger and his daughter Maud. As the congregation begins to disperse after the service, Edward hears Miss Pitt-Messanger cry for help. Her father is slumped in his seat, stabbed to death with an ancient Assyrian dagger. Edward has no wish to investigate the murder but Verity gets herself invited to Swifts Hill, the ultra-modern house in Kent belonging to the millionaire Sir Simon Castlewood. His wife, Virginia, is one of Verity's school friends and she is looking after Maud Pitt-Messanger who is still grieving for her father. Verity quickly discovers that the old man was a selfish bully who had made his daughter's life a misery and prevented her from marrying the man she loved. By coincidence, Mr Churchill then asks Edward to investigate the Castlewood Foundation which Sir Simon has set up to fund medical research among other worthy projects. Churchill has received information that Sir Simon's protege, the eminent surgeon Dominic Montillo, is using the Foundation to fund his own research into racial types - the so-called science of eugenics. Then Maud Pitt-Messanger is herself stabbed to death with a dagger from Sir Simon's archaeological museum, and Edward and Verity join forces to find her killer - but Verity's distrust of Winston Churchill, and her growing attraction to the young German aristocrat, Adam von Trott, drives a wedge between them which brings them both unhappiness and endangers the outcome of the investigation.
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David Roberts The Quality of Mercy Published October 2006 by Constable Robinson at Ł17.99 ISBN: 1845293169

When the Nazis seize Austria in March 1938, Verity Browne - the "New Gazette's" correspondent in Vienna - is one of the first to be deported as a well-known anti-Fascist. Before she leaves, she is able to arrange for a young Jew, Georg Dreiser, to escape to England, but where he expects to find safety, he finds danger and sudden death. Lord Edward Corinth also finds death where it is least expected, in the grounds of Lord Montbatten's country house, Broadlands. There to meet his friend the Maharaja of Batiala, Edward's nephew Frank stumbles on a corpse. The police are satisfied that the man, identified as Peter Gray, a painter of some repute, died of natural cause but his niece, Vera, persuades Edward that all is not as it seems. Between them, Edward and Verity investigate two murders and Verity's eyes are opened to what has been obvious to all their friends, that Edward is the man she loves and that her destiny is to be his partner in life as well as in crime.

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Derek Wilson Unquiet Spirit Published October 2006 by Constable Robinson at Ł17.99 ISBN: 1845293460

St Thomas's College, Cambridge, has a ghost - or so some people believe. How to deal with the sightings on F staircase is an issue which bitterly divides the fellows. And when a tv unit of ghostbusters is called in and a professor collapses with a heart attack during the proceedings, the college really is in a fix. So Nathaniel Gye is called in to make discreet investigations. As he tries to tease out the twisted strands of this strange affair he finds out that this unquiet spirit did not commit suicide ten years previously, but was the victim of a more recent murder...

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