Graham Greene

Maurice Bendrix is a sardonic and cynical writer who reflects on his affair with Sarah, a married woman, during the bombing of London in 1940.

During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his destiny, reluctant to abandon those who need him, and those he cares for.

In London during the Blitz, an amnesiac must outwit a twisted Nazi plot in this “master thriller” of espionage, murder, and deception (Time).
 
On a peaceful Sunday afternoon, Arthur Rowe comes upon a charity fete in the gardens of a Cambridgeshire vicarage where he wins a game of chance. If only this were an ordinary day. Britain is under threat by Germany, and the air raid sirens that bring the bazaar to...

From a childish fear of the dark in the End of the Partyto the chilling conclusion of the Destructors and theall-consuming selfishness of May We Borrow Your Husband?,this collection opens with three of Greene's most disturbingstories. Things take a surreal turn in Under the Gardenbefore finally blossoming for a moment in Two Gentle People,then there's a detective story and a brush with Greene's sardonicwit to

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On Victoria Day as fireworks are going off, someone is on a killing spree. The next morning, three prostitutes are found shot dead. One is a transvestite, one is a transsexual and the third is a woman. The bullets from each killing prove to come from the

Two teenage girls are ambushed by a man wielding a baseball bat. He wants to party. The girls resist but in the struggle, one girl is beaten and left in a coma and the other is raped and murdered, her body dumped in the nearby river. As police mobilise th

Accident, murder or suicide? Forensics tell the gruesome tale of the Solar Temple cult and their belief that death by fire would lead to rebirth on the planet Sirius.

On Remembrance Day, in a wealthy suburb, a German matron is found beaten and brutally murdered. An autopsy reveals that the real cause of death is that she's been shot in such a way as to conceal this fact. Firearms expert Sam Barbetta inspects the bullets and determines that the murder weapon was homemade - the bullets can't be traced! With firearms experts stymied, detectives enlist other experts to turn up a suspect. A forensic biologist deciphers...

When a Montreal co-ed is murdered, and no suspect is found, a criminal profiler sheds new light on a dark crime.

A headless corpse baffles police and shocks a community. It is up to an astute pathologist to lead investigators to the brutal murderer.