The Lady Vanishes

Author	Boileau-Narcejac
ISBN	0747531870

D'entre les Morts = Among the Dead = Vertigo = The Living and the Dead, Boileau-Narcejac (Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac)
The Living and the Dead (also published as Vertigo) (French: D'entre les morts, "Among the Dead") is a 1954 crime novel by Pierre Boileau and Pierre Ayraud (Thomas Narcejac),...

Author	Benjamin Disraeli
ISBN	0809594447

The book is a roman à thèse, or a novel with a thesis -- which was meant to create a furor over the squalor that was plaguing England's working class cities. The general reader whose attention has not been specially drawn to the subject which these volumes aim to illustrate, the Condition of the People,...

Author	Maria Edgeworth
ISBN	0192837095

The lively comedy of this novel in which a young woman comes of age amid the distractions and temptations of London high society belies the challenges it poses to the conventions of courtship, the dependence of women, and the limitations of domesticity. Contending with the perils and the varied cast...

Author	J. Jefferson Farjeon
ISBN	0712356886

Ted Lyte, amateur thief, has chosen an isolated house by the coast for his first robbery. But Haven House is no ordinary country home. While hunting for silverware to steal, Ted stumbles upon a locked room containing seven dead bodies. Detective Inspector Kendall takes on the case with the help of passing...

Author	Jack Trevor Story
ISBN	1594161429

"As engaging a tale as I have encountered in months of looking for something really amusing to read.”—Kelsey Guilfoil, Chicago Tribune

“A pleasantly muted mystery that is genuinely funny fantasy as well.”—New York Times

On the outskirts of a small English town, young...

Author	Anthony Trollope
ISBN	1419168134

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...

Author

Joanna Cannan

There’s a new detective on the scene…

When murder strikes in the quiet English countryside only Inspector Guy Northeast of Scotland Yard sees the vital clue.

When Delia Cathcart and Major Willoughby disappear from their quiet English village one Saturday morning in July 1937,...