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  • Tragedy on the Line

    by John Rhode ...
    Series Book 11 - The Dr. Priestley Detective Stories
    A body on the tracks and a pair of missing wills have Dr. Priestley puzzled . . .Gervase Wickenden's estate is close to a railroad line—and that's where his mangled body is found after an unfortunate meeting with a train. The timing is a bit odd though, considering this happened only two days after Wickenden changed his will. And now, neither version of the will can be located . . .The heirs ask ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Murder in the Bookshop

    by Carolyn Wells ...
    Series series Detective Club Crime Classics
    Book 50 in the Detective Club Crime Classics series is Carolyn Wells’ Murder in the Bookshop, a classic locked room murder mystery which will have a special resonance for lovers and collectors of Golden Age detective fiction. Includes a bonus murder story: ‘The Shakespeare Title-Page Mystery’.When Philip Balfour is found murdered in a New York bookstore, the number one suspect is his librarian, a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Dr. Priestley Investigates

    by John Rhode ...
    Series Book 8 - The Dr. Priestley Detective Stories
    Was it a tragic drunk-driving accident, or something more twisted? "You can never go far wrong with a Dr. Priestley story." — The New York TimesSuperintendent King has concluded that the drunk driver with a dead body in his car was only guilty of manslaughter, not intentional murder. But Dr. Lancelot Priestley thinks there's more to the story—especially considering that the victim's estate, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Blackthorn House

    by John Rhode ...
    Series Book 48 - The Dr. Priestley Detective Stories
    A man's car is impounded as a stolen vehicle—but that's not the worst of it—in this classic British mystery starring a "tartly logical professor" ( The New York Times).Kenneth Winslow's company has sold a car to his nephew, Noel Yewdale, who's supposed to transport the large, locked chest in it. But before he can get the job done, the police seize the car—saying they think it's stolen.When the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Death in Harley Street

    by John Rhode ...
    Series Book 43 - The Dr. Priestley Detective Stories
    An "extremely clever" mystery about a doctor who appears to have fatally injected himself and a dinner party devoted to detection ( The Saturday Review).Dr. Richard Mawsley was a happy man and a careful man. So how and why did the Harley Street specialist inject himself with strychnine while in his locked office? There's no hint that anyone else was at the scene, and the guests at Dr. Lancelot ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery

    Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961

    by Curtis Evans ...
    In 1972, in an attempt to elevate the stature of the "crime novel," influential crime writer and critic Julian Symons cast numerous Golden Age detective fiction writers into literary perdition as "Humdrums," condemning their focus on puzzle plots over stylish writing and explorations of character, setting and theme. This volume explores the works of three prominent British "Humdrums"--Cecil John ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • The Claverton Affair

    by John Rhode ...
    Series Book 14 - The Dr. Priestley Detective Stories
    A scientifically minded professor is stumped by a case involving séances and an inexplicable inheritance . . .After drifting apart from Sir John Claverton, Dr. Lancelot Priestley is finally visiting his old friend for dinner. But Claverton's situation is worrying. He's surrounded by relatives, among them a sister who speaks to the dead—but not to him—and a niece who may or may not be a qualified ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Peril at Cranbury Hall

    by John Rhode ...
    Series Book 9 - The Dr. Priestley Detective Stories
    A shady operator is targeted for death and needs help from a professor with an "uncanny ability to ferret out the truth" ( The New York Times).An expert in alternative medicine is creating a clinic in Cranbury Hall that promises to cure fatigue, and Arnold Gilroy is happy to invest in this promising moneymaking venture.Unfortunately, his brother Oliver has just finished a stint in prison for fraud ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Venner Crime

    by John Rhode ...
    Series Book 16 - The Dr. Priestley Detective Stories
    The "astute and sharp-spoken" crime-solving professor must find out if a missing man got away with murder ( The New York Times).After some initial suspicion, the death of Ernest Venner's wealthy uncle was attributed to natural causes—a simple infection. But Dr. Lancelot Priestley and his crime-solving companions find it intriguing, to say the least, that as soon as Venner collected his much-needed ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Enter Certain Murderers

    An Antony Maitland Mystery

    by Sara Woods ...
    Series Book 9 - The Antony Maitland Mysteries
    "Let's say, a man's presumed innocent-""A very proper attitude," Denning applauded. "But don't you think you're carrying it a little too far?"Antony and Jenny Maitland's stage actress friend Meg Hamilton (see Bloody Instructions) tells them that her lover Roger Farrell is the prime police suspect in the fatal shooting of the man who had been blackmailing his late mother. Worse yet, from the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Windy Side of the Law

    An Antony Maitland Mystery

    by Sara Woods ...
    Series Book 7 - The Antony Maitland Mysteries
    "He didn't know where he was......and hard on that realization the further thought came with the force of a blow. He didn't know who he was."Antony and Jenny Maitland's old friend Peter Hammond didn't think he had smuggled heroin into the country when he alighted in London from an engineering job overseas-but he just couldn't remember! And he was certain he didn't murder that man in the hotel. But ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • This Little Measure

    An Antony Maitland Mystery

    by Sara Woods ...
    Series Book 6 - The Antony Maitland Mysteries
    " 'To my son Andrew,' it said, 'I leave the problem of the Velasquez.' " He leaned forward and added eagerly, "The thing is, you see, there wasn't any Velasquez... there never had been."The Gaskells, wealthy owners of a family shipping line, were a querulous mix of self-righteous puritans and rascally pirates, so it when it came to light that one of them might have purloined a museum's priceless ... Read more

    $3.99 USD