In Death of a Bridegroom, Inspector Jimmy Waghorn investigates the death of a man found hanging in his workshop on the morning of his wedding day. Initially, the death is believed a suicide, but doubts begin to arise and Dr. Priestley is brought in to assist the police...

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DESMOND MERRION and his wife Mavis go to the little seaside town of Croylehaven to spend a holiday. The place is practically owned by the wealthy Croyle family, who live in the large, ugly Castle Croyle. The present head of the family, Lord Croyle, an old gentleman of...

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This book finds series sleuth Desmond Merrion holidaying with wife Mavis at the seaside resort of Greycliffe-on-Sea, close to the site of his former junior school. When he and a local fisherman find the body of Arthur Harpole - brother of one of the schoolmasters -...

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No two men could have been more opposite in every way than Wilfred and Clarence Cheriton. Wilfred, forever immersed in some engineering experiment, had little use for people and business activities, whereas Clarence was a sociable man with a gift for selling the...

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The novel centers on the residents of a single street of a small English town; mistrust and suspicion grow when a series of strange warnings are received by the residents.The messages of death escalate into a number of dangerous pranks, and Desmond Merrion, friend of...

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A distinctive smell of smoke presages a series of murders in the village of Lamsford, and it proves a puzzling case for Inspector Arnold and Desmond Merrion.

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The crumbling Farningcote Priory has been the home of the Glapthorne family for generations. In the grounds stand a  tower, built as a  folly  during the eighteenth century which seems to have a strange, almost mystical power over the family. When Caleb Clapthorne is...

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The story centers on the residents of Forest House, a private nursing-convalescent home. An apparent drug overdose is later determined to be a case of murder, and another resident is discovered along a nearby railroad track with her skull bashed-in. Inspector Arnold and...

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Police hunt for a gang called the India-Rubber Men, who wear gasmasks and rubber gloves, and carry gas bombs to stave off pursuit. The book was made into the successful 1938 film, "The Return of the Frog."

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With 'Murder at Wrides Park' this famous author begins a new series of detective novels, all of which will be taken from the 'case-book' of Ronald Camberwell, the young resourceful detective who appears for the first time in this volume. Ronald Camberwell is thrown...

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Book cover comes from the original 1953 dust jacket edition. Here Waghorn, newly returned from his honeymoon and sufficiently disinclined to be away from home, is faced with the task of investigating the death of Henry Bailey, found dead at Waterloo station on the...

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A forger is at work, arranging for rich people to be robbed and then cashing cheques before the victim catches on. The Reverend Frank Lextable is crushed by a falling branch from an elm tree. Is the death linked to the forgery? Was it murder or an accident?

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''Licensed for Murder'' concerns the new managers of an English country inn, who, during the inn's renovation, discover the grisly, burned remains of a man behind corrugated sheeting in the inn's main fireplace. With the man's identity impossible to determine,...

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During an overnight thousand mile motor rally an accident to one of the cars leads to the death of the two occupants. The local police are far from convinced that everything is above board and call in  Scotland Yard. Inspector Hanslet leads the case but the real work is...

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A passenger in a private compartment on the  boat train  from  Southampton  to  London Waterloo  is found dead with a  needle  puncture in is back. He had travelled on  Guernsey  on a  channel  steamer  but investigating officers are hard-pressed to find either a motive...

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Murder at Derivale  one of the final books in the Priestley series, has Inspector Jimmy Waghorn (assisted by the now elderly Dr. Priestley) investigating the death by poisoning of a man found dead in a truck parked in his neighbor's yard. Diamond smuggling and realistic...

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In ''The Fatal Pool,'' the family and friends of Colonel Gayton have gathered together at Framby Hall, and while most of the guests are at breakfast, Yvonne Bardwell is found drowned but with bruises on her shoulders indicating that she was held under the water. The...

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At his residence in  Beckenham  in  Kent  on the outskirts of  London, Sir Andrew Wiggenhall the chairman of the  board of directors  of a large firm of  ironmongers  is killed by an explosion that largely wrecks the house. Investigating officer  Superintendent  Hanslet...

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When a swindler cheats his employees and his investors, little does he know that retribution awaits. Excellent English manor mystery.

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In a largely peaceful village in England during the early stages of the Second World War the body of the young man who owns Lilac Cottage is found dead. The only clue that the investigating officers of  Scotland Yard can find is a five pound note, but it lures Priestley...

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