Allison & Busby
The Stationmaster’s Farewell
If you like a Victorian detective whodunit set in a railway background, largely around Exeter (UK) St David’s GWR train…
City of Spades
City of Spades is one of the publisher’s reissues in their Classics of the 20th Century series and called by…
Instrument of Slaughter
In the bleak winter of 1916, war takes its increasing toll of young servicemen in France. For some Londoners, the…
Three Houses
This is a richly nostalgic and evocative account of the writer’s childhood with her younger brother (who also went on…
A Sea of Troubles
It is 1794, and Britannia is doing its best to rule the waves to the detriment of Revolutionary France. John…
The Firebird
When art gallery assistant Nicola Marter takes hold of a small, carved bird, known only as the Firebird, she can…
Death on Pont Noir
Well done, Adrian Magson. He knows what readers like, enjoys writing detective novels, and knows how to construct a fast-paced,…
Falstaff
First published in 1976, Nye’s rambling autobiographical musings of the Shakespearean figure Sir John Falstaff is surprisingly contemporary in its…
A Place of Confinement
Editors' choice
There is a man interested in marrying impoverished spinster Dido Kent; unfortunately, he is the pompous clergyman Dr Proudlee. He…
The Secret Archives of Sherlock Holmes
June Thomson has published a number of these pastiches of the famous stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. They all consist…
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