"Is this a dagger which I see before me.

Murder strikes a sour note at a jazz concert in this classic detective novel from the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master.

All in all Steve Fraser had enjoyed his three-year stint in the former Dutch Southeast Asian colony of Sunda, and he’d been well compensated.

Published as The Galantrys in America, Dance of the Years is one of Margery Allingham's oft overlooked novels.

Agatha Christie chose His Brother's Killer as winner of the Collins' Crime Club Detective Novel Competition in 1961. A hugely underrated and unjustly neglected writer, D.M. Devine (1920-80) wrote 13 crime fiction novels in all.