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My great-aunt Liza is an old she-devil... but she's had a devilish raw deal.' Lady Elizabeth Carn has ruled Tristowell Castle with an iron fist for fifty years. On the eve of her adored adopted daughter Augusta's twenty-first birthday, far-flung family return to the castle, dredging up past resentments and conflicts. The next morning, Elizabeth is discovered strangled at her writing desk and nephew Palin Carn is found to have disappeared in ...

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Volume III contains This Way Out (1938), Diamonds of Death (1934) and Ruined by Water (1931). This Way Out was made into a film, The Suspect (1944), starring Charles Laughton

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Art is never sordid, ' said Daniel. 'And murder is one of the arts.' Volume I contains the first-ever collection of stories featuring Police Surgeon turned amateur sleuth Daniel Britling, originally published 1930-32: The Green Ghost Murder Introducing Daniel Britling and his twin sister Eunice. When local legend 'the Green Ghost of Heaton Forest' returns to haunt the local inhabitants, Britling must find a murderer before he strikes twice...

Vol II of Stories of Crime and Detection contains one novel, a novelette and a short story: Murder in the Family Stephen Osborne has just lost his job, not a good one and not one he particularly enjoyed. But at 50-some years of age in the Depression era and with no savings, he doesn't know how he's going to provide for his large family except by asking his sister, a wealthy woman, to help him financially. Unfortunately, Octavia Osborne is a ...

I shouldn't have come back! They'll never give up! There's too much to lose!' George Pollicott and Henry Rowles live a solitary and meagre existence in a hut along the towering Sea Wall of the Welsh Lowlands. On a foggy night twenty years before, night-watchman Pollicott had found Rowles near death and nursed him back to health. Henry Rowles, an obviously educated man, shuns outside contact and relies on the devoted Pollicott for all his nee...

It is not for you to exact vengeance on my behalf. Remember that.' When successful novelist Christabel Strange dies suddenly aged 32, the bequests are hard to fathom. She leaves one wing of the ancestral home to good friend Marcia Wentworth for her ongoing use, the rest of the house remains in the hands of her mother, grandmother and siblings. Christabel made it known that Marcia would write her biography, but leaves her sixteen volumes of m...

All these people who thought themselves securely in possession are now going to be dependent on the caprice of this young man.' During a blinding rainstorm, Jake Seaborne takes a wrong turn and arrives at Ullstone Hall, where is he is initially mistaken for 'Hugo', the new heir to the family estate. It seems Hugo is the offspring of the late Mr Ullstone's first marriage in India, but the children of his second marriage have never met him. In s...

When Claribel organizes a 'murder game' at her annual New Year's Eve party, all sorts of unexpected things occur. An unusual 1936 crime novel by the incomparable Mary Fitt.

When a man has three separate notices by three different women inserted in the local paper, and he's my own namesake besides, I feel I owe him something.' Sequential death notices appear for Robert Raynald: one by his mother, one by his estranged wife, one by his daughter. This odd approach draws the attention of Superintendent Mallett and his friend Dr. Fitzbrown. The inquest had decided that Raynald shot himself whilst temporarily insane, ...

The Clove and Hoof is the hot spot in Larcombe for a pint of bitter, a good story and some laughs. It's also the focal point of a bizarre series of murders, for the only connection the victims have seems to be that they all frequented the local pub.

In flashbacks, we learn how everything goes wrong in the lives of two sisters when their father brings the enigmatic Mary Dazill home and proposes to marry her. Soon, murder ensues. A fatalistic mystery with the emotional echoes of a Greek tragedy.

Business titan Hugh Mason is poisoned on his 60th birthday weekend, and the evidence points to one of the family. Hugh was about to make a large political donation, was this the reason? But who amongs them would risk such a move, given that Hugh provided for everyone and his will was completely unknown?

Crime writer Iain Carter has written a satirical series under a pseudonym. When the first book proves a huge success, he must take increasingly convoluted steps to protect his secret. But the real trouble begins when a local bookmaker is killed, and Iain finds his mysterious alter-ego is the prime suspect.

It was not at all a suitable house for a murder.Helen Bailey is the live-in housekeeper to the wealthy Murray family. Tall, dark-haired and beautiful, the enigmatic Helen has long ensured that life at 'The Towers' ran smoothly for autocratic patriarch James Murray, his widowed son John, and grandchildren Alan and Glenda. When Helen is found dead in her blood-soaked bedroom, struck down in a horrific attack, the police must consider not only th...

In the beginning was the Word-When Theodore Terhune's wealthy client Arthur Harrison is found stabbed and his library ransacked, the police suspect the murderer was looking for a book. Harrison collected rare early printed books called incunabula, but as the provenance of such titles is well documented in the book world it would make little sense to steal one. Terhune is hired by the estate to sell off Harrison's library, but another armed bre...

Simon Gabb had everything - or so it seemed: a beautiful house, a big estate, a flourishing business and two sons, both endowed with evident capacity. When one is murdered, the solution of the case is as much a study in relationships as in crime.

Psychologist James Hardwicke is invited to Scrope House, a progressive co-educational boarding school, to investigate several incidents of arson. Shortly afterwards, one of the teachers is found dead of poison and Hardwicke's search becomes a murder inquiry.

Theodore Terhune finds the body of a policeman in the road one evening, run over by a lorry. The inquest delivers a verdict of accidental death, but the police and Terhune are suspicious. Investigations suggest smuggling is alive and well on Romney Marsh and the dead constable was on their track. The seventh novel in the Theodore Terhune series.