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“alfred walter”

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  • Murder in the Maze

    by Alfred Walter Stewart ...
    Murder in the Maze is the third criminous novel by Alfred Walter Stewart.Alfred Walter Stewart (5 September 1880 – 1 July 1947) was a British chemist and part-time novelist who wrote seventeen detective novels and a pioneering science fiction work between 1923 and 1947 under the pseudonym of JJ Connington. He created several fictional detectives, including Superintendent Ross and Chief Constable ... Read more

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  • Tragedy at Ravensthorpe. Sir Clinton Driffield. Illustrated

    by J. J. Connington ...
    J. J. Connington’s Tragedy at Ravensthorpe is a refined example of Golden Age detective fiction, featuring the calm and analytical Sir Clinton Driffield. The novel is set at Ravensthorpe, an imposing country house surrounded by bleak moorland, where a family gathering is disrupted by a sudden and suspicious death. What first appears to be a tragic accident soon reveals signs of careful planning ... Read more

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  • The Case With Nine Solutions. Sir Clinton Driffield. Illustrated

    by J. J. Connington ...
    J. J. Connington’s The Case With Nine Solutions is an ingenious Golden Age mystery that once again places Sir Clinton Driffield at the center of a perplexing investigation. The story begins with an apparently straightforward crime, but what seems at first to be a simple problem soon develops into a tangle of contradictions. Several different explanations fit the known facts, and each suspect ... Read more

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  • Mystery at Lynden Sands

    by J. J. Connington ...
    In "Mystery at Lynden Sands," J. J. Connington crafts an intricate detective narrative steeped in the atmospheric gloom of the English coastline. The story centers around an enigmatic mystery that unfolds amidst the sands of a once-illustrious estate, blending elements of traditional whodunit with psychological tension. Connington employs a meticulous literary style characterized by vivid ... Read more

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  • The Studio Crime

    A Golden Age Mystery

    by Ianthe Jerrold ...
    Description "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 soirée is taking place in the studio of artist Laurence Newtree. The guests include an eminent psychiatrist, a wealthy philanthropist and an observant young friend of ... Read more

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  • The viaduct murder

    by Ronald Arbuthnott Knox ...
    Nothing is ever wasted. The death of the animal fertilizes the vegetable world: bees swarm in the disused pillar-box; sooner or later, somebody will find a use for the munition-factories. And the old country-seats of feudal England, that bask among their figured terraces, frowning at the ignoble tourist down secular avenues and thrusting back the high-road he travels by into respectful detours ... Read more

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  • The Piccadilly Murder. Illustrated

    by Anthony Berkeley ...
    The Piccadilly Murder by Anthony Berkeley is a classic detective novel that combines suspense, clever twists, and Berkeley’s characteristic wit. Featuring the keen and unconventional amateur sleuth Ambrose Chitterwick, the story opens with a seemingly ordinary afternoon in a tearoom in Piccadilly, London, which quickly takes a sinister turn. Chitterwick, a quiet yet astute member of the Crimes ... Read more

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  • The Duke of York's steps

    by Henry Wade ...
    Henry Wade's "The Duke of York's Steps" intricately weaves a tapestry of suspense, intrigue, and social commentary set against the backdrop of post-World War I England. The novel is marked by Wade's sharp prose and attention to psychological depth, creating multifaceted characters whose lives intersect in unexpected ways. The narrative unfolds with a sense of foreboding, as the protagonist ... Read more

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  • Between Twelve and One. Illustrated

    by Vernon Loder ...
    Originally published in the Golden Age of detective fiction, Between Twelve and One by Vernon Loder is a tightly plotted, atmospheric mystery that blends classic whodunit structure with a touch of psychological complexity. Set in a quiet English town shaken by a chilling murder, the novel showcases Loder’s gift for suspense, character development, and ingenious plotting. The story begins with the ... Read more

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  • Murder in Blue

    by Clifford Witting ...
    John Rutherford, bookseller and sometime fiction writer, discovers the bludgeoned corpse of a policeman one evening while taking a stroll in a rainstorm. The policeman's overturned bicycle is what first catches Rutherford's eye. Then he sees Officer Johnson's body sprawled on the sodden ground of Phantom Coppice. Rutherford takes Johnson's bike and pedals to rural Paulsfield police station, two ... Read more

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  • The Three Taps

    by Ronald Knox ...
    Series series Otto Penzler's Locked Room Library
    The business of death has given insurance investigator Miles Bredon a unique outlook on life in this witty Golden Age mystery.Jephthah Mottram has been given some bad news from his doctor. The very rich man has only two years left to live. But he doesn't even make it that far. While on a fishing holiday in the Midlands of England, he's found dead of an apparent suicide by gas.Sadly, that would be ... Read more

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  • The Markenmore Mystery

    by J. S. Fletcher ...
    Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863 - 1935) was an English journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction, and was one of the most prolific English writers of detective fiction. ... Read more

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