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To the innocent visitor the picturesque village of Greenings would appear to be a haven of tranquility. But every place has its secrets and beneath the calm surface lurk hidden resentments and dangerous passions. When a man is found lying face down in a nearby...
No one would ever have guessed that Paulina Paine was deaf, and that her ability to lip-read was astonishing. So the two men who met one day during the showing of a new art exhibition did not realise until too late that the middle-aged tweedy figure sitting out of...
Tilling Green was a charming little village nestling in the Ledshire countryside. Not at all the sort of place you would expect to find an anonymous letter writer. And when one of the recipients, a young woman, was found drowned in the lake belonging to the Manor House,...
New Year's Eve, 1940, is unusual for the Paradine family. Departing from tradition, James Paradine makes a speech that changes the course of many lives. Valuable documents have disappeared. A member of the family has taken them. The culprit has until midnight to confess...
Martin Brand's relatives are furious that he's left his large estate to his niece, Marion, whom he had only met once. And Marion is upset that she has to share her new home with Martin's family. Then a body is found on the beach wearing her coat. Fortunately Miss Silver...
For Althea Graham, suffering the whims of her malevolent invalid of a mother, the old family home is a prison. So when two strangely competitive offers for the Graham's house are made to her it suggests that house may hold some dark rewarding secret. Then old Mrs Graham...
It's nearing the end of WWII, and Michael Harsh has been working for the government on a secret project for years. Finally he is ready to hand over the formula. But the next morning he is dead. It looks like suicide. Only Miss Silver knows it's murder.
When she found the body of her beloved Uncle Jonathan, Georgina instinctively stooped to pick up the revolver, thus becoming the prime suspect. Georgina stood to inherit a large fortune when her uncle died. But her uncle had a second secret will and the beneficiary is...
Lewis Brading loves only one thing – his collection of jewels. Not only are the gems extremely valuable but also every piece has a fascinating and bloody history attached to it. HoweverLewis is a frightened and difficult man who sees thieves around every corner. When he...
They hoped he would never come back . . .Who was William Smith? And why was Mavis Jones so horrified to see him?For seven years William had worked as a woodcarver for the local toyshop, ignorant of his true identity. The war had robbed him of his memory, and no one...
James and Carmona Hardwick are spending the summer playing host to numerous friends and relatives in an old Hardwick family residence by the sea. The arrival of Alan Field, a devastatingly handsome though shady figure from Carmona's past, destroys the holiday atmosphere...
Tanis Lyle was one of those passionate women who always get their own way. Her cousin Laura hated her. Most women did. But men found her irresistible and she used them mercilessly.So whenTanis was found murdered there seemed to be any number of suspects on hand.But Miss...
The Everton murder case has long been closed.The culprit has been charged with the murder of his uncle and has served a year of his sentence already. Or has he?The evidence against Geoffrey Grey is convincing but his wife believes in his innocence. And so does her young...
The Catherine-Wheel had once been a home for pirates and smugglers, but now is looked like it was harbouring a murderer.There was a certain heavy air of intrigue and mystery emanating from the old inn high on the cliff top.The Catherine-Wheel had once been a home for...
" Fuyons !" Murmurée à son oreille par une mystérieuse inconnue, cette angoissante injonction va définitivement bouleverser le cours de la vie de James Elliot. Pourtant, ce célibataire écossais pensait tout connaître des femmes. Entouré de quatorze encombrantes...
Un classique de Patricia Wentworth datant de 1927 jamais publié en françaisSur le point de se marier, Mally travaille comme gouvernante pour Barbara, la fille d'un millionnaire. Et Barbara déteste Pinko, le secrétaire de son père aux allures de limace. Mally est...
Une femme disparaît sans laisser de traces - et aucun de ses proches n'est autorisé à prononcer son nom : Anne Belinda. Anne Belinda a disparu, et chaque fois que John Waveney prononce son nom, le silence se fait pesant. Lady Jenifer Marr, la sœur jumelle d'Anne,...
Le procès d'une jeune héritière de la haute société britannique au lendemain de la guerre, par la reine du whodunit romantique.Dans les bombardements de Londres, Carey Silence a tout perdu : son patron, son emploi et sa maison. Complètement démunie, la jeune fille...
(Re)découvrez la charmante Miss Maud Silver, détective à ses heures perdues, dans une anthologie de ses premières enquêtes.Dans les années 1930, alors que la haute société britannique vit son âge d'or, l'ineffable Miss Silver exerce ses talents d'éminence grise auprès...
Une sombre histoire d'héritage dans la haute bourgeoisie anglaise des années 1920, par la reine du whodunit romantique.Quel mystère enveloppe la belle mais sinistre pierre Annam, volée jadis dans un lointain sanctuaire ? Chacun de ses propriétaires a subi un sort...
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