Bøker av David Stuart Davies

A Rupert Wilde Golden Age Murder Mystery. It is the 1920s and Ambrose De Lacy is the doyen of mystery writers and founder of The Murder Club, an exclusive social club for successful authors of crime fiction. He receives death threats by post and so consults private detective Rupert Wilde and his Indian assistant Kishen Chabra to get to the bottom of this sinister matter. However, the case proves to be more complex than it first appears. Wilde discovers that the killer is on a vengeful mission to eliminate various members of the club. And what is the dark secret from the past that De Lacy is harbouring? Wilde's investigations place him in personal danger before leading him and Kishen to the mysterious isolated cottage on the south coast where horror awaits. However, there are more clues to follow before Wilde is able to unmask the murderer.

Christmas is not always the season of goodwill. As this hugely entertaining collection shows, it can also be the season of mysterious deaths, hidden poison bottles and blunt instruments...Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, cloth-bound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. The stories in Classic Christmas Crime Stories have been selected and introduced by writer David Stuart Davies.This collection of ten stories from the golden age of British crime writing features festive whodunits by Margery Allingham and Ngaio Marsh. There are unexplained deaths by all manner of suspect means from famous writers such as Baroness Orczy and Marjorie Bowen, and dastardly Christmas crimes to be solved from esteemed crime writers such as Robert Barnard, Nicholas Olde and H. R. F. Keating. Each story is brilliantly plotted - some deliciously tense, others laced with humor - and each is bound to thoroughly entertain.

Introducing Rupert Wilde, the smart and sophisticated new sleuth in the first of his Golden Age mysteries.

In The Shadows: Weird Tales that Chill and ShockBy David Stuart DaviesSettle into your easy chair, but be sure to leave the lights on! This collection of twenty-five tales of the macabre and uncanny will keep you up at night. As a child, were you ever worried that someone, or something, was watching you from a shadowy corner of your bedroom? What if that earnest stage magician is more than a mere illusionist? Have you ever been unsettled by a doll that seemed just a little too life-like?What happens when a horror author finds himself trapped in his own tale?All these and more await you if you dare to venture In The Shadows...

A brand-new Sherlock Holmes mystery from acclaimed Sherlockian author David Stuart Davies, featuring the sinister Dr Caligari

Three British Mystery Novels: detective, thriller and (mild) horror set in Britain by British authors. Three great reads, for those who like to wrap their minds round unusual plots presented as an omnibus print edition.

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson investigate the case of a kidnapped child. With no ransom note, and a sinister connection to the highest echelons of Victorian society, the companions' lives are in danger. What is the child's true heritage? And what is the connection with the vicious Whitechapel murders?

Blend the wild and fevered Irish imagination with a wonderful facility for recounting a dark, compelling tale, add a dash of the supernatural, and you have a potent brew of spine-tingling tales. This anthology of the best ghost stories from Ireland and Irish writers includes contributions from such masters as Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats and Rosa Mulholland. Within these pages you will find strange accounts of haunted houses, death warnings from beyond the grave, and revengeful spirits, all guaranteed to stir the imagination and chill the blood.The haunting tales featured in this beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Irish Ghost Stories have been selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

An intriguing collection of baffling mysteries from such masters as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton.

Prepare to have your blood chilled and your nerves tingled ...This collection of eighteen short stories blurs the line between the real and unreal, and transports you to the misty world of the supernatural, where faceless phantoms linger and nothing is what it appears. And why is a whitewashed cottage called 'The Fly House'?

The sixth novel in the Detective Johnny (One Eye) Hawke series. Two laser-sharp detectives, two thought-provoking cases and two skilful plots.