New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Collins Crime 1998 Jan-March
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Collins Crime JAN-MARCH 1998

Agatha Christie The Hound of Death and Other Stories Published February 1998 by Collins Crime at £15.99 ISBN: 0 00 231321 9
Agatha Christie delves into the world of the supernatural in this collection of twelve short stories of the unexplained

Agatha Christie Murder on the Orient Express Published February 1998 by Collins Crime at £15.99 ISBN: 0 00 231539 4
A snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks, and Hercule Poirot must solve Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery. ..

Agatha Christie Lord Edgware Dies Published February 1998 by Collins Crime at £15.99 ISBN: 0 00 231457 6
Lord Edgware's widow had vowed publicly to get rid of her husband. But how can she have killed him while she was dining with friends!

Agatha Christie The Listerdale Mystery and Other Stories Published February 1998 by Collins Crime at £15.99 ISBN: 0 00 231485 1
Twelve of Agatha Christie's most readable mystery stories featuring a variety of characters - including one James Bond. ..

Reginald Hill On Beulah Height Published February 1998 by Collins Crime at £16.99 ISBN: 0 00 232526 8
See Review by Val McDermid - Gold Dagger winner & creator of Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan & Tony Hill
See Review by Andrew Taylor - author of the highly acclaimed Roth & Lydmouth Series
A Dalziel and Pascoe Novel
'Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction. Tom Hiney, Observer
THEY'D MOVED EVERYONE out Of Dendale that long hot summer fifteen years ago. They needed a new reservoir, and an old community seemed a cheap price to pay. They even dug up the dead and moved them too. But four inhabitants of the dale they couldn't move, for nobody knew where they were. Three little girls who'd gone missing, and the prime suspect in their disappearance, Benny Lightfoot.
This was Andy Dalziel's worst case and now fifteen years on he looks set to relive it. It's another long hot summer. A child goes missing in the next valley, and as the Dendale reservoir waters shrink and the old village re-emerges from the depths, old fears and suspicions arise too as someone sprays the deadly message on the walls of the small town of Danby: BENNY'S BACK!
Myth and music mingle as the mid-Yorkshire team delve deep into the past and into their own reserves of experience and endurance in search of answers which threaten to bring more pain than they resolve. Reginald Hill has built a reputation for faultless writing, sparkling wit, and sharply observed characterization, but with On Beulah Height he has surpassed himself. Imbued with a sense of devastating loss, leavened by unquenchable humour and spirit, it is his most haunting novel yet.
Reginald Hill is a native of Cumbria and a former resident of Yorkshire, the setting for his award winning novels featuring Dalziel and Pascoe, 'the best detective duo on the scene bar none' (Daily Telegraph)- which have now been adapted into a successful BBC television series.

Roy Lewis The Shape-Shifter Published March 1998 by Collins Crime at £15.99 ISBN: 0 00 232653 1
See Review by Michael Jecks - author of the highly acclaimed Furnshill & Puttock series
An Arnold Landon Mystery
'Engaging, exciting and a sight more interesting than who's coming through the door with a .45 in their hand. Literary Review (of Angel of Death)
WHEN ARNOLD LANDON'S ambitious boss, Karen Stannard, is suspended pending the result of an official inquiry, she holds Landon responsible. Which makes for a degree of tension in the air at Haggburn Hall, where they have both joined a dig to uncover evidence of an ancient Celtic cult devoted to the Shape-Shifter – M’orrigan, the deity of war.
Appropriately for a site connected with the war god, there are a variety of other long-held grievances, mutual dislikes and resentments seething beneath the surface at Haggburn Hall, and a young man dies a violent death as a result. But was he the intended victim Landon and his old sparring partner DCI Culpepper find themselves with a multitude of suspects and possible motives to choose between. But to unmask the murderer they must first unravel the secrets of the past. An absorbing blend of archaeological mystery - with impeccably researched historical background - and modern day murder.
Roy Lewis is the author of over forty crime novels which have been published in the UK and overseas. He runs a business-training programme with interests in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia.

Phil Lovesey Death Duties Published March 1998 by Collins Crime at £15.99 ISBN: 0 00 232649 3
See Review by John Boyles
See Review by Andrew Taylor - author of the highly acclaimed Roth & Lydmouth Series
See Review by Val McDermid - Gold Dagger winner & creator of Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan & Tony Hill
A powerful psychological mystery from an exciting new talent.
DENBURY, ESSEX, 1969; two young policemen and a WPC listen intently as a seven-year-old girl calmly tells them why she's just killed her father.
Thirty years later, an old woman is discovered murdered in her flat, hideously daubed with cheap make-up. Police are baffled, for they can find no satisfactory motive to give any kind of clue as to the killer. The appearance of a second body, days later, sends the press into a frenzy, demanding answers to the gruesome mystery of the Christmas Killer.
It takes the combined talents of all three original officers to delve deeply into their own pasts and insecurities to solve the killings - a journey fraught with uncomfortable emotional discoveries and hidden secrets. Only by confronting the half-truths and deceptions they have been hiding behind can they thwart a deranged killer's twisted intentions.
Phil Lovesey's compelling novel combines the excitement of a murder mystery with a depth of psychological insight into the areas of child manipulation and psychopathy that will fascinate and haunt the reader. Death Duties marks the debut of a remarkable and highly original novelist.
Phil Lovesey is the son of award-winning crime writer Peter Lovesey. After a career as London's laziest copywriter at a succession of the capital's most desperate advertising agencies, he turned to 'proper' writing in 1994. Death Duties is his first novel.