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An honest policeman, Sergeant Wigan, escorts a drunk man home one night to keep him out of trouble and, seeing his fine book collection, slowly falls into the gentle art of book collecting. Just as the friendship is blossoming, the policeman's book-collecting friend is murdered. To solve the mystery of why the victim was killed, and which of his rare books was taken, Wigan dives into the world of 'runners' and book collectors, where avid agents will gladly cut you for a first edition and then offer you a lift home afterwards.

Ten stories. Ten roads. And after traveling them, you may never look at a highway the same way again. Some roads take you home. Others hide stories that were never meant to be discovered. A wrong turn. A passenger who knows too much. A bridge with a decades-old secret. A route that seems impossible to escape. In Cursed Roads, the ordinary can become inexplicable with the next turn.

The stories in this third volume of Dr. Watson's chronicles have been fashioned by the author to reproduce in every aspect the form, style, and substance of A. C. Doyle's fifty-six original works.

Ten more cases from the files of The Great Detective, comprising adventures previously published in the anthology 'The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories', as well as some recent additions from Doctor Watson's despatch box. • Mrs Maria Blackwell is concerned by the threatening and persistent observations of a stranger, each time she dines at Simpson's with her husband. • New artwork is appearing, in the style of the great Leonardo. It is not claimed that they are newly-discovered works of The Master, so why is someone prepared to kill to gain their possession?

The duke, his heir and a young lady who looks oddly familiar… just who is sending seemingly random strangers to the duke? Mr Richard Merrington, country gentleman, has lived in the shadow of the Duke of Brinshire for his whole life. Now the duke’s last son has died and Richard is summoned to Staineybank to take his place as the duke’s heir. His comfortable life of obscurity is at an end, and his first duty is to marry. The noble ladies on offer leave him cold, so what is he to do? Miss Rowena Holt has been left impoverished by her father’s death, and must seek work as a governess or companion.

Jackson Paul, formerly Professor Paul of Rochester Technical, is still getting used to not being a professor anymore, even though he's still teaching. Outside of the university, Jackson is finding gigs tutoring the city's elite, from an indie-actress trophy wife to the daughter of a local business magnate. Lines that he spent years drawing, separating himself from his students, are starting to blur due to his new situation, and some of them are troubling him. After a fling with the twenty-something former student, he's trying to balance his new work life with a social life, finally getting ...

North Yorkshire, England. Detective Chief Inspector Harry Grimm is reluctantly easing into life in the dales. As he gradually acclimatizes to the slower pace of the countryside while he awaits a return to the city, he's called out to inspect a farmer's crushed body. And despite the doctor on-site declaring it a tragic mishap, the seasoned police officer rolls up his sleeves when evidence points to foul play. Frustrated with the lack of witnesses and suspects, Grimm whips his easy-going team into action when a second corpse is found.

Diez relatos. Diez caminos. Y después de recorrerlos, quizá nunca vuelvas a mirar una carretera de la misma manera. Hay carreteras que te llevan a casa. Otras esconden historias que nunca debieron ser descubiertas. Un giro equivocado. Un pasajero que sabe demasiado. Un puente con un secreto de décadas. Una ruta imposible de escapar. En Carreteras del Más Allá, lo cotidiano puede convertirse en inexplicable al tomar la siguiente curva.

Jackson Paul had comfortably settled into a quiet life; teaching, research, and a quick drink with a friend once a week down at the bar. After a devastating breakup, it had seemed best and just became second nature. Budget cuts at his university, Rochester Technic, leave him not only unemployed, but forced to reinvent himself at forty-three. With a little money in savings, the plan turns towards making documentaries, and how to keep those savings from evaporating overnight while waiting for a little success to roll in. The tutoring gig his old chair up at the university recommended him for ...

"Doctor, I no longer desire to interfere with your creative endeavors. Publish or not as you see fit." Presented within this volume are a further six, previously unpublished, accounts by John H. Watson, M.D. These adventures bring Holmes and Watson into the worlds of high-society and politics as well as bringing them into contact with the successor to their most infamous enemy. Why does a politician wake up next to a dead man in a mystical circle? Who is responsible for the disappearance of an Aztec statue? How does a notorious gambler end up dead and naked in his study?

