A Man for All Seasons
The classic play about Sir Thomas More, the Lord chancellor who refused to compromise and was executed by Henry VIII.Read more
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The Man From St. Petersburg
His name was Feliks. He came to London to commit a murder that would change history. A master manipulator, he had many weapons at his command, but against him were ranged the whole of the English police, a brilliant and powerful lord, and the young Winston Churchill himself. These odds...Read more
The Man in the Brown Suit
A diamond robbery. An accidental death at a London Tube station. And the murder of a beautiful woman in a remote country mansion.
Who or What is the connection? Is it the foreigner who claimed to be a doctor and then disappeared? The one the papers called ‘The Man in the Brown...Read more
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The Man In The Queue
Outside a London theatre a throng of people wait expectantly for the last performance of a popular musical. But as the doors open at last, something spoils all thought of entertainment: a man in the queue is found murdered by the deadly thrust of a stiletto...Read more
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Man in the Shadows
Cliff Hardy returns to the Australian criminal underworld in a short novel and six stories focused on the private investigator
Gareth Greenway wasn't all he seemed, but Cliff Hardy was used to that. What he wasn't used to was the shadowy world Greenway leads him...Read more
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A Man Lay Dead
Ngaio Marsh's classic first novel, which introduced Inspector Alleyn and set Ngaio Marsh on the path to international recognition. Wealthy Sir Hubert Handesley's original and lively weekend house-parties are deservedly famous. To amuse his guests, he has devised a new form of the...Read more
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The Man on the Balcony
Someone is killing young girls in the once-peaceful parks of Stockholm. Police Superintendent Martin Beck has two witnesses: a cold-blooded mugger who won't say much and a three-year-old boy who can't say much.Read more
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The Man on the Rock
Spiro Polymerides is a con artist, petty thief, and parasite who survives only by means of his youthful beauty and natural cunning. Restlessly, he drifts from one victim to another: Irvine Stroh, an American relief worker and repressed homosexual; Helen Bristow, a wealthy, middle-aged widow...Read more
Man of Two Tribes
Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, travels to the remote Australian town of Chifley, to search for a woman who mysteriously disappeared from a passenger train crossing the Nullarbor Plain, a desolate desertRead more
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The Man Who Anthology
An anthology of crime stories commissioned by the Detection Club in celebration of Julian Symons's 80th birthday. As a tribute to Symons's contribution to the world of crime fiction, Peter Lovesey, Ruth Rendell, Antonia Fraser, Len Deighton and others have written a short story in his...Read more
The Man Who Died
A successful entrepreneur in the mushroom industry, Jaakko Kaunismaa is a man in his prime. At just 37 years of age, he is shocked when his doctor tells him that he’s dying. What is more, the cause is discovered to be prolonged exposure to toxins; in other words, someone has slowly but...Read more
The Man Who Smiled
The Man Who Smiled begins with Inspector Kurt Wallander deep in a personal and professional crisis after killing a man in the line of duty; eventually, he vows to quit the Ystad police force for good. Just then, however, a friend who had asked Wallander to look into the death of...Read more
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The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
A journalist has vanished without a trace in Budapest. When Martin Beck arrives in the city to investigate, he is drawn into an Eastern European underworld in search of a man nobody knows. What he discovers will put his life at risk.
Swedish Detective Inspector Martin Beck is...Read more
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The Man With the Golden Mind
Julia Rendel asks Maier to investigate the twenty-five year old murder of her father, an East German cultural attaché who was killed near a fabled CIA airbase in central Laos in 1976. But before the detective can set off, his client is kidnapped right out of his arms. Maier follows Julia’s...Read more
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Manhunt
Egypt, 528 BC. Kel, a young scribe recently hired by the prestigious Guild of Interpreter, arrives at work one morning to find the entire staff slaughtered. He flees in panic, taking with him the mysterious coded papyrus his colleagues had been deciphering. Thus he becomes prime suspect at...Read more
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Manic Streets Of Perth
Perth.
