Hugh Morrison

'Your lives are in danger...leave the hotel before it is too late...' When newlyweds Clarice and Cliff Thorley arrive in the little French town of Tourville-sur-Mer for their honeymoon, the last thing they expect to find is the corpse of a wanted jewel thief in their hotel room. Nor do they...

A thrilling tale from the author of the popular 'Reverend Shaw' series of Golden Age mysteries! London, 1930: When aspiring film actress Evelyn Parks is found strangled late one night at Hampstead underground station, Scotland Yard detectives begin a desperate manhunt across the fog-shrouded...

February, 1932: The highly unpopular Joan Hexham, "the spider at the centre of a web of village gossip", is killed on stage during an amateur performance of Hamlet. An accident, surely. Nobody would be brazen enough to commit murder in full view of 50 witnesses in Lower Addenham village...

Christmas, 1930. An exiled Balkan king, living incognito in rural Suffolk, is shot dead in his secluded mansion following a meeting with the local vicar, Reverend Lucian Shaw. Special Branch detectives are soon on the trail of sinister agents of a foreign power that they think are responsible...

It is the Whitsun weekend of 1931 in the once-fashionable resort of Frencham-on-Sea. A housewarming party at Seaview One, the thoroughly modern home of Sir James and Lady Theodora Phillips, goes horribly wrong when Lady Theodora is found drowned in the swimming pool. Suspicion falls immediately...

Suffolk, England, 1936. The Reverend Alwyn Jones has made several enemies since becoming Rector of Addenham Magna. But nobody expected he would be so unpopular as to be bludgeoned to death in his own vestry during a church fete. And nobody noticed the disappearance of an old painting from the...

England, 1930. An antiques dealer is found robbed and murdered in a third class train compartment on a remote Suffolk branch line. The police believe they know who the killer is, and an arrest is soon made....

Summer 1931: After finding the battered corpse of a spiritualist medium at an archaeological site on the Suffolk coast, the Reverend Lucian Shaw is thrust into a dark and deadly mystery....

October, 1931: an anonymous telegram summons the Reverend Lucian Shaw, country parson and former army chaplain, to the deathbed of his elderly uncle in the remote Scottish Highlands. On the London to Inverness night train, Shaw chances to meet a private investigator who is later found murdered...

Late one night a distraught young woman on the run begs Reverend Lucian Shaw for help, claiming she has been kidnapped and held against her will at Ravenswood, a remote and heavily guarded country house.

Whether you're a student, a traveller or just want a hot lunch at work, this book tells you how you can cook without a stove, a fridge or a microwave — even without running water.

Where do Scottish Jews go sailing? Loch Haim! What do you call a Jewish Red Indian? So Sioux Me! What’s the definition of Jewish foreplay? Two hours of begging!

Trapped in the past...in a city at war! When 11-year-old Jack and his American cousin Ella dare each other to explore the garden of an abandoned house, they discover a half-buried bomb shelter, untouched since the Second World War. When they go inside, they think they have found the perfect...

These texts offer a positive philosophical approach to death, and a celebration of the life and memory of the departed....

"How was the bridge party last night?’‘ "It was fine until the police came and looked under the bridge!’ Remember when comedians actually told jokes instead of just talking about themselves and their sex lives? This collection of gags in the style of radio comedians, vaudeville and...

"'London, thou art the flower of cities all!' William Dunbar (1459-1513) Steeped in history, culture and traditions, London remains one of the largest and most populous cities on the planet. Small wonder then, that some of history's greatest poets have been inspired by it. This collection of...

You should listen to this audiobook if you like traditional Jewish gags and funny stories about worried mothers, hen-pecked husbands, argumentative rabbis, yentas, and Jewish Princesses!

Q: How many Scotsmen does it take to change a light bulb? A: Och! It's no that dark! 'Scottish Jokes: A Wee Book of Clean Caledonian Chuckles' is a collection of Scots humour with jokes old and new, and some so old that everyone's forgotten about them and will think they're new again! Have fun...

'Advice to Gentlemen: Quotations for Civilised Chaps' contains very little information whatsoever on etiquette or correct form. It will not tell you how to eat peas with a fork, how to introduce a lady mayor to a Clerk of Works or what to do with your hat during the playing of the Botswanan...