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  • Audiobook

    Runaways, The

    by Victor Canning ...
    Narrated by John Higgins ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Smiler Trilogy

    Unabridged

    6 hours 24 min

    On a night of wild storms, two troubled figures escape from captivity.One is a 15-year-old boy, Samuel Miles, a.k.a. ‘Smiler’, wrongly convicted of theft and sent to a young offenders institution. The other is a cheetah, Yarra, a restless resident of Longleat Wildlife Park.Both are in danger from the outside world – and each other – but somehow their lives become inextricably bound up as they ... Read more

    $27.47 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Whip Hand

    by Victor Canning ...
    Series Book 1 - Rex Carver Mysteries
    A 1960s London PI's search for a missing au pair leads to sinister evil in this classic spy series opener by the author of The Rainbird Pattern.Meet Rex Carver, the suave and laconic private investigator.His job is to track down a German au pair, Katerina Saxmann, who has gone missing in Brighton. But when the security services show up at his apartment within hours of him accepting the assignment, ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Flight of the Grey Goose

    by Victor Canning ...
    Narrated by John Higgins ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - The Smiler Trilogy

    Unabridged

    6 hours 46 min

    Canning's classic children's trilogy continues as fifteen-year-old Smiler, still on the run from the police, hitches a ride to Scotland.Fifteen-year-old Smiler is still on the run.Smiler is aiming to evade the police until his father, a ship’s cook, comes home to clear him of a crime he hasn't committed. Hitching a train to Scotland, he finds work as an animal caretaker within the grounds of a ... Read more

    $27.47 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mr Finchley Discovers His England

    by Victor Canning ...
    Series Book 1 - Classic Canning
    Mr Edgar Finchley, unmarried clerk, aged 45, is told to take a holiday for the first time in his life. He decides to go to the seaside. But Fate has other plans in store…From his abduction by a cheerful crook, to his smuggling escapade off the south coast, the timid but plucky Mr Finchley is plunged into a series of the most astonishing and extraordinary adventures.His rural adventure takes him ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Python Project

    by Victor Canning ...
    Series Book 3 - The Rex Carver Mysteries
    The case of a missing bracelet ensnares a 1960s London PI in the edge-of-your-seat third Rex Carver mystery from the author of Doubled in Diamonds.An antique gold python bracelet, with diamonds for eyes and emeralds for scales, has been stolen from the home of its owner. The insurance company accountable for the jewelry wants it found, sharpish, and hires private investigator Rex Carver to recover ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Doubled in Diamonds

    by Victor Canning ...
    Series Book 2 - The Rex Carver Mysteries
    A suave 1960s London PI searches for a missing person who doesn't wish to be found in this high-stakes mystery by the author of The Whip Hand.When Rex Carver is taken on by a solicitor's firm to trace the sole beneficiary, one Arthur Finch, of an estate worth £6,000, he barely considers the job worth going out into the freezing weather for.But there is far more ice involved than Carver could have ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Mr Finchley Discovers His England

    by Victor Canning ...
    Narrated by John Higgins ...
    Series series Classic Canning

    Unabridged

    8 hours 42 min

    Mr Edgar Finchley, unmarried clerk, aged 45, is told to take a holiday for the first time in his life. He decides to go to the seaside. But Fate has other plans in store…From his abduction by a cheerful crook, to his smuggling escapade off the south coast, the timid but plucky Mr Finchley is plunged into a series of the most astonishing and extraordinary adventures.His rural adventure takes him ... Read more

    $27.47 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Melting Man

    by Victor Canning ...
    Series Book 4 - The Rex Carver Mysteries
    The London PI is sent to France in pursuit of some hot wheels in this "first-class professional thriller" from the author of The Python Project ( The Times Literary Supplement).Rex Carver wants a holiday—is determined to have one, in fact. So, when millionaire Cavan O'Dowda attempts to hire him to track down some stolen property, the answer is a flat "No." Until, that is, Cavan's beautiful ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mr Finchley Goes to Paris

    by Victor Canning ...
    Series Book 2 - Classic Canning
    Book 2 of the classic trilogy of humorous adventuresAn ebullient Mr Finchley is about to propose marriage to a lady he had rescued from mishap, when he is sent to Paris by his firm.There he manages to upset a boat, adopt a stray orphan and get himself kidnapped. The fine tangle he gets into takes some unravelling! Only when eventually back in London does he complete the proposal of marriage that ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Runaways

    by Victor Canning ...
    Series Book 1 - The Smiler Trilogy
    On a night of wild storms, two troubled figures escape from captivity.One is a 15-year-old boy, Samuel Miles, a.k.a. ‘Smiler’, wrongly convicted of theft and sent to a young offenders institution. The other is a cheetah, Yarra, a restless resident of Longleat Wildlife Park.Both are in danger from the outside world – and each other – but somehow their lives become inextricably bound up as they ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fly Away Paul

    by Victor Canning ...
    Series Book 5 - Classic Canning
    How far could you go living in another’s shoes?In a mid-life moment, Paul Morison travels from America to England to discover his mother’s roots. A chance encounter and uncanny resemblance leads him to agree to assume the identity of a famous singer for a while. But it’s not just the unnerving attentions of the adoring public that he must deal with.Seeking to regain his freedom, Paul flees the ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Painted Tent

    by Victor Canning ...
    Series Book 3 - The Smiler Trilogy
    Freckled fugitive Smiler is never far from trouble.After hitching a ride south, Smiler finds his way to North Devon and the estate of the 'The Duchess' – a former fairground fortune-teller who now runs a farm. Here, he stays and tends to circus animals housed for the winter.When a peregrine falcon, Fria, escapes, Smiler must search for ways of helping and recapturing the bird. In doing so, can he ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD