Things at the Plas Mawr Adventure Centre in North Wales are not going well. Warden Charles Martin has an unfaithful wife, Bett, who has driven him to drink. Jim Lithgow and Nell Harvey are both instructors and appear to be having an affair -- and Lit...
Two climbers die mysteriously on the Old Man of Scamadale, a stack off the Scottish coast. One of them, Stark, is famous. He has come to reconnoitre the Old Man for a television programme. But the local laird is vehemently opposed to any kind of publ...
First Edition. A VG+ copy in a VG+ dust jacket. Dust soiling to the edges of the book's upper page block. Small rubs to its spine tips and corners. The dust jacket has small rubs to the spine tips and corners. Tanning and some dust soiling to the rea...
Whilst they were taking sheep to the meadows early one morning, Jackson Wren and Zeke Rumney noticed a coat lying in a ditch. As Rumney stooped to pick it up, he realised it was covering a dead body. The two men were able to identify the corpse as th...
Amateur detective Miss Pink is paying a visit to the remote Welsh village of Abersaint to join the 87th birthday celebrations of her old friend Roderick Bowen. He is still in full possession of his faculties, and has recently won a notable victory i...
In Snowdonia, an arrogant landlord, Richard Judson, is incensing local opinion by allowing his Alsatian guard dogs, who have been trained as killers, to run loose ina nature reserve. First Satan, a particularly vicious dog disappears, then Judson and...
A small wagon train - twenty-eight people, six of them children, and eleven wagons - set out more than 130 years ago on a journey covering half a continent to reach their promised land, California. Along the way, calamities of all kinds strike them: ...
Miss Pink, an intrepid and unconventional murder investigator, is on her way to the remote estate of millionaire Jack Nielsen. She faces a hazardous journey alone, across the empty desert of Death Valley and through formidable mountain passes before ...
This book is written by Gwen Moffat. Miss Pink is making her way through the Rockies alone in winter, with her jeep as base camp for her mountaineering assaults on the peaks. It is tough going, not least when Miss Pink meets a grizzly bear, upright a...
Exploring a remote canyon in the wilds of New Mexico, Melina Pink comes upon a rifle and recent human remains in an old cave dwelling. Someone in the area must be waiting for a body to be found, so Miss Pink alerts the police, only to find that no on...
Kate Munro is a promising young Scottish writer, specialising in accounts of the most technical and daring mountain rescues. Her desire to find and recount these tales takes her to Ben Torboll, scene of a famous air crash nearly forty years ago which...
Culchet is everyone’s idea of the idyllic Lake District village, with geese on its tree-shaded green and friendly, well-behaved residents going quietly about their business: Bart Milburn is doing up the Old Hall, the gourmet chef at the pub is prep...
The Boathouse, in remote, Scenic Cumbria, is inherited by Sophie Daynes, who cherishes it for its family associations. Her boorish husband, in his forties and obsessed by his mistress, is only interested in its cash value. And in some woods not far f...
A bird watcher’s photograph reveals a human hand in an eagle’s nest.Vivien Reid, celebrated explorer and author, darling of the media, is devastated when her publisher drops her from the list. An admirer and one-time editor, Rupert Lasco, seizes ...
Parry, the leader of a mountain rescue team in North Wales, is refusing to accept that he is now past his prime. After the latest rescue operation, he basks in television glory. But Catrin, who is half is age, is unimpressed. ...
In the foothills of the Rockies, Miss Pink is visiting her friend Sophie Hamilton. But despite the summer sunshine, there is a shadow over the gathering. Rich, autocratic, Charlie Gunn delights in playing cruel jokes on his guests - and watch...
When a Lakeland dale is flooded to form a reservoir there are no protests...only relief. The rising water should cover the remains of little Joannie Gardner. And local people might finally be able to forget both the child and the man who left the dal...
Best-selling author Ruth Stanton’s homecoming after three months abroad is fraught with tension. The famous film director Paul Trevena is in love with her, and is doing his utmost to break up her marriage. Life in the Derbyshire Dales village has i...
On the coast of Oregon lies a tiny community in seeming wilderness, where the only crime is exploitation, as the local logging industry destroys the habitat of the spotted owl. Lois Keller, the successful crime writer and her more unfortunate husband...
In a remote Lakeland dale, whitewashed cottages nestle in lush gardens, sheep roam the fells and the Rutting Beck runs crystal clear. In short, it is a Cumbrian paradise. But Melinda Pink, visiting on holiday, knows better. For there are serpents ...