The summer holidays can be murder ...

'So great ... it's criminal' SAGA 'With Cecily Gayford in charge, we are on safe ground' DAILY MAIL From beneath the beach umbrella, all might seem idyllic - children playing, sunbathers relaxing, ice slowly melting in a cocktail glass. But look a little closer, and all is not as it seems ... In these classic crime stories of midsummer murder and madness, the mercury is climbing - and so is the body count. Prepare to spend this summer holiday with some shady characters (in sunny places) and immerse yourself in tales of mystery and depravity at home and abroad. Just remember - there might be nothing new under the sun ... but murder is the most ancient art of all.

"There is a special charm about vintage fiction in which crimes are solved not by forensics, in the laboratory, but by intuition and deduction. The latest collection in the Vintage Murders series transports us from the English seaside to Corfu and Alsace and to that famously foreign country, the past, in the company of Simon Brett, Ellis Peters, Michael Innes and Arthur Conan Doyle - such great storytellers, it's criminal." - Saga

"Praise for the Vintage Murder series" - :

"An excellent collection of short stories by ten top-class writers" - Times Books of the Year

"An impressive tome by some great names ... there isn't actually a bum note in the entire collection, not a single one you could skip through and not miss it - which is quite some feat. To paraphrase Nick Cook's famous Crimewatch sign off, just don't have nightmares after reading it" - On Magazine

"With Cecily Gayford in charge, we are on safe ground" - Daily Mail

"Perfect for a quick fix of golden-age crime. This collection of short winter chills is well worth reading by candlelight before turning in on Christmas Eve" - The Sunday Times

"Has everything you might want ... take this little book to the beach [and] relax in the sun while reading of battered corpses" - Mail on Sunday

"Short, clever and puzzling murder tales test the brains of the most avid crime reader ... delectable" - On Magazine