This volume brings together for the first time three classic Dr Gideon Fell novels by the grandmaster of crime fiction, John Dickson Carr.

Hag's Nook
The Starberths die of broken necks. That was the legend Scotland Yard learned when Martin Starberth was murdered. But it took Gideon Fell to solve the many riddles and discover the truth about one of the most fiendishly clever murder plots ever devised.
The Mad Hatter Mystery
The thief was dubbed the 'Mad Hatter', his bizarre pranks amusing all London. But laughter turned to horror when a corpse in a top hat was found with a crossbow bolt through its heart at the Tower of London. As Gideon Fell was to discover, the whole case turned on the matter of hats...
The Eight of Swords
The wealthy Septimus Depping was found murdered: so was the last man to visit him. Evidence showed the while waiting to kill Depping, the murderer had eaten his victim's dinner. That gave Gideon Fell food for thought. But swift action was required if he was to avoid having another murder on his plate...

'If Agatha Christie was the queen of murder mystery, Carr was certainly its king.' Walter Kendrick, Village Voice
'Not to mince words, Carr is one of the best.' New York Times

Amateur sleuth George Palmer-Jones and the band of avid bird-watchers aboard the Jessie Ellen achieve their ultimate goal: a sighting of a sea bird which has never before been recorded. In the subsequent excitement, however, no one notices the sudden absence of the most fanatical twitcher of them all...
Later, Greg Franks' corpse is found floating in the sea, his head bludgeoned. Now Palmer-Jones must shoulder the burden of discovering why the young man had been murdered. Who had hated Franks enough to kill him? Almost everyone, it seems...

The inhabitants of Clare Island, just off the west coast of Eire, took Clem Ford to their hearts after he was washed ashore from a wrecked submarine in 1945 and for fifty years he repaid their kindness as the anonymous benefactor of the Clare Island Trust. Glem, now in his eighties, has always expected that one day he would have to pay the price for the 'cargo' he brought with him in 1945. And now Angus Rehm is back for what is rightfully his...
Three disappearances and at least one homicide bring Chief Superintendent Peter McGarr to the island to face mayhem and bloodshed, and to discover the island's terrible secret that has been buried, but not forgotten, for fifty long years.

'...lyrical descriptions of the wild and lonely landscape, a wind-battered island in the North Sea... Gill works these elements into a narrative that is part swashbuckling adventure and part modern detective story. New York Times Book Review
'Plenty of excitement and suspense as McGarr and his crew race against time to track down the killer ... a provocative plot and an intriguing look at an Ireland few tourists ever see. A fine choice far mystery lovers.' Booklist

Using her experience as a GP-attached nurse, Priscilla Masters has created an authentic setting for her new chilling suspense novel. Night Visit introduces the new character Dr Harriet Lament, a local doctor who vows to solve the puzzle behind the disappearance of a little girl they called Melanie Toadstool.
The year does not begin well for Dr Harriet Lament, for at a New Year's Eve party her husband meets another woman and by February her marriage is over. As Harriet worries about the affect the split will have on her young daughter she finds herself becoming obsessed by the mysterious disappearance of six-year old Melanie Carnforth over a decade before. Haunted by the image of the little girl in a red dress in the woods, she vows to find the child's body, and her killer.

'It is always a joy to discover a new crime writer with a sure touch and the capacity to shock. More, please, Peter Lovesey

He is handsome, well-dressed, well-heeled - and dead. A blackmailer who'd gone too far, Sy Kramer had earned his last payoff, a bullet in the head. Which of Kramer's pigeons had so much at stake that murder seemed a good gamble! The politician's voluptuous wife! The soft drinks king! Or the unknown victim who had fattened Kramer's bank account by the thousands! The boys of the, 87th had a tough case to crack. They must find the desperate killer before he or she strikes again.

'A master. Ed McBain has virtually reinvented the police procedural. Newsweek
'The writing is, as always, utterly convincing ... McBain is sui generis, without fictional forebears.' Boston Globe

A cottage in the picturesque village of Brideswell seems the ideal retreat from the pressures of work for top policewoman Chairmian Daniels. But when the village beauty. Chloe Devon, disappears and a part of her corpse is discovered in London and another in a shallow grave in the village, Charmian discovers a host of demons from Brideswell's past which must be exorcised before the villagers can sleep in peace ...

'With fine-edged brush strokes, Melville chronicles the intelligent, ambitious Charmian's rise up the police ladder of success.' Publishers Weekly
'Melville is a crackerjack mystery writer ... the plot does plenty of hairpin turns around the quaint village characters.' St Petersburg Times
'A very good read.' Booklist

Translated by Rod Usher

Julio Orgaz is a frustrated publishing executive who tries to convince himself that he is on the verge of writing a great novel. He falls in love with Laura, a bored urban wife and mother. As in all the novels by Millis - one of Spain's best-selling novelists - what is real and what is not is hard to pin down. Julio had another lover, Teresa, who died in a car accident - or did she? Did Teresa even exist? Not without reason is Julio seeing a psychiatrist twice a week - and Laura, who he meets after each session, happens to be married to one ...

Millás paints a dark portrait of urban ennui and ambition, laced with outbursts of torrid sex, finding fissures and failures in our perception of reality which he exploits with sarcasm, a dry almost-English humour and tenderness. Whilst The Disorder of Your Name is literary fiction of the highest order, its plot rattles along like a crime novel - and crime there is, a murder that looks to be perfect ...

Detective Inspector Henry Moir's daughter, Karen - HIV positive - is missing from her home in Newcastle, last heard of heading for London. Moir enlists the help of his friend Stephen Larkin, an investigative journalist, who knows his way around London. Following a trail of warring drug dealers, child prostitution and born-again Christian gangsters, the search for Karen becomes an increasingly dangerous trawl through the London underworld. Larkin attracts the attention of Charlie Rook, a vicious gang leader; he also is looking for Karen but doesn't care whether she's dead or alive...

Praise for Martyn Waites
'Rough, bitter and cynical, Little Triggers is contemporary British noir at its best.' Jim Driver. Shots
'Mary's Prayer is an assured, powerful debut from a writer sure to find his place in modern crime fiction. Contemporary noir with a distinctly Chandlereque flavour, a significant contribution to the genre.' Andrew Vachss

Drawing on his knowledge of forensic science and police procedures, Douglas Wynn examines a number of real-life crimes to provide writers with a wealth of inspiration how they killed, who they killed, why they killed; Wynn examines both method and motivation in this comprehensive and fascinating guide.
Killer Women Mass murderers Supernatural killers Drug-dealers Pirates Killer couples Gangland assassins Gangsters Blackmailers
As meticulously researched, detailed and compulsively readable as Wynn's first book The Crime Writers' Handbook, his Sourcebook is guaranteed to spark every crime writer's imagination.

Acclaim for The Crime Writers' Handbook
'I'11 be making regular use of this book as long as I go on writing crime novels. Peter Lovesey
'Entertaining and knowledgeable'Marcel Berlins, The Times
'A genuinely useful addition to a crime writer's shelf' Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday