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During a boring dinner party at a Fedborough mansion with some stuffy acquaintances, the mummified torso of a woman turns up in the cellar, and Jude and her reluctant neighbor, Carole, find themselves playing detective in another puzzling whodunit.

Charles Paris returns again, in a fringe show at the Edinburgh Festival, with another nubile girl to provoke him, and his accommodating wife to console him, and a gory murder to challenge him. Edinburgh and the Festival are both background and foreground with Charles flitting between a revisualised Midsummer Nights Dream, a mixed-media satire, a late-night revue, and his own one-man show on Thomas Hoodand with a fading pop star as the first victim, a bomb scare in Holyrood Palace, and a suicide leap from the top of the Rock. Charles copes splendidly with the Festival, with his affair with the girl with the navy eyes, and with a most complex murder investigation.

Charles Paris has landed a role in a lavish West-End musical. The star, one of England's most popuar comedians, is adored by the public but despised in the business. He also seems to be behind some strange happenings backstage, including the rehearsal pianist being shot in the hand and an actor falling and breaking his leg. Why would the star want to sabotage his own show?

The playwright wants to strangle him. The leading lady longs to stab him in the back. The young Lothario looks at him with deadly rage. And unless Charles turns the spotlight on the real behind-the-scenes saboteur before opening night, murder will take top billing.

Death Under the Dryer

Bones Under the Beach Hut

The Shooting in the Shop

Blood at the Bookies

Carole Seddon's son is about to be married. But as plans for the big day get underway, Stephen's future parents-in-law, Marie and Harold, seem desperate to keep the affair as discreet as possible. Then, after a quiet engagement party, Harold disappears . . . only to be found dead the next day, in a burnt out car in Epping Forest.

While the family try to deal with their grief, Carole discovers they are concealing secrets that can be traced back thirty years, to the murder of Marie's best friend. Now the girl's killer has been released from prison and is back in his old stomping ground, near Fethering.

As Carole enlists the help of her friend Jude in researching the truth, Gaby returns to London to find herself in grave danger. Fearing the bride-to-be is the killer's next target, Carole and Jude must unravel the Martin family's past before he makes another deadly move . . . and before the happiness of the impending wedding day is ruined.

One of Britain's wittiest mystery writers returns with an exciting new Charles Paris novel. Charles, the often out-of-work actor, is appearing as a forklift operator in a corporate video. It's not prime-time television or a major film, but it seems like easy money--until the forklift is used to murder a sexy secretary with lots of enemies.

Ellen Curtis runs her own business helping people who are running out of space. As a declutterer, she is used to encountering all sorts of weird and wonderful objects in the course of her work. What she has never before encountered is a dead body.

When Ellen stumbles across the body of a young woman in an over-cluttered flat, suspicion immediately falls on the deceased homeowner's son, who has recently absconded from prison. No doubt Nate Ogden is guilty of many things – but is he really the killer? Discovering a link between the victim and her own past, Ellen sets out to uncover the truth. But where has her best friend disappeared to? And is Ellen really prepared for the shocking revelations to follow?

Welcome to Fethering! Carole has a bad hair day when a haircut leads to murder in this quirky, cozy, British village mystery. The last thing Carole expects when she goes to Connie's Clip Joint for a trim is to find the body of Kyra, Connie's assistant, in the back room. Kyra's boyfriend, Nathan, has vanished, but his family, an eccentric, controlling bunch, don't seem overly concerned. Instead, they are bizarrely obsessed with a family board game which seems to provide a host of clues as to Nathan's whereabouts. Carole and her neighbour Jude are determined to unravel the clues, but can they discover the truth before either someone is falsely accused or the killer makes a second move? And how many haircuts can a pair of middle-aged sleuths have before people start to become suspicious?

Welcome to Fethering! The race is on to find a killer when Jude stumbles across a body at the bookies in this quirky, cozy, British village mystery. Jude has never been averse to a bit of a flutter; her friend Carole, on the other hand, thinks that the local betting shop is a den of iniquity. But when Jude stumbles upon the body of fellow customer Tadeusz Jankowski after placing a bet, the odds of finding his killer don't look good. No one seems to know much about Polish immigrant Tadek, and even his sister doesn't know why he moved to Fethering in the first place. As they question the local residents, Carole finds an unexpected friend in an inveterate gambler, and Jude finds herself in potentially more trouble than she can handle with a lecherous and charming drama professor. In this race there can only be one winner, but with no leads and several suspects in the running will the sleuthing friends be pipped at the post by a cold and calculating killer?

Самое обыкновенное убийство.
Первый роман из серии о семейном детективном агентстве Хантеров.
Отец юного Эда Хантера, простой наборщик из типографии, отправился обмывать получку, а утром был найден убитым в переулке. Полиция считает расследование бесперспективным, и тогда Эд вместе с дядей, "карнавальщиком" Эмброузом Хантером, начинают самостоятельные поиски убийцы. Из рассказов дяди Эд с изумлением узнает о бурной молодости отца…
Где тебя настигнет смерть?
Однажды в жаркий августовский полдень в детективное агентство "Хантер и Хантер" обращается за помощью очаровательная рыжеволосая красотка Салли Доуэр. Эд Хантер и его дядя Эм решительно отказывают девушке, когда она объясняет, что ее хотят убить… марсиане. Однако девушка так мила и так сильно расстроена, что Эд Хантер соглашается провести с ней один вечер, чтобы она хоть ненадолго почувствовала себя в безопасности…
Смерть тоже ошибается.
Странствующий по Америке цирк шапито преследует проклятие - вереница странных пугающих событий кажется бесконечной.
Все началось с убийства никому не известного лилипута, обнаженное тело которого было обнаружено на территории цирка. Дальше - больше; его смерть стала лишь первым звеном в цепочке таинственных убийств и крайне подозрительных "несчастных случаев". И самое странное обстоятельство - то, что убийца, похоже, подбирает своих жертв… по размеру.
Не в силах больше стоять в стороне, к расследованию подключаются бывший частный сыщик, а ныне - владелец собственного аттракциона в цирке Эмброуз Хантер и его юный племянник Эд…
Медаль за убийство.
Одно из самых необычных дел частного детектива Кейт Шеклтон…
У входа в театр найден мертвым богатый торговец автомобилями. У полиции трое фигурантов - и все они дали признательные показания…
Выходит, двое лгут, а третий - настоящий преступник. Но кто он, и почему оговаривают себя остальные?
Кейт начинает расследование. И вскоре понимает, что дело о жестоком убийстве связано с весьма неприятным инцидентом, случившимся незадолго до этого, - кражей из ломбарда…
Адмирал идет ко дну.
Много лет "Адмирал Бинг" - уютный паб в приморской деревушке Крэбуэлл - посещали и местные обитатели, и туристы. Но однажды его владелец Джеффри Горацио Фитцсиммонс был найден мертвым в лодке у причала…
Возможно, бедняга просто покончил с собой, сломавшись под грузом долгов, неоплаченных счетов и перспектив закрытия своего любимого детища? Но команда телевизионщиков-документалистов, прибывших в деревушку, так не думает. Они намерены выяснить, что же произошло с Фитцсиммонсом, даже если ради этого придется перевернуть каждый камень в Крэбуэлле и вытащить из шкафов все скелеты.

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The murder of a stranger or a relative, in a quiet English town or a crowded American city. Short stories by some of the finest modern crime writers.
17,833 words.
British English.