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Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
$29.99 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Murder Room Ser.
Ned Beaumont is a tall, thin, moustache-wearing, TB-ridden, drinking, gambling, hanger-on to the political boss of a corrupt Eastern city. Nevertheless, like every Hammett hero (and like Hammett himself), he has an unbreakable, if idiosyncratic moral code. Ned's boss wants to better himself with a thoro ...Show more
Love in Amsterdam - Van der Valk Book 1 by Nicolas Freeling
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Murder Room Ser.
'Freeling's Inspector Van der Valk is less rugged than Rebus, less parsonical than Dalgliesh, more Morse than Frost, and more Maigret than any of them. Marvellous' - Anita Brookner A woman, Elsa, is brutally murdered in her Amsterdam apartment. Her ex-lover, Martin, is seen outside the building around ...Show more
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
$29.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Murder Room Ser.
The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also called a shirt a shoit, he didn't think anything of it. Until he went there and his client, the only honest man in Poisonville, was murdered. Then the Op decided to stay to punish the guilty. And that mea ...Show more
The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett
$30.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Murder Room Ser.
Miss Gabriel Dain Leggett is young and wealthy, with a penchant for morphine and religious cults. She also has an unfortunate effect on the people around her. They die - violently. Is she the victim of a family curse? The short, squat, utterly unsentimental Continental Op, the best private detective aro ...Show more
The Maltese Falcon (PB) by Dashiell Hammett
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Murder Room Ser. | Reading Level: good
Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby's trail, Spade finds himself both ...Show more
The Silence of Herondale by Joan Aiken
$25.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Murder Room Ser.
A child in danger, an isolated house in the depths of winter - and a killer on the loose... 'Don't miss ... guaranteed unputdownable' Observer Snow-covered fields and moors stretch away on all sides of Herondale House. Despite rumours of an escaped killer on the run, Deborah Lindsay knows that she must ...Show more
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