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A Dark-Adapted Eye (Popular Penguins Crime) by Barbara Vine
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Vera was prim and fastidious. Eden was beautiful and adored. Like most families they had their secrets...and they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. Yet their sisterly bond was strained by obsession, manipulation and murderous jealousy. Buried secrets rarely stay buried, and their past still ...Show more
A Rage in Harlem (Popular Penguins Crime) by Chester Himes
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Jackson, trusting and besotted with his girlfriend, Imabelle, scrapes his hard-earned savings together in a scheme to triple his money. But it all goes terribly wrong, and Jackson soon finds himself without money, a job, or his beloved Imabelle. Desperate to find her, he turns to his brother for help. F ...Show more
A Study in Scarlet (Popular Penguins Crime) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Quiet bachelor life is not as Dr. Watson imagines once he discovers his flat-mate Sherlock Holmes is a consulting detective. Accompanying Holmes to an ill-omened house in south London, Watson is startled to find a dead man whose face is contorted in horror. With no signs of struggle, but a strange word ...Show more
A Three-Pipe Problem (Popular Penguins Crime) by Julian Symons
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Small-time actor Sheridan Haynes has a rather unhealthy preoccupation with Sherlock Holmes. So when the chance comes for him to play the famous detective in a TV series, it seems his dreams have come true. And when London becomes plagued by a series of unsolved murders, well, it seems only natural for h ...Show more
ANZAC to Amiens: War Popular Penguins by C. E. W. Bean
$9.95 AUD
Category: Military | Series: War Popular Penguins
The First World War was the blooding of the young Australian nation. Five years after Australia's overwhelming response to Britain's declaration of war, nearly a fifth of the 330,000 Australians who served overseas lay dead. Charles Bean witnessed it all. Appointed official war correspondent with the Au ...Show more
And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
$9.94 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Cave's debut novel takes on the Southern Gothic in this bizarre baroque tale. Born mute to a drunken mother and a demented father, tortured Euchrid Eucrow finds more compassion in the family mule than in his fellow men. But he alone will grasp the cruel fate of Cosey Mo, the beautiful young prostitute i ...Show more
Anzac's Story (War Popular Penguin) by Roy A.I.F. Kyle
$9.95 AUD
Category: Military | Series: War Popular Penguins
Many books have been written by officers, historians and military experts on the part the Anzacs played in the Dardanelles campaign during the First World War. There are very few by the ordinary soldier. Roy Kyle started writing this memoir at the age of 89 and almost completed it before he died. A typi ...Show more
Appleby at Allington (Popular Penguins Crime) by Michael Innes
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Sir John Appleby dines one evening at Allington Park, the Georgian home of his acquaintance Owain Allington, who is new to the area. His curiosity is aroused when Allington mentions his nephew and heir to the estate, Martin Allington, whose name Appleby recognises. The evening comes to an end but just a ...Show more
Australia in Arms (War Popular Penguin) by Phillip Schuler
$9.95 AUD
Category: Military | Series: War Popular Penguins
Phillip Schuler, alongside C.E.W. Bean, was one of Australia's key First World War correspondents. A soldier as well as a journalist, he died on 23 June 1917 of wounds received at Armentieres. His legacy was Australia in Arms, an extraordinary and evocative account of the Australian Imperial Force and t ...Show more
Beneath the Skin (Popular Penguins Crime) by Nicci French
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Three women's lives are stretched to breaking point as they are tracked by a cruel and malicious stalker. Zoe, Jenny and Nadia have nothing in common save the disturbing letters that probe their most vulnerable secrets, torturing them with their own fears. Unsure of who to trust, one by one their relati ...Show more
Berry and Co. (Popular Penguins Crime) by Dornford Yates
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
This collection of short stories featuring 'Berry' Pleydell and his chaotic entourage established Dornford Yates' reputation as one of the best comic writers in a generation, and made him hugely popular. The German caricatures in the book carried such a sting that when France was invaded in 1939 Yates, ...Show more
Blood and Judgement (Popular Penguins Crime) by Michael Gilbert
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
When the wife of a recently escaped prisoner is found murdered and partially buried near a reservoir, Patrick Petrella, a Metropolitan Police Inspector, is called in. Suspicion falls on the escaped convict, but what could have been his motive? Petrella meets resistance from top detectives at the Yard wh ...Show more