Floodgate

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Margery Allingham

A proper family butler is called upon to discreetly turn away an unexpected and wholly unwelcome caller. An apparently harmless female ghost is seeking something in an old farmhouse. An unlikely gatecrasher shakes up the guests at an expensive, respectable and very dull English seaside hotel. A selection of Allingham's short stories not included in previous anthologies. Although several feature her aristocratic sleuth, Albert Campion, the rest contain surprising twists and more than a hint of the supernatural. Clever, amusing...and occasionally very unsettling.

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Ruth Rendell

Detective Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford remains cool in the face of massive media attention as he sets out to investigate the stabbing death of celebrity writer Davina Flory and her husband and daughter

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Rebecca Tope

Thea Osborne hopes to spend a quiet Christmas house-sitting in the picturesque village of Stanton. Her arrival at the village coincides with the funeral of Douglas Callender and the murder of his girlfriend the following day. Thea finds herself thrust into the middle of another Police investigation as she unwraps motives and scandals across the village. Thea is determined to survive the festive period and turns to local resident Dennis Ireland for safety but Dennis, as with the other villagers, may not be as safe as first appears.

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Dick Francis

Australian horse breeder Daniel Roke goes undercover in the British racing industry to find those responsible for illegal horse-doping.