John Dickson Carr Books In Order

Department D-3 Books In Publication Order

The Department of Queer Complaints (As:Carter Dickson) (1940)
The Men Who Explained Miracles (1963)

Dr. Gideon Fell Books In Publication Order

Hag’s Nook (1932)
The Mad Hatter Mystery (1933)
The Eight of Swords (1934)
The Blind Barber (1934)
The Three Coffins (1935)
The Hollow Man (1935)
Death-Watch (1935)
The Arabian Nights Murder (1936)
The Crooked Hinge (1937)
To Wake the Dead (1938)
The Problem of the Green Capsule (1939)
The Problem of the Wire Cage (1939)
The Man Who Could Not Shudder (1940)
The Case of the Constant Suicides (1941)
Death Turns the Tables (1941)
Till Death Do Us Part (1944)
He Who Whispers (1946)
The Sleeping Sphinx (1947)
Below Suspicion (1949)
The Dead Man’s Knock (1958)
In Spite of Thunder (1960)
The House at Satan’s Elbow (1965)
Panic in Box C (1966)
Dark of the Moon (1967)
Seat of the Scornful (1980)
Fell and Foul Play (1991)

Henri Bencolin Books In Publication Order

It Walks by Night (1930)
Castle Skull (1931)
The Lost Gallows (1931)
The Corpse in the Waxworks (1932)
The Four False Weapons (1937)

Sir Henry Merrivale Books In Publication Order

The Plague Court Murders (1934)
The White Priory Murders (1934)
The Red Widow Murders (1935)
The Unicorn Murders (1935)
The Punch and Judy Murders (1936)
The Peacock Feather Murders (1937)
The Ten Teacups (1937)
The Judas Window (1938)
Death in Five Boxes (1938)
The Reader Is Warned (1939)
Nine and Death Makes Ten (1940)
And So to Murder (1940)
Murder in the Submarine Zone (1940)
Seeing Is Believing (1941)
The Gilded Man (1942)
She Died A Lady (1943)
He Wouldn’t Kill Patience (1944)
The Curse of the Bronze Lamp (1945)
Lord of the Sorcerers (1945)
My Late Wives (1946)
The Skeleton in the Clock (1948)
A Graveyard to Let (1949)
Night at the Mocking Widow (1950)
Behind the Crimson Blind (1952)
The Cavalier’s Cup (1953)
Red Widow Murders (1967)
Merrivale, March and Murder (1991)
Merrivale Holds the Key (1995)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

Poison in Jest (1932)
The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey (1936)
The Burning Court (1937)
Fatal Descent (1939)
The Emperor’s Snuff-Box (1942)
The Bride of Newgate (1950)
The Devil in Velvet (1951)
The Nine Wrong Answers (1952)
Captain Cut-Throat (1955)
365+1 (1956)
Fear Is the Same (1956)
Fire, Burn! (1957)
Scandal at High Chimneys (1959)
The Demoniacs (1961)
The Witch of the Low Tide (1961)
Most Secret (1964)
Papa La-Bas (1968)
The Ghosts’ High Noon (1969)
Deadly Hall (1971)
The Hungry Goblin (1972)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes (1954)
The New Exploits of Sherlock Holmes (1954)
The Door To Doom, And Other Detections (1980)
The Dead Sleep Lightly and Other Mysteries from Radio’s Golden Age (1983)
13 to the Gallows (2008)
The Third Bullet and Other Stories (2020)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

The Life of Sir Arthur Conan DOyle (1949)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents Books In Publication Order

