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First published in 1929, ''The Eye in the Museum'' is the first book in J. J. Connington’s series featuring Superintendent Ross of Scotland Yard. This ‘golden-age’ mystery centers on a young woman, Joyce Hazlemere, and her wealthy Aunt Evelyn. The aunt, who can become...
''Bright with Silver'' describes the rise of the United States ginseng and fox farming industries through the story of the Fromm brothers of Hamburg, Wisconsin. The Fromms began their lives at the turn of the century as impoverished farmers and rapidly grew into the...
“Magic for Marigold” is about an imaginative young girl whose father died before she was born, and she has an imaginary friend. Marigold Lesley is anything but ordinary. With her vivid imagination and infectious laughter, she charms everyone around her—even if her...
This young couple who have just eloped get into a car accident and a heap of trouble when they stumble into a tramp and the Green Dragon Inn. They have to solve the mysteries of why the Inn was abandoned, who locked the cook in the cupboard, and why the Chinaman is...
First published by the Mystery League Inc., New York, 1930. On a night of fog Pussy Herridge stole the Hardway diamonds—and on the same night they were re-stolen. It was a grim trail that Dick Penhampton followed which led him to discover one of them on a dead man in...
Originally published in Norwegian in 1927, this translation by Arthur G. Chater first published in 1929, public domain. It is Norway in the thirteenth century, a land rent by unremitting warfare and feebly lit by Christianity. Olav Audunsson was once an outlaw; now he...
First published in 1929, public domain. Lardner, American humorist and short-story writer, is known for his mordant wit, exemplified in satirical stories and sketches of American life in the early 20th century told in the language of athletes, stockbrokers, secretaries,...
In Death of a Bridegroom, Inspector Jimmy Waghorn investigates the death of a man found hanging in his workshop on the morning of his wedding day. Initially, the death is believed a suicide, but doubts begin to arise and Dr. Priestley is brought in to assist the police...
No two men could have been more opposite in every way than Wilfred and Clarence Cheriton. Wilfred, forever immersed in some engineering experiment, had little use for people and business activities, whereas Clarence was a sociable man with a gift for selling the...
The crumbling Farningcote Priory has been the home of the Glapthorne family for generations. In the grounds stand a tower, built as a folly during the eighteenth century which seems to have a strange, almost mystical power over the family. When Caleb Clapthorne is...
The story revolves around the mysterious murder of Mr. James Tovey, a well-known greengrocer, followed by another death in the same area.The narrative introduces various characters, including Mr. Tovey’s daughter Ivy, and the herbalist Mr. Elmer Ludgrove, who may play...
This book finds series sleuth Desmond Merrion holidaying with wife Mavis at the seaside resort of Greycliffe-on-Sea, close to the site of his former junior school. When he and a local fisherman find the body of Arthur Harpole - brother of one of the schoolmasters -...
Mr. Wedgwood was puzzled. It was odd, he thought, as he looked from his bedroom window, that someone should leave a large closed car in the middle of his front yard, but what confused him even more was the shimmering brilliance it seemed to assume as the sun rose...
A distinctive smell of smoke presages a series of murders in the village of Lamsford, and it proves a puzzling case for Inspector Arnold and Desmond Merrion.
After the corpse of George Hawken had been found on the rocks near his Cornish home the coroner's jury brought in an open verdict. Hawken had been a respected but financially unsuccessful artist whose death benefited no one except one of his nephews, who inherited a...
A businessman dies in an elevator in such a way that it seems as though no one could have committed the murder. A seemingly impossible murder in a private elevator draws two sleuths to the case. Inspector Hornbeam and Dr. Horatio Glass are at odds from the beginning,...
When Pauline Clobury is found murdered in the dark and the rain near the gate of Prior’s Farm, suspicion centers on her young husband whom she plans to divorce. But when a new development occurs at the greenhouse of the same estate, both Superintendent James Waghorn, of...
The fishing port of Carmouth was a health resort on the South West Coast, but for two of the inhabitants, at least, it was to prove the opposite of healthy.
DESMOND MERRION and his wife Mavis go to the little seaside town of Croylehaven to spend a holiday. The place is practically owned by the wealthy Croyle family, who live in the large, ugly Castle Croyle. The present head of the family, Lord Croyle, an old gentleman of...
The novel centers on the residents of a single street of a small English town; mistrust and suspicion grow when a series of strange warnings are received by the residents.The messages of death escalate into a number of dangerous pranks, and Desmond Merrion, friend of...
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