Literary critic and amateur detective Adam Ludlow reluctantly agrees to give a talk on Sheridan's play The School for Scandal to an amateur dramatics society. But what he thought would be an easy, if rather tedious favour for a colleague, turns into a puzzling murder mystery that reunites him with his police detective friend Montero.This is the second in a five-book series of Adam Ludlow murder mysteries, and was named among the ninety crime and detective novels named by Jacques Ba...

When a student is found murdered at Mudge Hall, lecturer and literary critic Adam Ludlow pursues her killer around the seedy pubs, nightclubs, and boarding houses of early 1960s London. He meets small-time criminals, a communist cell, and a police inspector keen to show off his knowledge of English Literature. But to solve the mystery, Ludlow must discover the secret of an incriminating bracelet.

Commentators have argued for many years that law firms need to move forward from their traditional, seniority-based compensation systems. But it's not enough to simply add performance-related elements at the edges of these. Shifting generational-based attitudes; changing career aspirations; increasingly demanding clients; and pricing innovation and development in the range of benefits that can be offered (both financial and non-financial) all conspire to urge firms to rethink how their com...

Innovation. How to go about it, what it can do for your business - what even is it? Can innovation be applied in the legal environment? Such is the interest and appetite for legal innovation that, in the last 18 months, ARK has published over a dozen titles with innovation in their remit, covering everything from knowledge management to pricing, from marketing to recruitment, and everything in between. This compilation deep-dives into the key areas that drive innovation forward in the lega...

In grade school when one of Albert's teachers had said "everybody's special," a classmate quipped, "Albert's terminally special." He was probably right. Albert had never felt at home in the world; he didn't know why people did what they did, or thought what they thought, or were the way they were. And talking to them only made things worse. Not that he really ever noticed . . . until they started killing each other all around him. Suddenly, he had to understand, because one of the people t...

In order to save a kidnapped child, Winston Crisp must first battle a merciless and insidious enemy: senility. Where does the past end, and the present begin; and how does one untangle them? Why do the ghosts of so many dead suddenly people his dreams? Or is he dreaming?

RETIRED INTELLIGENCE agent Winston Crisp thought his career of delving into dark, unpleasant secrets was long over. He'd forsaken adventure and settled comfortably into the tiny community on Penobscot Island off the coast of Maine. There, he's content to write poems no magazine will publish, gossip with the locals around the pot-bellied stove at the hardware store, and gain weight on his landlady's homestyle cooking. But when the body of a young woman is found, he just can't refrain from a...

Is Aunt Caroline's murder just an isolated incident or could it be part of a much larger web of crime and intrigue? The case spawns secrets of its own which threaten to separate Flora and Oliver almost as soon as they get engaged.Flora's wartime past still hasn't quite let go of her, but in this novel it becomes clear that there are dark secrets in Oliver Quest's family too. The action in this mystery/thriller ranges over the length and breadth of Britain and all the seasons of the ...

A polyglot group of archaeologists, tourists, and journalists gather in the atmospheric Vallée des Prêtres , high up in the Franco-Italian Alps. They are there to witness the authentication by renowned archaeologist, Sir Hilary Compton, of Bronze Age rock drawings recently discovered by up and coming young archaeologist, Oliver Hardcastle.When Sir Hilary deems the new drawings fakes tensions among the academics run high. Then Oliver hardcastle's body is found floating in a treachero...

This is the sixth novel in the Pitkirtly mystery series.What would you do if you thought you were about to lose everything you cared about most?Charlie Smith thought his career was more important to him than anything else. Amaryllis valued her freedom. Christopher valued his friends, especially Amaryllis. Neil Macrae, 'the pub landlord with no name', couldn't face the thought of losing his pub. There were others who couldn't bear to lose Neil Macrae.'The Queen of Scots...

When the Happiness Club comes to town, Maisie Sue sees it as an opportunity to rediscover romance, Jock McLean regards it with suspicion, and Jemima and Dave look forward to taking part in new activities with their friends. Amaryllis and Chief Inspector Smith go along to keep an eye on developments on their patch. As for Christopher, he misses the start of the excitement because of a prior engagement - walking the Fife Coastal Path with a figure from his past.But before anyone has h...

In this cosy mystery, Scottish distillery heiress Fiona Sutherland returns to the bucolic village of her childhood to assume her role in the family business only to discover her true expertise is jousting with enigmatic Chief Inspector Nick Dawson when her grandmother's friend falsely confesses to the murder of the local greenkeeper two days before the start of the British Open.