Item category 1: Crime Paperback

Will Albert Campion give up detection and turn respectable? Perhaps, but after a series of coincidences, culminating in a letter from Lugg's brother-in-law, Campion can no longer resist involvement in the eccentric Palinode household, where there have been two suspicious deaths.

Josef Vadassy decides to break his journey from Nice to Paris at the coastal town of St Gatien. His nightmare begins when a film he takes to the chemist turn out to hold top secret military information.

A plane has been blown up in the Scottish skies, with the British and American defence secretaries amongst the victims. Chief Constable Bob Skinner finds himself with the greatest challenge of his career, as he tries to find the bombers.

Terry Lennox's very rich wife is found with her brains all over the floor. Murderer or no murderer, Lennox is shaping up to cause plenty of trouble and trouble just happens to be Marlowe's line of work.

Two young women have been found dead. The medical reports reveal that they both had twenty-four stab wounds in their mouths, and that they drowned in their own blood. With traces of the same sedative in the victims bloodstreams, pressure is mounting on the police to put the killer behind bars.

When a serial killer confounds him and his team of detectives with increasingly brutal murders, Wallander must discover how these seemingly unrelated deaths are connected before the killer strikes again.

After a tip from a reporter, Eve Dallas finds the body of a young woman in a Delancey street dumpster. Just hours before, the news station had mysteriously received a portfolio of professional portraits of the same woman. But these photos had been taken after she had been murdered.

A young girl, possibly a foreigner, commits suicide in baffling circumstances. There are several vicious murders, and not one of them with an obvious motive. It falls to Kurt Wallander of the Ystad police to try to solve the crimes.

Ex-ace detective Nick Charles attracts trouble like a magnet. He thinks his sleuthing days are over, but when Julia Wolf, a former acquaintance, is found dead, her body riddled with bullets, Nick can't resist making a few enquiries.

In 1992, in peaceful Southern Sweden, a young housewife, pillar of the Methodist church, disappears and is found murdered, execution style. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team are called in to investigate.