Agatha Christie
The Mystery Of The Blue Train

When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again - for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition. What is more, her priceles rubies are missing.. The prime suspect is Ruth's estranged husband - but Poirot is not convinced.

Alison Taylor
Simeon's Bride

A woman, little more than a skeleton, is found hanging in dence woodland outside Bangor, hands bound behind her back. Detective Chief inspector Michael McKenna and his colleagues, seeking her identity and her killer, become enmeshed in deceit and half-truths as they chase shadows in an area of spectacular beauty.

Ludovic Kennedy
Pursuit: The Sinking Of The Bismark

In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck headed out into the North Atlantic to raid Allied shipping. Found and shadowed by British cruisers, she was engaged by the Hood and the Prince of Wales. Within minutes, she had sunk the former, the pride of the Royal Navy, and damaged the latter. The Bismarck was attackcd by Swordfish of the Fleet Air Arm, lost and then relocated, attacked once more and disabled. Now there was no choice for the pride of the Kriegsmarine but to run for safety and the French port of Brest. But then the battleehips Rodney and King George V caught up with her.