A con-man is swindling the poor folk of Harlem out of their life savings - and now all hell\"s broken loose. The \"Reverend\" Deke O\"Malley has just made $87,000 by duping his followers, only for white gunmen to hijack the rally and escape with the cash hidden inside a bale of cotton....

An apparent suicide. A deepening mystery. A letter from a dead man... Secret agent George Smiley is in trouble. A Foreign Office civil servant, Samuel Fennan, has killed himself, and Smiley realizes that Intelligence head Maston is going to set him up to take the blame....

A mystery writer turns detective to protect the woman he loves. But is he hunter or hunted? The chance meeting between a crime novelist and a married woman blossoms into friendship....

A baffling case. A mysterious inheritance. It starts when a man\"s arm is fished out of Paris\"s Canal Saint-Martin. Then the rest of the body is retrieved - apart from the head. Inspector Maigret is determined to unearth the truth behind this disturbing murder....

The Second World War is over. Germany have won the battle. But the fight goes on... It is November 1941, nine months after the Nazis successfully invaded Britain. Churchill has been executed and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, renowned Detective Inspector Archer just tries to keep his head down....

Los Angeles, the late 1940\"s. A serial killer stalks the foggy streets at night ... Dix Steele, a former fighter pilot, moved to L.A. after the war, looking for a new life. But the city is gripped by fear of a murderer in its midst. Dix, however, is not scared....

1940. An unassuming English engineer has travelled to Turkey on business. And somebody wants him dead. It all began when Graham was taken to a nightclub in Istanbul and noticed a man in a crumpled suit, watching him. Then he narrowly missed being killed by gunfire on returning to his hotel room....

Maude Slocum is in trouble. But luckily trouble is Investigator Lew Archer\"s business. A well-dressed, wealthy woman has arrived at Archer\"s L.A. office, having intercepted a poison pen letter accusing her of adultery. Reluctantly agreeing to help her find the culprit, he dives into the Slocums\" moneyed, oil-rich California world....

Abducted, beaten, hidden in an attic, a young woman stages an audacious escape. But is her story everything she claims it to be? Fifteen-year-old Betty Kane can recall every detail of the room where she says she was held at the country house known as The Franchise - even the crack in its round window....

Two young children hold the key to a secret stash of money - and a relentless psychopath is on their trail... Harry \"Preacher\" Powell, his fingers tattooed with LOVE and HATE, is out of prison and doing the Devil\"s work. He knows his ex-cellmate hid $10,000 somewhere. He knows how to charm his way into unsuspecting lives....