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The play is both hilarious and heart breaking as it takes us
through the changing lives of Robert and Hilary Travers a couple of
ex academics in retirement as they embark on a study of marriage in
old age.
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The Detection Collection (Paperback)
The Detection Club, Colin Dexter, Robert Goddard, Reginald Hill, P.D. James; Edited by …
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Ten years since it was first published in hardback, and now for the
first time in mass market paperback, this volume of short stories
by the cream of British crime writing talent celebrates 75 years of
the quintessential Detection Club. The Detection Club represents
the cream of British crime writing talent. Founded on the cusp of
the 1930s, the Club's first President was G.K. Chesterton, and
since then the mantle of Presidency has passed to some of the most
significant names inthe history of crime fiction, including Agatha
Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Julian Symons. The Club meets three
times a year - to dine, to plot, and to exchange ideas. This
anthology includes eleven new stories by the Best of British:
Robert Barnard, Lyndsey Davis, Colin Dexter, Clare Francis, Robert
Goddard, John Harvey, Reginald Hill, P.D. James, H.R.F. Keating,
Michael Ridpath and Margaret Yorke, and has been edited by the
Club's President, Simon Brett. Among the authors are a number of
bestsellers, as well as winners of both Diamond and Gold Daggers.
This outstanding collection is a must for crime lovers everywhere.
P.D. James * The Part-Time Job Michael Ridpath * Partnership Track
H.R.F. Keating * A Toothbrush John Harvey * The Sun, the Moon and
the Stars Lindsey Davis * 'Going Anywhere Nice?' Colin Dexter *
Between the Lines Robert Barnard * The Life-lie Margaret Yorke *
The Woman from Marlow Robert Goddard * Toupee for a Bald Tyre Clare
Francis * The Holiday Reginald Hill * Fool of Myself
Ellen Curtis is about to have her own life thrown into chaos in
this third light-hearted decluttering mystery! "Brett layers the
old-fashioned puzzle with deep psychological insights . . . Not to
be missed" Booklist Starred Review Declutterer Ellen Curtis has
been working to bring order into the life of Cedric Waites, a
recluse in his eighties who hasn't left his house or let anyone
inside it since his wife died. On one of her regular visits, Ellen
finds the old man dead. Sad but, given his age, perhaps not
unexpected. Nothing to get worked up about . . . until the police
raise the suspicion that Cedric might have been poisoned! The cause
seems be something he ate, and as Ellen cleared away the old man's
food containers, she is under suspicion. As is Dodge, who works for
Ellen and has unhelpfully done a runner . . . Meanwhile, a rival
declutterer is out to sabotage Ellen's reputable business, her two
grown-up children are back home and in crisis, and she has a
potential love interest. Ellen's life has taken on a chaotic turn
of its own! Can she uncover the killer and bring order back to her
own life?
When the body of a prospective client is discovered in her
burned-out home, declutterer Ellen Curtis is drawn into a baffling
investigation where nothing is as it first appears. "My mother's
going to kill herself . . . That is, if I don't kill her first."
When Alexandra Richards approaches professional declutterer Ellen
Curtis to ask her to help sort out her mother's chaotic flat, Ellen
gets the impression Alexandra doesn't like her mother very much.
But when Ingrid Richards' body is discovered in her burned-out
home, Alexandra's exasperated words don't seem such a joke. Due to
the hazardous state of the victim's over-cluttered residence, the
police are inclined to dismiss her death as an unfortunate
accident. Ellen's not so sure. Could Alexandra's resentment towards
her mother have escalated into outright violence? The more she
discovers about the dead woman's remarkable past, the more
convinced Ellen becomes that there's something decidedly suspicious
about her death. At least she can console herself that clearing out
widower Edward Finch's bungalow will be a straightforward job in
comparison. But in this assumption, Ellen couldn't be more wrong .
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The Floating Admiral (Paperback)
The Detection Club, Agatha Christie; Preface by Simon Brett; Introduction by Dorothy L Sayers; Prologue by G. K. Chesterton; Epilogue by …
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Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterton and nine other
writers from the legendary Detection Club collaborate in this
fiendishly clever but forgotten crime novel first published 80
years ago. Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder
in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. But when an old sailor
lands a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse with a stab wound to
the chest, the Inspector's investigation immediately comes up
against several obstacles. The vicar, whose boat the body was found
in, is clearly withholding information, and the victim's niece has
disappeared. There is clearly more to this case than meets the eye
- even the identity of the victim is called into doubt. Inspector
Rudge begins to wonder just how many people have contributed to
this extraordinary crime and whether he will ever unravel it... In
1931, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and ten other crime
writers from the newly-formed 'Detection Club' collaborated in
publishing a unique crime novel. In a literary game of
consequences, each author would write one chapter, leaving G.K.
