Fiction - Crime

"And that's not all. Somers is dead too ... He poisoned himself ... in the lounge "When the wealthy Cosmo Revere is killed by a falling tree, ex-CID officer John Franklin and Ludovic Travers chance to be staying in the vicinity. After examining the...

"And that's not all. Somers is dead too ... He poisoned himself ... in the lounge "The great English boxer Michael France looks set to become the new Heavyweight Champion of the world. Everyone is waiting with bated breath for the forthcoming and decisive...

I am going to commit a murder. I offer no apology for the curtness of the statement.An individual taking the name 'Marius' boasts in a series of letters that he will commit the Perfect Murder, daring Scotland Yard detectives to catch him if they...

"Give me my rights or I will let them kill you. Think what has happened already--" Benvenuto Brown is on the luxury liner Atalanta, heading for New York. His thoughts are on his forthcoming one-man exhibition, not murder - until a seemingly inoffensive old...

Before she could touch him she saw it--the handle of a weapon sticking out between his shoulder-blades. Playwright Martin Pitt's acclaimed new play, The Lily Flower, is having its London premiere. When the curtain rises, in attendance are the lovely Julia Dallas; Lord Charles...

A tragic discovery was made at Bishop's Hotel last evening when a maid, on entering the suite of Signora da Costa, a rich Argentine guest at the hotel, found her dead body on the bed wrapped in an eiderdown.Paul Ashby is excited to be...

The stage was set, Bobby thought, the actors in position; but how the drama would develop, that he could not even guess. The churchyard at Hillings-under-Moor is the final resting place of Janet Merton - buried, so everyone believes, along with celebrated poet Stephen...

"Take my advice; from to-day keep your own counsel. Listen to everything, disclose nothing. Avoid being alone. Come to me if you're in doubt about anything or feel you scent danger. I can assure you we both live in danger."Geoffrey Mayne is in need...

He caught the back of a chair, staggered and groaned. There was a heavy crash and fall, and the parson lay motionless and livid, while lilies from a vase fell, like a wreath, across his chest. The Rev. Ulder, everyone agreed, was the parish...

'Listen I see I'd better take you into my confidence.' 'I'd rather you didn't, ' I said. Betty Morrison, a lawyer's wife, is flung into the society of an ancient Edinburgh family, the Warrielaws. There's Neil the Rip, Cora the Siren, Rhoda the Business...

"He had his enemies, I suppose?" "Disputes, you mean? Over the merits of Puccini and Wagner, Strauss and Verdi But people do not entice an old man from his home many years afterwards to avenge Wagner or Puccini " It was a shock to...

Constantine reflected on the various means dentists have at their disposal, should they wish to silence their patients ... Mr Humphrey Davenport, society dentist, has an embarrassing problem - he has managed to get locked out of his own surgery. And to make matters...

News travels quickly and mysteriously on board ship. By the time lunch was over, the rumour began to spread that Mr. Smith's death had not been due to natural causes. The bibulous Mr Smith was no pillar of virtue. Crossing the Atlantic Ocean on...

Bobby Owen stood for a time in silence, looking down thoughtfully at the dead man's face. A small, insignificant face, lacking even that touch of repose and dignity which death, even violent death, so often gives, and one that Bobby had never seen before....

"Gets on your nerves, doesn't it? I mean, that playing of hers. I've never heard anything like it." "I haven't either," Bobby said. Bobby Owen (now 'temporary-acting-junior-under-deputy-assistant-commissioner' of the C.I.D.) and his wife Olive are house-hunting. Finding the perfect country home, every prospect pleases...

"I wouldn't come any nearer if I were you. It's not a thing to see unless you have to." TThe remote Conqueror Inn, possibly the oldest licensed house in England, has an unexpectedly key role to play in World War Two. Lorry drivers, army...

Carnivorous City is a story about love, family and a city by the lagoon filled with crimes.Author: Toni KanISBN-10: 1911115243ISBN-13: 9781911115243Publisher: Cassava Republic PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/15/2018Pages: 241Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.90d

Four years. That's how long it took Californian playboy Michael Vickers to regain his memory and come home. Four years. That's how long Vickers spent battered, bruised and south of the border, following the attack which sought to end his life - all because...

"What are you looking for, sir?" he said. "Bloodstains." Scotland Yard is concerned with the murderer, or murderers, of the mysterious Bernard Pitt. The dead man is discovered with a false identity, courtesy of the many forged papers and documents found with him. The...

"There's one thing which I daresay you noticed--that pair of slippers half kicked under the bath were of men's size." "Yes, I noticed that, too, and they were sprinkled with blood." A man went calmly about his work while his wife lay dead in...

"I'm writing to you about the death of Mr. Dearborn. You bet the murderer's laughing up his sleeve now that he's got away with it." An inquest is held in South Devon on the death of a man apparently killed in a motor accident...

He flung open a drawer and took from it a heavy dagger in a sheath with blood-stains upon it. On the blade were engraved the words, "Blut und Ehre " Frank Everett was a rising young press attach at the British Embassy in Paris...

"The late Miss Clynes, sir? How dreadful. It must have been very sudden." "It was." Naomi Clynes was found dead, her head in the gas-oven. She left a suicide note, but Richardson, newly promoted to the rank of Inspector in the C.I.D., soon has...

In the hall he found the body of his maidservant, Helen Dunn, aged about fifty, lying on the floor near the telephone. She had bled profusely from a wound in the head and her body was cold. Richardson's second case begins with a murder...

"You told me a lot of things," said James grimly. "Most of them weren't true." James Elliott, lost in a fog, comes upon a lonely house in the English countryside. The house shows no lights but the front door is ajar. He enters in...

