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This is a unique one volume collection of all Poe's best tales and poems. Full of variety, entries include "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Mystery of Marie Roget", "The Purloined Letter" - three classic detective stories - plus "The Raven", one of his greatest poems. This title includes a wond..

At the centre of Music for Chameleons is Handcarved Coffins, a 'nonfiction novel' based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer.Taking place in a small Midwestern town in America, it offers chilling insights into the mind of a killer and the obsession of the man bringing him to justice. Also in..

Truman Capote's great unfinished novel blisters with scandal and malice. His candid expose' of the exclusive world of the very rich teems with beautiful, spiteful women, psychotic and sadistic husbands, and other thinly disguised friends and acquaintances of the author. At its centre is one P. B. Jo..

After the death of his mother, thirteen-year-old Joel Knox is summoned to live with a father he has never met in a vast decaying mansion in rural Alabama, its baroque splendour now faded and tarnished. But when he arrives, his father is nowhere to be seen and Joel is greeted instead by his prim, sul..

He is one of the most haunting characters in all of literature. At last, the evolution of his evil is revealed. Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him. Hann..

Sent to Vienna to authenticate a painting, art restorer and occasional spy Gabriel Allon sets out to uncover the truth about a photograph of an unnamed man who had brutalized his mother during the final days of World War II...

The greatest World War Two story of all timeIt was to become known as the most daring enemy mission of the entire war: Operation Eagle, SS Reichsfu"hrer Heinrich Himmler's audacious plan to kidnap Winston Churchill on British soil in November 1943.But, despite spectacular secrecy, there was ..

After 20 years of writing both WW II and contemporary thrillers, Higgins combines the two in a breakneck yarn about the wreck of a Nazi submarine - and its bombshell secret. There's always much disbelief to suspend with a Higgins novel, and never more than here, where the author, per his usual recyc..

Inspector Lognon – a plain-clothes detective with a reputation for misfortune – is shot in the street with the word ‘ghost’ on his lips. It soon emerges that he spent the night in the apartment of a beautiful young woman, who has since vanished. While the injured man fights for his life in hospital,..

It should have been a simple journey - a drive from Minneapolis to Green Bay, Wisconsin. But a couple of unplanned detours lead Grace MacBride, Annie Belinsky and police Deputy Sharon Mueller deep in the northern woods, far from civilization and a mobile phone signal. Then the car breaks down. The n..

Marc Seidman's idyllic world is brutally ripped apart when he is gunned down in his home. Twelve days later he wakes up in hospital to learn that his wife is dead and his baby daughter Tara is missing. A ransom demand is made and agreed to. But something goes terribly wrong. The kidnappers escape, a..

Stalking a poisoner at the local zoo, Inspector John Rebus comes across a paedophile taking pictures of children. When the social workers claim he is there for legitimate educational reasons, Rebus is faced with a dilemma - should he be outed to protect local kids or given a chance to start anew? As..