Terrence Hardiman

When Cora is savagely murdered, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard's funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richard's will, Cora was clearly heard to say: 'It's been hushed up very nicely, hasn't it! But he was murdered, wasn't he?’. Hercule Poirot studies the case.

The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings, so it came as a shock to him when Poirot declared that one of them was a five-times murderer. The ageing detective was crippled with arthritis, but had his deductive instincts finally deserted him?

On holiday in Athens, Patrick Grant witnesses an accident in which an elderly lady, Miss Amelia Brinton, dies. Shortly afterwards her friend, Miss Forrest, also dies in a suspicious accident at the British Museum. Coincidence or something more sinister?

When a body is found at an isolated garage, Inspector Meredith is drawn into a complex investigation where every clue leads to another puzzle: was this a suicide, or something more sinister? Why was the dead man planning to flee the country, and how is this connected to the shady business dealings of the garage?

Guy Crouchback is determined to fight in the Second World War so takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. But he does not see any of the action. His first campaign, an abortive affair on the West African coastline, ends with an escapade which seriously blots his copybook.

Philip Winter, a mild, sweet-tempered salesman at an elite department store, never suspects a nicely dressed woman will make a pass at him . . . and then accuse him of rape when he turns down her advances. Even though he is acquitted, he just wants to disappear, and finds himself joining the lost world of the homeless.

Dr Petworth is on a cultural exchange to the small (and fictional) Eastern European country of Slaka. Pallid and middle-aged, Dr Petworth might appear stuffy, but during his short stay he manages to embroil himself in the thorny thickets of sexual intrigue and love, while still finding time to see the major sites.

The guests of the Haworth Hotel rose late after their New Year’s Eve celebrations, but one guest had missed them all completely. He was lying dead in his room and, as Inspector Morse investigates, he discovers that few of the guests at the hotel that night were who they appeared to be.  Book 7 of series.

Seven clocks tick ominously in a suicide's room and a dying friend whose last words are "seven dials" lead dapper Jimmy Thesiger and his irrepressible girlfriend to a Soho club. There they learn of the Seven Dials Society, seven masked conspirators who meet in a secret room to talk about stealing scientific secrets - and plan the next murder.

This volume of selections from Evelyn Waugh's early travel writings includes accounts of a Mediterranean pleasure cruise, of the coronation of the Emperor Haile Selassie in Abyssinia in 1930 and the Italian invasion five years later, and of visits to Aden and Brazil.