Crime

 

Title: Murder!
Author: Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)
Series: Crime
ISBN: 1-86092-012-8
Two men meet in a seaside resort. What follows is murder. What's discovered isn't all it seems to be... Arnold Bennett was born in 1867. He wrote an influential book column for the Evening Standard from 1926 until his death in London in 1931. He was a great admirer of the French realists and his most successful novels, Clayhanger, Hilda Lessways, and These Twain, set in his native Staffordshire, show the literary influence of Flaubert and Balzac on his work. He also wrote plays and essays, as well as many short stories.

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Title: The Five Orange Pips
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Series: Crime
ISBN: 1-86092-031-4
In this classic Sherlock Holmes mystery the famous Baker Street detective is confronted with one of the most baffling cases of his entire career. Members of the Openshaw family are one-by-one being murdered. Holmes must find a pattern and a motive to these crimes before another member of the family is killed....but there are very few clues. Will the great man fathom the meaning of the five orange pips in time?

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Title: Thornapple
Author: Ruth Rendell
Series: Crime
ISBN: 1-86092-032-2
Ruth Rendell's mysteries have become famous throughout the world. In Thornapple James Fyfield, a young boy with an enquiring, scientific mind, takes up a very unusual hobby - making deadly poisons in his mother's kitchen when she is out. Soon he has a large collection of jars tucked away on a the top shelf in his bedroom - hemlock, henblane and deadly nightshade. But the one of which he is proudest by far is a murky brown concoction, painstakingly prepared from the spiky fruit of the thornapple.

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