When young and beautiful governess Kate Malvern finds herself unemployed, she is taken in by Minerva Broome, the aunt she has never met, and whisked away to the majestic country home of Staplewood. However, things are not as they see...

A Moonlit Night, a Sleeping Village, and an Unaccountable Murder….In the dead of the night, a man in an evening dress is found murdered, locked in the stocks on the village green. Unfortunately for Superintendent Hannasyde, the dece...

An elegant card party turns deadly.…Inspector Hemingway has his work cut out for him when a seemingly civilized game of Duplicate Bridge leads to a double murder. The crimes seem identical, but were they carried out by the same hand...

Tis the season—to be dead....A holiday party takes on a sinister aspect when the colorful assortment of guests discovers there is a killer in their midst. The owner of the substantial estate, that old Scrooge Nathaniel Herriard, is ...

"A writer of great wit and style.… I've read her books to ragged shreds." —Kate Fenton, Daily TelegraphThe spirited and independent Miss Annis Wychwood is…twenty-nine and well past the age for falling in love. But when...

Tragedy befalls the Carter family following an eventful visit from a Russian prince and a scandalous blackmail letterThe superlatively analytical Inspector Hemingway is confronted by a murder that seems impossible—no one was near th...

A family tyrant whose murder has shocking and far-reaching consequences....Hated for his cruel and vicious nature, ruling his family with an iron hand from his sickbed, tyrannical patriarch Adam Penhallow is found murdered the day bef...

"Georgette Heyer is unbeatable!" —Sunday TelegraphFor her, he would do anything.…Plainspoken country gentleman Philip Jettan won't bother with a powdered wig, high heels, and fashionable lace cuffs, until he discovers th...

"What happens when a many-titled Duke decides to play hookey from his suffocating dignity.…" —Kirkus ReviewsThe Duke of Sale is out to prove himselfThe shy, young Duke of Sale has never known his parents. Instead, his Gr...

Resourceful, adventurous and utterly indefatigable, Sophy is hardly the mild-mannered girl that the Rivenhalls expect when they agree to take her in. Kind-hearted Aunt Lizzy is shocked; stern Cousin Charles and his humorless fiancee E...

"Triumphantly good.… Georgette Heyer is unbeatable." —India Knight, Sunday TelegraphAn impetuous flight…Tiffany Wield's bad behavior is a serious trial to her chaperone. "On the shelf " at twenty-eight, Ancil...

"Fascinating reading…authentic atmosphere in a delightful English tale." —Chicago Sunday TribuneLess than a hero's welcome…Returning to his family seat from Waterloo, Gervase Frant, seventh Earl of St Erth, could have ...

Based on the true story of Brigade-Major Harry Smith and the very young Spanish noblewoman he met and married during the Peninsular Wars, when the Duke of Wellington's forces fought Napoleon's army in Spain and PortugalAfter marrying ...

"A story in the manner of Jane Austen, of domestic comedy and love affairs." —Times Literary SupplementAn impetuous young lady and a fugitive nobleman…When spirited Eustacie stumbles into a band of smugglers, she is deli...

"Witty…a cheerful extravaganza." —The New YorkerHis exploits were legendary.…Captain John Staple, back from the battlefront, is already bored with his quiet civilian life in the country. When he stumbles upon a mystery...

"Wonderful entertainment from first page to last." —Chicago TribuneA past dispute…When the irascible Lord Darracott's eldest son dies unexpectedly, the noble family must accept their estranged Yorkshire cousin as heir ap...

The third book in Georgette Heyer's brilliant and highly acclaimed series of detective novels featuring the amiable Superintendent Hannasyde.One heir after another turns up dead....Silas Kane's sixtieth birthday party was marred by ar...

Venetia Lanyon, beautiful, intelligent and independent, lives in comfortable seclusion in rural Yorkshire with her precocious brother Aubrey. Her future seems safe and predictable: either marriage to the respectable but dull Edward Ya...

If you think the wildest, wackiest stories that Carl Hiaasen can tell have all made it into his hilarious, bestselling novels, think again. Dance of the Reptiles collects the best of Hiaasen's Miami Herald columns, which lay bare th...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author Carl Hiaasen debuts his first book for teens with Skink—No Surrender.Classic Malley—to avoid being shipped off to boarding school, she takes off with some guy she met online. Poor Richard�...

In this thrilling conclusion to The Annals of Drakis, it appears that the ancient prophecy of Drakis — the human warrior who will lead all the races conquered and enslaved by the elves of the Rhonas Empire to freedom — is about ...

Documents the story of the luxury liner that burned off the coast of New Jersey in 1934, revealing how the Morro Castle's captain died under mysterious circumstances seven hours before the ship caught fire and how many of the crew aba...

The CliffsNotes study guide on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, ...

A famous Russian writer and ex-paratrooper named Alexander Kurbsky has gotten fed up with the Putin government, and decides he wants to "disappear" into the West. He is under no illusions, however, about how the news will be...

"Jack Higgins has written some of the best suspense fiction of the past fifty years," wrote the San Diego Union-Tribune, and The Strand Magazine agreed: "With fresh plots, interesting characters and vibrant settings, Ja...

Following the success of the repackaged and retitled Higgins classic The Bormann Testament, we continue the action with Special Agent Paul Chavasse. Now his investigation into the murder of a gangland boss uncovers a deadly conspiracy...

Caught in the nets of a local fishing boat, the body of gangland boss Harvey Preston is dragged from the English Channel, wrapped from head to toe in heavy chain. British Intelligence suspects a connection with a cross-channel smuggli...

Intrepid British spy and soldier of fortune Owen Morgan leads a hard-nosed gang of commandos on a mission to destroy an island fortress of the Third Reich in the English Channel.

An edge-of-your-seat, white-knuckle thrill ride from the master of suspenseBaron Max von Berger was once a young aide to Hitler himself, and in the declining days of World War II, was entrusted with Hitler's diary. Over the years, von...

Oliver Grant is an American intelligence officer, a hero of the Vietnam War. But when the Mafia kidnaps his sister, his life is turned upside down and he agrees to complete a dangerous assignment for the powerful mob boss Dimitri Stav...