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  • The Perfect Alibi

    by Christopher St John Sprigg ...
    “GOOD GOD, YOU DON’T THINK IT WAS AN ACCIDENT?”Wealthy industrialist Antony Mullins is found dead after a fire in a locked garage. The locals assume it was an accident, or perhaps suicide. But when the autopsy reveals a bullet wound to Mullins’ head and no revolver is found, a murder investigation ensues. Was the killer disgraced nephew Holliday, rumoured to be close to Mullins’ wife? Or Patricia ... Read more

    $4.08 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Christopher St. John Sprigg Collection. Illustrated

    The Perfect Alibi, Fatality in Fleet Street, Death of a Queen, Crime in Kensington, Death of an Airman

    by Christopher St. John Sprigg ...
    The Christopher St. John Sprigg Collection. Illustrated brings together some of the finest works by this master of Golden Age detective fiction. Featuring beloved titles such as The Perfect Alibi, Fatality in Fleet Street, Death of a Queen, Crime in Kensington, and Death of an Airman, this anthology showcases Sprigg's unparalleled ability to craft ingenious plots filled with sharp twists, engaging ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Crime in Kensington

    by Christopher St. John Sprigg ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    Charles Venables, journalist and ex-detective, is looking for lodgings in London and decides to investigate the Garden Hotel in Kensington, where his friend Lady Viola is also staying. Some of the other guests are less amenable, however, and Charles's suspicions are instantly aroused when the first thing he hears on approaching the hotel is a threat of murder. Shortly afterwards, the hotel's ... Read more

    $1.35 USD

  • Death of an Airman

    by Christopher St John Sprigg ...
    A YOUNG WOMAN with a reddish face and horn-rimmed glasses appeared suddenly out of a door marked "Manager, Baston Aero Club"."Well, young man, what do you want?" she asked sharply.The middle-aged man in grey flannels who was standing in the club hall looked round to see who was being spoken to, and then perceptibly started when he realized that it was he who was being addressed."Are you the ... Read more

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  • Fatality in Fleet Street

    by Christopher St John Sprigg ...
    “THREE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, LORD CARPENTER, I’D HAVE HAD YOUR HEAD ON A SPIKE ON TOWER HILL.”As head of the largest newspaper group in the world, Carpenter has used the Mercury to promote an anti-Russia agenda. Over the objections of the prime minister, Carpenter is about to publish a front-page story that will guarantee war. But before the paper can go to print, he is found stabbed in his office, ... Read more

    $4.08 USD

  • Crime in Kensington

    by Christopher St John Sprigg ...
    How many times have I told you that we must appear to run this hotel as commercial proposition?"Newly arrived in London, journalist Charles Venables has been invited by his friend Viola to stay - at least temporarily - at a residential hotel in Kensington. But there is something amiss at the genteel Garden Hotel. The prices are far too low. The residents are jittery and upset. On arriving, Charles ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • 3 Detective Stories - Criminals Point of View

    by Maurice LeBlanc, E W Hornung, Christopher St John Sprigg ...
    There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more mode ... Read more

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  • The Six Queer Things

    by Christopher St. John Sprigg ...
    Desperate to escape living with her miserly uncle, Marjorie Easton eagerly accepts a job offer from the strange Michael Crispin despite knowing nothing of the employment except that it is well-paid and includes some kind of research. Much to her surprise, the “research” involves séances and requires Marjorie to develop her own psychic gifts to assist in communing with the dead. Soon she begins to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Detective Stories Library (26 Books). Illustrated

    The House of the Poplars by Dorothy L. Sayers, Grand Guignol by John Dickson Carr, Boots by Ngaio Marsh, The Yellow Sphere by John Rhode, Shadowed Sunlight by Christianna Brand and Many Others

    by Dorothy L. Sayers, John Dickson Carr, Ngaio Marsh, E. C. R. Lorac, John Rhode, Anthony Berkeley, Anthony Gilbert, Christianna Brand, J. Jefferson Farjeon, Lynn Brock, Cyril Hare, Christopher Bush, Joseph Commings, Christopher St. John Sprigg, Alice Campbell, Stuart Palmer, Josephine Bell, G. D. H. & M. Cole, William A. R. Collins, Nicholas Blake, Ethel Lina White, H. C. Bailey, Gladys Mitchell, Richard Keverne, Herbert Adams ...
    The Detective Stories Library is a rich and engaging collection of classic mysteries by some of the greatest writers of the genre. This illustrated volume brings together brilliant tales of crime, deduction, and suspense, featuring works by masters of the Golden Age of detective fiction such as Dorothy L. Sayers, John Dickson Carr, Ngaio Marsh, John Rhode, and Christianna Brand. Among the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • 3 Detective Stories - About Poison

    by Alice & Claude Askew, Arthur Gask, Christopher St John Sprigg ...
    There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more mode ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 3 Stories About Blackmail

    by Ethel Lina White, Saki, Christopher St John Sprigg ...
    There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Death of a Queen

    by Christopher St John Sprigg ...
    “Give up your foolish plan. If not you die.”When elderly Queen Hanna discovers the anonymous letter in her dress pocket, she knows someone in her household is spying on her. The queen is secretly planning a ceremony of atonement that she hopes will secure the royal succession. Amateur sleuth Charles Venables is invited by the queen’s son Gustav to help identify the spy quickly and discreetly ... Read more

    $4.08 USD