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  • Murder at Monk's Barn

    A 'Perrins, Private Investigators' Mystery

    by Cecil Waye ...
    Series Book 1 - The 'Perrins, Private Investigators' Mysteries
    Burden, who had served in the war, and had considerable experience of death in its violent forms, took a pace forward. He saw at once that Mr. Wynter was beyond mortal aid.Gregory Wynter is shot dead through the window of his dressing room. There is no apparent motive for the crime, and it seems impossible for the murderer to have escaped before the police arrive. The dead man's brother, Austin, ... Read more

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  • The Figure of Eight

    A 'Perrins, Private Investigators' Mystery

    by Cecil Waye ...
    Series Book 2 - The 'Perrins, Private Investigators' Mysteries
    "Would it interest you to discover the identity of the man who boarded the bus at Piccadilly Circus with Lola Martinaes at about ten o'clock last Friday evening?"A woman is found sleeping on a London bus-so deeply asleep, in fact, that she cannot be woken. After being taken to hospital, the woman dies. She is identified as Lola Martinaes, a native of Montedoro-a Central American country whose ... Read more

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  • The End of the Chase

    A 'Perrins, Private Investigators' Mystery

    by Cecil Waye ...
    Series Book 3 - The 'Perrins, Private Investigators' Mysteries
    Herr Berndt leant forward in his chair. "Have you ever noticed how if one speaks about a thing, one usually hears about it again within a few days?"Christopher Perrin, investigator, is on the track of Duggie the Locksmith, suspected of being behind a major robbery. When he is caught in Belgium, Perrin is astonished and puzzled to see in the crowd a certain Maurus Kaulin, "one of the most skilful ... Read more

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  • The Prime Minister's Pencil

    A 'Perrins, Private Investigators' Mystery

    by Cecil Waye ...
    Series Book 4 - The 'Perrins, Private Investigators' Mysteries
    "Terrible disaster at the House of Commons."Christopher Perrin, investigator, is drawing up a confidential report for a distinguished client, when he is interrupted by Miss Millicent Rushburton, daughter of leading politician Sir Ethelred Rushburton.Miss Rushburton is trying to trace her father's secretary, Cuthbert Solway, who has vanished following a visit to a Harley Street specialist. Perrin ... Read more

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  • Murder in Absence

    by Miles Burton ...
    ''Murder in Absence'' by Miles Burton (John Rhode) is about two seemingly separate crimes: first, the baffling murder of estate agent Rufus Jones in English market town Hembury, followed by an investigation into suspicious activities on a Norwegian freighter in the Mediterranean, both eventually linked by amateur sleuth Desmond Merrion. The novel features classic Golden Age elements, including a ... Read more

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  • Death Leaves No Card

    by Miles Burton ...
    When Death pays a call he generally leaves a card behind... even if it sometimes takes a pathologist to find it. But on the morning that he visited the bathroom at Forstal Farm, he did it incognito. It took a man with a crowbar to break down the bathroom door, and there on the floor was Basil Maplewood, naked, with one foot still hanging over the edge of the bath. Basil was only twenty-one, and in ... Read more

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  • Death in Wellington Road

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    After a man is found gassed to death in a Cornish coastal resort, Superintendent Jimmy Waghorn takes up the case with the long-distance assistance of his mentor Doctor Priestley in London. Priestley is able to cast doubt on the police's view that the dead man's young housekeeper, now missing, is responsible for the crime. ... Read more

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  • Death of a Bridegroom

    by John Rhode ...
    In Death of a Bridegroom, Inspector Jimmy Waghorn investigates the death of a man found hanging in his workshop on the morning of his wedding day. Initially, the death is believed a suicide, but doubts begin to arise and Dr. Priestley is brought in to assist the police in solving the murder mystery. ... Read more

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  • The Fatal Garden

    by John Rhode ...
    The Fatal Garden, first published in 1949, is book no. 49 in the series of mysteries featuring private detective Dr. Priestley and Scotland Yard's Superintendent Waghorn. Author John Rhode, a pen name of Cecil Street (1884-1964), was a prolific writer of mostly detective novels, publishing more than 140 books between 1924 and 1961. From the dustjacket: "Yes, the initial murder in this book was ... Read more

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  • The Milk-Churn Murder

    by Miles Burton ...
    The book starts with the gruesome discovery of the dismembered body of an unidentified man in a milk churn outside the premises of a suitably surly farmer. He denies all knowledge of the headless corpse or the churn and Arnold and Merrion set off on the trail, which leads them all over the country. Obviously, the first question to arise is one of identity and in this our detectives are aided by ... Read more

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  • Devil's Reckoning

    by Miles Burton ...
    A village steeped in black magic, an aristocratic vicar and his wayward wife (whose corpse turns up on the family tomb), and a neat tying-in of local legend. ... Read more

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  • Heir to Lucifer

    by Miles Burton ...
    DESMOND MERRION and his wife Mavis go to the little seaside town of Croylehaven to spend a holiday. The place is practically owned by the wealthy Croyle family, who live in the large, ugly Castle Croyle. The present head of the family, Lord Croyle, an old gentleman of eighty, generally known as Lucifer, is surrounded by a large number of more or less expectant heirs. ... Read more

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