Hugh Fraser

What makes an innocent girl become a contract killer? Acapulco 1974: Rina Walker is on assignment. Just another quick, clean kill. When she wakes to discover her employer's severed head on her bedside table, and a man with an AK 47 coming through the door of her hotel room, she must use all her skills to neutralize her attacker and escape. Notting Hill 1956: Fifteen-year-old Rina is scavenging and stealing to support her siblings and her alcoholic...

One tough woman. One fight to the death... London 1967. A working girl is brutally murdered in a Soho club. Rina Walker takes out the killer and attracts the attention of a sinister line-up of gangland enforcers with a great deal to prove. When a member of British Military Intelligence becomes aware of her failure to fulfil a contract, issued by an inmate of Broadmoor, he forces her into the deadly arena of the Cold War, with orders to kill an enemy...

How far would you go to protect the innocent? London 1961. In the dying days of the Macmillan government, George Preston is in control of crime in West London and Rina Walker is his favored contract killer. When Rina is, hired by Soho a vice king to investigate the disappearance of girls from his clubs, she discovers that they are being, supplied to a member of the English aristocracy for the gratification of his macabre tastes. Rina's pursuit of...

"The Big Four," published in 1927, represents an intriguing departure from Christie's usual style, blending elements of the detective novel with the emerging thriller genre. Originally published as a series of short stories in The Sketch magazine, the novel was later compiled and adapted into a single narrative. This unique genesis is reflected in its episodic structure and its more sensational, conspiracy-driven plot. The story follows Hercule...

The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense--creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characters--brings her entire oeuvre of ingenious whodunits, locked room mysteries, and perplexing puzzles to Harper Paperbacks. In the Christie classic Peril at End House, a young woman who has recently survived a series of very...

"Even the great detective Hercule Poirot harbored a deep and abiding fear of the dentist, so it was with some trepidation that he arrived at the celebrated Dr. Morley's surgery for a dental examination. But what neither of them knew was that only hours later Poirot would be back to examine the dentist, found dead in his own surgery. Turning to the other patients for answers, Poirot finds other, darker, questions."--Back cover.

Previously published in the print anthology Murder in the Mews: Four Cases of Hercule Poirot. A young woman commits suicide while her roommate is away for the weekend. However, the lead inspector is sufficiently doubtful about the cause of death to call for the help of Hercule Poirot.

When the host is found dead at a card game, four investigators - including Poirot himself - look for clues as they set out to discover which guest is the killer.

Hercule Poirot investigates when a determined murderer begins to attack his victims in alphabetical order, as Mrs. Asher of Andover, Betty Barnard of Bexhill, and Sir Carmichael Clarke of Churston are respectively taken down

Hercule Poirot investigates when a determined murderer begins to attack his victims in alphabetical order, starting with Mrs. Asher of Andover, Betty Barnard of Bexhill, and Sir Carmichael Clarke of Churston