David Stuart Davies

Young private investigator Johnny Hawke gets involved in several mysterious and violent cases in London during the Blitz and looks into a young runaway and the murder of a cross-dresser while army deserter Harryboy Jenkins goes on a spree.

Vampires, those dark children of the night, who rise from their coffins to suck the blood of the living, continue to hold a strange fascination and dread. This book presents vampire stories, some familiar, some less so.

The sixth novel in the Detective Johnny (One Eye) Hawke series. Two laser-sharp detectives, two thought-provoking cases and two skilful plots. Featuring private investigator Johnny (One Eye) Hawke, and his one-time colleague in the police force Detective David Llewellyn. Llewellyn is investigating the chilling crimes of a top psychiatrist and his scheming patient who the doctor believes has knuckled under his authority. In the meantime, Hawke is on...

A Rupert Wilde Golden Age Murder Mystery. It is the 1920s and Ambrose De Lacy is the doyen of mystery writers and founder of The Murder Club, an exclusive social club for successful authors of crime fiction. He receives death threats by post and so consults private detective Rupert Wilde and his Indian assistant Kishen Chabra to get to the bottom of this sinister matter. However, the case proves to be more complex than it first appears. Wilde discovers...

This exciting anthology brings together the work of two much admired Sherlock Holmes writers. In these stories Holmes and Watson are engaged in daring exploits applying their razor-sharp intelligence in new cases. By David Stuart Davies: The Reichenbach Secret; The Adventure of the Brewer's Son; The Secret of the Dead; Murder at Tragere House. By Matthew Booth: The Dragon of Lea Lane; The Fairmont Confession; The Mornington Scream; The Riddle of Satan's...

Haunted by the tag of 'the Sherlock Holmes man' and tired of his creation, author Arthur Conan Doyle employs the services of Moriarty to end the career of the Great Detective. He did not reckon on his fictional character's immortality...

On a moonlit road in Hampstead, Walter Hartright is accosted by a stranger dressed from head to toe in white, who asks the way to London. Shortly thereafter he is overtaken by a carriage in pursuit of this mysterious woman who has evidently escaped from an asylum. He then unwinds a story of abduction, madness, false identity and shameful family secret.

Max Carrados is one of the most unusual detectives in all fiction. He is blind – and yet he has developed his other faculties to such an amazing degree that they more than compensate for his lack of sight. 'Lose one sense and the others, touch, taste, smell, hearing improve…with a little dedicated training. ' Carrados can read a newspaper headline with the touch of his fingers, detect a man wearing a false moustache because 'he carries a five...

Some six or seven feet above the port bulwarks, framed in fog, and as utterly unsupported as the full moon, hung a Face. It was not human, and it certainly was not animal, for it did not belong to this earth as known to man'Rudyard Kipling, celebrated author of The Jungle Book, the Just So Stories and other entertaining fictions, was also a master of the short story in which he was able to combine the strange and unnerving in order to draw the reader...

Amyas Northcote's "In Ghostly Company" is a rare and splendid collection of strange and disturbing tales from the golden age of ghost stories. His style is akin to that of the master of the genre M. R. James.