Hugh Fraser
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A London-based female assassin runs into trouble on a mission in 1970s Mexico in this action-packed debut crime thriller.
Acapulco 1974: Rina Walker is on assignment. Just another quick, clean kill.
When she wakes to discover her employer's severed head on her bedside table, and a man with an AK 47 coming through the door of her hotel room, she must use all her skills to neutralise her attacker and escape.
Notting Hill 1956: Fifteen-year-old...
Acapulco 1974: Rina Walker is on assignment. Just another quick, clean kill.
When she wakes to discover her employer's severed head on her bedside table, and a man with an AK 47 coming through the door of her hotel room, she must use all her skills to neutralise her attacker and escape.
Notting Hill 1956: Fifteen-year-old...
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A beautiful contract killer is caught in a web of deceit as two crime bosses battle it out in 1960s London in this crime thriller.
London 1964. Gang warfare is breaking out. Rina Walker struggles to survive amid the battles and betrayals of a gruesome cast of racketeers and gangsters.
Her considerable skills as an assassin are her only hope of survival.
Playing one side off against the other to protect those she loves, Rina is caught...
London 1964. Gang warfare is breaking out. Rina Walker struggles to survive amid the battles and betrayals of a gruesome cast of racketeers and gangsters.
Her considerable skills as an assassin are her only hope of survival.
Playing one side off against the other to protect those she loves, Rina is caught...
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In 1960s London, a female contract killer goes after a depraved aristocrat in a quest to save his trafficked victims . . .
In 1961, George Preston is in control of crime in West London, and Rina Walker is his favoured contract killer. When Rina is hired by a Soho vice king to investigate the disappearance of girls from his clubs, she discovers that they're being supplied to a member of the English aristocracy for the gratification of...
In 1961, George Preston is in control of crime in West London, and Rina Walker is his favoured contract killer. When Rina is hired by a Soho vice king to investigate the disappearance of girls from his clubs, she discovers that they're being supplied to a member of the English aristocracy for the gratification of...
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A hit woman moves from London's seedy criminal underworld into the realm of Cold War spies and targeted killings . . .
London 1967. A working girl is brutally murdered in a Soho club. Rina Walker takes out the killer—and attracts the attention of a sinister line-up of gangland enforcers with a great deal to prove.
But when a member of British Military Intelligence becomes aware of her failure to fulfill a contract, issued by an...
London 1967. A working girl is brutally murdered in a Soho club. Rina Walker takes out the killer—and attracts the attention of a sinister line-up of gangland enforcers with a great deal to prove.
But when a member of British Military Intelligence becomes aware of her failure to fulfill a contract, issued by an...
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Four novels in the edgy series about a female contract killer in 1960s London.
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In Acapulco, Rina Walker is on assignment. Just another quick, clean kill-until she wakes to find a severed head in her hotel room and a man with an AK-47 charging through the door, in this action-packed series debut that takes us into the traumatic childhood in postwar London that made Rina what she is today...
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London 1961. Rina is hired by a Soho vice...
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The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense--creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characters--brings her entire oeuvre of ingenious whodunits, locked room mysteries, and perplexing puzzles to Harper Paperbacks. In the Christie classic Peril at End House, a young woman who has recently survived a series of very...
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One of Agatha Christie's personal favorites, Endless Night is a critically acclaimed classic crime thriller from the beloved queen of mystery.
When penniless Michael Rogers discovers the beautiful house at Gypsy's Acre and then meets the heiress Ellie, it seems that all his dreams have come true at once. But he ignores an old woman's warning of an ancient curse, and evil begins to stir in paradise. As Michael soon learns: Gypsy's...Author
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"In the matchup of the century, four sleuths--including mystery writer Ariadne Oliver and the incomparable Hercule Poirot--have been invited to play bridge with four cunning criminals, each of whom had gotten away with murder. For the host, it is irresistible entertainment--until his own murder becomes part of the game."--back cover"
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"Accused of bludgeoning his mother to death with a poker, Jacko Argyle had maintained his innocence throughout his trial, claiming he was hitchhiking on the night of the murder and had been picked up by a middle-aged man in a dark car. The police were never able to locate this mystery man—until he shows up a year later. But Dr. Arthur Calgary arrives too late to substantiate Jacko’s alibi. For after serving just six months of his life sentence,...
12) Five little pigs
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Fourteen years after the wife of the renowned painter Amyas Crale was sent to the gallows for poisoning her husband, their daughter Lucy returns from Canada. Lucy carries with her a letter that suggests that her mother might have been innocent. Poirot agrees to dig up the past, but he warns Lucy that she may not like what he finds.
13) Towards zero
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Superintendent Battle mysteries volume 3
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What is the connection among a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and the romantic life of a famous tennis player? To the casual observer, apparently nothing. But when a house party gathers at Gull's Point, the seaside home of an elderly widow earlier events come to a dramatic head. As Superintendent Battle discovers, it is all part of a carefully laid plan--for murder.
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"From seat No. 9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No. 13, sat a countess with a poorly concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No. 8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No. 2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a...
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"Hercule Poirot rushes to France in response to an urgent and cryptic plea from a client. But the Belgian detective arrives just too late: the man who had summoned him is found dead on a golf course, stabbed in the back with a letter opener and wearing an ill-fitting coat with a mysterious love letter in its pocket. Strange circumstances multiply, culminating in the discovery of a second body stabbed with the same murder weapon. While the local authorities...
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"When Cora Lansquenet is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard's funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richard's will, Cora was clearly heard to say, 'It's been hushed up very nicely, hasn't it ... But he was murdered, wasn't he?' In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to unravel the mystery"--Page 4 of cover.
17) The hollow
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When Hercule Poirot arrives for lunch at Lucy Angkatell's, country house he's met with a dying man and a tangle of family secrets that leaves everyone a suspect.
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 17
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"The Holidays are anything but merry when a family reunion is marred by murder--and the brilliant Belgian investigator is quickly on the case On Christmas Eve at Gorston Hall, the Lee family's festivities are shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs--in a locked bedroom--the tyrannical patriarch Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. When Hercule Poirot offers to assist, he finds...
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