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With 'Murder at Wrides Park' this famous author begins a new series of detective novels, all of which will be taken from the 'case-book' of Ronald Camberwell, the young resourceful detective who appears for the first time in this volume. Ronald Camberwell is thrown...
Sanger's general interest in sex education and women's health focuses on family, marriage and motherhood. As a nurse she saw graphic examples of the toll taken by frequent childbirth, miscarriage, and self-induced abortion. With access to contraceptive information...
Though the recipient of an Eastern education, the blood of a Western cattleman flowed through Tom Gillette's veins. Then a traitor's sneak shot brought his father down, and Tom found himself in control of the Circle G... and swearing revenge on the snake-eyed scum who...
Police hunt for a gang called the India-Rubber Men, who wear gasmasks and rubber gloves, and carry gas bombs to stave off pursuit. The book was made into the successful 1938 film, "The Return of the Frog."
Book cover comes from the original 1953 dust jacket edition. Here Waghorn, newly returned from his honeymoon and sufficiently disinclined to be away from home, is faced with the task of investigating the death of Henry Bailey, found dead at Waterloo station on the...
A forger is at work, arranging for rich people to be robbed and then cashing cheques before the victim catches on. The Reverend Frank Lextable is crushed by a falling branch from an elm tree. Is the death linked to the forgery? Was it murder or an accident?
''Licensed for Murder'' concerns the new managers of an English country inn, who, during the inn's renovation, discover the grisly, burned remains of a man behind corrugated sheeting in the inn's main fireplace. With the man's identity impossible to determine,...
During an overnight thousand mile motor rally an accident to one of the cars leads to the death of the two occupants. The local police are far from convinced that everything is above board and call in Scotland Yard. Inspector Hanslet leads the case but the real work is...
A passenger in a private compartment on the boat train from Southampton to London Waterloo is found dead with a needle puncture in is back. He had travelled on Guernsey on a channel steamer but investigating officers are hard-pressed to find either a motive...
Murder at Derivale one of the final books in the Priestley series, has Inspector Jimmy Waghorn (assisted by the now elderly Dr. Priestley) investigating the death by poisoning of a man found dead in a truck parked in his neighbor's yard. Diamond smuggling and realistic...
In ''The Fatal Pool,'' the family and friends of Colonel Gayton have gathered together at Framby Hall, and while most of the guests are at breakfast, Yvonne Bardwell is found drowned but with bruises on her shoulders indicating that she was held under the water. The...
At his residence in Beckenham in Kent on the outskirts of London, Sir Andrew Wiggenhall the chairman of the board of directors of a large firm of ironmongers is killed by an explosion that largely wrecks the house. Investigating officer Superintendent Hanslet...
When a swindler cheats his employees and his investors, little does he know that retribution awaits. Excellent English manor mystery.
In a largely peaceful village in England during the early stages of the Second World War the body of the young man who owns Lilac Cottage is found dead. The only clue that the investigating officers of Scotland Yard can find is a five pound note, but it lures Priestley...
Documents ten case studies that expertly explore aspects of business organization ranging from staff accumulation to cocktail party behavior. Includes plenty of humor. A classic of its kind.
First published in the US in 1933. Priestley goes to visit his friend Sir John Claverton at his gloomy house, and shortly afterwards hears that he has died. The dead man's doctor is not convinced it was a natural death, and evidence of poisoning emerges. There are...
Jim Wall's empty stomach forces him to team up with a ruthless robber until he meets Helen Herrick and changes his ways to win her love.
The story itself is about what is left of the Lambeth family, Father and Daughter and a pair of their former slaves heading west to make a new life. Into the story comes a tough as nails Texan who is also seeking to make a new life for himself, but he has some baggage...
A veteran of the Confederate army comes West after the Civil War. He and his band of outlaws plan to hijack a large wagon train by giving whiskey to Indians in exchange for their help.
Adam Brite—Texas Joe Shipman—Pan Handle Smith—together with the biggest herd of cattle ever to travel the Chisholm Trail, they were going all the way from San Antonio to Dodge. They expected plenty of trouble. They got it...
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