It's thousands of miles from anywhere, it's got a rubbish Bell Tower and not enough of the laid-back locals are being eaten by sharks. Well, that's what expat reporter Paul Lewis thinks, but after a lonely Manic Street Preachers fan reveals her disastrously unlucky life...Read more
Manila Bay
Lieutenant Felix Elizalde, of Manila's Western District Detective Bureau, watches a random murder become the first in a diabolical series and knows that the Philippines' champion fighting cock is the key to it allRead more
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The Mannequin Man
“Know why she’s smiling?” he asked, pointing a small torch at the corpse. “Fish hooks. Two fish hooks at the corners of her mouth, a bit of nylon, pull it round the back of the head and tie a knot. Pretty straightforward, right?” Amaldi noticed the metallic glint at the corners of the taut...Read more
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Many Rivers to Cross
When the body of a teenage boy is found stuffed into a wheely bin on the East Side Estate, Banks and Annie have a homegrown murder case to solve. But Banks's attention is also on Zelda, who in helping him track down his old enemy, has put herself in danger and alerted the stonecold Eastern...Read more
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Margaret Yorke Omnibus
ACT OF VIOLENCE - The quiet market town of Mickleburgh is shattered when four local boys commit an astonishingly needless act of violence. As the pressure mount on the boys from police, friends and neighbours, a released murderer is enthralled by the crime and, posing as a psychotherapist,...Read more
Mark of the Crescent
"Do you know where your sons & daughters are? If they're with the Messiah, God help them...."
Mark of the Crescent is set in the 17th Century Ottoman Empire, taking place in many exotic & culturally diverse locations such as Istanbul, Izmir, Cyprus, Cairo, Gaza...Read more
The Marmalade Files
An imaginative romp through the dark underbelly of politics by two veteran Canberra insiders.
When seasoned newshound Harry Dunkley is slipped a compromising photograph one frosty Canberra dawn he knows he′s onto something big. In pursuit of the scoop, Dunkley must negotiate...Read more
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The Marvellous Boy
It's no secret that the people who hire Hardy have nowhere else to turn.
Take Lady Catherine Chatterton, widow of the eminent judge. She's desperate to hand down the mantle of her husband's legal reign (not to mention the money) to someone more deserving than her boozy daughter...Read more
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Mary Mary
An anxious mother enquires about her daughter, and a week later the young woman's battered body is found. Anonymous phone calls follow, with a suspect trailed across Dublin.Read more
The Mask of Fu Manchu
Out of the East the cry rose like a curse. In the dark lairs where the faithful waited, the whisper went round: "The Golden Prophet has returned to rule the world!"
A fearful memory of an ancient past burst like flames in the minds of the Faithful. They watched day and night for...Read more
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Maskerade
It's Phantom of the Opera, Discworld style, when an aspiring singer and part-time witch wins a part in the big city opera, and quickly learns of a shadowy figure haunting the house. Now her sorceress companions Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg must come to her aid, before the fat lady sings...Read more
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The Master of Knots
Alligator—ex-convict turned private detective—finds himself pulled into a disturbing case involving an Italy known to few. Helena and Mariano Giraldi lead a secret double life in Italy's clandestine S&M scene. When Helena is abducted, her husband approaches Alligator for help. But...Read more
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Master of the Moor
Stephen Whalby loves to walk the moor. He considers it his, although he and his young wife Lyn are merely tenants in a flat nearby. But the senseless and frightening murder of a young woman invades Stephen's sense of privacy and pollutes his beloved moor with suspicion and dread. And then a...Read more
Mates
'Eric', said Larry Davenport.'Come round to the flat, will you? As quickly as possible. It's Catia. She's been murdered. Here. In my flat.'
For Detective Sergeant Eric Walden, this phone call has serious repercussions. Not only is Larry a friend, he's also another cop, and the...Read more
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Matilda, My Darling
Investigating the disappearance of an itinerant worker, Hammond Nial, a private detective meets the Australian poet Banjo Paterson, and uncovers a murder with secret political connectionsRead more