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Five to Five
When elderly Simon Ewing is brutally murdered in his flat, it soon becomes apparent that the event happened in a few minutes when he was left unattended. The movements of his household and the neighbours had clearly been carefully observed...so who was the stranger seen on the stairs at five minutes to five?
In Memory of Charles
Charles Courtney is shot in the woods and the police find that everyone had reason to bear a grudge against him. His secretary is charged but the trial ends in acquittal and the case looks to remain unsolved, but then a second death occurs.
In Muffled Night
Helen Bailey is the live-in housekeeper to the wealthy Murrays. Tall, dark-haired and beautiful, the enigmatic Helen has long ensured that life at "The Towers" runs smoothly. When Helen is found dead in her blood-soaked bedroom, the police must consider the family's relationships not only with one another but with everyone close to them.
The Revolution in Time
The Revolution in Time explores the idea that people in Western Europe changed the way they thought about the concept of time over the early modern period, by examining reactions to the 1688-1689 revolution in England, and how people understood their own place in history and modernity through political and social transformation.
Morality among Nations
Morality among Nations, a rejoinder to Hans Morgenthaus Politics among Nations, offers a pathbreaking synthesis of sociobiology and international relations theory. It shows that two different moralities evolved in human pre-historyone, the standard morality from which abstract ethical principles arise concerning such things as obligation and justice; and the other, group morality or the proclamation of the groups right to survive and its superiority over other groups. Part One surveys the philosophical literature on the question of international morality, introducing arguments offered by both classical theorists such as Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Grotius, as well as twentieth century writers such as Reinhold Niebuhr, Hedley Bull, Richard Falk, and Charles Beitz. Part Two presents the relevant sociobiological theories focusing on Robert Trivers work on the evolution of moral emotions, and Richard Alexanders and Pierre van den Berghes work on the evolution of group behavior and ethnocentrism. Part Three analyzes the traditional philosophical work on international morality in light of new sociobiological ideas.
The Democrat
When the radical lawyer, Thomas Muir, discovers that his innocent clients are being convicted as state policy, he strives to represent them politically. But revealing the establishment to be corrupt leaves his own freedoms under attack and with his soul mate - an exiled client - he's thrown into a perilous ocean odyssey pursued by the British government, its navy and its allies. The Democrat is a lightning paced global adventure voyaging from Edinburgh to the ends of the earth; from Bordeaux to Botany Bay, Vancouver to Vera Cruz, Cuba to Cadiz... Written during Arab struggles for democracy and Scottish decisions concerning independence, this is a historical novel for our time.
Criminal Sentences
A study of the influence of true crime on fiction and drama. The book begins by defining the genre and then traces its history from the anonymous 16th-centruy play Arden of Faversham to the modern detective novel.
Law, the State, and the International Community
A leader in the development of modern international law. Originally published: New York: Columbia University Press, 1939-1940. 2 Vols. xxiv, 613; vi, 401 pp. Volume One: A Commentary on the Development of Legal, Political and International Ideals. Volume Two: Extracts Illustrating the Growth of Theories, and Principles of Jurisprudence, Government, and The Law of Nations. The author divides his subject into six main periods: The Greek Background, The Roman Heritage, The Christian Heritage (Ancient and Medieval), The Transition from Medieval to Modern Thought, The Era of Reform, The Beginning of the Modern Age.
