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Criminals, Spies & Detectives
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Agent Zigzag Ben Macintyre Eddie Chapman was perhaps the perfect double-agent, safe-breaker, blackmailer, seducer and egotist but also deeply loyal, courageous and ultimately patriotic. His story, as his WW2 case-handler wrote, would in fiction be rejected as improbable. A cross between a more real Bond and a more exciting Sm… |
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Apology for a Murder Lorenzino de' Medici After drunkenly smashing up Emperor Constantine's Triumphal Arch in Rome in 1530, Lorenzino fled to Florence to escape the wrath of his cousin, Pope Clement VII. In Florence he helped another cousin, Alessandro Duke of Florence, to rape, plunder, and generally debauch his own sub… |
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Faceless Killers Mankell, Henning The crime craze sweeping Europe. Kurt Wallander has his own troubles, and really he's a bit crap; if Marlowe or Holmes are the ace-detectives you would like to be, Wallander is the out of touch, occasionally useless, slob of an ace-detective you suspect you actually would be.&nbs… |
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Flashman George Macdonald Fraser Flashman is the unpleasant bully who gets expelled in "Tom Brown's School Days". The antithesis of the Victorian ideal, he is a coward, a traitor and an egotist. He also has considerable charm, a voracious sex drive, no morals at all, and the ability to… |
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One Good Turn [A Jolly Murder Mystery] Kate, Atkinson Kate Atkinson, author of the excellent “Behind the Scenes at the Museum” turned very successfully to the “whodunnit” scene with “Case Histories”, introducing the moody, characterful private eye Jackson Brodie. Her new novel is another intelligent, literary detecti… |
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Peril at End House Christie, Agatha When in the deepest South-West, why not trust Christie to keep your fingernails trimmed low with a healthy serving of murder mystery. Hopefully you will have a less stressful holiday than Hercule, as everyone's favourite Belgian sleuth discovers that sometimes it really is impossible to leave yo… |
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Roseanna Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo Given the success of Henning Mankell’s books in recent years it’s no surprise that Harper Perennial have opted to undertake a stylish reissue of an earlier Swedish crime series that helped inspire Mankell. Sjowall and Wahloo were a husband and wife team who created ten nove… |
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Smiley's People John Le Carré What makes the best spy novel? If you like sex, gadgets and convoluted plots, stick with Fleming/Bond. If you like mind games, betrayal, brilliant characterisation and extremely convoluted plots, there can be only one writer. And Le Carré's best novel? Tricky, bu… |
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The Human Factor Grahame Greene The story of a double agent in MI6 that Greene put aside for ten years after his friend (and ex-colleague) Kim Philby defected. Greene is fantastic at the portrayal of normal people under pressure and their inevitable failure in the face of insoluble moral dilemmas. Vintage - Paperbac… |
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The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler What do Raymond Chandler and P.G Wodehouse have in common? It not just the beauty and skill with which the intricate plots are put together. It's not just the genius of the wit and the brilliant one-liners. Most of all it's the atmosphere that they create … |
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The Undertow Wakling, Christopher The illusion of control, the lies we tell ourselves to feel safe, are never more than a phonecall away from dissolving. As Solon said "I can speak of no-one as happy until they are dead". Christopher Wakling's new novel is a thriller, but it's not just a riveting read: it makes y… |
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