R.I.P.--HILDA Rest in peace, Hilda. The last, long peace to which everyone is entitled. Even a woman for whom no one will really mourn...a woman whose death could only bring relief to everyone whose path she crossed--everyone for whom she made ...
1979, mass market paperback reprint edition, Penguin, NY. 178 pages. Mystery writer, Andrew Garve, was a creative, skilled writer who always came up with something different. A wife of a high British official has been kidnapped. The terrorists want t...
The newest, most secret weapon is tested over an airfield in Germany by an RAF plane which was then ordered to land in Cyprus. On the way the plane was hijacked and set course for Russia, but it crashed close to an international frontier between East...
An instinctive decision. A dangerous gang. A life at risk.
When Debbie Sheldon witnesses a jewel theft - one that leaves an innocent man dead - she acts on impulse, taking a photograph of the getaway car. And now the criminals want the evidenc...
Of the six convicts Robert Ashe tries to help on his weekly visit to the prison, Terry Booth is the most promising. It seems that Terry, only twenty-four years old, has gained something positive from Ashe's confidence and friendship: that on his rele...
A tense, cleverly devised game of bluff and double-bluff . . .
Most successful men make enemies but Robert Quarry, a rich and ruthless industrialist, had more than his share.
Feeling was running high at Quarry's strike-bound factory in ...
'I think there must be some mistake.'
James Lester is a rising star in the political world and all signs point to his becoming the next Prime Minister, but the appearance of a mystery girl, claiming to have a history with the MP, threatens a s...
When Frank Roscoe saves their young son from drowning, Sally and John Mellanby are understandably grateful, and offer their help to the ex-Army officer while he establishes himself in the local area. They invite him into their home, offer him a car a...
Mike Conway, an ocean-going yachtsman down on his luck in a tropical port, welcomes the chance to repair his fortunes when he is approached to undertake a dangerous and illegal, but highly lucrative mission. For Victor Metaxas, who planned the enterp...
Have you ever wondered what undiscovered gems lie waiting to be found in your garden?
Lawrence Quilter, a man in a position of power, finds some interesting records amongst his great grandfather's papers. This leads him to uncover a labyrinth ...
On Tara Hill, near Dublin, is the site where The House of a Thousand Soldiers once stood. An archaeologist becomes involved in a project to rebuild The House of Soldiers and to repeople it for a day with living images of the soldiers who had once car...
When Anthony Bliss - roguish ladies man and con-artist extraordinaire - meets gorgeous Corinne Lake, whose wit, charm and eye for the finer things in life make her utterly irresistible, sparks fly. Their combination of passion and intellect make them...
The disappearance of Commander Clive Easton, a naval hero with access to his Government's secrets, makes him look like a traitor. Just what he wants.
Easton is actually hiding on Megstone, a barren rock in the ocean. He thinks he's just hiding...
Alan Hunt is ambitious and unpleasant a caravan salesman with good looks, youth and charm. He is engaged to be married to Susan, a plain girl with a beautiful fortune. Just two weeks before the wedding, Gwenda Nicholls turns up, a pretty redhead h...
It doesn't take Clare Hunter many years of married life to discover that her husband, Arnold, is ruthless and unscrupulous. But it is not until she attempts to break up their unsatisfactory marriage that she herself becomes victim of his power-comple...
Young Dr. Martin West has just arrived to take up an important medical post on a British island colony in the Tropics which is on the verge of being granted self-government, and where corruption is rife. His chief, Dr. Garland, shows him over an isol...
When the Foreign Editor of London's Morning Call newspaper resigns, his assistant Edgar Jessop seems, at least to himself, the obvious choice to replace him. Particularly as he has been passed over for promotion on so many occasions in the past.
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When events don't go to plan, who knows where you will end up?
Four teenagers, all eager to impress each other, embark on a seemingly straight forward robbery. But when events don't go to plan the four youths find themselves on the run from th...
When the boundaries between reality and fiction become blurred it is left to one man to seek the truth . . .
Journalist Peter Rennie discovers more than he bargained for after being sent to the Channel Islands to do an interview for his news p...
When Edward Latimer is accused by a pretty girl of assaulting her in a train, and two unimpeachable witnesses say they saw him do it, he's in deep water. This is only the beginning of his troubles, for a few days later the girl's dead body is found i...
Gwenda was beautiful and pregnant. Susan was beautiful and rich. Alan was engaged to marry both. When he decided he'd rather be rich than a father, he was faced with a dilemma. How could he get off the hook with Gwenda - who would make a fuss - witho...
Foreign correspondent George Gerney, travelling to Moscow by train to report for his newspaper on post-war changes there, finds himself in the company of a pro-Soviet delegation from England. His aloof attitude towards his fellow passengers receives ...