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Gideon's Fire (Popular Penguins Crime) by John Creasey
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard has to deal successively with news of a mass murderer, a depraved maniac, and the deaths of a family in an arson attack on an old building south of the river. This leaves little time for the crisis developing at home.
Greenmantle (Popular Penguins Crime) by John Buchan
$9.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
A cryptic message launches Major Richard Hannay into another adventure of intrigue, espionage, and danger. Setting out across war-torn Europe, and travelling to the heart of the Middle East, Hannay and his friends Sandy Arbuthnot, Peter Pienaar, and John S. Blenkiron must penetrate enemy lines, quell a ...Show more
Gun Before Butter by Nicolas Freeling
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Inspector West Takes Charge (Popular Penguins Crime) by John Creasey
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Extortion is the name of the game. In this first story of the Inspector West series, the Scotland Yard officer has to get to the bottom of a blackmail bid against the Dreem cigarette factory. With those behind the attempt prepared to murder anyone who might get in their way, Inspector West has to unrave ...Show more
Jonah and Co. (Popular Penguins Crime) by Dornford Yates
$9.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
These are some of Dornford Yates' early short stories featuring the comic Pleydell clan, and on publication proved just as successful and popular as Berry and Co. had been. They describe the chaotic journey of the young, well-to-do heroes as they cavort across France, and helped to establish Yates' repu ...Show more
Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler
$9.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
In the early stages of the Second World War, a British engineer and arms expert holds secret talks with the Turkish government. Shaken by an attempt on his life, he departs for home on an Italian freighter, with the knowledge that Nazi assassins aim to prevent his return. Friend and foe become quickly i ...Show more
Lady Audley's Secret (Popular Penguins Crime) by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
$9.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
When his uncle, Sir Michael Audley marries a beautiful and enigmatic young woman, Richard suppresses his misgivings. But the strange behaviours of Lady Audley and the suspicious disappearance of his friend, George Talboys, lead him to explore her mysterious past - with grave consequences.
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby
$9.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
The streets are seething with barely concealed menace, threatening to explode with the primal rage and desires of the hoodlums, hookers, transvestites, alcoholics and homosexuals who call New York home. Here, life is raw, love is brutal, and one must fight to survive. Banned by British courts in 1967, a ...Show more
Miami Blues (Popular Penguins Crime) by Charles Willeford
$9.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Ex-con Freddy 'Junior' Frenger lands in Miami with three stolen wallets and plans for a new life of crime, and leaves the airport with a snatched suitcase and the corpse of a Hare Krishna behind him. Homicide detective Hoke Moseley is soon on his case, chasing the utterly immoral Junior and his hooker g ...Show more
Moonstone (Popular Penguins Crime) by Wilkie Collins
$9.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
A priceless yellow diamond, pillaged from an Indian Temple is presented to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. But when the diamond is again stolen that very same night, no one is above suspicion. A chain of horrific events seem intent to ruin those surrounding the birthday girl, leaving Rachel ...Show more
Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales (Popular Penguins Crime) by Edgar Allan Poe
$9.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
A mother and daughter are bafflingly and brutally murdered inside a locked room on Rue Morgue, and C. Auguste Dupin must apply his fine detective skills to piece together the mystery. Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in this collection of Poe's brilliant tales.
Pel and the Paris Mob (Popular Penguins Crime) by Mark Hebden
$9.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
In his beloved Burgundy, Chief Inspector Pel finds himself incensed by interference from Paris, but it isn't the flocking descent of rival policemen that makes Pel's blood boil - crimes are being committed by violent gangs from Paris and Marseilles. Pel unravels the riddle of the robbery on the road to ...Show more