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Go Bump in the Night (By:) (1940)
Stories They Wouldn’t Let Me Do on TV (By:) (1957)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents 13 More Stories They Wouldn’t Let Me Do on TV (By:Robert Bloch,,Ray Bradbury,Robert Arthur,,Roald Dahl,,,,,,,James Francis Dwyer) (1957)
12 Stories They Wouldn’t Let Me Do on TV (By:Robert Arthur) (1957)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories for Late at Night (By:Robert Arthur) (1961)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: More Stories for Late at Night [Unabridged] (By:) (1962)
Alfred Hitchcock’s A Hangman’s Dozen (By:Donald E Westlake,,,Ray Bradbury,Robert Arthur,Richard Matheson,,,,,,,Richard Stark) (1962)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me (By:Shirley Jackson,Robert Arthur,Richard Matheson,F. Scott Fitzgerald) (1963)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories Not for the Nervous (As: Carter Dickson, With: Ellis Peters,Dorothy L Sayers,,,Ray Bradbury,,Robert Arthur,Richard Matheson,,Michael Gilbert,,,,Julian May,,,,,,,,Margot Bennett) (1965)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Month Of Mystery (By:) (1970)
Down by the Old Blood Stream (By:) (1971)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Master’s Choice. (By:) (1979)
Stories That Go Bump In The Night: V. 1 (By:) (1982)

John Dickson Carr Omnibus Books In Publication Order

Sleeping Sphinx / Beagle Scented Murder / Death of a Doll (1948)
Crime on the Coast & No Flowers by Request (1984)
The Hollow Man & The House in Gallows Lane (1997)
Locked Rooms: The Three Coffins; To Wake the Dead; The Skeleton in the Clock (2008)
The John Dickson Carr Companion (2015)

