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“The Hanging Woman” (1931) is a classic mystery novel by John Rhode (Miles Burton) featuring his recurring detective, Dr. Lancelot Priestley. It centers on an investigation into a suspicious death at a supposedly haunted house.
“Dead of the Night” (1942) is a mystery by John Rhode (Miles Burton) featuring his recurring investigator Dr. Priestley. Written during WWII, the plot reflects the atmosphere of the British Home Guard preparing for a potential invasion. The story involves a murder that...
“Men Die at Cyprus Lodge” (1943) by John Rhode (Miles Burton) is a classic Golden Age mystery featuring Dr. Priestley investigating a series of murders at a reputedly haunted house in the English village of Troutwich. The plot centers on a "haunted" house where victims...
“The Links in the Chain” (1948) is a detective novel by John Rhode (Miles Burton), featuring his recurring character Lancelot Priestley, focusing on the intellectual, deductive puzzle typical of Golden Age mysteries. We begin with the death of Mrs. Fransham in her...
First published in the US in 1947. In this collection, Perelman puzzles over the nature of the secret chocolate blend in Hostess Cupcakes, captures the excesses of Russian prose style in a story about cigarettes, and ponders the question of our time: poisonous...
''Return from the Dead'' (1959) by Miles Burton (John Rhode) features his regular investigators, Inspector Arnold of Scotland Yard and amateur sleuth Desmond Merrion. The mystery centers on the unfolding story of unexplained disappearances in South America, a valuable...
''Death Takes a Flat'' (1940) by Miles Burton (John Rhode) is a classic British mystery where Major and Mrs. Pontefract discover the body of Edgar Staplehurst, a property manager, in a Kensington flat they are looking to rent. Inspector Arnold initially suspects a local...
''Delayed Payment'' by John Rhode (Miles Burton) is a 1950s mystery novel featuring Dr. Priestley, who helps investigators solve a complex "double puzzle" through his insightful, logical deduction. The story revolves around uncovering clues to a murder, with a focus on...
“Blackcock's Feather” is about a man who overtook a garrison and went off with twenty fiery haired maidens and bloodily killed solders to get them or so the story goes. Blackcock's Feather is a man with a hatchet face, sullen look and sword at the ready.
A folk legend, beautifully retold, with a modern swing and pace at no sacrifice of the artifices and the glamor of the old tale. It is a hero-yarn, a sort of Irish Jack, the Giant Killer / Beauty and the Beast all rolled into one.
The book follows the misadventures of Thomasheen James, an "engaging and amusing vagabond" and rogue from Wicklow.The character was based on a real-life figure named Tom O’Gorman, a colorful "man of the road" who worked as a handyman and gardener for Walsh....
''Castle Gillian'' tells the story of Gill Morris, a young Irishman profoundly damaged by his experiences in the Second World War who must regain his faith in love, and the world, in order to save his ancestral home – and once famous Irish racing stable, Castle Gillian.
When oil is discovered on family land, Rodney Vale sees a fortune to be made. His brother, Maurice, is worried only that the beautiful countryside will be spoiled. The other members of the family are keen to be persuaded by Rodney, but without Maurice's permission they...
"The Mystery of the Sleeping Car Express" centers on an "impossible" crime involving a murder on a London to Scotland train. It features intricate, technical railway details and is solved only through a later death-bed confession. This is the full collection with all...
"The Mantle of Ishmael" (1933) by J. S. Fletcher features impersonation and hidden identities, involving a mysterious, wealthy stranger named James Gilverthwaite. The plot centers on a man hiring a local to keep a dangerous, clandestine appointment on his behalf....
A maid is murdered, and there are numerous other shootings and deaths, as well as a couple of car crashes, on the way to the solution. ''Murder of the Only Witness'' by J. S. Fletcher is a classic Golden Age mystery featuring a complex, fast-paced plot revolving around...
Killed by blows over the head with a champagne bottle, the body of the disreputable heir to a great fortune is unexpectedly found within ancestral walls. The entire countryside appears to be implicated. But suspicion falls more strongly upon a certain farmer, once...
"Mr. Pontifex, I am one of three men who hold the safety of London in their hands. I speak no idle words when I say this. If it is our will, we can sweep away the seven million inhabitants of your great city as easily as I blow away the ashes from this cigarette, and no...
“A Sunset Touch” by Howard Spring is about Roger Menheniot, a middle-aged, reclusive London bank clerk who dreams of escaping his dull life by buying a house in his ancestral Cornwall, a dream unexpectedly fulfilled after meeting a distant American cousin during WWII,...
''Winds of the Day'' by Howard Spring is a fictional autobiography of Alice Openshaw, an indomitable woman who rises from an impoverished, orphaned childhood in Manchester to navigate a changing, class-ridden society across both World Wars. It covers her life from the...
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