Neverwhere
★★★★★
Richard Mayhew stumbles into a world under the streets of London, a world filled with angels, monsters, monks, assassins, saints and soul-stealing beings which transcend definition.
March Violets
★★★★★
Bernie Gunther, a private detective in 1930’s Berlin, has to solve the murder of a billionaire’s daughter
Burglars Can't Be Choosers
★★★★★
Bernie Rhodenbarr is a gentleman burglar, he takes pride in his doings. But when he is accused of the more baser crime of murder, he needs to solve it to exonerate himself.
The Inimitable Jeeves
★★★★★
The supreme gentleman's gentleman continues working his magic to extricate his employer and his friends out of sticky situations
Death On The Nile
★★★★★
Murder follows Poirot on vacation, as a wealthy young woman is shot dead on his boat while on a cruise down the river Nile
Moonwalking with Einstein
★★★★★
An excellent chronicle of the author's journey to becoming a memory champion
The Last Devil to Die
★★★★★
A friend of Elizabeth’s husband, Stephen, has been killed, and a package he was protecting is now missing
My Man Jeeves
★★★★★
A collection of short stories which include among the first appearances Bertie Wooster and his superlative valet Jeeves
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
★★★★★
The first novel by Dame Agatha, and also the first in which the iconic Poirot makes an appearance
Fooled by Randomness
★★★☆☆
A treatise on the role of randomness in all ventures, and how everyone often models all behaviour on repeating that one random outcome