Gollancz thriller

Based on a true account of a soccer game played between the German and English troops in no-man's land on Christmas Day in 1914 during World War I, this book tells the story of four young men who have recently enlisted and have found that war is not as glamorous as they had once thought. The young men get to realize their dream of playing soccer for England when the English and German sides hold a ceasefire on Christmas Day and they play a friendly game against one another.

Soon after a famous explorer returns from two years of captivity in the Amazon to the bosom of his not-so-loving family, he is nearly killed in an automobile accident and then, seemingly, poisoned by his uncle. Corrie Haynes, girl reporter, sets out to investigate the supposed murder, posing as the explorer's widow.

From mysterfile dot com: " When Anthony Price is on form he really. does write a.very good novel of espionage and intrigue – and in this one he’s quite definitely on form. The particularly intriguing puzzle he poses is why should anyone in 1974 want to kill off those few remaining people with expert knowledge about a little known first War battle waged in 1916. One of the intended victims is young military historian Paul Mitchell, but by sheer luck he survives,·and is at once recruited to find the reasons by Dr. David Audley, that devious agent for the Defence Ministry."

188p. ; 21cm

From Goodreads: "Tatiana 'Tash' Perkins, a brilliant young journalist, is sent by her paper to interview the State Governor's wife, and a strange interview it is: the woman behaves like a zombie, and when they are alone together she slips a letter to Tash and asks her to post it. But before Tash can do so, her handbag is snatched and the letter with it. Yet the governor charms her, and soon she is accepting a job as his campaign speech-writer. But Tash is soon drawn into a frightening sequence of events, ranging from the killing of a canary to murder by arson, and an assassination at a political rally."

John Putnam Thatcher, the formidable vice-president of Sloan Guaranty Trust, is torn, grudgingly, from his Wall Street eyrie to search for a stolen $50,000 bearer bond and to track down the puzzling Elliot Patterson, model suburban husband, father and thief. The bond was slated for the coffers of Brunswick College, Patterson's alma mater, and it is to Brunswick that Thatcher goes, where he is sure both bond and Patterson will emerge. Instead, he is confronted by a callous cover-up murder and the alarming knowledge that Patterson is still on the loose. Thatcher becomes deeply enmeshed in grand larceny and murder among the well-heeled alumni of an Ivy League school. However, for all his wry, detached view of the madness inherent in the groves of academe, he never forgets he is after a murderer. In the end, Thatcher has the last word - a conclusion that is stunning for its irony: there are, it seems, some actions that are worse than murder.

Why has Black Tuesday kidnapped an important American executive?

An elderly woman killed during the robbery of her hotel room, the only clue a colorful hippie necklace; a child missing from her apartment building whom no one saw leave; a school girl killed when she meets a young man who has written his phone number in a school textbook...

Loaded with e-book extras (not available in the print edition), including Tony Hillerman's running commentary on his work, his series heroes Leaphorn and Chee, and a special profile of the Navajo nation.An assassin waits for Officer Jim Chee in the desert to protect a vision of death that for thirty years has been fed by greed and washed by blood.Who would murder a dying man? Why would someone steal a box of rocks? And why would a rich man's wife pay $3,000 to get them back? These questions haunt Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police as he journeys into the scorching Southwest. But there, out in the Bad Country, a lone assassin waits for Chee to come seeking answers, waits ready and willing to protect a vision of death that for thirty years has been fed by greed and washed in blood.

Rich widow Miranda Shaw and lifeguard Grady Keaton, half Miranda's age, disappear from the Penguin Beach Club, and, amid rumors and anonymous letters, attorney Tom Aragon begins a search--assisted by a nine-year-old who boasts of his Mafia connections

The twins have vanished, were they kidnapped? An assistant bank manager has been shot - the team has to continue with the normal work while Mendoza tries to find out who has the twins.

He hadn't been a practicing journalist for years, although people remembered him and he still has a few contacts. And he's pretty sure he hasn't paid his dues to the American Journalism Alliance anytime recently. But somebody has. Enjoying himself on the French Riviera, developing a killer tan, and sleeping with the neighbor's wife, Fletch is feeling pretty flush. But when agents Eggers and Fabens show up with a little more information about Fletch than is comfortable and an invitation to the A.J.A. convention, how could he refuse? So he finds himself enlisted as a spy among his peers. But before he can even set up his surveillance, there's a murder. And almost everybody's a suspect. Because a lot of people were employed by Walter March, and most of them had a reason to hate him. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Who are you, Malone? Just a little while ago you were a cop. That was before the two punks and their girl hit town. That was before they boosted a payroll and shot down a man and took your 9-year-old daughter as insurance to cover their getaway. Now you're just a man. Scared. Not for yourself--that would be easy. But for your child, the only thing in the world you love enough to make you play ball with the kind of scum you've hated all your life. Except that you're one of them now. You've crossed the line no cop can ever cross. And there's just one desperate way of getting back.

Pages 50 and 51 are missing from this copy. A duplicate of pages 62 and 63 appear between pages 59 and 60.

The two old ladies had lived there together for so long that even their friends found it difficult to tell them apart. One thing was certain, however: one of them was dead (murdered?) and the other had disappeared. To unravel the tangles for herself and her Under Wilbie, young Lucy Culpepper decided to find her old Aunt Fennel -- was she the one who vanished, or was she the one who died? -- and as if the floodgates of evil were suddenly opened, Lucy discovered that someone urgently wanted her dead....

The flight from Rome had been pleasant enough, even if the business he was on wasn't exactly. His Italian fiancée's father had been kidnapped and presumably murdered, and Fletch is on the trail of a stolen art collection that is her only patrimony. But when he arrives in his apartment to find a dead body, things start to get complicated. Inspector Flynn found him a little glib for someone who seemed to be the only likely suspect in a pretty clear case of homicide. He wasn't exactly uncooperative, but it wasn't like he was entirely forthcoming either. And Flynn wasn't entirely convinced that the nineteenth-century Western artist Edgar Arthur Tharp really occupied most of Fletch's thoughts. With the police on his tail and a few other things to do beside prove his own innocence, Fletch makes himself at home in Boston, renting a van, painting it black, and breaking into a private art gallery. That is when he's not "entertaining" his future mother-in-law and visiting with the good Inspector Flynn and his family. From the Trade Paperback edition.

With the state threatening to yank their license over a slight infraction, the investigators at DKA, eager for fast cash, must track down a prostitute on the run

160 p. ; 21 cm

Julie Hayes is looking for excitement when she sets herself up as a tarot-reader in Manhattan's seamier side. But she hasn't gambled for murder, which thrusts her into a role she isn't ready for - playing between the Mafia and the NYPD in a show-stopper whose climax is terror.

From Goodreads: Set during the early days of World War II. Celia McNeill is detained for visa problems when traveling to a new job in Paris. Desperate for cash, she makes a deal with card master Sergei Radetzkoy, whom she meets while being held in Dieppe. He says he's just lucky at cards, but the crooks who follow him from the casino aren't interested in his winnings. They demand to know his 'system'. The fashionable folk who rescue him don't conceal their interest in his extraordinary success at the casino either. This leads to kidnapping, betrayal, and murder under the looming threat of the Nazi invasion.