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10 best books like Black Butterfly (Mark Gatiss): Willing Flesh, Aberystwyth Mon Amour, The Crime Studio, The Night Calls, Not the End of the World, Jimmy Plush, Teddy Bear Detective, The Hour Between, The Return of Sherlock Holmes / His Last Bow / The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Volume II), A Bit More Fry & Laurie, The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club

Willing Flesh
AuthorJ.S. Cook
When a series of bizarre murders occur in London's notorious East End, Scotland Yard's Inspector Philemon Raft is called on to solve the crimes, but even he is powerless to explain why the victims are displayed in public places -- or why the killer insists on drilling burr holes in their skulls. With little...
Aberystwyth Mon Amour
AuthorMalcolm Pryce
ISBN0747557861
Schoolboys are disappearing all over Aberystwyth and nobody knows why. Louie Knight, the town's private investigator, soon realizes that it is going to take more than a double ripple from Sospan, the philosopher cum ice-cream seller, to help find out what is happening to these boys and whether or not...
The Crime Studio
AuthorSteve Aylett
ISBN1568581483
The Crime Studio is a collection of absurd and hilarious crime stories set in the city of Beerlight.

How does one go about reviewing a collection of short stories, most of which are four pages long or less? Should I talk about Brute Parker, the owner of an all night gun shop? Or Billy Panacea, ace...
The Night Calls
AuthorDavid Pirie
ISBN0312291043
As a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle-the creator of Sherlock Holmes-studied under one of the pioneers in forensic medicine, Dr. Joseph Bell. While details of Doyle’s actual relationship with the Doctor remain shrouded in mystery, author David Pirie has created an engrossing series...
Not the End of the World
AuthorChristopher Brookmyre
ISBN0349109281
Posted at Heradas Review

A fundamentalist Christian TV mogul, an ex-pornstar, an awkwardly oversized Scottish photographer, a cop who doesn’t want the job, and a failed abortion clinic bomber walk into a foreign distribution event for American B-movies in Los Angeles at the tail end of...
Jimmy Plush, Teddy Bear Detective
AuthorGarrett Cook
ISBN1936383632
In a city ridden with prostitute furries, cannibal cops and warehouse-sized mob bosses, I've got my work cut out for me. My name is Jimmy Plush. I'm a private detective. I'm also a teddy bear. It all started when the original Jimmy Plush entered my life, offering to take my gambling debts away if I agreed...
The Hour Between
AuthorSebastian Stuart
ISBN1593501269
“I love stories about friendship, particularly those in which friendship is recalled under a nostalgic haze...I found the whole thing quite lovely...Stuart knows how to cut the pathos with some sharp wit.”—Daniel Goldin of Boswell Book Company for National Public Radio

When Arthur...
The Return of Sherlock Holmes / His Last Bow / The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Volume II)
AuthorArthur Conan Doyle
ISBN0393059154
The publication of Leslie S. Klinger's brilliant new annotations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic Holmes short stories in 2004 created a Holmes sensation. Available again in an attractively-priced edition identical to the first, except this edition has no outer slipcase (Volume One is available...
A Bit More Fry & Laurie
AuthorStephen Fry
ISBN0749310766
Stephen John Fry is an English comedian, writer, actor, humourist, novelist, poet, columnist, filmmaker, television personality and technophile. As one half of the Fry and Laurie double act with his comedy partner, Hugh Laurie, he has appeared in A Bit of Fry and Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster. He is...
The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club
AuthorKim Newman
ISBN1932265279
From the 1860s to the present, these are the accounts of the Diogenes Club, whose agents solve crimes too strange for Britain's police, protecting the realm and this entire plane of existence from occult menaces, threats born in other dimensions, magical perfidy and the Deep Dark Deadly Ones. Kim Newman...
The Sweet Shop Owner
AuthorGraham Swift
ISBN0330353721
The Sweet Shop Owner is the first book in my month of birthday reading. Graham Swifts birthday is May 4th, ooh that’s today – spooky. I have read two other Graham Swift novels although quite some time ago, I am now reminded what an excellent writer he is.
It is June 1974 and on the last day of Willy...
The City in the Autumn Stars: Being a Continuation of the Story of the Von Bek Family and Its Association with Lucifer, Prince of Darkness, and the Cure for the World's Pain
AuthorMichael Moorcock
ISBN0246128437
More of the Von Bek family adventures in THE CITY IN THE AUTUMN STARS, which isn't as rollicking an adventure as THE WARHOUND AND THE WORLD'S PAIN (although there is a glorious set piece battle in an otherworldly tavern as warring factions attempt to seize the Grail ), but more an examination of one man's...
The Hell of It All
AuthorCharlie Brooker
ISBN0571229573
'Mankind clearly peaked about 40 years ago. It's been downhill ever since. For all this talk of our dazzling modern age, the two biggest advances of the past decade are Wi-Fi and Nando's. That's the best we can do.'

In his latest laugh-out-loud collection of misanthropic scribblings, hideous...
Lucia Rising
AuthorE.F. Benson
ISBN0140119620
I've read and re-read the Mapp and Lucia books for 40 years. They're my 'go-to' books for escape, relaxation and humour. My children grew up seeing these books always on my bedside table - and they're still there. They were so used to seeing me read them that when I met my daughter in Rye at the beginning of...
A Private Duel with Agent Gunn
AuthorJillian Stone
ISBN1451629060
From the author of An Affair with Mr. Kennedy and A Dangerous Liaison with Detective Lewis comes a sexy new romantic caper in the Gentlemen of Scotland Yard series.

Prima ballerina Catriona de Dovia lives the glamorous life of a starlet, filled with glittering jewels, sumptuous dinners, and...
This Mitchell and Webb Book
AuthorRobert Webb
Dive into the bizarre yet strangely familiar world of Mitchell and Webb – the wittiest men on television, or anywhere else.


From the two finest comedians of their generation comes the ultimate Christmas comedy book – lavishly illustrated in colour, containing all sorts of outrageous...
The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits
AuthorMike Ashley
ISBN0786710659
From Cleopatra and Herodotus to Howard Carter and the Curse of the Pharaohs, the investigators in The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits uncover the murder mysteries of Ancient Egypt in over two dozen stories. Master anthologist Mike Ashley has gathered hidden gems and specially commissioned pieces...
Field Of Blood
AuthorGerald Seymour
ISBN0006171893
Sean Pius McNally had no intention of ever becoming a "supergrass", a tout for the hated British. Pulled back into active service for the PIRA, McNally is identified during a hit and taken in for questioning. The evidence is irrefutable. Sean is facing facing 25 years in prision away from his wife and...
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