Sun, 29 November 2020
It couldn't have been suicide - the victim was beheaded inside a watched and locked room - but the room was empty, except for the victim. French police director Henri Bencolin stars in the first novel by John Dickson Carr. |
Sun, 22 November 2020
A theatrical and criminal problem for Ludovic Travers to solve. |
Sun, 15 November 2020
Right from the start, it was clearly going to be an interesting case – the murder of an inoffensive little man with no apparent enemies, not much in the way of physical clues. And that kind of case can be very frustrating indeed. |
Sun, 8 November 2020
What connection could there be between a gruesome fire in a London house and a ski holiday in Lech Am Arlberg in the Austrian Alps? The answer may conceal a ruthless murderer. |
Mon, 2 November 2020
Princess Olga Karukhin escaped from Russia after the revolution. Was she murdered for her supposed collection of art objects? |
Sun, 25 October 2020
The death of a two-bit hustler was just the tip of the iceberg – that iceberg being a delicate international dispute over a contested strip of land – a dispute which may have involved no fewer than three murders…with every prospect of more crimes still to come. |
Mon, 19 October 2020
a mystery with artfully rearranged bodies & missing heads & eccentric characters & assorted mayhem - and funny as well. |
Tue, 13 October 2020
Passersby watching the daily advertising show in French's Department Store window got a lot more than they expected when a dead body fell out of the display's bed. |
Tue, 6 October 2020
Claude Merivale admits he strangled his wife - but he says he did so while in a sleep so deep that everything he did, he did in a dream. Will the jury buy it? Or can Anthony Bathurst find evidence of a cunning killer at work? |
Thu, 1 October 2020
Lord Edgeware's wife threatened to kill him. Now His Lordship has been murdered - but his wife has an unbreakable alibi! Hercule Poirot is on the case! |