Hilda Campbell was born in the north of Scotland in 1889. She married German national Dr Willy Büttner Richter in 1912. They honeymooned in Scotland and returned to settle in Hamburg. Dr Richter died in 1938. After visiting her ailing parents,...
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A murder in a Tehran hotel leaves the London art world spinning. The deceased, beloved at home as a proud dealer in antiquities, now stands accused of...
While investigating a murder, Nick traces the killer to Argentina-to ex-Nazi General Marc Ziegler With the help of Ziegler's beautiful secretary, Nick penetrates the innermost secrets of Ziegler's empire, down to his deadly nuclear arsenal.
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In his brilliant first novel, The Cold War Swap, Ross Thomas introduced two witty characters named Mac McCorkle and Michael Padillo, a barkeep and a government agent, who become partners in a saloon and in the deadly game of espionage. The response...
A Yugoslavian plane crashes in the south of France; a fuel tanker explodes at Rome airport, a British diplomat is shot dead in Phnom Penh. In each case Quiller, Adam Hall's relentless British agent witnesses the violence as he pursues a fanatical...
For those who like good, clean spy-type fun, this is a SUPERLATIVE work. Part three in the adventures of Richard Hannay (which started with Buchan's well-known "Thirty-nine Steps"), this is a first-rate thriller set on the eve of World War I,...
Quiller is back on a freelance mission in south-east Asia probing the shadowy secrets of a deadly arms deal.
Shoda – 'Little Kiss of Steel' – the enigmatic and ruthless Cambodian beauty becomes his most deadly opponent.
Their...
A lever. A coma. Then sudden death. The latest in high tech genocide from a renegade Russian scientist bent on "purifying the world".
Forced into teaming up with the KGB, N3 trails the world-class murderer to his impenetrable fortress in the...