Polish off your magnifying glass and step into the shoes of your favourite detectives as you unlock tantalising clues and solve intricate puzzles. There are over 100 criminally teasing challenges to be scrutinised, including word searches, anagrams, snapshot covers, and crosswords - a favourite puzz[...]

The Female Detective was published in 1864 and it introduces the first professional female detective in British fiction, Mrs Gladden. Typical of detective fiction of its time, Forrester's book features various cases narrated by Gladden, whose deductive methods and energetic approach anticipate those[...]

Dan and his best friend, Billy, turn detective when Dan's lunchbox gets thrown on the ground every day. Dan's teacher says he's becoming untidy, and Dan gets upset and goes hungry. He knows someone is to blame - but how can he and Billy catch the culprit?[...]

Raymond Chandler's role in the reshaping of hard-boiled literature can hardly be exaggerated. He shattered the dogmas of a genre content to be popular, and paved the way for a noble, complex and aristocratic destiny. He implemented his revolutionary vision by radical changes in style, manner, and ch[...]

A pathbreaking new book by one of the world's leading sociologists. The book is a study of the rise of detective novels and spy novels in the 19th and 20th centuries, and Boltanski shows that these genres tell us something important about the nature of modern societies and the modern state.[...]

At the dawn of the Victorian age there was effectively no police detective force in Britain and detecting methods were rudimentary; by the end of Victoria's reign the Criminal Investigation Department had been established and basic forensic tests were in use. This book explores the development of th[...]

THREE THRILLING CASES FOR THE RAILWAY DETECTIVE 1851. With the Great Exhibition in the offing, interest is mounting in the icon of modern technological achievement: the railways. But this triumph of Victorian engineering has a darker side too, as these sinews of empire offer new opportunities for hi[...]

In 1851 England, the city of London anticipates the grand opening of the Great Expedition. Excitement is mounting with each engineering triumph of the railways, but not everyone feels like celebrating. A sudden attack hits the London to Birmingham mail train and it is looted and derailed. Planned wi[...]

Easy-to-follow spotter guides for budding nature lovers, this handy reference guide for children and adults will help everyone become a nature detective.[...]

To all appearances Jack Swann is a typical gentleman of the Regency period; educated, cultured and affl uent. In his early thirties, he is an attractive and eligible bachelor, with all the resources needed to live a privileged life. Haunted by the murder of his father twenty years earlier - the perp[...]

THE BRILLIANT NEW PAPERBACK. Compulsive, chilling and utterly unputdownable, this is award-winning Sunday Times bestseller Lisa Gardner writing at her outstanding best[...]