Chesterton to write a typically paradoxical prologue and Anthony
Berkeley to tie up all the loose ends. In addition, each of the
authors provided their own solution in a sealed envelope, all of
which appeared at the end of the book, with Agatha Christie's
ingenious conclusion acknowledged at the time to be 'enough to make
the book worth buying on its own'. The authors of this novel are:
G. K. Chesterton, Canon Victor Whitechurch, G. D. H. Cole and
Margaret Cole, Henry Wade, Agatha Christie, John Rhode, Milward
Kennedy, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts,
Edgar Jepson, Clemence Dane and Anthony Berkeley.
Introducing an engaging new amateur sleuth, declutterer Ellen
Curtis, in the first of a brilliant new mystery series. Ellen
Curtis runs her own business helping people who are running out of
space. As a declutterer, she is used to encountering all sorts of
weird and wonderful objects in the course of her work. What she has
never before encountered is a dead body. When Ellen stumbles across
the corpse of a young woman in an over-cluttered flat, suspicion
immediately falls on the deceased homeowner's son, who has recently
absconded from prison. No doubt Nate Ogden is guilty of many things
- but is he really the killer? Discovering a link between the
victim and her own past, Ellen sets out to uncover the truth. But
where has her best friend disappeared to? And is Ellen really
prepared for the shocking revelations to follow?
The Floating Admiral was the first of the Detection Club's
collaborative novels, in which twelve of its members wrote a single
novel. Eighty-five years later, fourteen members of the club have
once again collaborated to produce The Sinking Admiral. 'The
Admiral' is a pub in the Suffolk seaside village of Crabwell, The
Admiral Byng. 'The Admiral' is also the nickname of its landlord,
Geoffrey Horatio Fitzsimmons, as well as the name of the landlord's
dinghy. None of them are as buoyant as they should be, for the pub
is threatened with closure due to falling takings. Tempers are
already frayed due to the arrival of a television documentary team
when Fitzsimmons is found dead in his tethered boat. The villagers
assume a simple case of suicide and fear that their debt-ridden pub
will now sink without trace. The journalists seem determined to
finish the job by raking up old skeletons, but they weren't banking
on the fact that this story has been written by 14 extremely
competitive crime writers - arch bamboozlers who will stop at
nothing to save a good pub. The Sinking Admiral, edited by the
Detection Club's outgoing President - author and broadcaster Simon
Brett, OBE - continues a tradition established by the Detection
Club's founders in 1931 when Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie,
Freeman Wills Crofts and eleven other esteemed authors wrote The
Floating Admiral, a 'collaborative novel' to challenge themselves,
fox their readers and help to pay for the Club's running costs.
Now, 85 years later, 14 of today's leading crime writers have
repeated this unique game of literary consequences, producing an
original, ebullient and archetypal whodunit that will keep readers
guessing right up to what crime lovers insist on calling the
denouement... The contributors to The Sinking Admiral are: SIMON
BRETT KATE CHARLES NATASHA COOPER STELLA DUFFY MARTIN EDWARDS RUTH
DUDLEY EDWARDS TIM HEALD MICHAEL JECKS JANET LAURENCE PETER LOVESEY
MICHAEL RIDPATH DAVID ROBERTS L.C. TYLER LAURA WILSON all members
of The Detection Club.
Elderly Valerie Trevelyan has been murdered with an overdose of
painkillers and there are suspicious bruises on her neck. Worse
still is the fact that the two key suspects in the case are her
sons, Gavin and Miles. Making no secret of their cold relationship
with each other, both had a financial motive and the physical
opportunity to have been the killer. As detectives interview the
brothers, as well as their senile father, Lionel, secrets about the
family are discovered as the clues mount up and clearly lead to one
person. But is he actually the murderer? This can be performed with
four men or as a one-man show.
1902. The Bellingford Amateur Dramaticks' next production is to be
A Midsummer Night's Dream - but it is a production with a
difference, as it is being sponsored by (and therefore controlled
by) a local entrepreneur and Henry Irving devotee, Sydney De
Lainey. Rehearsals, under De Lainey's tyrranny, are awkward and
many tensions arise within the company, culminating in De Lainey's
brutal murder. The brand-new science of fingerprinting is used to
solve the crime during a performance of the Dream and the culprit
is arrested. A Bad Dream, charming and full of period detail, ws
commissioned by the Sutton Amateur Dramatic Club in celebration of
its 100th Anniversary in 2002.
A pantomime script based around the "Sleeping Beauty" story.
Princess Aurora suffers a curse from the evil Carabosse, and falls
asleep for hundred years. With a kiss from Florizel, and a little
help from the audience in solving a riddle, Carabosse is defeated
and all ends happily. 4 women, 4 men
In Act I of this ingeniously-structured thriller, Detective
Inspector Bruton questions actress Celia Wallis about the murder of
her husband Martin. Celia is quite obviously in the clear, but
Neville Smallwood, the drunken journalist sleeping in her bed,
argued with Martin shortly before the murder, and the solution to
the initial puzzle seems simple. Act II takes place before the
murder, and all our expectations, of the characters as well as of
the plot, are turned on their heads.2 women, 4 men, 2 women or men
The aristocratic Boronski family live in Siberia in the years
before the Russian Revolution, and a lazy, snobbish, spoilt bunch
they are, except the grandmother Babushka who remembers their
humble origins. Just as Spring is about to begin, their lives are
disrupted by the evil Fox, who condemns Siberia to eternal cold and
despatches the Wolf, her slave, to kill Babushka. One by one the
Boronskis fall foul of the voracious Wolf, and only the brave
woodcutter Ivan can help them...Large flexible cast
Frinsley Village Hall is the hub of community life, lovingly tended
by the amiable Mr Quigley, whose little blue book ensures the
aerobics class never clashes with the wedding bookings. But plans
are afoot to change this cosy existence... the invidious Keith has
plans to sell the site. Feeling sure of success, Keith launches his
attack on Mr. Quigley a big mistake, for Mr Quigley is wilier than
he looks. Offers acting opportunities for all and great fun for the
audience!13 women, 13 men
Boris Smolensky's budget repertory production of "Murder at
Priorswell Manor" is looking decidedly shaky. The cast are more
interested in their egos than the play and life imitates art when
Boris's wife, Renee, is murdered on stage. Simon Brett's hilarious
text, a worthy companion to his Charles Paris theatrical thriller
novels, ruthlessly satirizes the politics of the inept company and
the numerous red herrings keep the audience guessing until the
final moments of the play.5 women, 3 men
Neighbours Carole and Jude uncover more than they bargained for
when Jude decides to redecorate her cottage in this lighthearted
cosy mystery. "An edgy cozy, filled with dry wit and deft plot
twists"- Booklist Starred Review Having decided to redecorate
Woodside Cottage, Jude has engaged the services of local man Pete,
who has painted and decorated the homes of Fethering residents for
many years. Pete is currently working on Footscrow House, a large
Victorian building which is being converted into holiday flats by a
local developer. Having arranged to meet at 'Fiasco House', as it
is known locally due to the many failed business enterprises over
the years, Jude and Pete make a surprising discovery behind a wall
panel: a woman's handbag! The casual discovery becomes serious when
the police identify the handbag's owner as Anita Garner, a young
woman who vanished in suspicious circumstances twenty years
earlier. Determined to find out what really happened to Anita all
those years ago, Jude and her neighbour Carole's investigations
plunge them into a maze of deception and murder, as they uncover a
number of uncomfortable secrets beneath the serene surface of
Fethering life . . .
When Carole Seddon's car is vandalised, it heralds the start of a
disturbing series of events in the witty and entertaining new
Fethering mystery. Carole Seddon's trusty Renault is one of her
most treasured possessions. So when it is vandalised, there's only
one person she will entrust with its repair: Bill Shefford has been
servicing the vehicles of the good citizens of Fethering for many
years. But how could something like this happen in Fethering of all
places? Then the note is shoved under Carole's kitchen door: Watch
out. The car window was just the start. It would appear that she
has been deliberately targeted. But by whom . and why? Matters take
an even more disturbing turn when a body is discovered at
Shefford's Garage, crushed to death by a falling gearbox. It would
appear to be a tragic accident. Carole and her neighbour Jude are
not so sure. And the more they start to ask questions, the more
evidence they uncover of decidedly foul play .
Introducing an engaging new amateur sleuth, declutterer Ellen
Curtis, in the first of a brilliant new mystery series. Ellen
Curtis runs her own business helping people who are running out of
space. As a declutterer, she is used to encountering all sorts of
weird and wonderful objects in the course of her work. What she has
never before encountered is a dead body. When Ellen stumbles across
the corpse of a young woman in an over-cluttered flat, suspicion
immediately falls on the deceased homeowner's son, who has recently
absconded from prison. No doubt Nate Ogden is guilty of many things
- but is he really the killer? Discovering a link between the
victim and her own past, Ellen sets out to uncover the truth. But
where has her best friend disappeared to? And is Ellen really
prepared for the shocking revelations to follow?
Mrs Pargeter discovers the skills by which Public Relations can
make evil look good in the latest wickedly entertaining mystery. It
is her characteristic generosity rather than her love of animals
that finds Mrs Pargeter supporting her friend, Jasmine Angold, at a
charity reception for PhiliPussies, whose worthy aim is to
rehabilitate stray cats from the Greek island of Atmos into caring
English homes. But the evening is to have unexpected consequences.
At the event, Mrs P is taken aback to meet a woman who claims to be
the sister of her late husband, the much-missed Mr Pargeter. This
surprising encounter leads to unwelcome digging into past secrets,
the discovery of a body in Epping Forest, an eventful trip to
Greece - and unexpected danger for Mrs Pargeter. In the course of
her investigations, she learns the true nature of charity and the
dubious skills by which Public Relations can make evil look good.
When Carole Seddon's car is vandalised, it heralds the start of a
disturbing series of events in the witty and entertaining new
Fethering mystery. Carole Seddon's trusty Renault is one of her
most treasured possessions. So when it is vandalised, there's only
one person she will entrust with its repair: Bill Shefford has been
servicing the vehicles of the good citizens of Fethering for many
years. But how could something like this happen in Fethering of all
places? Then the note is shoved under Carole's kitchen door: Watch
out. The car window was just the start. It would appear that she
has been deliberately targeted. But by whom . and why? Matters take
an even more disturbing turn when a body is discovered at
Shefford's Garage, crushed to death by a falling gearbox. It would
appear to be a tragic accident. Carole and her neighbour Jude are
not so sure. And the more they start to ask questions, the more
evidence they uncover of decidedly foul play .
Introducing an engaging new amateur sleuth, declutterer Ellen
Curtis, in the first of a brilliant new mystery series. Ellen
Curtis runs her own business helping people who are running out of
space. As a declutterer, she is used to encountering all sorts of
weird and wonderful objects in the course of her work. What she has
never before encountered is a dead body. When Ellen stumbles across
the corpse of a young woman in an over-cluttered flat, suspicion
immediately falls on the deceased homeowner's son, who has recently
absconded from prison. No doubt Nate Ogden is guilty of many things
- but is he really the killer? Discovering a link between the
victim and her own past, Ellen sets out to uncover the truth. But
where has her best friend disappeared to? And is Ellen really
prepared for the shocking revelations to follow?
When the body of a prospective client is discovered in her
burned-out home, declutterer Ellen Curtis is drawn into a baffling
investigation where nothing is as it first appears. "My mother's
going to kill herself . . . That is, if I don't kill her first."
When Alexandra Richards approaches professional declutterer Ellen
Curtis to ask her to help sort out her mother's chaotic flat, Ellen
gets the impression Alexandra doesn't like her mother very much.
But when Ingrid Richards' body is discovered in her burned-out
home, Alexandra's exasperated words don't seem such a joke. Due to
the hazardous state of the victim's over-cluttered residence, the
police are inclined to dismiss her death as an unfortunate
accident. Ellen's not so sure. Could Alexandra's resentment towards
her mother have escalated into outright violence? The more she
discovers about the dead woman's remarkable past, the more
convinced Ellen becomes that there's something decidedly suspicious
about her death. At least she can console herself that clearing out
widower Edward Finch's bungalow will be a straightforward job in
comparison. But in this assumption, Ellen couldn't be more wrong .
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