Tragedy has hit the Ashby family too often. The young parents of 13-year-old twin boys died in a plane crash; the elder twin, Patrick, later vanished, leaving a suicide note at the top of the cliffs near their home. His brother became heir to the family property but now, just weeks before his 21st birthday, a young man appears claiming to be Patrick.
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The perfect English country house murder mystery, Cover Her Face is an brilliant addition to the genre by one of its greatest practitioners.
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This collection of 19 crime stories forms a hall of fame for the greatest writers and characters from the golden age of detective fiction and is so popular that it is now in its sixth printing.
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Dorothy L. Sayers wrote ingenious whodunits that were also satisfying and intelligent novels. Her prose is elegant and expressive; her settings are vividly realised, and her characters are flesh-and-blood human beings – most memorably her hero, Lord Peter Wimsey.
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The Franchise Affair was based on a real case – the abduction of Elizabeth Canning in the 18th century-but given a modern setting. Tey’s masterful and chilling mystery first appeared in this Folio edition in 2001.
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When reports filter back to London in 1915 of a new Islamic jihad, the difficult mission of foiling the plot is entrusted to Richard Hannay. A pulsating story, Greenmantle confirmed Buchan a master of the thriller genre.
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Capote’s masterpiece of suspense was an immediate sensation when it was serialised in the New Yorker in 1965. Also a portrait of small-town America, its examination of a brutal multiple murder combines a novelist’s voice with a reporter’s instinct. Our edition, introduced by Rupert Thomson, includes rare courtroom photographs.
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The second book in John le Carré’s magnificent ‘Karla Trilogy’. With a handful of faithful agents, Smiley begins the painful process of reconstructing some kind of intelligence operation that has not been betrayed to Moscow.
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The final book in John le Carré’s magnificent ‘Karla Trilogy’. An exiled Estonian general calls the Circus insisting he has desperately important information on ‘the Sandman’, a codename for Karla. He arranges a meeting –‘Moscow Rules’ – and in keeping the appointment, he is shot.
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With this tale of treachery and conflicted loyalties, le Carré transcends the spy genre, creating a novel that ranks among the most critically acclaimed fiction of the late 20th century.
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First published in 1939, The Mask of Dimitrios evokes the murky and dangerous atmosphere of Central Europe between the wars. From Smyrna and Athens to Sofia, Belgrade and finally Paris, Latimer enters a world of refugees and émigrés, petty criminals and gang leaders, amoral spies and corrupt police – the survivors and veterans of little-known wars.
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Based on 'some of Agatha Christie's grandmother's Ealing cronies . . . but far more fussy and spinsterish', Jane Marple made her debut in the 1930 novel Murder at the Vicarage, but it was in the short stories that appeared in 1932 that Miss Marple's detective skills were truly revealed.
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First published in 1955, The Talented Mr Ripley introduced one of the 20th century’s most memorable and chilling fictional creations. Now The Folio Society presents 3 classic Ripley novels - The Talented Mr Ripley, Ripley Under Ground and Ripley's Game - together in a superbly illustrated set.
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Graham Greene worked for MI6 during the Second World War; his brother Hugh was a foreign correspondent and one of the last Allied journalists to leave Berlin in 1939 - so they knew the spying game from within.
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Buchan was not only the father of the modern thriller, but a sensitive and nuanced writer with an eye for place and an ear for language which few have equalled. In these stories, spanning his entire career, we see a master storyteller at work.
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