"It's one of the most disturbing cases DI Fawley has ever worked. The Christmas holidays, and two children have just been pulled from the wreckage of their burning home in North Oxford. The toddler is dead, and his brother is soon fighting for his life. Why were they left in the house alone? Where is their mother, and why is their father not answering his phone? Then new evidence is discovered, and DI Fawley's worst nightmare comes true. Because this...

Oxford, Autumn 1353. St Fridewide's Fair is a great annual event in Oxford, bringing together merchants and buyers from all over England and Wales, and from as far away as Flanders and France. Yet the earning from the fair, granted to the Priory of St Frideswide centuries before, are resented by the town, and resentment can turn to violence. Under the unscrupulous Prior de Hungerford, even more trouble is brewing. Nicholas Elyot is warned by intelligencer...

"Oxford, 1960. As the city prepares itself for the inaugural Miss Oxford Honey Beauty Pageant at the Old Swan Theatre, excitement is in the air. Then tragedy strikes the competition when one ofthe leading contestants is found dead. Initially, the authorities assume her death was suicide. But after a malicious series of pranks and blackmail attempts are reported, WPC Loveday and Coroner Clement Ryder are called upon to solve the case. In an atmosphere...

"Ryan Wilkins grew up on a trailer park, a member of what many people would call the criminal classes. As a young Detective Inspector, he's lost none of his disgust with privileged elites - or his objectionable manners. But he notices things; they stick to his eyes. His professional partner, DI Ray Wilkins, of affluent Nigerian-London heritage, is an impeccably groomed, smooth-talking graduate of Balliol College, Oxford. You wouldn't think they would...

««Sherlok Kholms» iz mira nauki, professor Seldom, i ego prii͡atelʹ, molodoĭ matematik iz Argentiny, vnovʹ okazyvai͡utsi͡a vti͡anutymi v slozhnoe rassledovanie. Na seĭ raz im predstoit raskrytʹ serii͡u prestupleniĭ, prichydivo svi͡azannykh s zhiznʹi͡u i proizvedenii͡amĭ Lʹi͡uisa Kėrrolla--avtora bessmertnoĭ dilogii o prikli͡uchenii͡akh Alisy v Strane chudes i v Zazerkalʹe. Soversheno zhestokoe pokushenie na devushku, obnaruzhivshui͡u...