Paris in the spring of 1968. The city is beginning to emerge from hibernation and an obscure spirit of social and political renewal is in the air. Yet Théo, his twin sister Isabelle and Matthew, an American student they have befriended, think only of immersing themselves in another, addictive form of hibernation: moviegoing at the Cinémathèque Française. Night after night, they take their place beside their fellow cinephiles in the very front row of the stalls and feast insatiably off the ...

Weihnachten 1935. Ein verschneites Herrenhaus am Rande von Dartmoor in der englischen Grafschaft Devon. Freunde des Hauses haben sich bei Colonel Roger ffolkes (sic!) zum Festessen versammelt - oben, im Dachgeschoss, liegt die Leiche von Raymond Gentry, einem Klatschkolumnisten und Erpresser. In seinem Herzen steckt eine Kugel. Aber die Tür zum Dachzim mer war von innen verschlossen, das einzige Fenster ist mit dicken Eisenstangen vergittert, und vom Täter oder seiner Waffe fehlt jede Spur...

London 1946. An actress is murdered, not just on camera but in full view of a crowded film set. Only six people had an opportunity to administer the poison yet not one of them had a conceivable motive. As Evadne Mount, bestselling crime novelist, discovers, however, all six did have a motive for committing another, earlier, still unsolved murder yet, on that occasion, not one of them had the opportunity . . .

Die Schauspielerin Cora Rutherford, eine alte Freundin von Evadne Mount, wird vergiftet. Nicht nur vor laufender Kamera, sondern auch vor den Augen aller am Filmset. Sechs Menschen hatten die Gelegenheit, sie zu töten, aber keiner der Tatverdächtigen hat ein Motiv. In den Verhören fällt eines auf: Alle am Set hassen den Regisseur Alastair Farjeon - fettleibig, unerträglich, insbesondere Frauen gegenüber, und so eitel, dass er in jedem seiner Filme einen Kurzauftritt haben muss. Und Miss Mo...

Surfing the Zeitgeist is a collection of essays by Britain's preeminent post-modernist. Confronted with a world in which too much is changing too fast, the attitude of most British critics is simply to ignore the fact that today's culture is in a state of constant ebullience and continue turning out, or churning out, week after week, month after month, the kind of article, a complacent conflation of artistic impressions, that could have been written thirty, fifty or a hund...

The writer and professional controversialist Gustav Slavorigin is murdered in the small Swiss town of Meiringen during its annual Sherlock Holmes Festival, his body discovered with an arrow through the heart. With a price of ten million dollars on Slavorigin's head, almost none of the Festival's guests can be regarded as above suspicion. Except Evadne Mount, of course, the stubborn amateur sleuth and bestselling crime novelist from Gilbert Adair's The Act of Roger Murgatroyd and A Mysterio...

Gideon is a lonely, horny young Englishman who arrives in Paris to take up a teaching post in the local Berlitz, and becomes increasingly fascinated by the intoxicating atmosphere of erotic banter and bragging in the school's all-male and virtually all-gay common room. The moment has surely arrived for him, too, to overcome his own chronic timidity and actually do what he has only ever dared fantasize about. Yet Gideon has a secret - one he is prepared to share with nobody but the reader, ...

Boxing Day circa 1935. A snowed-in manor on the very edge of Dartmoor. A Christmas house-party. And overhead, in the attic, the dead body of Raymond Gentry, gossip columnist and blackmailer, shot through the heart. But the attic door is locked from the inside, its sole window is traversed by thick iron bars and, naturally, there is no sign of a murderer or a murder weapon.Fortunately (though, for the murderer, unfortunately), one of the guests is the formidable Evadne Mount, the be...

An isolated house deep in the Cotswolds. A writer's den, as dusty and gloomy as the cell of a medieval monk. Two people sit opposite each other, one of them talking, the other typing. But why, in such already sombre surroundings, does one of them wear thick dark glasses? And what, above all, has caused an unearthy shadow to fall across these two interwoven destinies?Apart from the several startling twists of its own brilliant plot, A Closed Book springs a few extra surpris...

Hier ist sie wieder, in Begleitung ihres loyalen und geduldigen Partners Eustace Trubshawe: Evadne Mount auf den Spuren eines noch gemeineren, genialen Mordes. Ihre beste Freundin, die Schauspielerin Cora Rutherford, wird vergiftet, und zwar nicht nur vor laufender Kamera, sondern auch vor aller Augen am Set im Filmstudio. Nicht nur für die Kenner des erfolgreichen Romans "Mord auf ffolkes Manor": Die brillante neue Hommage an das Goldene Zeitalter des englischen Kriminalromans und seine b...