Ellie Haskell becomes unwittingly drawn into a mystery with her moonlighting housekeeper when a modish matriarch reports that the surviving daughter of a late ex-employee may be seeking revenge by killing off her mother's former employers and their descendants. 20,000 first printing

An unlikely couple of sleuths--the beautiful, black, spoiled Jewel Averick and her insecure white friend, Dee Sweet--team up to locate the legendary Two-Mile McLemore, a baseball star from the Negro Leagues. A first novel. 10,000 first printing.

Uit het Portugees vertaald door Irene Koenders.

Willem Frederik Hermans neemt, als het nodig is, geen blad voor de mond. In deel 14 van de 'Volledige werken' van Willem Frederik Hermans, het vierde deel met beschouwend werk, wordt dat wederom bewezen. De boeken die in dit deel zijn gebundeld verschenen tussen 1985 en 1988: enkele kleinere publicaties en de verzameling van ruim honderd columns en essays die onder de naam 'Door gevaarlijke gekken omringd' verscheen. Hermans gaat in zijn meest omvangrijke bundeling door op de oude vertrouwde weg en bemoeit zich onder andere met de apostrofe-s, met literaire prijzen en met Multatuli. Bij de kleinere publicaties gaat het om Hermans' vermaarde poezenboek 'De liefde tussen mens en kat' en om 'Relikwieën en documenten", "Het boek der boeken, bij uitstek" en "Mondelinge mededelingen", drie boekjes met in totaal zes toespraken. En ook in zijn lezingen is Willem Frederik Hermans zoals altijd op zijn best.

In her most gripping mystery yet, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles returns readers to the streets of London and the ever-struggling Detective Inspector Bill Slider. When the body of Phoebe Agnew, radical left-wing journalist, champion of the underdog, and prominent critic of the police force, is discovered, Inspector Slider must put aside any personal feelings for the victim and find her killer. One of the first clues Slider finds is that on the day of her death the horribly undomesticated Agnew cooked an elaborate meal for someone. Was it her old friend and reputed lover, Josh Prentiss? Slider tries to pursue that angle, but since Prentiss is a Government advisor, the pressure is on Slider to look elsewhere. There are plenty anomalies for him to chase: unidentified fingerprints, the object used to strangle Agnew is missing, alibis offered where none are required, the downstairs tenant lying about his whereabouts, and papers missing from Agnew's file. As Slider struggles to untangle the web of lies and hidden relationships, his task is made harder by the strange behavior of his friend and colleague, Atherton, who seems to be on the verge of a breakdown. Tightly plotted and full of fascinating characters, Slider searches to find the key to Agnew's chillingly lonely life, but will he find it in time to prevent further tragedy?