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First published in 1930, ''The Case of Sir Adam Braid'' by Molly Thynne (d. 1950), public domain worldwide.
The Case of Sir Adam Braid tells of the murder of an ill-tempered old artist in his flat in the short window of time when his manservant was out of the...
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Parution : 2025-09-12
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The main character, Sir Benjamin Watson, created a private zoo in the countryside on the territory of his country house. 'Ganges' is an exotic jungle filled with snakes, elephants, tigers and lions. One summer day, Ann Sherborne arrives at Ganges for meeting friends...
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Parution : 2025-09-11
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The story "Midnight House" is about a mysterious house.The owners go abroad. However, neighbors claim that they saw them in the city. This house is associated with ill-fated love and early death. For a long time, it was closed, but soon reopened......
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John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps is a landmark in spy and adventure fiction, first published in 1915 and still regarded as one of the most thrilling tales of its kind. Introducing the now-iconic hero Richard Hannay, the novel set the stage for generations of...
Editeur : Asimis Books
Parution : 2025-09-02
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A ROGER SHERINGHAM MYSTERY. Detective writer John Hillyard is entertaining a small house party at Minton Deeps Farm when a shocking accident takes place. Shortly after enacting a murder drama for their own amusement, the guests are returning to the house when Eric Scott...
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Parution : 2025-08-24
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Gaston Leroux’s The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1907) is one of the earliest and most celebrated locked-room mysteries, a cornerstone of classic detective fiction. Introducing the brilliant young journalist-detective Joseph Rouletabille, the novel sets the stage for a...
Editeur : Asimis Books
Parution : 2025-08-21
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Put Out the Light (1931), also known in the U.S. as Sinister Light, is a haunting and elegantly written mystery novel by Ethel Lina White, a master of psychological suspense. Set in a remote country house in rural England, the novel explores the dark undercurrents of...
Editeur : Asimis Books
Parution : 2025-08-19
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Murder at the Motor Show first published in 1935 (published in the U.K. as Mystery at Olympia). A dense crowd surrounded the new Comet car that was fully expected to be the sensation of the great Motor Show at Olympia. Suddenly one of the eager spectators, an elderly...
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Parution : 2025-08-12
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Step in the Dark (1938) is a suspenseful psychological thriller by Ethel Lina White, one of the most prominent female authors of British crime fiction in the early 20th century. With her trademark blend of elegance and creeping dread, White crafts a tense and...
Editeur : Asimis Books
Parution : 2025-07-29
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During a party, the host, an internationally famous entrepreneur, is kidnapped and his wife murdered.
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A new musical Old Seville produced by Kurt Goldmayer is having a try-out at a South Coast theatre before transferring to London's West End. One night, however, the leading lady Adrienne Daw disappears from her dressing room and is later found murdered.
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Parution : 2025-07-25
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There's murder on the French Riviera, including the disappearance of a husband, and a mystery involving a lonely farmhouse in the mountains.
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Parution : 2025-07-25
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The central detective is Inspector Blampignon of the Sûreté who had previously appeared in Death on the Riviera. It is divided into two distinct parts with the first section narrated in first person by Nigel Derry, one of the suspects, and the second part follows the...
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There was motive enough for the murder of Fred Dunstable, but when Inspector ‘Jimmy’ Waghorn is sent down to the little village of Cradwell to investigate his death, he finds it difficult to be satisfied with any of the solutions offered by the local police. Whose was...
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The wealthy Henry Watlington mysteriously disappears after an evening out, after his chauffeur is too drunk to drive him home, and shortly afterwards his body is found hidden in an AA Phone box by the side of the road. Jimmy Waghorn is assigned to the case and with...
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In the market town of Patham, Doctor Greenwood takes his annual August holiday with his wife and hires a locum to take over the practice while he is away. But his replacement Stephen Thornhill goes missing after just a few days, and when a body is discovered Scotland...
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After the inquest that the death of Major Walter Bedworthy was an accident due to drowning, his friend summons in Priestley due to his belief that it was in fact murder. This proves to be the case when the dead man's brother is also found drowned a few days later....
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The discovery of a seemingly unidentifiable corpse in a shabby block of offices off the Gray's Inn Road in central London inexplicably proves to be linked to the assassination of a member of parliament with secret communist ties on an express train heading northwards.
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The true motive for the murder is introduced very late on, so as to conceal the identity of the killer. Gangland elements in the plot.The method of murder is very clever and there are a few genuine suspects....
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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...
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