Wills: 288 books

It’s “great fun” when a baker’s dozen of Golden Age authors collaborate on a whodunit—including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and G. K. Chesterton (The Guardian).   Originally published in 1931, The Floating Admiral is a classic literary collaboration by members of the Detection...

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the first Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’. THE FIRST INSPECTOR FRENCH MYSTERY At the offices of the Hatton Garden diamond merchant Duke and Peabody, the body of old Mr Gething is discovered beside...

From Birth of a Nation to Cold Mountain, hundreds of directors, actors, and screenwriters have used the Civil War to create compelling cinema. However, each generation of moviemakers has resolved the tug of war between entertainment value and historical accuracy differently. Historian Brian Steel...

“Intriguing stories from the history of the human relationship with birds, including their symbolism in art, literature, religion, and folklore” (Booklist).   Even the most well-informed wildlife enthusiast will be entertained by the stories and fascinating facts in this beautifully illustrated...

“Memories” may be looked at as a book of short stories. In reality it is an assortment of memories shared throughout the years by my father, my father-in-law and his brother and of course by myself. The first three chapters are about their lives growing up in the 20’s, 30’s, & 40’s on up...

You will find in this book the compiling of 14 short stories in total. In the Grandpa Tell Us A Story series there are 8 individual shorts. Along with them you will find "On The Ridge", "A New Beginning", "The Homestead", "Hunting A Spooked Tom", "A Walk In The Snow" and last "His First Love"...hope you enjoy them all.

Grandpa is home with a bad cold and flu when his Grandkids come for a visit. They ask him if he had ever been sick as a kid. His reply results in a story of 3 childhood problems he faced all within a 6 month period.

This story is the true to life account of hunting and taking the only turkey I've ever gotten. It was quite a challenge to try and take a Tom Turkey that was already alerted and in a spooked state. He would not come to me so I had to go to him.

Locating localism explores the development of localism as a new mode of statecraft and its implications for the practice of citizenship. Drawing on original research, Jane Wills highlights the importance of having the civic infrastructure and capacity to facilitate the engagement of citizens in local...

A man from 2154, one of the few survivors left in the world finds a portal which allows movement in time. He choses to go back in time to before the start of the destruction. Believing it is all linked to the assassination of the President, he goes back to stop it. The President, the first female elected to that position and his Grandmother. Can he save her?

Philly MC is the story of Jack Kavanagh, grandson of Danny Kavanagh of A Few Men Faithful, the first of the Kavanagh stories. Jack's is a twisted, tortured life. He struggles with his Irish Republican heritage; whether to side with the IRA, even join them, or follow in his father's footsteps...

One of literature's greatest satirists, Martial earned his livelihood by excoriating the follies and vices of Roman society and its emperors, and set a pattern that satirists have admired across the ages. For the first time, readers can enjoy an English translation of these rhymes that does not sacrifice...

'As pretty a piece of work as Inspector French has done ... On the level of Mr Crofts' very best; which is saying something.' – Daily Telegraph Dr James Earle and his wife live in comfortable seclusion near the Hog's Back, a ridge in the North Downs in the beautiful Surrey countryside. When...

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the fourth Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’. THE BODY THAT CAME FROM NOWHERE Off the coast of Burry Port in south Wales, two fishermen discover a shipping crate and manage to haul it ashore. Inside...