World War II is over but Hooper Taliaferro is still in Africa, this time in Cabinda, a tiny Portuguese colony with gaily painted buildings and a history of slave-trading. Hoop should have a pleasant s
In this latest historical mystery in the award-winning "Inspector Stratton" series, it is the summer of 1958 and Stratton is investigating the murder of a rent collector in Notting Hill, a part of Lon
Hooper Taliaferro is living in Paris, at the height of its post-War chic, in this final mystery in the series. When a nightclub singer is murdered, the timely arrival of the redoubtable Mary Finney sa
Lady Balaclava keels over midway through a house party, having apparently been poisoned. The most obvious suspects are her Ladyship's daughters and their (suspiciously foreign) husbands: Leave it to H
Shona McMonagle may look bookish and harmless, but her education at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls has left her with a deadly expertise in everything from martial arts to quantum physics. It has a
Inspector Alleyn just wants to write a letter to his wife, but World War II keeps intruding with war-work that has brought Alleyn to a hospital in New Zealand's hinterlands, and it's the war that has
Judith Hayes has landed an interview with a super-reclusive billionaire, but before she can talk to him, he dies of apparent natural causes--or were they? The search for the real story takes Judith an
It's 1941 and San Francisco is pulsing with excitement. For Cameron Ferris, newly arrived from Tiny Town, Oregon, a seat on the sidelines is thrilling enough. But then her life takes a turn: There
The third mystery in Matthew Head's series, originally published in 1950, is set among the settlers and expats of tiny Leopoldville in the Belgian Congo, where a beautiful young woman dies under
Astonishingly, this "Inspector Alleyn" mystery was written in 1977, and Inspector Alleyn has a 21 year old son who gets into trouble in the Channel Islands, necessitating the arrival of Rode
Ngaio Marsh wisely set this last novel in her mystery series in the world of theater. It was in this setting that she produced some of her best work, andLight Thickens is among her best. This time, tr
Photo Finish's dead diva, the soprano Isabella Sommita, was so widely loathed that the problem is less a lack of plausible suspects than an embarrassment of options. Though the grand country-house – a
Third in the "Todd & Georgine" series by Lenore Glen Offord, originally published in 1949. Todd and Georgine McKinnon's pleasant domesticity is shattered by the sudden arrival of a disti
Millionaire Lord Charlton altered his will in favor of his nephew, Simon Warwick, who had been adopted by American parents when his own were killed in World War II. When Lord Charlton dies, two men c
The ninth and final book in the Karl Alberg series introduces a serial killer who's busy knocking off the residents – and their children! – and is one of the darkest characters in the Alberg canon.
It's 1901, and with the Boer War raging, England's air is crackling with political intrigue. But it's not South Africa that is on everyone's lips. Rather, it's The Jewish Question: The armies of Antis
