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In his beloved Burgundy, Chief Inspector Pel finds himself incensed by interference from Paris, but it isn't the descent of rival policemen that makes Pel's blood boil - crimes are being committed by violent gangs from Paris and Marseilles.

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Brigade Criminelle is mobilised when a fatal stabbing, an anticipated delivery of lethal drugs from Marseilles, and the discovery of a thirty-year-old corpse in an ancient turreted tower in the town of Puyceldome coincide with a frantic search for two murderous hitchhikers - all on Chief Inspector Pel's patch.

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An extravagant, big time gangland criminal is ambushed and assassinated; the only witness a ten-year-old-boy.

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Chief Inspector Pel's honeymoon with his new wife Genevieve is disrupted when a local taxi driver is murdered on their first night. More puzzling is his attempt to reach Pel before the brutal killing and his message is one of murder, arson and smuggling. Can Pel break the silence surrounding the Islanders, and catch the killer

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Pel's personal life is going far from smoothly, as he discovers himself to be the target of a letter-bomb sent by an old enemy - aside from the obvious danger, this is yet another obstacle to his plans to marry Madame Faivre-Perret. Can Pel keep his life, his love and his career by solving the murder mysteries

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Fires have been breaking out all over Chief Inspector Pel's beloved province of Burgundy, from small houses to woodland. Then a local farmer's flock of sheep is poisoned, a tray of valuable rings stolen from a local jewellers, and the body of a woman is found.

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Pel's life as a contented newlywed is put on hold as he finds himself investigating the deaths of a series of young women, who have been strangled and left with macabre messages next to them. Pel's investigations lead him to the city's student community, and into a deadly game of cat and mouse.

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A dead man is found floating in a canal, his wallet revealing a strange symbolic drawing; and a hostage drama unfolds at the Banque Credit Rural, where not only millions in currency and jewellery are at stake but also lives. On the other side of town, a stunning art student switches masterpieces for copies.

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A well-known fraudster is found dead in an alleyway - could gang rivalry be to blame And who is behind a series of attacks targeting gay men in the town On top of all this, a wealthy local businessman, Francois Rensselaer, disappears - but oddly, none of his family seem very bothered about it. It's down to Pel to unravel the mystery.

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When Chief Inspector Pel accepts a drinks invitation at the house of a big shot, Deputy Claude Barclay, he doesn't realise how compromised he will become by his acceptance.

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A series of thefts of priceless treasures from churches and chateaux has landed on Inspector Pel's desk, and matters take a darker turn when a suspicious death is confirmed as murder.The case leads Pel from Paris to Scotland Yard and a climax involving the Tour de France cycle race.

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A student's mysterious death and the discovery of a corpse in the boot of a car start to uncover a fledgling drug ring operating within the university of Inspector Pel's Burgundian city. More murders follow and the trail leads Pel to Innsbruck, where the soignee mistress of a professor turns out to be rather more than she seems.

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When Miss Seetonwitnesses a real-life stabbing, all she can recall is a shadowy figure. But how could she have guessed that her latest artistic endeavour is a picture-perfect portrait of the killer

Armed with only her sketch pad and umbrella, she is every inch an eccentric English spinster and the most lovable and unlikely master of detection.

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Sergeant Love finds himself literally knocked out by a little plaster cottage at Flaxborough's antiques auction. DI Purbrightmust dig deep into the past of the local gentry to find out how the picture leads to heirlooms and murder.

Witty and wicked, Colin Watson's tales offer a mordantly entertaining cast and laugh-out-loud wordplay.

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Inspiring a long line of detective stories and Whodunnits, Conan Doyles enigmatic anti-hero Sherlock Holmes is a constant feature on TV and movie screens, with new audio and radio shows joining the frenzy. The Holmes tales have earned their place amongst the most influential of popular fantasy, crime and gothic stories.

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Joanna Emerson is engaged as a nanny to Benedict, newly born heir to a vast cosmetic fortune, when she becomes caught up in a complex kidnap plot. But the enigmatic portrait painter, yachtsman and former spy, Johnson Johnson is never far away - and he knows the dangerous game she's playing.

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Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader.

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An elderly sex-pest is at large in Flaxborough.

Leaping from bushes and scuttling away when challenged, he earns the nickname of the 'Flaxborough crab'. Suave Dr Meadow knows more than he is letting on, yet how canDI Purbrightget him to talk

Witty and wicked, Colin Watson offers a mordantly entertaining cast and laugh-out-loud wordplay.

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Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!

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(Hardback, New edition)

Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader.

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The Baker Street Classics Sherlock Holmes collection is a retro-inspired full set of Conan Doyles wonderful tales of the inimitable consulting detective at work.

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Flaxborough has its share of fat-cat businessmen...

Like the brash Councillor Henry Crispin and snobbish Arnold Hatch, whose bitter rivalry is well known.DI Purbrightis soon investigating a far-from-peaceful death...

Witty and wicked, Colin Watson's tales offer a mordantly entertaining cast and laugh-out-loud wordplay.