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After winning a lottery, Miss Haslett, a middle-aged school mistress, seeks financial advice. She is introduced to a stockbroker, John Throgmorton, and shortly thereafter is found murdered. Scotland Yard's DI Martin is called in to investigate.
First published in 1933, ''He Dies and Makes no Sign'' by Molly Thynne (d. 1950), public domain worldwide. The final mystery by Thynne also features Constantine and Detective Inspector Arkwright. In He Dies and Makes No Sign (1933) Constantine is summoned by the...
First published in 1931, ''The Crime at the 'Noah's Ark'' by Molly Thynne (d. 1950), public domain worldwide. In The Crime at The Noah’s Ark (1931), an ill-assorted group of guests find themselves marooned by snow at the aptly named hostelry The Noah’s Ark. Most of...
Set in the early years of the 19th century, this story is a tale of conspiracy, secret societies, foreign agents and a fiendish plot to assassinate the Prime Minister. Anthony Lammas, a young professor of philosophy at St Andrews, becomes involved with a secret society...
''Not Exactly Ghosts'' by Andrew Caldecott is a collection of downright terrifying tales of blood, anger, and jealousy...
This tale of intrigue begins with the kidnapping of the bride, Julia, on the first day of the couple's honeymoon. With the help of various friends and the interference of foes, Alistair Granby, agent of the Crown, rescues his new wife from the kidnappers. In doing so,...
In the Côte d'Azur, Hilary and Angie Moon have to live on their wits and her beauty. This novel is a light satirical take on the residents and guests of a Hotel on the French Riviera who have their own strength and flaws and must come to terms with their lives, age, and...
The main character, Sir Benjamin Watson, created a private zoo in the countryside on the territory of his country house. 'Ganges' is an exotic jungle filled with snakes, elephants, tigers and lions. One summer day, Ann Sherborne arrives at Ganges for meeting friends...
The story "Midnight House" is about a mysterious house.The owners go abroad. However, neighbors claim that they saw them in the city. This house is associated with ill-fated love and early death. For a long time, it was closed, but soon reopened......
McWhinney's Jaunt is the amazing tale of an eccentric professor who accidentally creates z-gas, an almost magical substance that allows him to pedal his bicycle up into the air. He sets off a journey all over the United States of America and has many adventures....
Many readers have claimed this is their favorite book of all time. This is a magical, compelling story about the wife of the emperor Justinian, the empress Theodora. ''The Female'' by Paul I. Wellman is one of those rare novels that manages to blend riveting...
''The Apes of God'' (1930) is a striking and satirical novel by British artist and writer Wyndham Lewis, a satire of London's contemporary literary and artistic scene. The Sitwells, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury group are among the...
The news spread like wildfire: Hugh Rawson was back in Klickitat! Three reasons brought him: He had to find the coward who had ambushed him. He had to uncover the gang that had made the trails unsafe for the precious gold shipments. And he had to see for himself if his...
Mediator Logan Stuart is respected by Oregon's miners, but their trust in him is tested when one of Logan's friends is framed for robbery and he sets out to catch the real crook.
A ROGER SHERINGHAM MYSTERY. Detective writer John Hillyard is entertaining a small house party at Minton Deeps Farm when a shocking accident takes place. Shortly after enacting a murder drama for their own amusement, the guests are returning to the house when Eric Scott...
Two rival families engage in a deadly feud that threatens to tear an entire community apart. Set against the backdrop of the American West in the early 20th century, the book explores themes of loyalty, revenge, and the destructive power of long-standing grudges.
Clint set his sights dead on the ambusher, who was waiting for his prey. He thought of giving the men warning, but decided against it. An ambusher was worse than a vicious jackal. He deserved no mercy. The ambusher was unaware that he, too, was a target. Clint’s breath...
Part suspense thriller, part mystery novel, partly set at Cambridge University, where White himself had recently studied, but also at Pemberley, in Derbyshire. If you are an admirer of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, you might surmise that the name of Darcy comes...
Murder at the Motor Show first published in 1935 (published in the U.K. as Mystery at Olympia). A dense crowd surrounded the new Comet car that was fully expected to be the sensation of the great Motor Show at Olympia. Suddenly one of the eager spectators, an elderly...
The story is told through the eyes of Marcus, a Roman citizen who arrives in Jerusalem on the day Jesus is crucified. A magnificent novel of the forty days after Christ rose from the dead. Waltari’s ''The Secret of the Kingdom'' describes the Biblical events taking...
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