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Gideon's Fire (Popular Penguins Crime) by John Creasey
Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard has to deal successively with news of a mass murderer, a depraved maniac, and the deaths of a family in an arson attack on an old building south of the river. This leaves little time for the crisis developing at home.
Greenmantle (Popular Penguins Crime) by John Buchan
Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
A cryptic message launches Major Richard Hannay into another adventure of intrigue, espionage, and danger. Setting out across war-torn Europe, and travelling to the heart of the Middle East, Hannay and his friends Sandy Arbuthnot, Peter Pienaar, and John S. Blenkiron must penetrate enemy lines, quell a ...Show more
Gun Before Butter by Nicolas Freeling
Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Hamlet, Revenge! by Michael Innes
Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
At Scamnum Court, seat of the Duke of Horton, the Lord Chancellor of England is murdered at the climax of a private presentation of Hamlet, in which he plays Polonius. To solve this crime, Inspector Appleby pursues some of the most famous names in the country, unearthing dreadful suspicion.
Inspector West Takes Charge (Popular Penguins Crime) by John Creasey
Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Extortion is the name of the game. In this first story of the Inspector West series, the Scotland Yard officer has to get to the bottom of a blackmail bid against the Dreem cigarette factory. With those behind the attempt prepared to murder anyone who might get in their way, Inspector West has to unrave ...Show more
Jonah and Co. (Popular Penguins Crime) by Dornford Yates
Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
These are some of Dornford Yates' early short stories featuring the comic Pleydell clan, and on publication proved just as successful and popular as Berry and Co. had been. They describe the chaotic journey of the young, well-to-do heroes as they cavort across France, and helped to establish Yates' repu ...Show more
Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler
Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
In the early stages of the Second World War, a British engineer and arms expert holds secret talks with the Turkish government. Shaken by an attempt on his life, he departs for home on an Italian freighter, with the knowledge that Nazi assassins aim to prevent his return. Friend and foe become quickly i ...Show more
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby
Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
The streets are seething with barely concealed menace, threatening to explode with the primal rage and desires of the hoodlums, hookers, transvestites, alcoholics and homosexuals who call New York home. Here, life is raw, love is brutal, and one must fight to survive. Banned by British courts in 1967, a ...Show more
Moonstone (Popular Penguins Crime) by Wilkie Collins
Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
A priceless yellow diamond, pillaged from an Indian Temple is presented to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. But when the diamond is again stolen that very same night, no one is above suspicion. A chain of horrific events seem intent to ruin those surrounding the birthday girl, leaving Rachel ...Show more
Mr J. G. Reeder Returns (Popular Penguins Crime) by Edgar Wallace
Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
On the surface, J.G. Reeder is a shabby little police officer with red hair and weak eyes, but underneath his timid appearance lies a razor-sharp mind and the ability to think like a criminal. Here are two thrilling episodes torn from his casebook. In 'The Treasure House', will Mr Reeder discover a conn ...Show more
Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales (Popular Penguins Crime) by Edgar Allan Poe
Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
A mother and daughter are bafflingly and brutally murdered inside a locked room on Rue Morgue, and C. Auguste Dupin must apply his fine detective skills to piece together the mystery. Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in this collection of Poe's brilliant tales.
Pel and the Paris Mob (Popular Penguins Crime) by Mark Hebden
Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
In his beloved Burgundy, Chief Inspector Pel finds himself incensed by interference from Paris, but it isn't the flocking descent of rival policemen that makes Pel's blood boil - crimes are being committed by violent gangs from Paris and Marseilles. Pel unravels the riddle of the robbery on the road to ...Show more