Outwardly Seth didn’t react as he watched Mrs. Hatfield misplay the four spade contract, but inwardly he groaned. True, she made it, but most of the other pairs would make it with an overtrick.

An investigator is put on the case when a mad philologist steals a new weapon.

A man takes his enemy to taste a rare wine - which he happens to keep at the far end of a vast, damp cellar.

He steals with swift, simple hands in the yellow Roman sun. The crowds are bulging, swollen, and he bobs amongst them as silent as a jellyfish.

My cousin Dedrick and me are farmers. We don’t own no land and most likely never will, but we use land that’s been forgotten by its owners or maybe it was never owned other than by the Cherokee in them olden days.

If I can just keep walking, I can burn off some of this nervous energy. I need to walk until I’m exhausted, until I can convince myself that this rapid, stuttering heartbeat of mine is the result of exercise.

“I’m having a problem with something I did. I mean something I didn’t do but should’ve. And I can’t make it right. It was really bad."

A case which leaves a Lady of notoriously loose morals in a nunnery and her lover - a brilliant physician - in a vegetative state.

"Damn thing," old Ernie muttered, glancing up from his laptop. He reached out to shut off the annoying noise but noticed the call was from his area. This was unusual.

“This is it,” he said. “This is the big one. After years of carrying crap, we’ve finally got us a job that’s going to change our bank accounts and bloat our pensions.

The last crime of the notorious thief Flambeau was a Christmas crime, a cheery, cosy, English middle-class crime.

What do an horrific dream and the name 'Catharine Larue' have to do with a man found dead in the hills around the Nappa Valley?

In this homage to Poe, two rival scholars are brought together when one discovers an important early Christian burial ground.

Shepherd's family made money by being outlaws. Well, outlaws in the governments' eyes.

A young engineer is charged with transporting secret documents across the English channel - but criminal elements are on his trail and things soon start to go wrong.