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It won't be much longer now. Keep your head and hold your tongue."In Shadows Before, events from the past are the catalyst for murder. In hope of a fresh start after being acquitted of the murder of his sister-in-law, Matthew Weir has moved his family to Spanwater, a remote manor in the Cotswolds. But his heiress wife Catherine is traumatised by her sister's death and Matthew's trial, and has retreated into childhood memories, believing she is...

Archy Mitfold had always loved a mystery, but he never expected to take the lead role in a thriller. Yet there was no doubt that someone was trying to kill him.

Cornelia Lackland ruled her house with an iron fist and a firm grasp on the pocketbook. When she dies mysteriously on the night before she was due to change her will, Chief Inspector Dan Pardoe of Scotland Yard must be called to investigate an ever growing list of suspects.

Emma Betony comes to the aid of a former pupil, Grace Aram, who is running a struggling boarding school for girls. Grace needs someone she can trust to expose the culprit behind a series of troubling events.

It was not until the fifth death that Miss Tidy made up her mind to go to the police. It was not a sense of civic duty that compelled her but the arrival of two letters that made it clear her life was in danger. Soon there is another death and Inspector Raikes of Scotland Yard is on the scene.

Did Mrs. Weir's habit of brewing her own herbal tea give opportunity for murder? Inspector Pardoe provides the answer in this 1940 English mystery by a writer who was compared to Dorothy L. Sayers by contemporary reviewers.

This English author's first book, first published in England in 1937, introduces Inspector Dan Pardoe who looks into the death of an old lady in an English village. When this book first appeared, The Times of London said Miss Dorothy Bowers should make a name in detective fiction. And she no doubt would have had she not succumbed to TB at the age of 46 after only five novels, all of which will be reprinted by The Rue Morgue Press. Dorothy L. S...

Emma Betony was living out her dignified, elderly, poverty-stricken life when an appeal for help from a former student brought her to the little town of Martinmas and a nursing home transformed into a girls' school. Set in 1940, he school had recently been moved from its former English coastal location to avoid German bombers. Famed Edgar-winning mystery critic and acquisitions librarian at the University of Colorado, James Sandoe call this 19...

The victim left sketches, painted watercolors, and made clay models of his murderer's name. In spite of this, Inspector Dan Pardoe of Scotland Yard is at a loss to identify the killer. A Golden Age detective novel by a writer compared to Dorothy L. Sayers, first published in 1940.

It was not until the fifth death in Long Greeting that Miss Tidy made up her mind to go to the police. And then from no sense of civic duty but because she knew her own security imperilled." So opens the fifth and final book by Bowers, first published in 1947, one year before her untimely death from TB at the age of 46. Scotland Yard is once again involved but Dan Pardoe, the investigating officer in the four previous books, has been replaced ...