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  • The Last Days of Newgate

    A gripping historical detective story set in the heart of old London

    by Andrew Pepper ...
    Series series Pyke Mystery
    'A story of high intrigue and low politics, brutal murder and cunning conspiracies . . . tangy and rambunctious stuff!' Observer'Gripping and atmospheric' Daily Express'Enjoyably disturbing . . . likely to leave the reader clamouring for more' TLSSt Giles, London, 1829: three people have been brutally murdered and the city simmers with anger and political unrest. Pyke, sometime Bow Street ... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Revenge Of Captain Paine

    From the author of The Last Days of Newgate

    by Andrew Pepper ...
    Series series Pyke Mystery
    Terrific second novel set in the criminal underworld of pre-Victorian England from the author of THE LAST DAYS OF NEWGATEIt is 1835, and with the birth of the Industrial Revolution, railway fever sweeps the country. Pyke is uneasy with the luxury his aristocratic marriage has brought him, and when he is unofficially asked to investigate a decapitation, he can not resist the chance to resuscitate ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Kill-Devil And Water

    From the author of The Last Days of Newgate

    by Andrew Pepper ...
    Series series Pyke Mystery
    Pyke returns in a gripping tale of brutal murder and deception, set in the back streets of Victorian London and the cane fields of Jamaica.London: 1840. The economy is sliding into recession; gangs of unemployed workers roam the streets; and a murderer prowls the capital's poor neighbourhoods.Pyke, still grieving over the death of his wife and struggling to shoulder his responsibilities as a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Detective Branch

    From the author of The Last Days of Newgate

    by Andrew Pepper ...
    Series series Pyke Mystery
    Pyke joins the newly formed Detective Branch of the Metropolitan police in a tale of corruption and murder set in the dangerous backstreets of 19th-century London...Drury Lane, 1844. A robbery has been committed at a pawnbroker's, leaving three people dead. The man called in to investigate is Pyke, head of the Metropolitan Police's newly formed Detective Branch at Scotland Yard. Pyke must find the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Bloody Winter

    From the author of The Last Days of Newgate

    by Andrew Pepper ...
    Series series Pyke Mystery
    The troubled head of the Detective Branch returns, in an intriguing case of kidnap, rebellion and murder...The body of a vagrant is discovered in a ditch in County Tipperary. Knox, a young Irish policeman with divided loyalties is told that the landowner wants the case dealt with swiftly and quietly. However, when Knox examines the corpse, he realises that this supposed vagrant was wearing a ... Read more

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  • Contemporary European Crime Fiction

    Representing History and Politics

    Edited by Monica Dall'Asta, Jacques Migozzi, Federico Pagello, Andrew Pepper ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book represents the first extended consideration of contemporary crime fiction as a European phenomenon. Understanding crime fiction in its broadest sense, as a transmedia practice, and offering unique insights into this practice in specific European countries and as a genuinely transcontinental endeavour, this book argues that the distinctiveness of the form can be found in its related ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Noir Affect

    by Christopher Breu, Elizabeth A. Hatmaker, Paula Rabinowitz, Alexander Dunst, Sean Grattan, Peter Hitchcock, Justus Nieland, Andrew Pepper, Brian Rejack0, Ignacio Sánchez Prado1, Pamela Thoma2, Kirin Wachter-Grene3 ...
    Noir Affect proposes a new understanding of noir as defined by negative affect. This new understanding emphasizes that noir is, first and foremost, an affective disposition rather than a specific cycle of films or novels associated with a given time period or national tradition. Instead, the essays in Noir Affect trace noir’s negativity as it manifests in different national contexts from the ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction

    A World of Crime

    Edited by David Schmid, Andrew Pepper ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Why has crime fiction become a global genre? How do writers use crime fiction to reflect upon the changing nature of crime and policing in our contemporary world? This book argues that the globalization of crime fiction should not be celebrated uncritically. Instead, it looks at the new forms and techniques writers are using to examine the crimes and policing practices that define a rapidly ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction

    Edited by Janice Allan, Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King, Andrew Pepper ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today. Across 45 original chapters, specialists in the field offer innovative approaches to the classics of the genre as well as ground-breaking mappings of emerging themes and trends.The volume is divided into three parts. Part I, Approaches, rearticulates the key theoretical ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • A Surfeit of Guns

    by Patricia Finney, P F Chishom ...
    Series Book 3 - Sir Robert Carey series
    1592: Sir Robert Carey is finding life in the North more complicated and dangerous than he expectedNow somebody has stolen the load of firearms the Queen sent to Carlisle.Who did it? Where are the guns now?Sir Robert sets out for Scotland along with Sergeant Henry Dodd and not enough men, hoping to find the guns and also perhaps meet the young Scottish King in Dumfries.He doesn't know that his ... Read more

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  • The Masked Adversary

    by James McCreet ...
    Two bodies are discovered on the same night in the same part of London: both shocking, both inexplicable – neither entirely human.Police Commissioner Sir Richard Mayne's prized Detective Force is being mocked by the press on one side and investigated by Parliament on the other. His notorious investigator Inspector Albert Newsome seems afflicted by a dangerous mania and Sir Richard himself is ... Read more

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  • Five Dead Canaries

    The compelling WWI murder mystery series

    by Edward Marston ...
    Series Book 3 - Home Front Detective
    As thousands of Brits are fighting on the Front Line, a new breed of women emerges to hold the Home Front together. Fiercely independent and fiery-spirited, the munitionettes, or 'canaries', are easily recognisable with their chemically-stained yellow faces. Among the raucous group of women is Florrie Duncan, who plans to celebrate her birthday in style at the Golden Goose pub. But the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD