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I was, awakened by a piercing scream that echoed and re-echoed through the house. It came from the floor below!
"Murder! Murder! Help! Help! Murder!"
The setting is Considine Manor in Sussex, where Sir Charles is holding his annual Cricket Week. But, the house-party is marred by the discovery of a dead body in the billiard room, not to mention the fact that Lady Considine's pearls have been stolen. Can Inspector Baddeley catch the criminal, or will...
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I never thought it would fall to my lot to write what is popularly known as a "thriller", but Lois insists that I am the right person to do it and when Lois sets her mind on anything-
Young Cecilia Cameron takes up reins as narrator in one of Brian Flynn's most diabolical and surprising mysteries. Cecilia isn't expecting to become embroiled in the secret of the doggerel cryptogram, still less the horror that hangs over a little corner of Sussex....
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Elisabeth slept! It is perhaps a matter for wonderment that her sleep was untroubled. For-had she but known it-she was so close to Terror and Tragedy! So close to Death and deaths-so close to the menace of `Mr Levi'!
Mr Medlicott, a solicitor, heads to the country home of his old friend and client Sir John Wynward, to spend Christmas with Sir John's family and friends. But after a peaceful and enjoyable Christmas for all apart from Medlicott himself,...
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"This is not suicide, gentlemen. This is murder! Cold-blooded murder! The sooner we get the police here and find Sir Eustace Vernon, the better!"
Christmas Eve at Vernon House is in full swing. Sir Eustace's nearest and dearest, and the great and the good of Mapleton, are all there. But, the season of comfort and joy doesn't run true to form. Before the night is out, Sir Eustace has disappeared and his butler, Purvis, lies dead, poisoned, with a threatening...
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"Before she could finish what she wanted to say, she just gasped once or twice and died there in my arms."
Nothing seems amiss at the Hillier family dinner party but the very next morning Jacqueline Hillier is found dying in her car. Her clothes are dirty and torn, her face bruised, but it was an overdose of chloral hydrate which took her life. Nobody knows where she might have gone . . . and nobody knows why, after her funeral, her grave is covered...
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"I believe those men were murdered just as clearly as if they had been stabbed to the heart with a knife. The only sign that they bore was a dull red mark . . . behind the ears."
Six men meet at the vicarage of St Crayle one evening to tell each other ghost stories. In particular, it is Martin Burke's tale, one of a homicidal chimera in India, that chills his audience to the bone. Burke believes that the events in the story might be a demonstration...
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The moment they entered, Anthony pointed to the floor and to a hand that protruded from beneath the bed.
Dr. Traquair is determined that either he or his wife should die. He decides to allow her to cut a deck of cards to see who will shoot whom - highest card wins.
As the winner of this deadly duel, Traquair takes flight, desperate to elude capture for his crime. Super-sleuth Anthony Bathurst takes up the chase, but it seems that, this time, he...
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"It has been evident to me for some time that this country, the Empire and all that you and I hold dear are in deadly peril."
Mrs. Warren Clinton, the American millionaire, summons nine talented individuals to the Royal Sceptre Hotel. Her stated purpose-to save the British Empire. Through a series of fiendish intellectual tests, she whittles the numbers down to two-only for the chosen pair to be found murdered, and for Mrs. Clinton to have vanished...
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"Mr. Laurence P. Stewart was murdered last night in his library. He was found with his skull battered in!"
Peter Daventry, a young lawyer, receives instructions from a rich client to purchase three valuable artefacts once belonging to Mary, Queen of Scots. It's a singular request, with no limit on the money to be paid at the auction. But the day after Daventry inspects the items, they are stolen from the auction house and a security guard is found...
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"I don't like any of it. He's either being prevented from going home by force . . . or else he'll never go home again."
'Lefty' Donovan, a boxer, leaves home after receiving a mysterious offer that seems too good to be true-and is never seen again. His wife, Flora, approaches Anthony Bathurst to look for her husband, but he fears the worst, especially when he discovers another fighter who had vanished in identical circumstances weeks earlier.
As...
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"I cannot tell you of your future - because there is no future for you."
Three remarkable things happen to Aubrey Coventry in one day. First, he is contacted by Wall Street financier Silas Montgomery with a lucrative business proposition - although Montgomery insists on meeting him at two a.m. the following day. Second, at a village garden party, a fortune teller cannot read his future, as he does not have one. And thirdly, a shabbily-dressed man...
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"Murder? Is that how you see it? Well-I don't! Justifiable homicide more like it!"
Hubert Grant is a fairly unpleasant man. He also thinks he is happily married.
Dorothy Grant despises her husband but finds consolation in the handsome Laurence Weston. In order for the lovers to be happy, however, the intolerable Hubert needs to be cut out of the picture. Permanently.
Dorothy and Laurence start plotting. But the best laid schemes o' mice an' men...
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"Hard luck to be murdered just after your horse has won the Derby! Don't you think so, Doctor?"
Julius Maitland, the millionaire horse trainer is excited about his horse's chance to win the Derby. His wife's horse is also strongly fancied. In a neck and neck finish, Maitland's horse takes the race, his wife's in second.
In a national sensation, the winner is disqualified. A telephone call the day after the race summons the police to a house where...
14) Invisible Death
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Its favorite afternoon pastime was murder, and its favorite evening occupation was the same, only a trifle more so.
Anthony Bathurst reaches Swallowcliffe Hall, summoned by Constance Whittaker, to protect her husband, Major Whittaker, from an unnamed threat. Bathurst enlists his friend Peter Daventry, a crack shot and good in a fight.
One of the household suddenly drops dead, despite no one being anywhere near him. When poison is, revealed to be,...
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"Anonymity is such a terribly strong position in which to entrench one's self. To you I am Sheila Delaney - to me you are - an unknown quantity."
At the Hunt Ball in Westhampton, Sheila Delaney dances the night away with a stranger, a man who wanted only, to be known as Mr. X. At the end of the evening, he departs as mysteriously as he appeared.
Months later, private investigator Anthony Bathurst is approached by the Crown Prince of Clorania over...
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"So great was the force of the blow, it would have been impossible for the victim to have lived more than a few seconds."
The stately homes of England are under threat from the seemingly untouchable jewel-thief 'Creeping Jenny'. After the latest burglary, Inspector Baddeley suspects the country-house home of Henry Mordaunt might be the next target.
Mordaunt is hosting a party to celebrate the engagement of his daughter, when her fiancé intends to...
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The nude body swung-right-left-as its weight played on the rope which the hook held.
Dr. Julian Field had a straightforward day ahead of him-a short train journey to visit his patient, the wife of Philip Stanhope of Stoke Pelly, and then a journey home. So what caused him to leave the station at an earlier station, Fullaford? Whatever it was apparently led him to St. Mark's Church. And whatever it was led to him being found hanging from the light...
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"A dead man in my car? But how can that be? Do you mean somebody-er-that was taken ill or something?"
"No, sir. The dead man in your car was murdered."
When Richard Langley entered the town of Angel, he encountered the unexpected. He never expected to meet Priscilla Schofield. He never expected to be asked to deliver her kitten Ahaseurus to Priscilla's father. And he never expected to stumble into the wrong house and come face to face with a gang...
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"Education's like murder. It will out."
Anthony Bathurst drops into a Glebeshire church and when, it transpires that the vicar is acquainted with the medical examiner on a case of murder, Bathurst is hooked. He is soon on the trail of a most bizarre murderer. Who could have slain the slightly mysterious, yet quite unsuspicious, man on the top of a local bus? Bathurst assembles a band of helpers, with the reluctant help of Inspector Curgenven, to get,...
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"She came to me for help, Andrew, and I failed her. I failed her living, but I promise to God I won't fail her dead!"
Richard Arbuthnot is convinced that a crime will be committed. The odd behaviour of a man who shares his train to work in Kingsley raises suspicions-suspicions which soon drive Artbuthnot to contact detective Anthony Bathurst.
The next day, Bathurst is approached by Kathleen Regan to investigate the disappearance of her artist brother....
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