British Library Crime Classics Books In Publication Order

The Notting Hill Mystery (By:Charles Warren Adams) (1862)
The Female Detective (By:Andrew Forrester) (1864)
The Great Impersonation (By:E. Phillips Oppenheim) (1920)
The Poisoned Chocolates Case (By:Anthony Berkeley) (1929)
It Walks by Night (1930)
The Secret of High Eldersham (By:Miles Burton) (1930)
Castle Skull (1931)
Mystery in the Channel (By:Freeman Wills Crofts) (1931)
The Incredible Crime (By:Lois Austen-Leigh) (1931)
Murder of a Lady (By:Anthony Wynne) (1931)
The Lost Gallows (1931)
The Z Murders (By:J. Jefferson Farjeon) (1931)
The Corpse in the Waxworks (1932)
The Division Bell Mystery (By:Ellen Wilkinson) (1932)
The Hog’s Back Mystery (By:Freeman Wills Crofts) (1933)
Portrait of a Murderer (By:Anne Meredith) (1933)
Death in Fancy Dress (By:Anthony Gilbert) (1933)
Family Matters (By:Anthony Rolls) (1933)
Weekend at Thrackley (By:Alan Melville) (1934)
The Murder of My Aunt (By:Richard Hull) (1934)
Quick Curtain (By:Alan Melville) (1934)
Murder Underground (By:Mavis Doriel Hay) (1934)
Scarweather (By:Anthony Rolls) (1934)
Death of an Airman (By:Christopher St. John Sprigg) (1934)
The Spy Paramount (By:E. Phillips Oppenheim) (1934)
The 12.30 from Croydon (By:Freeman Wills Crofts) (1934)
The Chianti Flask (By:Marie Belloc Lowndes) (1934)
The Lake District Murder (By:John Bude) (1935)
Death on the Cherwell (By:Mavis Doriel Hay) (1935)
The Cornish Coast Murder (By:John Bude) (1935)
Death of Anton (By:Alan Melville) (1936)
Death in the Tunnel (By:Miles Burton) (1936)
The Traitor (By:Sydney Horler) (1936)
The Santa Klaus Murder (By:Mavis Doriel Hay) (1936)
The Sussex Downs Murder (By:John Bude) (1936)
Murder in Piccadilly (By:Charles Kingston) (1936)
Mystery in White (By:J. Jefferson Farjeon) (1937)
Bats in the Belfry (By:E.C.R. Lorac) (1937)
The Cheltenham Square Murder (By:John Bude) (1937)
Excellent Intentions (By:Richard Hull) (1938)
Murder in the Museum (By:John Rowland) (1938)
Antidote to Venom (By:Freeman Wills Crofts) (1938)
Thirteen Guests (By:J. Jefferson Farjeon) (1938)
The Port of London Murders (By:Josephine Bell) (1938)
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (By:Leonard R. Gribble) (1939)
Seven Dead (By:J. Jefferson Farjeon) (1939)
Verdict of Twelve (By:Raymond Postgate) (1940)
A Scream in Soho (By:John G. Brandon) (1940)
Death of a Busybody (By:George Bellairs) (1942)
The Dead Shall be Raised & Murder of a Quack (By:George Bellairs) (1942)
Somebody at the Door (By:Raymond Postgate) (1943)
Murder’s a Swine: A Second World War Mystery (By:Nap Lombard) (1943)
Checkmate to Murder (By:E.C.R. Lorac) (1944)
Fell Murder (By:E.C.R. Lorac) (1944)
Murder by Matchlight (By:E.C.R. Lorac) (1945)
Trouble on the Thames (By:Victor Bridges) (1945)
Fire in the Thatch (By:E.C.R. Lorac) (1946)
Death Makes a Prophet (By:John Bude) (1947)
Smallbone Deceased (By:Michael Gilbert) (1950)
Calamity in Kent (By:John Rowland) (1950)
Death Has Deep Roots (By:Michael Gilbert) (1951)
The Danger Within / Death in Captivity (By:Michael Gilbert) (1952)
Murder in the Mill-Race (By:E.C.R. Lorac) (1952)
Crossed Skis (By:Carol Carnac) (1952)
Death on the Riviera (By:John Bude) (1952)
The Man Who Didn’t Fly (By:Margot Bennett) (1955)
The Colour Of Murder (By:Julian Symons) (1957)
The Christmas Egg (By:Mary Kelly) (1958)
The Progress of a Crime (By:Julian Symons) (1960)
Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm (By:Gil North) (1960)
The Methods of Sergeant Cluff (By:Gil North) (1961)
The Spoilt Kill (By:Mary Kelly) (1961)
The Body in the Dumb River (By:George Bellairs) (1961)
Due to a Death (By:Mary Kelly) (1963)
Surfeit of Suspects (By:George Bellairs) (1964)
The Belting Inheritance (By:Julian Symons) (1965)
The Last Best Friend (By:George Sims) (1967)
The End of the Web (By:George Sims) (1976)
Capital Crimes: London Mysteries (By:Martin Edwards) (2015)
Resorting to Murder (By:Martin Edwards) (2015)
Silent Nights (By:Martin Edwards) (2015)
Murder at the Manor (By:Martin Edwards) (2016)
Serpents in Eden (By:Martin Edwards) (2016)
Crimson Snow (By:Martin Edwards) (2016)
Foreign Bodies (By:Martin Edwards) (2017)
The Long Arm of the Law (By:Martin Edwards) (2017)
Miraculous Mysteries (By:Martin Edwards) (2017)
Continental Crimes (By:Martin Edwards) (2017)
Blood on the Tracks (By:Martin Edwards) (2018)
The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories (By:Martin Edwards) (2018)
Golden Age of Detection Puzzle Book (By:Kate Jackson) (2018)
Deep Waters: Murder on the Waves (By:Martin Edwards) (2019)
The Measure of Malice (By:Martin Edwards) (2019)
The Pocket Detective 2: 100+ More Puzzles, Brainteasers and Conundrums (By:Kate Jackson) (2019)
Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries (By:Martin Edwards) (2020)
A Surprise for Christmas and Other Seasonal Mysteries (By:Martin Edwards) (2020)
Two-Way Murder (By:E.C.R. Lorac) (2021)
Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries (By:Martin Edwards) (2021)

Anthologies In Publication Order

All but Impossible! (1981)
Great Stories of Mystery and Suspense (1981)
Deadly Arts (1985)

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To Wake the Dead

Mass Market Paperback, MacMillan Publishing Company.

The Problem of the Green Capsule

A DR GIDEON FELL MYSTERY. In the quaint English village of Sodbury Cross, pretty Marjorie Wills is suspected of poisoning chocolates in the local confectionary shop. Her uncle, the wealthy Marcus Chesney, believes eyewitnesses are unreliable. To prove his point, he sets up a clever test in front of three witnesses and a camera. They are asked to watch a staged series of events, during which a masked man enters the room to ‘poison’ Chesney by feeding him a large green capsule. As expected, the experiment concludes and no one can agree on what took place, except that Marcus Chesney is dead…
How is that possible? And who is the culprit? It takes Dr. Gideon Fell to unravel this Golden Age classic.

