Ian Shimwell

The ghosts of Christmas come a haunting for you and me, Of which, there are one, two and three. Holmes suspects there could be a pattern to follow, Of a mystery, by a very mysterious fellow. To solve by Christmas Eve and Day, for all of thee... Doctor Watson

Agatha Christie’s new publisher suggests she visits a quaint village, Chipping Morten, to inspire her to complete her next Miss Marple manuscript. But, who is the Marple-mad fan, who is following the bestselling murder mystery author?

The society spiritualist, Mrs. Hayden is seemingly able to converse freely with the recently departed at her popular gatherings. Holmes and Watson remain skeptical....

A missing girl... The manipulative aristocrat, Marcus Dreadbury. A local gangster with a drug-dealing problem. The Manor's locked room, with a dusty handle. Stables, but with no sign of any horses. A subterranean stream. Marcus' madcap father. And a Manor-House full of surprises....

Ten years have passed since the apparent end of the Miss Marple murders, when Agatha Christie’s friends’ maid, shares concerns for her cousin’s safety at a remote mental institution.

Who is Old Tom? A sad and lonely fusspot? Or a forgotten figure whose bewildering deductive abilities hint at something more? Does he ever leave his armchair? Find out....

A chance meeting with a mysterious elderly man...Meet Trench, Old Tom and Sally-Anne in the 6 mysteries of the original fun, cosy mystery series. This exclusive Collector's Edition includes, for the first time, all 7 accompanying Sideways Glances. Plus... the Prequel to The Armchair Detective

Meet all the engines, characters big and small, in this collection of all six stories from The Engine Series. Puff along with engines Little Titch, Gideon, Toc Toc, Rust Bucket, and Sally Steamy....

With her husband busy on an archaeological dig, Agatha invites her friend, Mary Westmacott to accompany her on a luxury cruise. But, upon boarding the Ocean Princess, Agatha and Mary find certain behaviours slightly odd. Why is Captain Harkness so unusually attentive?

With Holmes incapacitated, Watson reluctantly agrees to let the argumentative Inspector Lestrade accompany him on a Scottish fishing holiday....

Rust Bucket is an old engine who lives on a lost railway. Little Titch wakes up on an old, rusty railway track. He doesn't know where he is or how he even came to be there....

Sally Steamy is an engine who doesn't seem to like Christmas at all. Sally wants to keep herself busy and believe Christmas is just another day. Can Little Titch and a magical Christmas....

Gideon is a big, kind engine with a huge crane arm. But when he meets an even bigger engine, Massive Mandy, she is always very rude to him....

Minnie Millie is the station cleaner who likes to look after her engine friends. But her friends, Little Titch and Gideon, want to know just who is it who controls all the Mainland engines....

Minnie Millie tells her engines a story of a clockwork engine coming to life and of a clockmaker trying to make the Great Clock work in time....

Toc Toc is a clockwork engine who holds the secret to the tick and the tock. Little Titch, Gideon, and Minnie Millie come to the Clockwork Village with a cog....

Say hello to Little Titch, the small engine with a big heart. Little Titch feels very small next to his good friend, the kind and very big engine, Gideon....

Anne Shirley...in her own words. Anne is at one of her "bends in the road" as she is about to finally leave Green Gables to study at Redmond College with a certain Gilbert Blythe....

This unique collection also includes the Sherlock Holmes feature-length special. Now you can enjoy the entire Holmes and Watson series all in one place - no deduction required....

An unprecedented crime wave is remorselessly sweeping across the city of London....