* A highly original 'detective' novel with unique setting and characters, this is the first of four 'Botswana' titles are both beautiful and charming.

Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. Marlowe's got his work cut out. But that's before he stumbles over the first corpse.

Problems involving a man with a twisted lip, a fabulous blue carbuncle and five orange pips tax Sherlock Holmes' intellect alongside some of his most famous cases, including A Scandal in Bohemia and The Red-Headed League.

The greatest crime novel of the 20th century launches Orion's Crime Masterworks series

* Highly original 'detective' stories with unique setting and characters

Features stories of Sherlock Holmes.

* In this third volume of highly original 'detective' stories with a unique setting and characters, the irrepressible, Precious Ramotswe faces supreme problems at home and at work.

The brilliantly original new novel from Michael Chabon, author of 'The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' and 'The Final Solution'.

The Eyre Affair is a novel.

In this fourth volume of the bestselling series - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, the ever-popular Precious Ramotswe - Botswana's leading, and only, female private detective - faces a new and unwanted problem: competition.

The first case file from Harry Dresden, a modern-day wizard and P.I.

*The fifth in the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series *Highly original 'detective' stories with unique setting and characters for people who are fed up with aggressive literature which dwells on selfishness, discourtesy and conflict.

A warm day on Central Avenue, and Philip Marlowe's hunch about the man beside him is as vague as the heat waves that dance above the sidewalk. Moose Malloy stands six five and one-half and weighs two hundred and sixty-four pounds. After eight years in the pen, he wants little Velma back, and no cops or mobsters are ready to stand in his way.

Presents a crime story.

The third case file from Harry Dresden, a modern-day wizard who gets into some seriously challenging situations.

Written by the author of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy series and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency , this is another story about Dirk Gently, the self-styled holistic detective and master of all things alternative.

The second case file from Harry Dresden, a modern-day wizard and private investigator who gets into some seriously challenging situations.

Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.

Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. He's willing to help a man down on his luck, but later, Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty.