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'Is it wise to evoke these memories-to raise these ghosts-after all
these years? After attending a burial in an old country churchyard,
Superintendent Mallett and his friends are struck by the sight of
two elderly ladies, regally dressed in black and accompanied by
their uniformed chauffeur, placing an elaborate wreath on the
graveyard's most imposing monument. The vicar confirms that the
Misses de Boulter of Chetwode Lodge have placed a fresh wreath on
their father's and brother's tomb every week for the last fifty
years. In the opposite corner of the churchyard lies the small
neglected grave of Mary Dazill. In flashbacks, we learn how
everything goes wrong in the lives of two sisters when their father
brings the enigmatic Mary Dazill home and proposes to marry her.
Soon, murder ensues. A fatalistic mystery with the emotional echoes
of a Greek tragedy.
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Cat's Paw (Paperback)
Roger Scarlett; Introduction by Curtis Evans
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R300
Discovery Miles 3 000
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'When a man has three separate notices by three different women
inserted in the local paper, and he's my own namesake besides, I
feel I owe him something.' Sequential death notices appear for
Robert Raynald: one by his mother, one by his estranged wife, one
by his daughter. This odd approach draws the attention of
Superintendent Mallett and his friend Dr. Fitzbrown. The inquest
had decided that Raynald shot himself whilst temporarily insane,
but his daughter Geraldine is not convinced and presents enough
evidence to arouse the investigator within Mallett. Raynald's story
is presented in flashbacks, as Mallett and Fitzbrown build a
picture of his life through the people who knew him best. Requiem
for Robert combines the excitement of a detective story with a
haunting reading of character.
This book uses simple economic theories to explain how China's
agricultural economic phenomena exists in reality. It also helps
the reader to get a clear understanding of economic phenomena,
insight into the "hog cycle" and "food safety," as well as other
economic and social phenomena. The language of this book is not
only easy to understand, but also uses ancient poetry and humor to
make the subject interesting, as it speaks to the history and
current situation of Chinese agriculture. It also opens a window
for the people to read about agriculture. This is a unique book on
agricultural science that fills an important gap in works on
agricultural science and agricultural economics.
This book uses simple economic theories to explain how China's
agricultural economic phenomena exists in reality. It also helps
the reader to get a clear understanding of economic phenomena,
insight into the "hog cycle" and "food safety," as well as other
economic and social phenomena. The language of this book is not
only easy to understand, but also uses ancient poetry and humor to
make the subject interesting, as it speaks to the history and
current situation of Chinese agriculture. It also opens a window
for the people to read about agriculture. This is a unique book on
agricultural science that fills an important gap in works on
agricultural science and agricultural economics.
Charles was in a vile temper and Anne was catching the full benefit
of it. Charles Courtley is a difficult man. Prone to violent
outbursts and a bully to his wife and daughters, he has uprooted
the family from London to an old manor house in remote East Anglia.
Spoilt by his growing wealth and increasingly intolerant of any
dissent, Charles enjoys controlling everyone around him. His
family, his employees and even the locals - banned from using the
traditional footpaths on his forested estate - have multiple
reasons to bear a grudge. When Charles is shot dead in a woodland
clearing, evidence from an unreliable witness points to Courtley's
secretary, but he has a cast iron alibi and the resulting trial
ends in an acquital. A year later, a seemingly innocent death and
an odd cenotaph leads Chief Inspector Simon Sturt to reconsider the
case. Dorothy Erskine Muir (1889-1977) was one of seventeen
children of John Sheepshanks, Bishop of Norwich. She attended
Oxford, worked as an academic tutor, and began writing
professionally to supplement the family income after the unexpected
death of her husband in 1932. Muir published historical biographies
and local histories, as well as three accomplished detective
novels: In Muffled Night (1933), Five to Five (1934) and In Memory
of Charles (1941).
It was not at all a suitable house for a murder. Helen Bailey is
the live-in housekeeper to the wealthy Murray family. Tall,
dark-haired and beautiful, the enigmatic Helen has long ensured
that life at "The Towers" runs smoothly for autocratic patriarch
James Murray, his widowed son John, and his grandchildren Alan and
Glenda. When Helen is found dead in her blood-soaked bedroom,
struck down in a horrific attack, the police must consider the
family's relationships not only with one another but with everyone
close to them. Helen's jewellery is missing, suggesting a robbery
gone wrong, but the clues are confusing and contradictory. Dogged
police work eventually points to one person, but have the
authorities identified a cold-blooded murderer or an innocent
person framed by others? This classic detective novel is now back
in print for the first time. Dorothy Erskine Muir (1889-1977) was
one of twelve children of John Sheepshanks, Bishop of Norwich. She
attended Oxford, worked as an academic tutor, and began writing
professionally to supplement the family income after the unexpected
death of her husband in 1932. Muir published historical biographies
and local histories, as well as three accomplished detective
novels: In Muffled Night (1933), Five to Five (1934) and In Memory
of Charles (1941). Each is an intricate fictional account based on
an unsolved true crime.
'Mr Gabb, your son did not commit suicide. He was murdered.' Simon
Gabb has everything - or so it seems: a beautiful house, a big
estate, a flourishing business and two sons, both endowed with
evident capacity for carrying on the family firm. The moody Giles
is brilliant and inventive; the married Basil is dependable and
efficient. And yet something is manifestly wrong. A secret
invention, on which his business was engaged for the government,
becomes known to those who had no right to know it. But how and
where did the leak occur? It is a conundrum which creates suspicion
and dissension within the family and engulfs everyone who dine with
them one Saturday night. Giles has become friendly with young Arden
and Billy Laforte, who were the previous owners of Herons' Hall
until their father's death left them penniless, and who now rent
one of the lodges on the property. When Giles brings the Lafortes
to the Hall for the first visit to their old home in three years,
the Gabbs hardly know what to expect. Yet the Lafortes seem
completely at ease, so when a fierce storm develops, Mrs Gabb
insistes they stay the night. The next morning, Gabb's elder son,
Giles, is found dead in a motorboat on the lake, his body propped
up by a shotgun. But it is soon apparent that the gun was not the
cause of death, nor did he die in the boat; a skilled marksman shot
him from a distance. Superintendent Mallett is assigned the case
and must deal with the smouldering emotions the flare up between
everyone present that evening.
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Five to Five (Paperback)
D. Erskine Muir; Introduction by Curtis Evans
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R310
R280
Discovery Miles 2 800
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Much had been risked, and the murderer had escaped by such a rare
combination of chances. Elderly invalid Simon Ewing was bludgeoned
in his maisonette and a stranger was seen exiting the building by
several of the residents. The murderer had entered-and escaped-in
just a few minutes when Ewing was left unattended, implying that
someone knew the movements of both his household and the
neighbours. Who would run such a risk in a building with multiple
comings and goings? Robbery appears to be the motive, but why was
only one ring taken from Ewing's secret hoard of valuable
jewellery? A second death leads Detective-Inspector Woods to
untangle exactly who was where in the crucial minutes before the
murder. Dorothy Erskine Muir (1889-1977) was one of seventeen
children of John Sheepshanks, Bishop of Norwich. She attended
Oxford, worked as an academic tutor, and began writing
professionally to supplement the family income after the unexpected
death of her husband in 1932. Muir published historical biographies
and local histories, as well as three accomplished detective
novels: In Muffled Night (1933), Five to Five (1934) and In Memory
of Charles (1941). Each is an intricate fictional account based on
an unsolved true crime.
Not every woman can collect her dethroned lovers and their wives
into one room. But then Claribel was not 'every woman'. Things
happened at her parties and so one swallowed the latest baits and
joined all the other poor fish. But having given her party, having
collected her bevy of expectant friends, having displayed her three
mysterious lovelies, it was painfully bad tactics to make them play
a murder game. All sorts of curious things were liable to happen
when one let loose such a motley throng in a darkened house. So
really it was Claribel's fault, and she had only herself to blame
when things did happen. A fairy tale with a sting in its tail.
'All these people who thought themselves securely in possession are
now going to be dependent on the caprice of this young man.' During
a blinding rainstorm, Jake Seaborne takes a wrong turn and arrives
at Ullstone Hall, where is he is initially mistaken for 'Hugo', the
new heir to the family estate. It seems Hugo is the offspring of
the late Mr Ullstone's first marriage in India, but the children of
his second marriage have never met him. In short, the Ullstone
family destiny is now in the hands of a complete stranger. A
friend, Sir Frederick Lawson (who it turns out knows Jake's family)
has been asked to act as a "sort of buffer" for Hugo on his
arrival, but Lawton cannot stay and Jake agrees to act in that role
until he can return. But not everything is as it appears to be, and
when the handsome and charming Hugo arrives, trouble follows and
before long three people are dead.
While placidly pedaling his bicycle on the morning before Easter,
Constable Simmons, a twenty-year veteran of the Bermuda Police
Force, discovers a beautiful woman's lifeless body on Snake Road.
She has been stabbed to death. Incongruously, a bouquet of lilies
lies by her side. From this slender clue of the Easter lilies an
intricately interlaced murder problem quickly blossoms in Bermuda.
Soon another person, a man this time, is found dead in Hamilton,
the territorial capital. He has been struck down by mercury
bichloride. Can the intrepid Bermuda Police Force send Death, a
most unwelcome visitor, packing, before a third victim is found? A
pioneering police procedural crime novel, Willoughby Sharp's Murder
in Bermuda focuses not on the investigative activities of a
solitary super-detective, but rather on those of several ordinary
policemen. The author, who at the time he wrote the novel lived
with his family in Bermuda, also presents his readers with
appealing local color and a tricky, fair play problem that is in
the best tradition of Golden Age detective fiction. Originally
published in 1933, Murder in Bermuda provides readers with, as a
contemporary reviewer stated, "as complicated and satisfying a
mystery as one could hope to find."
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Only the Good (Paperback)
Mary Collins; Introduction by Curtis Evans
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R427
R354
Discovery Miles 3 540
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Cry Murder (Paperback)
Edith Howie; Introduction by Curtis Evans
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R679
Discovery Miles 6 790
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