He Who Whispers

A DR GIDEON FELL MYSTERY. Outside the little French city of Chartres, industrialist Howard Brookes is found dying on the parapet of an old stone tower. Evidence shows that it was impossible for anyone to have entered at the time of the murder, however someone must have, for the victim was discovered stabbed in the back. Who could have done it? And where did they go? When no one is convicted, the mystery remains unsolved for years until a series of coincidences brings things to a head in post war England, where amateur sleuth Dr. Gideon Fell is on the scene to work out what really happened.

Dark of the Moon

When Dr. Gideon Fell finds himself at a party where guests are in a state of deep agitation, all the faculties of his detective genius are called into play. Why is the host of the party, southern aristocrat Henry Maynard, so cryptic about the strange goings on in the mansion? And how is the theft of the scarecrow linked to a diabolical and ingenious murder? Reissue.

The Plague Court Murders

THE FIRST SIR HENRY MERRIVALE MYSTERY. When Dean Halliday becomes convinced that the malevolent ghost of Louis Playge is haunting his family estate in London, he invites Ken Bates and Detective Inspector Masters along to Plague Court to investigate. Arriving at night, they find his aunt and fianc e preparing to exorcise the spirit in a’s ance run by psychic Roger Darworth. While Darworth locks himself in a stone house behind Plague Court, the s ance proceeds, and at the end he is found gruesomely murdered. But who, or what, could have killed him? All the windows and doors were bolted and locked, and no one could have gotten inside. The only one who can solve the crime in this bizarre and chilling tale is locked room expert Sir Henry Merrivale.

Death in Five Boxes

Carter Dickson a.k.a. John Dickson Carr is certainly the master of the locked room mystery, a category which might as well be named after him. In ‘Death in Five Boxes,’ Carr presents not a locked room mystery but a nonetheless apparently impossible crime. A gathering of five people ends when four of them are found unconscious and nearly dead from atropine poisoning. The fifth faired far less well; he was dead, stabbed. As the room in which the five were found was not locked, the crime should be an easy one. But there’s a slight catch; it seems impossible that anyone, whether a member of the group or an outsider, could have put the poison into the drinks. Sir Henry Merrivale, Carr’s best character, is determined to solve the crime, though, and he naturally does so. Along the way, we learn that the five people who were at the table have many secrets, all of which only serve to cloud the mystery. ‘Death in Five Boxes‘ is an excellent novel for those who would like to be able finally to solve one of Carr’s puzzles. The solution is perhaps the most obvious of any of his novels or short stories, though it should be pointed out that ‘obvious’ and Carr’s name do not lend themselves to use in the same paragraph. The novel might be better for aspiring mystery novelists. With such a relatively obvious solution, the book becomes an exercise in the mastery of hiding the obvious. Though the novel is far from Carr’s best, either as a simple story or as an impossible mystery, the way in which this undisputed master goes about hiding the truth while playing entirely by the rules is something to behold.

And So to Murder

A SIR HENRY MERRIVALE MYSTERY. No one expected a clergyman’s daughter from East Roystead to author a scandalous bestseller, but when Monica Stanton published Desire she quickly got hired at Albion Films. Expecting to adapt her own work, she is instead assigned to help scriptwriter William Cartwright adapt his latest detective novel. Almost immediately, a series of mysterious attempts on her life begin, and the flamboyant Sir Henry Merrivale is called in to investigate. But can he see through the intrigue to seek out the perpetrator before it’s too late?

