HOURS later, and every hour like the weighty length of a day, Kildare was saying: "Next, please!" when Mary Lamont answered: "That's the end of the line for today."He shook his head at her impatiently. "There are twenty more people out there!" he...
The Secret of the Kingdom (original title Valtakunnan salaisuus) is a 1959 novel by Finnish author Mika Waltari about the early days of Christianity. The story is told through the eyes of Marcus, a Roman citizen who arrives in Jerusalem on the day...
A four thousand year old mystery lurks in the hills of Georgia.
While investigating a strange series of ancient codes, an archaeologist vanishes, and a professor he entrusted with the secret is murdered. Former government agent, Sean...
A suicide at the Ministry of Defence. A hand grenade through the door of Number Ten. A Czech defector with a file worth killing for...The whole sequence of grisly incidents points the finger at John Tyler.Professor John Tyler. Nuclear strategist and...
1936. As Mussolini's troops invade Abyssinia the international situation deteriorates - and the armaments kings look forward greedily to even fatter profits. No one, it seems, can halt the carnage. Except perhaps the Millers of God, a group of...
As the seventeenth century dawns, the vast Moghul Empire finally encompasses the entire Indian subcontinent. But despite controlling unimaginable wealth and ruling over a quarter of the world's population, the Moghul dynasty finds itself in...
The Nicholas Shelby Mystery #2
LONDON, 1591: Nicholas Shelby, physician and reluctant spy, returns to his old haunts on London's lawless Bankside. But, when spymaster Robert Cecil asks him to investigate the dubious practices of a mysterious...
For 4,000 years, the lavish crypt of the Pharaoh Mamose has never been found...until the Seventh Scroll, a cryptic message written by he slave Taita, gives beautiful Egyptologist Royan Al Simma a tantalizing clue to its location.But this is a...
One by one they left London; their reasons various, their destination the same: Romney Marsh.
First to leave was a Mr James Bone, better known as Gentleman James, Highwayman-and ally of the mysterious smuggler called the Scarecrow.
Close behind:...