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American private investigator Mike Faraday is on holiday in the Bahamas. There's not much rest for him however, after he sees a body being dumped on a beach and he quickly becomes involved in the violent Mafia underworld.

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Dr Palfrey and his wife journey to the bleak Yorkshire moors at the request of a doctor friend. Rising out of the moor, dark and sinister, is the House of the Bears, the home of Sir Rufus Morne, and who has disappeared.

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The Unicorn is a fabulous beast. But Sir Henry Merrivale knows that in an age of great impersonators a police inspector can be a secret service agent or a murderer. And then the murderer may strike, and no one knows who killed him.

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Running away from a failed marriage, Ginnie is forced off the road as she drives away by another car driven by a man in a hurry. As she makes a new life in Westhampton, she begins to suspect that the driver of the car is one of the actors in her theatre group, and there is something sinister afoot.

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Francis Pettigrew is holidaying with his wife, Eleanor, in Exmoor when the past returns to haunt him. When he stumbles over a body on a remote hill on the moor, it brings back his childhood memory – and nightmares – of discovering a corpse in the exact same spot. This time around though the body mysteriously disappears…

'A superb example of the skilful combination of legal exposition, comedy and drama' – Birmingham Post

A man's body had been found in a van parked in a lay-by. Gunned down, he was not a pretty sight. Superintendent Gently tries to find out why this Pole with a haulage business should be the target for murder.

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Mordon research centre is not a pretty place. The only way in, even for a killer, is by the main gate. Yet behind the locked doors of E block a scientist is lying alone and dead and a new toxin of frightening virulence has disappeared.

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Gus Seaton had the cushy job of running a private research centre on nationalism. Then things begin to fall appart - he becomes the victim of a vicious smear campaign, his wife thinks he is seeing someone else and his daughter is rebelling.

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Ruth Stanton, famous crime novelist, has just returned from a research trip. Her husband has stayed at home as usual and whilst she has been away, two women from the village have disappeared, the landlord Bill Lynch's wife and Judy, his lover. But if they are dead, where are the bodies?

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Dave took up his first case on Monday, and had to complete it before he got married on Friday. Neville Gaines had been hanged 12 years before for shooting and killing farmer Andy Paterson. What was to be gained by going over the case again?

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