
A Man's Head
A rich American widow and her maid have been stabbed to death in a brutal attack. All the evidence points to Joseph, a young drifter, and he is soo...
View full detailsA rich American widow and her maid have been stabbed to death in a brutal attack. All the evidence points to Joseph, a young drifter, and he is soo...
View full detailsAn illegal Muslim immigrant arrives in Hamburg with a traumatic past and the key to a fortune held in a private bank. He says his name is Issa. To ...
View full detailsStella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School: firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doilies and china ducks, and secon...
View full detailsBroke and working as a tour guide in Germany, rootless Englishman Ted Mundy catches a glimpse of an old friend hiding in the shadows. A friend he t...
View full detailsAs Stephen King will attest, the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. American Superna...
View full detailsIn Egypt, Nuri, a teenage boy, falls in love with Mona--the woman his father will marry. Consumed with longing, Nuri wants to get his father out of...
View full detailsBy turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjur...
View full detailsAfter a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is tryi...
View full detailsStep into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson this autumn with a collection of her finest, darkest short stories, revealing the queen of Americ...
View full detailsEarly 1990s China: Newly returned from the US, lawyer Hong Jun has just set up practice in a fledgling legal system when his first case walks throu...
View full detailsNatalie Waite, daughter of a mediocre writer and a neurotic housewife, is increasingly unsure of her place in the world. In the midst of adolescenc...
View full detailsIn this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs, paintings come alive, deadly spectral brides hau...
View full detailsAn anxious devil, an elderly writer of poison pen letters and a mid-century Jack the Ripper; a pursuit though a nightmarish city, a small boy's thr...
View full detailstranslated by William Hobson Maigret is called to the home of professional gambler, Felix Nahour, who has been found shot dead by his chambermaid. ...
View full detailstranslated by Howard Curtis Inspector Maigret receives a series of letters warning of a murder that is going to take place. The letters do not reve...
View full detailsIn a great courtroom drama, Maigret has to explain why he does not believe that Gaston Meurant was capable of slitting his aunt's throat for money ...
View full detailsFrom the day that Sheba Hart joins the staff at St George's, history teacher Barbara Covett is convinced that she has found a kindred spirit. When ...
View full detailsFrom the desks of Nigeria's newsrooms, two journalists are recruited to find the kidnapped wife of a British oil engineer. Zaq, an infamous media h...
View full detailsThe Cold War is over and retired secret servant Tim Cranmer has been put out to pasture, spending his days making wine on his Somerset estate. But ...
View full detailsThat Charles Beaumont would make a name for himself crafting scripts for The Twilight Zone is only natural: for his was an imagination so limitless...
View full detailsIn 1886, an unsuccessful ophthalmologist on the southern coast of England decided to try his hand at writing a detective story. Unlike his historic...
View full detailsThe concluding part of John le Carre's celebrated Karla Trilogy, Smiley's People sees the last confrontation between the indefatigable spymaster Ge...
View full detailsBy the 20th century, the centuries-old Roman Catholic exorcism ritual for combatting demonic possession was all but dead, eviscerated by the ascent...
View full detailsRima Lanisell has a habit of losing things--car keys, sunglasses, lovers, family members. Following the death of Rima's father, she goes to stay wi...
View full detailsDurtal, a shy, censorious man, is writing a biography of Gilles de Rais, the monstrous fifteenth-century child-murderer thought to be the original ...
View full detailsAlone in the world, Eleanor is delighted to take up Dr Montague's invitation to spend a summer in the mysterious Hill House. Joining them are Theod...
View full detailsGeorge Smiley, now acting head of the Circus, must rebuild its shattered reputation after one of the biggest betrayals in its history. Using the ta...
View full detailsDerace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her hus...
View full detailsWhen the Department - faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic battles - hears rumour of a missile base near the West German border, it ...
View full detailsIn these stories an excellent host finds himself turned out of home by his own guests; a woman spends her wedding day frantically searching for her...
View full detailstranslated by Howard Curtis On a foggy winter's evening in Dieppe, after the arrival of the daily ferry from England, a railway signalman habituall...
View full detailsDriving home one night, Gabe sees the face of a little girl he knows in the rear window of the car in front. She mouths one word - 'Daddy'. He neve...
View full detailsSince ancient times, accounts of supernatural activity have mystified us. Ghost stories as we know them did not develop until the late nineteenth c...
View full detailsEnthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, ...
View full detailsCaptain Lannec has finally managed to buy his own ship with the financial help of his in-laws, the Pitards--and they've never let him forget it. Wh...
View full detailsBarley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley wh...
View full details'What we did was terrible, but still I don't think any of us were bad, exactly; chalk it up to weakness on my part, hubris on Henry's, too much Gre...
View full detailsThe Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class. The...
View full detailsA pursuit to solve a murder; a satire on the Etonian ruling class; an espionage thriller of plots and counter-plots; a devilish drama behind East G...
View full detailsOn a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. In ...
View full detailsMrs Halloran has inherited the great Halloran house on the death of her son, much to the disgust of her daughter-in-law, the delight of her wicked ...
View full detailsCharmer, fabulist and tailor to Panama's rich and powerful, Harry Pendel loves to tell stories. But when the British spy Andrew Osnard - a man of l...
View full detailsLiving in the Blackwood family home with only her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian for company, Merricat just wants to preserve their delicate...
View full detailsNew Yorkers Carter and Seth chop up old music to make it new again, ripping off black culture to line white pockets. They are young, hungry and tal...
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