In this, the last of the Lord Peter Wimsey novels (though he did appear again in short stories), the inimitable Miss Sayers has married him off to his beloved Harriet, but this has in no way diminished Lord Peter's determination to see a case through to the very, very end......

When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow Airport, shot up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame the usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all and that the site of the explosion would make a nice day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all.

A man is found shot, and the Duke of Denver is charged with his murder. Naturally, it is his brother, Lord Peter Wimsey, who is called in to investigate the crime. This is a family affair, for the murdered man was the fiance of the sister of Denver and Wimsey. Why, then, does the Duke refuse to cooperate with the investigation? Is he really guilty, or is he covering up for someone? Why is Wimsey attacked by an enraged farmer on the lonely moors? Why is an attempt made on his life in a Soho Street?

The Clue of the Twisted Candle starts with a visit paid by Remington Kara, a Greek by birth, to the country home of John Lexman, a detective story writer. Kara had wanted to marry John's wife, Grace, who now fears and suspects him for reasons she refuses to disclose to her husband. John is being pressed for payment by another Greek, Vassalaro, from whom he has foolishly borrowed money; and he meets him by secret appointment. Then his friend TX Meredith - who is Assistant Commisioner of Police at Scotland Yard - hears John saying on the telephone - 'Come down here at once. I have shot a man - killed him!'

Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion. There, among the tennis racquets, they discover the body of an unpopular games mistress. Can there really be a link between a Middle Eastern revolution and an English girl's school? Julia Upjohn knows something. She also knows that without Hercule Poirot's help, she might be the next victim of a cold-hearted killer.

Left-wing academics, right-wing capitalists, true blue country gentry, workers, peasants, police and lawyers - all take custard pies full in the face in this boisterous knockabout farce

The picaresque adventures of a no-good, genuine, twenty-two carat bastard, who sets off from the North to seek fame and fortune in London.

Rebecca' was Daphne du Maurier's most famous and best-loved novel. But what happened next? After the tragic fire at Manderley what did fate hold in store for the evil Mrs Danvers and the fatally flawed Maxim de Winter? What would be the destiny of Maxim's second wife, Rebecca's successor, the beautiful but lonely Mrs de Winter?

To fulfil a promise to an old school friend, Miss Marple stays in a country house - with two hundred juvenile delinquents and seven heirs to an old lady's fortune. One of them is a murderer - a murderer with a talent for being in two places at once.

No sign of foul play'. So concludes Dr Carr's post-mortem on Agatha Dawson, and the case is closed. But Lord Peter Wimsey is not satisfied and, with no clues to work on, begins his own investigation. No clues, that is, until the sudden and senseless murder of Agatha's maid. Then the most debonair sleuth in detective fiction is faced with the problem of catching a desperate murderer before he himself becomes one of the victims...... and of discovering what goes on in the mysterious Mrs Forrest's Mayfair flat.