She Died A Lady

A SIR HENRY MERRIVALE MYSTERY. A suicide pact was just the sort of notion that would appeal to Rita Wainwright. Her notorious love affair with the young American actor, Barry Sullivan, was flamboyant enough to warrant a dramatic ending, so when the two of them vanished over a cliff one rainy night, leaving only a farewell note for Rita’s husband and a pair of footprints to the edge, no one doubted that it was suicide. No one, that is, but Doctor Luke, Rita’s old family doctor and one of the few people in the seaside village of Lyncombe who genuinely liked her. When amateur detective Sir Henry Merrivale, who is in the district having his portrait done by a local artist, agrees to investigate, the questions start piling up. But what of it? Are the doctor’s doubts without merit, or was there a more sinister plot at play? It takes the blustering, rampaging H. M. to solve this baffling mystery.

The Curse of the Bronze Lamp

A curse shall befall anyone who takes the bronze lamp out of Egypt, so a seer has said. Lady Helen Loring thinks such tales are sheer poppycock. She takes the lamp back to England, she places it on the mantelpiece at Serven Hall, and she disappears, just as the seer said.

Lord of the Sorcerers

Merrivale Holds the Key

NO MARKINGS,NO TEARS,FEW SMALL DOGEARS

The Burning Court

A classic tale combining hints of the supernatural and an ‘impossible’ murder. The death of Miles Despard looks simple enough. But then how does the housekeeper see a woman walk through a wall? And how could someone walk through a door that had been bricked up two hundred years ago? To all intents and purposes, it looks as if someone has come from the past to commit the murder, but could that really be the case? Surely not…

The Emperor’s Snuff-Box

Beside the dead body of Sir Maurice Lawes are the shattered fragments of a snuff box that once belonged to Napoleon. These fragments tell a tale, or rather two tales, one true and one false. Now, an English expert in criminology forces the evidence to tell the truth about what happened and to point out the real murderer. Reissue.

The Devil in Velvet

Professor Nicholas Fenton enters a pact with Satan and goes back in time to bawdy, turbulent Restoration London to prevent a murder that is about to take place. But he falls in love with the intended victim and resolves to alter the course of history. ‘Breathless pace and ingenious plotting’. New York Times.

The Nine Wrong Answers

Carr’s forte is the rational crime problem costumed as an eerie tale of the seemingly supernatural. This tale set in London is an elaborate puzzle that concerns a large inheritance and contains a wonderful scene at Sherlock Holmes’ rooms on Baker Street.

Captain Cut-Throat

When someone begins a killing spree on Napoleon’s personal sentries, captured British agent Alan Hepburn finds himself forced not only to assist with the investigation but also to match wits with the Emperor and his chief of police, the wily Fouche. In ‘Captain Cut Throat’, Carr’s trademark combination of sudden death and captivating historical re creation is at its best.

Fire, Burn!

Here is another in Carr’s entrancing series of historical mysteries. Complete with an exciting and puzzling plot, period romance, and accurate historical detail, Fire, Burn! is a captivating depiction of the early years of the world’s first true police force: Sir Robert Peel’s ‘Peelers.’

Papa La-Bas

The scene in Papa La Bas is New Orleans in 1858. There, strong men, lovely women, dark magic and violence swirl around Senator Judah P. Benjamin, who can solve any problem by logical analysis, and Richard Macrae, Her Majesty’s Consul, when they witness a devilish murder.

The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes

From the son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and one of America’s greatest mystery writers, John Dickson Carr, comes twelve riveting tales based on incidents or elements of the unsolved cases of Sherlock Holmes. The plots are all new, with painstaking attention to the mood, tone, and detail of the original stories. Here is a fascinating volume of mysteries for new Sherlock fans, as well as for those who have read all the classics and crave more!

The New Exploits of Sherlock Holmes

The game’s afoot again! Here are twelve stories, meticulously framed in the style of the Great Detective’s creator, written by Conan Doyle’s son and the fabulous John Dickson Carr. Each of the twelve is derived from an offhand remark made in a story in the original series. For instance, the following quotation from ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ produced TWO tales for this collection: ‘Since…
our visit to Devonshire, he had been engaged in two affairs of the utmost importance…
the famous card scandal at the Nonpareil Club…
and the unfortunate Madame Montpensier.’ CONTENTS: Introduction: Always Holmes; By Doyle & Carr: The Adventure of the Seven Clocks; The Adventure of the Gold Hunter; The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers; The Adventure of the Highgate Miracle; The Adventure of the Black Baronet; The Adventure of the Sealed Room. By Doyle, acting alone: The Adventure Foulkes Rath; The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby; The Adventure of the Dark Angels; The Adventure of the Two Women; The Adventure of the Deptford Horror; The Adventure of the Red Widow

