An anthology of writings by English writer P. G. Wodehouse which includes two novels, fourteen short stories, and an excerpt from his autobiography "Over Seventy."

Brother Cadfael, a crime-solving monk in medieval Shrewsbury, must work quickly to prove the innocence of young Liliwin, a wandering minstrel who seeks sanctuary in the abbey after a mob decides he must be guilty of the attack on a local goldsmith.

In 1940's London, three women and a young man find their lives connected in surprising ways as they struggle to cope with the horror, violence, and tragedy of the war.

Bow Street Superintendent Thomas Pitt is called to the scene when one of London's back alley prostitutes is found murdered and there is evidence left at the scene implicating the son of a wealthy, powerful gentleman.

Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks must face his most challenging and personal case yet. A distraught woman arrives at the Eastvale police station desperate to speak to Banks. Since he's away on holiday, his partner, Annie Cabbot, steps in. The woman tells Annie that she's found a loaded gun hidden in the bedroom of her daughter, Erin--a punishable offense under English law. When an armed response team breaks into the house to retrieve the weapon,...

Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury-a human hand. The body, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried for ten years or so, wrapped in a purple cotton shroud. The post mortem cannot reveal the precise cause of death. The only clue is a crack in one of the dead man's ribs. Although the police database covers a relatively short period of time, it stores a long list of Missing Persons....

Charlotte Gray, having had a brief, but intense affair with RAF pilot Peter Gregory while working in London, joins the Resistance so she can search for her lover after she learns his plane was lost over France.