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I was, awakened by a piercing scream that echoed and re-echoed through the house. It came from the floor below!
"Murder! Murder! Help! Help! Murder!"
The setting is Considine Manor in Sussex, where Sir Charles is holding his annual Cricket Week. But, the house-party is marred by the discovery of a dead body in the billiard room, not to mention the fact that Lady Considine's pearls have been stolen. Can Inspector Baddeley catch the criminal, or will...
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Within the next six months from to-day, I shall have removed from your midst one of the most prominent citizens of your most atrocious town. I have not yet made up my mind which one I shall honour in this way, or the exact day upon which the removal will take place.
A random serial killer? Hardly-the police discover that the first two victims are related. But they have two major problems-they don't know the murderer, or who else might be on the list....
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"The man's heart was dicky. It couldn't stand a shock. The question is-what shock?"
Roger Frere is delighted to meet the lovely Celia Holland. But Celia is leaving for the South American republic of San Rinaldo, taking a post as governess. When Celia gets accidentally mixed up in a bloody San Rinaldo revolution, she manages to return to England . . . and finds herself plunged into murderous local mysteries.
A stranger has been discovered in the...
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"The gentleman in Number Fifty-four-Mr. Griggs-'e's been murdered!"
Albert Griggs, the Secretary of State for Home Affairs, is considering an important case. Two brothers have killed a servant-girl in the course of a robbery. Griggs looks at the facts carefully and comes to his final decision - he will not overturn the death penalty.
Was it this execution that led to Griggs being found shot in a hotel room? Or the fact that he had been accused by...
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"Murder as a fine art, as a pure expression of sadism is almost unknown."
Thus spoke Anthony Bathurst to his friend, Chief Inspector MacMorran, but he will soon come to regret the statement. Julian Skene arrives to ask his assistance in the case of the disappearance of Mark Kenriston. Kenriston walked away after a dinner party on the eve of his marriage and was never, seen again. At the time, the sound of a hunting horn had been echoing in the night.
Now...
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The wedges are, fixed for the Sussex Cuckoo. Hurry if you would be in time. Even then, I fear that you may be too late. Terms as arranged. NEHEMIAH.
Thus reads an announcement in the Times Agony Column, catching the eye of Anthony Lotherington Bathurst on the morning he visits botanist James Frith. Frith is the owner of valuable Jacobite antiquities and has been, receiving threatening letters. The next day his corpse is, found. How did Frith end up...
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"The murderer must have crept stealthily behind Pearson and taken him all unawares-unsuspecting."
Leonard Pearson was not a pleasant individual - a likely blackmailer - so it came as no surprise when he met a sticky end. Attacked from behind, his head smashed with a blunt instrument, the only tangible clue lay in the identity of his final visitor. Captain Hilary Frant called on Pearson that night, and was heard threatening Pearson. And then his heavy...
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The doctors who performed the post-mortem on his body came to the opinion that his veins had been opened by jagged glass. There was little doubt that this opinion was sound.
Lance Maturin has been travelling across Europe for a few months and finds himself in an Antwerp nightclub. He is mesmerised by one of the dancers and when she passes a note to him, pleading for help, he is drawn into a web of danger and intrigue.
She asks him to protect her from...
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"This Great Kirby motor-car case. A particularly horrible and soul-shattering murder. And the fact that the Commissioner of Police himself calls it a clear case of suicide won't alter the facts."
Three women have died, each apparently the victim of a car accident. When Bathurst discovers the same travelling funfair had been operating in the vicinity of all three deaths, he chooses to investigate without the help of the police. Before long he makes...
10) Tread Softly
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"This man Merivale admits that he killed his wife. Makes no bones about it whatever. Confesses that he strangled her. But, he says that he was fast asleep at the time that he was doing it. That all he did, he did in a dream."
Chief Inspector MacMorran is up against the most extraordinary case of his career, a self-confessed killer, who may well be, found innocent given the circumstances. MacMorran is, sure that Merivale is the murderer, but, worried...
