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At what point in the life of Edward Packman did the Angel of Death put his finger on him and say, "You are mine!"
When Packman was, killed he, died unmourned. The editor of a weekly paper, Packman was heartily, hated by his staff, and where you have reason for hatred, you may have motive for murder. There was no lack of suspects.
Shortly before he died, Packman was, knocked cold in his office by his chief reporter, Crompton. Davidson, another reporter,...
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It wasn't I who discovered the body. I want to make that perfectly clear, if only for the benefit of a couple of club acquaintances of mine.
Ludovic Travers, special investigator for Scotland Yard, commits murder? No-but at the end of this novel you will understand why he might claim to have done so.
Sir William Pelle has become a missing person, and Superintendent Wharton of the Yard is prioritizing his recovery. But when Pelle is found murdered,...
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Ludovic Travers and his wife choose to spend part of their honeymoon in the quiet town of Edensthorpe, one place, where they can be sure of peace and quiet, and where an eminent author and his famous wife might not be recognised.
Unfortunately, for them, however, another fugitive has sought anonymity in the nearby village of Pettistone, a swindler named Brewse, who has just completed a prison sentence for fraud. Brewse has made an unfortunate choice...
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Death was falling, swiftly, ruthlessly. It made you very conscious of living.
After eight years abroad, Michael Stephen is back in Second World War London-the fortunate survivor of a shipwreck. Avoiding the incessant bombing of the Blitz, he instead gets swept up into something even more perilous-a mystery involving an international plot. It is one, which will strike at the heart of the British war effort.
The plot takes Stephen on an amazing journey...
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"He's dead all right. Taken him clean through the heart. It's murder, Rose!"
Michael Maddison, the host of the Fox Inn, is hellbent on preventing his sister and niece from marrying-a difficult task when both ladies are being ardently courted in the district. When one of the suitors, expert archer Harry Saunders, finds two of his lethal arrows missing, it seems Maddison is in deadly earnest-yet it is the latter who is found murdered, two green-and-white...
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"Lomas was poisoned, shaved after death, and placed in the river. He is full of whisky and the post-mortem examination will undoubtedly prove that cocaine was in the alcohol. The murderer worked on him with a lavish hand, one so lavish that it may eventually prove to be his undoing."
When Mr. Lomas visits the Chief Constable of Burnham and describes his symptoms, Sir Wilfred Burrows believes that his visitor suffers from nothing more serious than...
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"Famous Spiritualist Dead . . . Gun Found in Flat"
In The Case of the Happy Medium Ludovic Travers is at the top of his considerable form. When Ludovic and his wife set out to attend a séance, they are in a mood of amiable scepticism. But the atmosphere swiftly changes when Travers is plunged headlong into a case where he, and Scotland Yard supremo George Wharton, must tussle with murder, suicide and traffickers in forbidden goods. There is action,...
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The murderer was clever and the planning was perfect. There was apparently nothing that had been overlooked and nothing that didn't go to plan. There was nothing that could be called a slip. Why then was the murderer caught?
Too few answers chasing too many questions is the problem facing Ludovic Travers and Superintendent George Wharton when a famous actress is murdered. The crime-investigator always looks for unusual circumstances, departures from...
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"I think you had better telephone for the police," he said. "This woman has been poisoned."
Norma de Grey, the Principal in the Christmas pantomime Dick Whittington, was not popular with the rest of the Pavilion Theatre company. But, was she hated enough to be killed by prussic acid, during the performance itself?
Suspicion immediately falls on the Cat, her fellow actor in the fatal scene. Until, it transpires that the Cat too has been poisoned, and...
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"Of course, it's rotten having a murder in the village, and especially in what was once my own house, but I'm not sorry that he's gone."
Inspector Gordon Knollis heads from Scotland Yard to the village of Bowland, investigating what initially appears a trivial mystery. Mrs. Frederick Manchester's life centres on her husband and her two pets. Entering her boudoir after breakfast on Sunday morning, she finds her budgerigar lying dead, its neck broken,...
