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One long hot summer in the 1880s, Bram Stoker escaped to Whitby from the pressures of theatre life in London.

It was one of the greatest human experiments ever undertaken: to populate an unknown land with the criminal, the unloved and the unwanted of English society.

Headteacher Peter Logan will leave no stone unturned in improving his Cheltenham school.

Arthur Dent hadn't had a day as bad as this since the Earth had been blown up. Depressed and alone, Arthur finally settles on the small planet Lamuella and becomes a sandwich maker.

Twenty-three years ago Helen Jones disappeared on her way to school. She was twelve years old. No trace of her was ever found.

Marty Stillwater finds life and family threatened by a psychotic killer professing to be the real Marty Stillwater, who embarks on a campaign to eliminate Marty.

Written by a parent, for other parents who are searching for answers about youth suicide.

As the Masonic Lodge Ladies' Night comes to a close and the guests drift away, a man is found in the car park, garotted at his steering wheel.

Short stories that conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural, between openness and fear.

A tense drama of jealousy and murder centred on a group of archaeologists. Poirot is called in.

Set on the Sussex Downs near the town of Fethering, the Elizabethan house of Bracketts is about to be turned into a museum.

An invitation to a murder turns out to be in deadly earnest, not a practical joke.

Murder and baby abduction. Five boy babies, all less than 3 months old, have been taken. The local C.I.B. have given up, but Inspector Boneparte is determined to solve the case.

The murder of a Melbourne beauty turns David Stuart, journalist and admirer, into a sleuth.

The corpse was lying face down in an open grave... a baffling mystery for all but Hercule Poirot.