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"As long as there is no more stupid talk of murder, or threats of any kind, you will find me ready and willing to be reasonable."
David Somerset, an industrial chemist, meets a mysterious syndicate in a Gloucestershire village. What exactly does David Somerset have to sell?
Somerset fails to return to London and his son Geoffrey disappears on the same day. The pair of them are soon, found dead. With a killer's sights now set on the other son, Gerald,...
12) The Spiked Lion
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John Pender Blundell, a codebreaker in the Great War, is found dead in Bushey Park. He met his end, despite the savaged appearance of his body, from cyanide poisoning.
Another similar death is soon discovered, and then yet another. With no apparent connection, Bathurst finds himself faced with a serious puzzle. How do the events link to the recently returned-from-apparent-death heir to the title of Lord Trensham? And what exactly is the spiked lion?
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"Thou Shalt Not Kill."
All New Orleans is disturbed at the rumour that one of its civic treasures, a fragment of the Gutenberg Bible, has been stolen. But when the rumour becomes a fact and is followed by a series of murders so hideous that every paper's headlines screamed each new phase of the case, the concern changes to panic. Each new crime centres on the same group of people: wealthy, respected and influential. Yet the police and District Attorney...
14) Spiderweb
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"So Jeanne has a lover," she concluded with a touch of amused wonder. "But what a lover!"
Somehow the creature had suggested an undertaker.
Alone in Paris after arriving from America, Catherine West finds herself swiftly and dangerously involved in the mysterious case of her cousin, Madame Germaine Bender. Catherine has received a letter from one of Mme Bender's close friends, urging her to come to Paris for reasons unspecified but pressing. When...
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Isn't it a tremendous coincidence that his murderer should also have had large front teeth?
Ludovic Travers has, received a good many queer requests and enquiries at the Broad Street Detective Agency, but a psychiatrist in fear of his life and in search of a bodyguard is something new. An appointment is, made for the following day, but Travers has barely completed a few discreet enquiries concerning his new client when he receives another call. This...
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"A lot of quiet people are sitting about talking, and one of them suddenly feels there will be murder done. And it was!"
The narrator of This Delicate Murder is Penny Mercer, murder-mystery author. She and novelist-husband Vincent are, invited by Lionel Fonders to a shooting-party at Chustable Manor, where the other guests are mostly fellow-writers of various types. But, Penny and Vincent become embroiled in a vexing murder case when their host is...
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I think murder is practically a certainty.
William Weddall was eccentric even in Ludovic Traver's wide experience. There was about him an aura of secrecy and subterfuge at odds with the quiet atmosphere of his estate. Hinchbrook Hall, show-place for his antiques and paintings. He had sent Travers to Paris on the seemingly pointless errand of mailing a letter. And Travers later saw him deliberately miss a boat.
Then William Weddall plunged from a...
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"This is not suicide, gentlemen. This is murder! Cold-blooded murder! The sooner we get the police here and find Sir Eustace Vernon, the better!"
Christmas Eve at Vernon House is in full swing. Sir Eustace's nearest and dearest, and the great and the good of Mapleton, are all there. But, the season of comfort and joy doesn't run true to form. Before the night is out, Sir Eustace has disappeared and his butler, Purvis, lies dead, poisoned, with a threatening...
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"Her maid found her this morning. She was lying across the bed, strangled."
Young Virginia Carew is making a trip to England when she encounters old friend Glenn Hillier-strangely altered from the last time they met. Glenn is besotted with a glamorous middle-aged lady, with whom he's been staying in the blissful English countryside. It isn't long before Virginia too is a guest of the family, but there are snakes in this garden of Eden-snakes at first...
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"No one could prove we had reason to suspect murder. We can afford to be thought fools. So we'll go on behaving as if such a thought never entered our minds."
"I'm sorry, gents. I thought for a moment I'd been coshed." An odd sort of way in which to thank two helpful strangers after a nasty accident in a City street, and one bound to provoke speculation, especially when the strangers happen to be Ludovic Travers and his senior operative, Mr. Hallows,...
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