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Lovely, foolish Sylvia Colesborough knew him only as a voice on the telephone. It told her how she could earn the money she had lost at cards. She enlists her reluctant friend, debutante Gay Hardwicke, to help her earn this money, and safeguard her husband's reputation into the bargain. But, blackmail turns to murder in this classic country house whodunit, and Gay's young man is soon suspect number one...
And, Mr. Zero? Whether he loses or wins,...
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"Take my advice, from to-day keep your own counsel. Listen to everything, disclose nothing. Avoid being alone. Come to me if you're in doubt about anything or feel you scent danger. I can assure you we both live in danger."
Geoffrey Mayne is in need of some serious r'n'r after studying intensively for his bar exams in London. A luxurious Pacific island cruise seems just the ticket, especially when one of his fellow passengers is the attractive young...
13) Triple Quest
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Bobby studied the Rembrandt intently, with his own strange intensity of gaze that seemed as if by sheer strength of will it could force all secrets to reveal themselves.
Commander Bobby Owen receives a visit from private detective Marmaduke Groan. Groan is concerned about a missing client, the influential art critic Alfred Atts. Due to give a much-anticipated Royal Arts lecture, Atts promised to use the occasion to reveal sensational facts. But...
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"Good God!" I was staring like a lunatic. "Murdered, you say? When?"
"Less than half an hour ago, sir."
TRAVERS: "I don't know why I should call this case that of the Magic Mirror for there's nothing in it reminiscent of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," even if the mirror did do a certain amount of magical revelation.
"As a matter of fact the title is my obstinate own. In the first place, of the many murder cases with which I have been officially...
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"How would you like to be a rocket? A stranger for a week, an heiress for a week, then down with the stick and a stranger again."
Imperious, warm-hearted Honoria Maquisten plans to revise her will – but before the papers can be drawn up, she is dead from an overdose of pills. All eyes are on Carey Silence, a penniless orphan who was recently made Honoria's ward. Suspicion becomes evidence, Carey is arrested and her trial is prepared. So begins...
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"You mustn't go to Meade House. I've heard..."
Ambrose Minstrel, the inventor, is undoubtedly eccentric. But even his oddities cannot account for the strange events at Meade House. Young Hugo Ross, Minstrel's new secretary, feels that all the dark happenings centre somehow on himself — cryptic remarks and veiled glances between Minstrel and his assistant, stealthy footsteps in the dead of night, the offer of a small fortune for the worthless...
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"Murder is easy. It's child's play to commit murder and get away with it."
Unpleasant uncle Hubert is murdered, while playing cards-and surrounded by any number of relatives, who stand to gain by his death. An impossible crime, it seems, though it turns out three of his nephews were intending to despatch the old tyrant anyway! In this classic country house whodunit, the redoubtable Ludovic Travers will have to wade through a quagmire of clues and...
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The stage was set, Bobby thought, the actors in position; but how the drama would develop, that he could not even guess.
The churchyard at Hillings-under-Moor is the final resting place of Janet Merton – buried, so everyone believes, along with celebrated poet Stephen Asprey's unpublished verses and love letters. The potential value of the poems has posed a constant danger of grave-robbing, but the Duke of Blegborough has a new cause for alarm....
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Travers looked down at the thing that sprawled. The head gave a last movement, and there was a faint sound like a tired moan. The time was eight minutes to eight.
Ludovic Travers is approached by his sister after tales of strange doings and horrible night shrieks in a country house called Highways. Travers makes an investigatory visit, where he finds stabbed to death the bizarre old man who was living at the house with his 10-year-old granddaughter....
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Murder in the poisoned bosom of a genteel, if alarmingly dysfunctional, family in the English countryside.
Dennyford is a "peaceful little place...where the most exciting thing that could happen would be the lowering of somebody's golf handicap..." Or so, the locals used to think. But young Lucy Rivers is in love with handsome Mark Armour, the local police's chief suspect in a most dreadful murder case, the initial slaying (that of Mark's domineering...
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