The world's greatest detective, Hercule Poirot – legendary star of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile – puts his little grey cells to work solving a baffling Christmas mystery.

Lord Clive' bought his lordship at a 'Lord of the Manor' sale where titles fetch anything from two thousand to two hundred thousand pounds. Why not buy another cheap and sell it high? Why stop at only one customer? When some of his American buyers, each of whom imagines himself an English lord, come to England to inspect their property Clive leaves the beautiful Jane Strachey to handle them.But Clive was careless who he sold to, and among his victims...

It was not uncommon for Holmes to take on a case that promised to be of extraordinary interest, but which at the conclusion was unworthy of his great talent. The case of the S.S. Monrovia was not one of them'.

English eccentric Barrington Shakeshaft has retired from a colourful life of swashbuckling adventure to live in a caravan in the paddock of his daughter's home in Sussex. He amuses himself by perpetrating benign hoaxes on gullible journalists and duping greedy art dealers with forged paintings done in the style of famous painters.When police announce a fresh appeal for witnesses on the first anniversary of the unsolved murder of a schoolboy, Shakeshaft...

To learn who killed a loathsome gossip columnist, Bognor joins the paper Staggering homeward from a banquet, St. John Derby decides it would be easier to stagger back to work instead. When he reaches his desk, the booze-addled gossip columnist treats himself to a massive tumbler of port and calls for a taxi. By the time the cab arrives, the port is spilled on the carpet, mingling with the blood leaking from Derby's cut throat. No one will mourn his...

Enemy forces will stop at nothing to retrieve an incriminating package in this gripping international thriller from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries
 
Double agent Cornelius Roos is about to become dispensable to the Germans—until he reveals the existence of a recording that will guarantee the death of a high-ranking Nazi official if it finds its way into the hands of Hermann Goering. So Roos strikes a bargain:...

An army deserter returns home to see his dying mother-and stumbles into a deadly mystery-in this suspenseful medical thriller. Under enemy fire in Vietnam, Brian Maston had just one impulse: run. And he ran, all right-out of the war zone, out of the US Army, and all the way to Canada-and now he can never go home. He's spent years in Montreal working as a teacher, publishing a struggling magazine, and nursing a crippling addiction to alcohol when he...

In 1903, Sarah Schafer arrived in Bedford, Indiana, eager to begin a fresh chapter in her life with a new position as a Latin teacher at Bedford High School. Her excitement is soon replaced with fear when it becomes apparent someone wants Sarah out of town-and will use whatever means necessary to make her leave. A secret shared between Sarah and her close friend Eva puts both women in danger, and prominent citizens in Bedford have the most to lose...

A woman vanishes without a trace-and her relations are forbidden to speak her name   In 1917, after he's released from the hospital, John Waveney is headed back to the trenches in France when he decides to visit the land of his ancestors dating back to the Crusades. There, he meets a young girl who, upon learning he's all alone in the world, tells him she'd be sorry if anything happened to him at the front.   Nine years later, John returns to Waveney...

Thomas Burke paints an enduring portrait of London's East End At the beginning of the twentieth century, the East End of London was a filthy and violent neighborhood, a place where a man was more likely to get a knife in his stomach than a good dinner. It was worlds away from the fashionable district it has become more than a century later. In this gripping collection of stories, author Thomas Burke traverses the area and offers glimpses of life in...