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  • av Joyce Porter
    167

    Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover is the most idle and avaricious hero in all of crime fiction. Why should he even be bothered to solve the case?The naked, burned and mutilated body of a middle-aged man has been found at the Muncaster Municipal Dump. When the autopsy reveals a peculiar clue, DCI Dover and his ever-unwilling assistant MacGregor set off on a trail that leads them to a squalid seaside resort. A mysterious organization, they learn, had convened there recently.Their inquiries bring them smack into the midst of an undercover investigation by Special Branch of a dangerous right-wing secret society. Never before has Dover been in such an equivocal spot. Though a vicious murder cries out to be solved, one doesn’t readily tamper with Dover’s legendary inertia.

  • av Joyce Porter
    167

    When a young pregnant girl known to no one turns up murdered, Dover eagerly comes up with more totally plausible suspects, persuasive motives, and airtight solutions than the sharp mind of his assistant Sergeant MacGregor, can process. If you've ever wondered when or how MacGregor would reach his breaking point, this is the book to read.

  • av Joyce Porter
    167

    Scotland Yard sends Detective Chief Inspector Dover and his woeful assistant MacGregor off on the Stately Home circuit to look into murder - and the victim couldn't be a drearier sort: "the wettest thing since nappies."

  • av Joyce Porter
    167

    Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover is the most idle and avaricious hero in all of crime fiction. Why should he even be bothered to solve the case?Dover and the Claret Tappers is a surprising departure for the series featuring Scotland Yard's least competent detective, and the first to depart is none other than Dover himself.When the doubtful detective suddenly vanishes from Scotland Yard, along comes an ultimatum from a gang of kidnappers, the Claret Tappers. They demand not only a stout ransom, but also the release of two prisoners – a multiple bigamist and a nymphomaniacal shoplifter.How Dover gets out of this one is only the beginning. For just as the case is getting cold, the Claret Tappers strike again. And once more Dover is aroused from his stupor in a most unexpected way.

  • av Joyce Porter
    167

    Dover is in for more than his usual share of the bother. The town's only hotel is unlicensed and there's not a drop of booze to be had. But almost as alarming are the unmistakable signs that someone is actually out to kill him.

  • av Joyce Porter
    167

    Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover is the most idle and avaricious hero in all of crime fiction. Why should he even be bothered to solve the case?The town of Pott Winckle owes its prosperity to the firm of Wibbley Ware. Naturally, when the owner’s daughter is murdered, the call goes out for Scotland Yard’s finest. Once again, Dover is off, the reluctant Sergeant MacGregor in tow.All Dover has to do to clinch this one is settle back in Wibbley’s Rolls Royce, perhaps bend a bit of evidence, or maybe a few fingers. Oddly enough – and not for the first time – his methods result in something resembling a solution.

  • av Joyce Porter
    167

    Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover is the most idle and avaricious hero in all of crime fiction. Why should he even be bothered to solve the case?When Mrs Dover witnesses a young policeman's suicide and has the bad taste to report it, Dover's vacation ends abruptly at the seaside wasteland of Wallerton.As he sluggishly investigates the matter, an earlier case of murder and mutilation turns up as well. Suspecting that the town's Ladies' Club may be oddly involved, Dover devises an elaborate and utterly wicked trap.His bait: his overworked, unsuspecting assistant MacGregor.

  • av Gabby Hutchinson Crouch
    127

    Can Gretel persuade Gilde the Bear Witch to join forces with her friends, or at least stop fighting them? Can Hansel find a way to heal the land's divisions before disaster strikes them all? And which cunning disguises will Trevor the spider come up with this time? Discover the answers to all these questions and more in Such Big Teeth.

  • av Vicki Pipe
    151

    TURN A TRAIN TRIP INTO A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY AND EXPLORE THE TOP 50 THINGS TO SEE AND DO ON GREAT BRITISH RAILWAYS.

  • av Mandy Morton
    121

    The town is gripped by a big freeze, leaving shops and businesses snowbound. Hettie Bagshot and her sidekick, Tilly Jenkins, are called to investigate the disappearance of the town's kittens as - one by one - they are taken in the snow. Join them in another frost-biting case for The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency.

  • av Benjamin Disraeli
    137

    The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman and twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - with a new foreword by Lord Lexden.

  • av Joyce Porter
    167

  • av Joyce Porter
    167

  • av Joyce Porter
    167

  • av H.F. Ellis
    167

    It is to be A.J. Wentworth's final appearance on the scholastic scene. Once more he dons his cap and gown - or, to be more precise, Rawlinson's cap and gown - and returns to Burgrove for just one more time.

  • av H.F. Ellis
    167

    There is chalk in his fingernails and paper darts fill the air as A.J. Wentworth, mathematics master at Burgrove Preparatory School, unwittingly opens the doors that lead not to knowledge but to chaos and confusion. This gentle comedy trilogy was a runaway bestseller on first publication in the 1930s and retains a timeless appeal today.

  • av Victor Canning
    181

    In a mid-life moment, Paul Morison travels from America to England to discover his mother's roots. A chance encounter and uncanny resemblance leads him to agree to assume the identity of a famous singer for a while. But it's not just the unnerving attentions of the adoring public that he must deal with.

  • av Victor Canning
    181

    After a spur-of-the-moment day out with his boss' daughter in celebration of his 21st birthday, Polycarp Jarvis decides to quit his Bristol-based junior government worker job. Newly emboldened, he embarks on an erratic, engaging and not always strictly legal course through life. But what kind of person will he be by the end?

  • av Tim Dorsey
    121

    More outrageous than Santa Claus in a Speedo, When Elves Attack serves up a Yuletide feast of the "pure gonzo humor" the New York Times Book Review enthusiastically attributes to this fearlessly funny writer. Welcome to Tim Dorsey's slice of America - where nobody gets out unscathed and un-Santa-Claused!

  • av Marshall Julius
    201

    Be it horror or sci-fi, cartoons or comic books, video games or Bond movies, no matter what we're into, geeks of the world have two things in common: intense and unconditional enthusiasm, and the relentless urge to know every last thing about the objects of our affection. Vintage Geek will not only test your trivia chops, but also celebrates a varied selection of 20th century fandoms, from fifties Sci-Fi cinema, sixties Star Trek, Tom Baker's Doctor Who and eighties Action Classics to Hanna-Barbera, 2000 AD, Star Wars, Spielberg, Disney, Marvel, Atari, The Twilight Zone and much more besides. With a foreword from Emmy Award-winning Simpsons writer and producer Mike Reiss, Vintage Geek also features a fabulous fifty celebrity questions from the likes of John Carpenter, George Takei, Sam Neill, Mark Millar, Tom Savini, Mark Hamill, Pat Mills, Yeardley Smith and Sam J. Jones.

  • av William Marshall
    127

  • av Tim Dorsey
    167

  • av Tim Dorsey
    167

  • av Tim Dorsey
    167

  • av Tim Dorsey
    167

  • av Hamilton Crane
    151

  • av Hamilton Crane
    151

  • av Jennifer Stone
    131

    When Kenny Thorpe, a contestant on Expose TV's Big Blubber, the hot new celebrity weight-loss show, is murdered on live television in front of 3 million viewers, the case seems pretty watertight. But Cherry Hinton knows there's more to this than meets the eye.

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