Introducing an iconic investigative duo—a hapless detective and his capable cat—in this must-read by one of Japan's most beloved novelists of crime fiction. Detective Yoshitaro Katayama is afraid of many things: heights, dark spaces, blood and ... women. When a young female student is found...

When Harry and Grace decide to marry in a quiet joint ceremony with Ben and Liz, they expect little more than to sign the register and share a bottle of champagne. But in Hawes, nothing important stays small for long. A stag do is arranged. Bunting is strung. The Fountain insists on catering properly. A restored Series 1 Land Rover is brought out of hiding. And somehow, a shire horse named Harry becomes part of the plan. For once, Grimm isn’t standing apart from the celebration; choosing family, community, and the life he’s built.

The duke, a struggling architect and a lady who loves to dance… but just who is sending seemingly random strangers to the duke? At eight and twenty, Miss Sophia Merrington is the youngest of four sisters, not one of whom has yet found a husband. When her brother becomes heir to the Duke of Brinshire and moves to the vast country house of Staineybank, Sophia is the only one not happy to be there. What is the point of living in such a grand house when there is no dancing to be had?

Sherlock Holmes stories are transportive things. They move listeners through the cloistered sitting room at 221-B Baker Street in late 19th Century Victorian London amid the cluttered sideboard, the inviting armchairs, the comforting hearth, the sprawling divan, the formidable bookshelves — all the beloved trappings in the room of the world's greatest detective and his faithful associate. The stories unfold and the listeners can almost sense the physical presence of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, characters whose vitality has defied the diminishments of time.

In the Shadow of the Glacier introduces a new traditional mystery series set in a bucolic mountain town in British Columbia and featuring young constable Molly Smith. Trouble is brewing in the small town of Trafalgar. Constable Molly Smith almost literally stumbles over a body, the victim of a...

Inspector David Graham is back! Graham's a career police officer, with a tragic past. His quiet, thoughtful exterior hides a complex mind, and a fierce determination to see justice done. Like many of us, sometimes he has to look his demons in the eye, to keep fighting the good fight. This box set contains the eighth, ninth, and tenth books in the series: The Case of Sampson's Leap, The Case of the Uncommon Witness, and The Case of the Body in the Block. This murder mystery series contains no profanity or graphic descriptions of sex or violence.

Hugh Everton was intent on nothing more than quietly drinking in the second-rate hotel he found himself in on England's south coast—and then in walked his old flame Lucy and her new husband and ex-Judge, Gregory Bath. Entreated by Lucy to join her party for an evening back at the Bath residence, Hugh is powerless to resist, but when the night ends with the judge's inexplicable murder he is pitched back into a world of chaos and crime—a world he had tried to escape for good.

When the body of a beloved social media star washes up on the rocky shores of Second Beach, panic spreads through the surrounding coastal community. What was once a peaceful haven is now shrouded in fear, and the locals demand answers. But what begins as a tragic mystery quickly spirals into something far more sinister. Beneath the surface of Washington’s sleepy beach towns lies a hidden underworld—a secretive criminal syndicate that has operated in the shadows for years.

Graham's a career police officer, with a tragic past. His quiet, thoughtful exterior hides a complex mind, and a fierce determination to see justice done. Like many of us, sometimes he has to look his demons in the eye, to keep fighting the good fight.

When Utah Sheriff Bud Shumway is asked by a friend to help find her missing uncle, he never dreams he’ll soon be on his way to a Bob Ross paint-along in a town called the Switzerland of America while trying to figure out why a cafe’s server would have a circuit diagram tattooed on her arm. And the deeper he gets into America’s Alps, the more questions he finds himself asking: Is the old run-down resort he’s staying at really haunted? Why is the mysterious white-haired man on a dirt bike carrying a dog in a basket?