One of the very last authors of detective fiction from the genre's "Golden Age" INDEPENDENTSuicide or murder? Despite all indications to the contrary, Alec Methven had not eaten his last meal in solitude, and somebody was very anxious to conceal that fact. As if one...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-03-14
Collection : Murder Room
ePub

Beautiful, amoral and ruthless - but was she a killer?Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection ClubRuth Garside was framed for three killings. But was she really guilty? As a girl, Ruth was accused of a dreadful crime; as a wife she was suspected of her...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-03-14
Collection : Mr Crook Murder Mystery
ePub

He knows their darkest secrets - but they are even more ruthless than him, with murder in mind...Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection ClubTeddy Lane has sunk into the sordid depths of blackmail and thinks he is on to a good thing.He knows the dark...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-03-14
Collection : Mr Crook Murder Mystery
ePub

Henry's vocation is being a husband. First he woos. Then he weds. Then he kills... Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection ClubWhen he falls in love with orphan Sarah, Henry takes her to a lonely cottage and her initial happiness at being with him soon...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-03-14
Collection : Mr Crook Murder Mystery
ePub

If you ever need my help, I'll be there. But by the time he arrived, she had already disappeared...Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection ClubArthur Crook and Miss Pinnegar meet by accident and take to each other on sight, parting with mutual...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-03-14
Collection : Mr Crook Murder Mystery
ePub

Roberta Ellison lives in Madeira where she had settled with her late husband after being crippled in a motor accident. Domestic help was easy to come by and the climate was ideal. Then her sister Camilla comes to the island to help her to find a companion, bringing...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-03-14
Collection : Murder Room
ePub

Assisted suicide - or murder...?Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection ClubEven Hatty Savage had to admit, at the inquest, that it had been foolish of her, when Richard Sheridan had threatened suicide, to hand him her sleeping tablets. So when a girl who...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-03-14
Collection : Mr Crook Murder Mystery
ePub

The victims were predictable - the murderer was not...Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection ClubSour, selfish and worth several millions, Mrs French was just the kind of woman you'd expect to be murdered. And so, in due course, she was.Mrs Hoggett was...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-03-14
Collection : Mr Crook Murder Mystery
ePub

She lost her memory - now her life is at risk.Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection ClubWhen lawyer-detective Arthur Crook bumped into a woman called Barbara on the parade at Beachampton it became apparent she had no idea who she was.She had been closely...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-03-14
Collection : Mr Crook Murder Mystery
ePub

When Caroline leaves hospital her sister Fenella insists that she must convalesce in her house in the West Country. But, in the event, Caroline's visit is far from restful.Fenella's husband is moody, excitable, reckless and inexplicably affluent, and soon the brooding...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-03-14
Collection : Murder Room
ePub

The 'Decayed Gentlewoman', Colin and Ginny had called her as children - a disregarded painting badly in need of cleaning, which later vanished. But the 'Decayed Gentlewoman' re-entered their grown-up lives with a bang.The manner of its reappearance sparked a train of...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-03-14
Collection : Murder Room
ePub

In the 'ads - wanted' section, no one said anything about murder...Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club'No author is more skilled at making a good story seem brilliant' Sunday ExpressMiddle-aged spinsters of independent means shouldn't answer...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-03-14
Collection : Mr Crook Murder Mystery
ePub

What happens to a woman after she has been acquitted of murder? Can she ever take up a normal life? And what happens when a journalist sees easy money in ghostwriting her memoirs?What happens when a helpful young woman, checking on the details of the story, gets caught...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-03-14
Collection : Murder Room
ePub

When Holly Dunthorne returns home to the village of Roydon Saint Agnes she finds that a friend, Marcus Meriden, has been accused of beating up an old man. There are witnesses who say they saw it happen, and the only one who might possibly clear him stays stubbornly...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-03-14
Collection : Superintendent Ditteridge
ePub

When Toby Dyke and his companion, George, get caught in torrential rain one night, they are surprised to find that they are not the only ones out in such a fierce storm: Edgar Prees, aging botanist of prestige and reputation, is attempting to commit suicide by jumping...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-03-14
Collection : Murder Room
ePub

Murder on the train - and the killer is looking for the next victim...Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection ClubOn a fast train to London, Arthur Crook meets trouble with a capital T. During the journey one passenger disappears and is subsequently found...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-03-14
Collection : Mr Crook Murder Mystery
ePub

Death gave its warning in the form of a luscious brunette. She walked into the office of Donald Lam and Bertha Cool, calmly announced that her employer was about to be killed, and paid them a healthy fee to keep the boss alive.For Cool this case meant cold cash. For Lam...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-03-14
Collection : Cool & Lam
ePub

Blond Eve Dawson came to Hollywood to be a star and didn't make the grade. But as a party girl she was much in demand - until someone shot her during a wild party given for a lot of prominent politicians. Everyone clammed up and pressure was brought to bear - even on...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-03-14
Collection : Doug Selby D.A.
ePub

Donald Lam arrives at work one day to find an outraged police sergeant Frank Sellers stewing in the office of his senior partner, Bertha Cool. Sellers is close to cracking an armoured car robbery case, but in the course of his investigation, a telephone number for the...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-03-14
Collection : Cool & Lam
ePub

Douglas Selby, the ambitious young District Attorney of the territory around Madison City, had up before him a young man guilty of embezzling a comparatively small sum of money which he had spent gambling. Selby could have locked him up - and perhaps ruined his life....

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-03-14
Collection : Doug Selby D.A.
ePub