13 to the Gallows

Never before published! Four plays written during the early 1940s, two by John Dickson Carr alone and two in collaboration with the BBC’s Val Gielgud. Inspector Silence Takes the Air is set during World War II at emergency BBC studios in a provincial town. There, a murder takes place and the weapon disappears. In Thirteen to the Gallows, also set in a BBC studio, a woman falls to her death from a tower it is murder, but no one is near her, and the only clue is a scattering of Arum Lilies. Intruding Shadow is filled with mysteries within mysteries, as Carr expertly shifts the audience’s expectations from one suspect to another. She Slept Lightly features the ghostly appearances of a young woman during the Napoleonic Wars. The book concludes with an alternate ending for one of the plays, cast lists, and contemporary reviews of the original productions. John Dickson Carr 1906 1977, one of the greatest writers in the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, specialized in tales of seemingly impossible crimes. 13 to the Gallows is a major addition to his published works. The book is edited by Carr expert Tony Medawar. Cover by Deborah Miller

The Life of Sir Arthur Conan DOyle

This vivid biography, written by John Dickson Carr, a giant in the field of mystery fiction, benefits from his full access to the archives of the eminent Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to his notebooks, diaries, press clippings, and voluminous correspondence. Like his creation Sherlock Holmes, Doyle had ‘a horror of destroying documents,’ and until his death in 1930, they accumulated to vast amount throughout his house at Windlesham. They provide many of the words incorporated by Carr in this lively portrayal of Doyle’s forays into politics, his infatuation with spiritualism, his literary ambitions, and dinner table conversations with friends like H. G. Wells and King Edward VII. Carr, then, in a sense collaborates with his subject to unfold a colorful narrative that takes Doyle from his school days at Stonyhurst to Edinburgh University and a medical practice at Southsea, where he conceived the idea of wedding scientific study to criminal investigation in the fictive person of Sherlock Holmes. It also explores the private tragedy of Doyle s first marriage and long delayed second as it follows him into the arena of public activity, propaganda, and literary output that would win him not only celebrity but also knighthood. 8 pages of black and white photographs are featured.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Go Bump in the Night (By:)

Published by Random House. Per the dust jacket:…
twenty three stories, a novelette, and a novel guaranteed to turn your hair white overnight.’ Stories selected by Mr. Hitchcock include: Casablanca by Thomas M. Disch, Fishhead by Irvin S. Cobb, Camera Obscura by Basil Copper, A Death in the Family by Miriam Allen deFord, Men Without Bones by Gerald Kersh, Not With a Bang by Damon Knight, Party Games by John Burke, X Marks the Pedwalk by Fritz Leiber, Curious Adventure of Mr. Bond by Nugent Barker, Two Spinsters by E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Knife by Robert Arthur, The Cage by Ray Russell, It by Theodore Sturgeon, The Road to Mictlantecutli by Adobe James, Guide to Doom by Ellis Peters, The Estuary by Margaret St. Clair, Tough Town by William Sambrot, The Troll by T. H. White, Evening at the Black House by Robert Somerlott, One of the Dead by William Wood, The Real Thing by Robert Specht, Journey to Death by Donald E. Westlake, Master of the Hounds by Algis Budrys, The Candidate by Henry Slesar, and Out of the Deeps by John Wyndham.

