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“Top Storey Murder” by Anthony Berkeley is a classic mystery featuring gentleman sleuth Roger Sheringham, who investigates the strangulation of a reclusive woman, Miss Adelaide Barnett, in her top-floor flat, a seemingly simple burglary gone wrong that Scotland Yard...
''The Layton Court Mystery'' by Anthony Berkeley is a classic Golden Age locked-room mystery, introducing amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham, about the apparent suicide of wealthy Victor Stanworth at his country estate, Layton Court, which Sheringham investigates,...
''Dunkerley's'' by Howard Spring is about the Dunkerley family, now wealthy from their successful penny journal Hard Facts, as their children come of age amidst family secrets, romance, ambition, and conflict in late 19th-century England, leading to drama and a...
This is a very Irish and poetic work of prose from a great writer little read these days. The story is based on ancient Irish hero tales, particularily 'The Hostel of Da Derga'. It is a very simple but engaging tale of four brothers, sons of a swordmaker, living in Gaul...
Death at the Helm (1941) is a Golden Age detective novel featuring recurring amateur sleuth, Dr. Lancelot Priestley, where Inspector Waghorn investigates the poisoning of two people on a grounded motor cruiser, a complex "howdunnit" rich in botanical details about...
The Vanishing Diary (1961) by John Rhode (Miles Burton) is the last installment in the Dr. Lancelot Priestley series, featuring Superintendent Jimmy Waghorn.The plot centers on a family dispute over a historic diary, locked in a double-sealed box, which vanishes,...
''Situation Vacant'' by Miles Burton (John Rhode) is a 1946 detective novel about a series of mysterious deaths in an English village, revolving around two secretaries to the same woman at a manor house, with Inspector Arnold and sleuth Desmond Merrion uncovering a...
“Shabby Tiger” by Howard Spring is about the gritty, bohemian life in 1930s Manchester, focusing on young, rebellious artist Nick Faunt and his unconventional relationships, particularly with the forthright Anna Fitzgerald, exploring themes of art, class, love, and...
Rachel Rosing by Howard Spring is about the ambitious, beautiful, and calculating social climberRachel Rosing, focusing on her pursuit of fame and fortune as an actress, depicting her ruthless ascent through marriage and career. But will this be met with eventual...
''The Devereux Court Mystery'' by Miles Burton (John Rhode) is a Golden Age detective novel where amateur sleuth Desmond Merrion helps Scotland Yard's Inspector Arnold solve a complex case involving a gang, a river setting, and seemingly unrelated crimes that turn out...
Fortune's mannerisms and speech put him into the same class as Lord Peter Wimsey but the stories are much darker, and often involve murderous obsession, police corruption, financial skulduggery, child abuse and miscarriages of justice. Bailey is a much neglected...
''Mr Fortune's Trials'' includes six curious, gruesome and ingenious crimes which Reggie investigates through minute, scientific detection.
This collection of six puzzling stories introduced the world to Reggie Fortune, a remarkable detective whose rotund frame conceals a razor-sharp mind and a fighting spirit. A true champion of the oppressed, Fortune will never let a murderer escape justice—whether his...
''Mr Fortune, Please'' includes six ingenious, bizarre and murderous crimes which Reggie investigates through minute and forensic, scientific detection.
''The Ballad of Cat Ballou'' is the story of Cat and Clay, told with all the earthy simplicity of a folk-song out of those forever banished days of six guns, frontier dance halls and blazing range wars between cattleman and farmer, the days when a sense of honor could...
This is the story of one man’s war and of the Royal Navy’s escort vessels — trawlers, corvettes and destroyers — that guarded Britain’s ocean life-lines across the Atlantic against the ravaging forays of U-Boats and surface raiders. This highly acclaimed firsthand...
The banks of the Didder on a sunny summer afternoon when the trout are rising seem an unlikely place for a murderer to strike. But when the body of a local landowner is discovered it soon becomes apparent that there are a number of people with good reason to dislike...
This is Herman Hesse's last and greatest work, which won for him the Nobel Prize for LIterature. Described as "sublime" by Thomas Mann, admired by Andre Gide and T. S. Eliot, it is considered one of the important novels of the twentieth century. It captures Herman Hesse...
A dark and pessimistic fantasy based on Shakespeare's Hamlet. There is something rotten in Sixth Century Jutland, where prince Amleth cannot make up his mind how to deal with the murderers of his father. This terrific novel guest-stars a rough and ready Arthur of...
The Roman Way was the author’s second book, providing contrasts between ancient Rome and present-day life. Hamilton describes life as it existed according to ancient Roman poets such as Plautus, Virgil and Juvenal, interprets Roman thought and manners, and compares them...
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