"I went down to the pool, and he was lying half in and half out of it with his head bleeding and the tide coming in. The water was up to his shoulders." The marriage between Nan Forsyth and Jervis Weare is a purely...

"Do you want to make 500 pounds? If you do and are willing to earn it, write to..." So reads the handbill thrust on Car Fairfax. He is literally down and out, for the soles of his shoes had gone long ago and the...

"The murderer was also riding a bicycle... why, if we can trace it, we shall have the murderer " On a cycling holiday in idyllic Herefordshire countryside, Nora and her friends make a gruesome discovery - the body of their missing comrade at the...

"He is dead. It is quite impossible that he should have killed himself. He has been murdered. About half an hour ago. By a long knife passed under the left shoulder-blade into the heart." On a fog-bound London night, a soir e is taking...

The hour of dusk was the climax in the strange case of the man found dead in the chalk pit. Who was the murdered man? And why did so many clues lead to that infamous London nightclub, the 'Cut and Come Again'? E.R. Punshon...

Bobby Owen is on a mission of unusual delicacy, finding himself conducting an investigation which involves his own titled but impecunious family. This time the cards were stacked against Bobby. He knew full well the cause of his cousin's mysterious disappearance, but he could...

Mr. Sargent, the manager of the Brush Hill Central Cinema, wished he had never held a Beauty Competition. Caroline Mears, the predicted winner, had already caused trouble with one of the other girls. Paul Irwin, a strong Puritan and influential councillor, had taken it...

Con Conway, the notorious cat burglar, was not the kind of person to be scared out of his wits for nothing. So it seemed odd to Sergeant Bobby Owen, when he met Con quite by chance rushing, terrified, along a road in the Brush...

In his London townhouse, city magnate Sir Christopher Clarke is found lying murdered. At the other end of the house his safe hangs open and rifled, and earlier in the day he had visited his solicitors in order to make a drastic change in...

Thrusting his pipe in his pocket, he crossed to his writing desk. Extracting a heavy army-pattern revolver from a drawer, he began silently to search the whole ground floor of the house. Eileen Thurlow, an ardent devotee of spiritualism, persuades her uncle John to...

The body of John Cornell the well-known London Merchant and banker, was exhumed early this morning with great secrecy, following representations made to the Home Office. Everyone was astonished when the beautiful Josephine Rivron rejected the young, popular and handsome Frank Cornell, and married...

"What's the matter?" Vereker asked breathlessly, and at the same moment realised that the mass lying at Ricardo's feet was the body of a woman. "Has she fainted?" "It's Mrs. Mesado, Algernon," replied Ricardo, "and if I'm not mistaken, she's dead." Algernon Vereker's best...

Mr Sutton Armadale, the financier, was shot dead on the private polo ground of his palatial home. Before expiring in his gamekeeper's arms, he muttered the one word "murder". Among the suspects are Armadale's second wife; a drunken, loud-mouthed stranger in the neighbourhood; and...

There was no mistaking the sound: it was that of a stealthy footfall, and it appeared to come from the staircase leading to the next floor. Lord Bygrave left the Ministry on Friday evening, with plans for a fortnight's holiday in the country. But...

Protruding from the dead woman's breast was the gold and jewelled dagger she had shown them half an hour before. And, looking horribly incongruous among the laces of her fichu, a deep stain was spreading. Elderly cantankerous widow Lady Anne Daventry summons a private...

When a young man inherits a vast mansion from an estranged great-uncle, his apparent good fortune sours when unsettling things begin to happen ... A terrifying psychological thriller cum gothic ghost story from the bestselling author of A Suitable Lie. 'A beautifully written tale,...

After suffering violence and betrayal at home, a young boy flees into an uncompromising landscape ravaged by drought. Without food or water, exposed to the heat of the sun and the violence of his pursuers, the boy sets out across the Spanish plains. An...

Amid the danger of World War Two's London, Kate Mayhew is returning from another hopeless round of the theatrical agents. She is about to take a job in munitions when a poster about a missing child prompts her to help the war effort in...

"You see," Miss Kayne said, "I committed a murder once myself." Miss Kayne's proud boast to Detective-Sergeant Bobby Owen is that she has committed the Perfect Murder - a crime with no clues. Bobby thinks at first it is a macabre joke, but before...

They grabbed their fishing bags, and made a dive for their rods which were standing, ready for use, outside the front door. "Well, tight lines " they called over their shoulders. "Bleeding hooks " grinned the Major. Gladys 'Ruby' Mumsby was more interested in...

The body lay face downwards in a foot of water at the bottom of the ditch. Up to the present it has not been identified. But a card was found in the pocket with the name of - The grisly discovery was overshadowed in...

In The Eskimo Solution, the 'slyly funny' [Sunday Times] Pascal Garnier brings us a story of a writer whose imagination begins to seep into his real life.'A gem' The Globe and MailLife imitates art in Pascal Garnier's offbeat tale of a crime writer and...

Only three houses away from Wisting's, a man has been sitting dead in front of his TV for four months. There is no indication anything criminal has taken place. His death doesn't hit the headlines, but something about the case that catches the attention...

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: 22 CLASSIC TALES OF MADNESS AND THE MACABRE. Volume ll: The Raven Edition. Includes: The Purloined Letter, The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade, A Descent into the Maelstr m, Von Kempelen and his Discovery, Mesmeric Revelation, The Facts in...

The book is based on a dramatic event in Bergen Norway, where a body of a young woman was found on the 29th of November 1970 under suspicious circumstances in the valley Isdalen Valley just outside of Bergen city center. Since then the case...