Constable & Robinson

Sweet Poison

Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne #1

by David Roberts

It is August 1935 and the Duke of Mersham is hosting one of his influential parties, bringing together public figures interested in improving Anglo-German relations. One of his guests is General Sir Alistair...

Something Wicked

Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne #8

by David Roberts

Lord Edward Corinth's fiancé, Verity Browne, returns from Prague with suspected tuberculosis. The only cure for TB in 1938 is rest and a healthy diet so she goes to a private clinic in Henley-on- Thames run...

No More Dying

Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne #9

by David Roberts

In February 1939 it is clear that Britain will soon be at war and will depend on Winston Churchill's leadership. But MI5 learns that an enemy agent has been dispatched to assassinate Churchill. Lord Edward Corinth...

Hollow Crown

Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne #3

by David Roberts

It is October 1936. Lord Edward Corinth is invited by his friend Joe Weaver, the press lord and close friend of the British royal family, to recover certain letters stolen from the king's intimate friend Wallis...

Goodnight Sweet Prince

Lord Francis Powerscourt #1

by David Dickinson

Mystery surrounds the death of Queen Victoria's grandson England, 1892. Victoria, Queen and Empress, is in the 54th year of her reign, when her grandson Prince Eddy, eldest son of the Prince of Wales, is found...

Death on the Nevskii Prospekt

Lord Francis Powerscourt #6

by David Dickinson

1904: Powerscourt comes out of retirement for one last time, heading for Russia in one of the strangest cases of his career. A British diplomat has been discovered, his throat cut, on one of the bridges spanning...

Death Called to the Bar

Lord Francis Powerscourt #5

by David Dickinson

Queen's Inn is London's youngest and most fashionable Inn of Court. On 29th February 1902, at a Feast, senior barrister Alexander Dauntsey collapses into his soup and dies. He has been poisoned. Soon after his...

Death and the Jubilee

Lord Francis Powerscourt #2

by David Dickinson

The discovery of a headless corpse jeopardises Queen Victoria's glittering Diamond Jubilee! In this second Lord Francis Powerscourt mystery, London is preparing for the 1897 Diamond Jubilee. But one morning...

The Mammoth Book of Famous Trials

by Roger Wilkes

The 35 most famous trials of the 20th century, as recorded by the people who were there including Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Brian Masters, Damon Runyon and other star turns in true crime writing. Among the...

The Pact

by Roberta Kray

Nothing has prepared her for the nightmare that is about to begin... Eve, the 34 year old daughter of recently deceased conman Alexander Weston, knows a good deal when she sees it - and this one doesn't even...

The Lost

by Roberta Kray

Roberta Kray's first novel, The Debt, was published to universal acclaim: 'You might expect a crime novel written by the widow of Reggie Kray would be tough ... it is. Recommend this to fans of Ian Rankin and...

The Mammoth Book of Space Exploration and Disaster

by Richard Russell Lawrence

In the words of those who trod the void and those at mission control, here are over 50 of the greatest true stories of suborbital, orbital and deep-space exploration. From Apollo 8's first view of a fractured,...

The Mammoth Book of Celtic Myths and Legends

by Peter Berresford Ellis

Developed from an early oral storytelling tradition dating back to the dawn of European culture, this is one of the oldest and most vibrant of Europe's mythologies. From all six Celtic cultures - Irish, Scots,...

The Mammoth Book of Killers at Large

by Nigel Cawthorne

Reason to be afraid - over 50 unsolved cases of serial murder Fact: murderers and serial killers do not always get caught. Behind every headline of a newsworthy conviction lie other cases of vicious murderers...

The Mammoth Book of King Arthur

by Mike Ashley

The most complete guide ever to the real Arthurian world and the legends that surround it He defeated the Saxons so decisively at the Battle of Badon that he held the Saxon invasion of Britain at bay for at...

The Mammoth Book of International Erotica

by Maxim Jakubowski

Ever since the collapse of the Tower of Babel, sex has been the common language uniting men and women throughout the world. Erotic prose is not just an Anglo-Saxon phenomenon but a universal one - as this revised...

Bones of the Buried

Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne #2

by David Roberts

Second in the popular Lord Edward Corinth murder-mystery series; This exciting 1930s murder-mystery is the second in the Lord Edward Corinth/Verity Browne series, following the success of David Roberts' first...

A Grave Man

Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne #6

by David Roberts

A murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne Verity Browne and Lord Edward Corinth are attending the memorial service in Westminster Abbey for Lord Benyon, killed a few months before when...

The Mammoth Book of Terror

by Stephen Jones

Over 20 terrifying stories and short novels by the masters of gore, including Graham Masterton, Ramsay Campbell, R. Chetwyn-Hayes and Neil Gaiman. This sequel to the classic Mammoth horror anthology features...

The Mammoth Book of Monsters

by Stephen Jones

Monsterrific stories by top names in horror writing Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies, Ghouls . . . these and many other Creatures of the Night are featured in this bumper collection of stories by such authors...