It was a picture-postcard English village, but like all such villages, it had its share of secrets, scandals and tragedies. The Player murder, however, was seldom discussed: in fact, the whole unpleasant affair was as good as forgotten - or would hav...
Young women are being murdered, the only clue to the identity of their killer, a Tarot card left with their bodies. That is, according to Professor Rupert Roxeth, the recognised authority on the Tarot called in by the Gidding police to assist them in...
1982 Doubleday BCE hardcover with dust jacket as shown. Exlibrary item with normal labels/markings, still tight spine, clear, crisp pages, no tears, smoke free, edgewear, cocked slightly. Dust jacket shows light edge wear, covered with archival dust ...
It was Big John Little, the village inebriate, who late one night stumbled about in the flower-beds beneath the bedroom window of Little Gidding’s hated postmistress, Mae Holliday, shaking his huge fist and bawling out to her that she was a mouldy ...
Rendell Maxwell Pym brutally murdered his beautiful young wife. The fact that his conviction was overturned by the Appeal Court made no difference. He was the man everyone loved to hate. Only one person, right up until the moment the last dying br...
It had long been rumored that there was a witches' coven active in Little Gidding, but that was all it was, a rumor. That is until the body of the old woman known locally as "the Black Widow" was discovered burned to death, staked to a scarecrow. It ...
The tarot reading was a gift, albeit an unusual one, bearing in mind that it was supposed to be a wedding present for a young bride, and all the more so, since the giver of the gift was the bridegroom's mother. The clairvoyant, Edwina Charles, has de...
Edwina Charles, aka Madame Adele Herrmann, the clairvoyant, finds herself in a race against time to prove the innocence of her brother - the eccentric Punch and Judy children's entertainer, Cyril Forbes - when he is accused of the brutal murder of th...
It is nigh on forty years since the Cornish Rebellion of 1497 and the Cornish are again growing restive to shed the Tudor yoke once and for all. What will be needed, though, is a new leader, and who better to fill this role than a Plantagenet Pretend...
Twenty-seven-year-old Natalie Miller is struggling to come to terms with the death of her stepmother, Ellen, whom the police believe, but cannot prove, Natalie murdered. Natalie doesn't deny that she murdered Ellen: there are terrifying blanks in her...