Mystery Books
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Without Fail (Jack Reacher)Jack Reacher takes aim at the White House in the sixth novel in Lee Child’s New York Times bestselling series.
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McCone & FriendsCreator of the modern female private eye story, Marcia Muller has been writing novels and short stories about Sharon McCone since
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Singing The Sadness (CH) (Charnwood Large Print Library Series)'Reginald Hill is one of the few English crime writers who can hold their own against the Americans...there is a wonderful wit and
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ChokeA standalone novel from Stuart Woods, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington and
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The Unquiet: A Charlie Parker ThrillerNEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR JOHN CONNOLLY DELIVERS A RIVETING THRILLER FEATURING PRIVATE DETECTIV
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Diamond Solitaire (A Detective Peter Diamond Mystery)“The chase, which includes a friendly Sumo wrestler and adventures in Japan, is a pleasure to follow, and Lovesey makes the r
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Brain Child: A NovelAlex Lonsdale was one of the most popular kids in La Paloma, California. Until the horrifying car accident. Until a brillian
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Mystery Movies
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Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)During the presidential election of 1988, a teenager named Donnie Darko sleepwalks out of his house one night, and sees a giant, d
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ExamLike Saw for corporate go-getters, in EXAM eight young people vying for a sought-after job are locked together in a room and given
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Shutter IslandAcademy Award® winning director Martin Scorses once again teams up with Leonardo DiCaprio in this spine-chilling thriller that cr
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The GameThere are no rules in "the game." And that will make life very difficult for Nicholas Van Orton, a successful businessman who is a
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A Beautiful Mind (Widescreen)(2001)Winner of 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, A Beautiful Mind is directed by Academy Award winner Ron Howard and produced b
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Mystery Authors
Book reviews - The Party At No 5
The Party At No 5
Author: Shelley Smith
Mrs. Rampage lives alone in a large house full of her precious belongings.
With her daughter living the other side of the world, she is persuaded by friends that she ought to take a companion into her home.
Begrudgingly she accepts a well-mannered lady, Mrs. Roach, to keep her company, who has a view to assist her where necessary.
With few possessions of her own, Mrs. Roach is in desperate need of a place to stay, but she soon has her own ideas about how things should be run under Mrs. Rampage’s roof.
With Mrs. Rampage protective of her multiple antiques and family heirlooms, the pair’s initially amicable relationship soon turns sour...
Before long, both are miserable, but feeling desperate, and with nowhere to go, Mrs. Roach makes it her duty to stay...
The senility of Mrs. Rampage is soon questioned and the lives of both her and Mrs. Roach become entangled in catastrophic circumstances.
The Party at No.5 subtly shocks and effortlessly transcends from humour to horror.
Praise for The Party at No.5
“...This is one of Miss Smith’s most telling tales, maneuvered with a sort of inexorable malice while altering its mood from light amusement to horror and then to a fiercely poignant finale. A very good piece of work indeed.”
— New York Herald Tribune
“Often subtle and interesting … earns high marks as an understated study in intimate domestic evil.” — Anthony Boucher, New York Times
“[This] inverted mystery is a novel of dreadful credibility, brilliantly written and exercising an uncanny power of dividing the reader’s sympathies.” — San Francisco Chronicle
Praise for Shelley Smith
'Brilliant' – The Observer
'Stylish Thriller' - The Daily Herald
‘Beautifully Written' – The Spectator
'Miss Shelley Smith is among the most distinguished of those writers who have abandoned the detective story for the crime novel. . . The story maintains its tension to the end . . . What she has set out to do is done superlatively well.' -Times Literary Supplement
Nancy Bodington was born in 1912. Under the pen name of Shelley Smith,she wrote 15 crime and detective novels between 1942 and 1978. Smith is best known for The Ballard of the Running Man and its 1963 film adaption starring Laurence Harvey and Lee Remick.