Stories They Wouldn’t Let Me Do on TV (By:)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents 13 More Stories They Wouldn’t Let Me Do on TV (By:Robert Bloch,,Ray Bradbury,Robert Arthur,,Roald Dahl,,,,,,,James Francis Dwyer)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Master’s Choice. (By:)

The Great Impersonation (By:E. Phillips Oppenheim)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III Mr. John Lambert Mangan of Lincoln’s Inn gazed at the card which a junior clerk had just presented in blank astonishment, an astonishment which became speedily blended with dismay. ‘Good God, do you see this, Harrison?’ he exclaimed, passing it over to his manager, with whom he had been in consultation. ‘ Dominey Sir Everard Dominey back here in England! ‘ The head clerk glanced at the narrow piece of pasteboard and sighed. ‘ I’m afraid you will find him rather a troublesome client, sir,’ he remarked. His employer frowned. ‘ Of course I shall,’ he answered testily. ‘ There isn’t an extra penny to be had out of the estates you know that, Harrison. The last two quarters’ allowance which we sent to Africa came out of the timber. Why the mischief didn’t he stay where he was! ‘ ‘What shall I tell the gentleman, sir?’ the boy enquired. ‘ Oh, show him in!’ Mr. Mangan directed ill temperedly. ‘ I suppose I shall have to see him sooner or later. I’ll finish these affidavits after lunch, Harrison.’ The solicitor composed his features to welcome a client who, however troublesome his affairs had become, still represented a family who had been valued patrons of the firm for several generations. He was prepared to greet a seedy looking and degenerate individual, looking older than his years. Instead, he found himself extending his hand to one of the best turned out and handsomest men who had ever crossed the threshold of his not very inviting office. For a moment he stared at his visitor, speechless. Then certain points of familiarity the well shaped nose, the rather deep set grey eyes presented themselves. The surprise enabled him to infuse a little real heartiness into his welcome. ‘ My dear Sir Everard ! ‘ he exclaimed. ‘ This is a most unex…

The Poisoned Chocolates Case (By:Anthony Berkeley)

Sir Eustace is a cad of the first water, with a specialty in other men?s wives, and the list of people who might want to do him in could fill a London phone book. But which of them actually sent the chocolates with their nasty hidden payload? Scotland Yard is baffled. Enter the Crime Circle, a group of society intellectuals with a shared conviction in their ability to succeed where the police have failed. Eventually, each member will produce a tightly reasoned solution to the Case of the Poisoned Chocolates, but each of those solutions will identify a different murderer. First published in 1929, this is both a classic of the golden age of mystery fiction, and one of the great puzzle mysteries of all time.

The Murder of My Aunt (By:Richard Hull)

In this darkly comic, quite immoral masterwork, Edward is an effete, poor young man who has something in store for his only relative, his wealthy aunt. First published in 1934, this classic mystery is considered a masterpiece of the inverted detective story, in which it is known ‘whodunit.’ The question is ‘how will they catch ’em?’ Highly unpredictable, it contains one of the most surprising denouements in all of detective fiction.

Antidote to Venom (By:Freeman Wills Crofts)

In an English city zoo a murderer plans to use snake venom to kill an old professor, hoping to inherit a fortune. In this unusual detective story we are shown the planning of the crime. When Inspector French is called in to solve the mystery we learn how an ingenious murder has been committed and follow the actions of the guilty men.

The Colour Of Murder (By:Julian Symons)

John Wilkins was a gentle, mild mannered man who lived a simple, predictable life. So when he met a beautiful, irresistible girl his world was turned upside down. Looking at his wife, and thinking of the girl, everything turned red before his eyes the colour of murder. Later, his mind a blank, his only defence was that he loved his wife far too much to hurt her…
‘A book to delight every puzzle suspense enthusiast’ The New York Times

The Progress of a Crime (By:Julian Symons)

Hugh Bennett, young reporter on a local paper, witnessed a terrible crime a group of boys stabbed a man to death on Guy Fawkes’ night, right in front of the fire on the village green. But as Bennett attempts to write the story for his paper, doubts begin to creep in about what he had actually seen and he finds himself in an immense moral dilemma. On first publication, The Progress of a Crime was seen as setting new standards in crime fiction. ‘Brilliant’ The Guardian

The Belting Inheritance (By:Julian Symons)

When a stranger arrives at Belting, he is met with a very mixed reception by the occupants of the old house. Claiming his so called rightful inheritance the stranger makes plans to take up residence at once. Such a thing was bound to cause problems amongst the family but why were so many of them turning up dead?