Inspector Wedgwood has a difficult case on hand. The genealogist John Wraypoole has been found brutally murdered in the flat of Miss Tandy, the typist who had been working on the dead man's latest manuscript. With the manuscript now missing, Wedgwood begins to suspect that the solution to the mystery of Wraypoole's death lies in a secret unearthed in the antiquary's most recent research. Wedgwood's investigations lead him to the north country mansion of Mortover Grange. But what connection...

“I’ll never rest until I’ve seen his murderer hanged!”But Dick Blake didn’t know what he was letting himself in for. Not only did he have to contend with the strangely complicated network of intrigue which surrounded the passionate, neurotic Malvery clan, but more baffling still, somehow or somewhere, he had to discover the secret of The Hushing Pool-that turbulent, whirling body of water from which no man or woman had ever returned alive.Was Richard Malve...

J. S. Fletcher (b. 1863, d. 1935) was a prolific British author and journalist. He wrote over 230 titles, both fiction and non fiction. He was one of foremost writers of detective fiction during the Golden Age of murder mystery novels.

A wealthy man named Ashton is found murdered in an alley, apparently robbed for his jewelry and pocketbook. The police believe they have the killer, a young man who the next morning tries to pawn one of the stolen rings. Viner, however, the man who discovered the body and who is friends with the accused, believes otherwise. It is a quick race to find the real guilty party in order to save an innocent man. But none of the information is completely clear; the victim has a mysterious past and...

Mervyn Holt, invalided out of the army and looking for a job, becomes the paid companion of the eccentric Mr Mazaroff - a rich diamond merchant who has recently returned to England. Travelling northwards, the pair become firm friends, but their trip is interrupted in the most shocking fashion when Mazaroff is found murdered on Marrasdale Moor. Was this really a case of opportunistic robbery with violence? Or could the answer lie in the dead man's mysterious past? It is up to Holt to discov...

Dr. Hextall receives a call in the early hours of the morning to attend the beautiful Paquita Tress, who has accidentally wounded herself while attempting to shoot Kesteven, a friend of her brother Darrell. Paquita is convinced that Kesteven is not only a bad influence on her brother, but actively attempting to cheat him of his considerable fortune. When Kesteven is found dead in the spinney ajoining the Tresses' country house, it seems that Paquita was not the only one with a grudge again...

Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863—1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction, and was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the "Golden Age." This book collects 15 of his classic stories.

Complex murder mystery in the classic style of the time.

"Queer, isn’t it, miss .... that these people which knew each other well in the old days, Mrs. Tretheroe and the two gentlemen, Mr. Guy and Mr. Harborough, should all turn up again—here—about the same time?"After seven years of silence, Guy Markenmore returns to his family seat at Markenmore Court. Knowing his father Sir Anthony to be close to death, he is anxious to reassure his younger siblings that he will not make any claim to the family money even if he can't help inheriting t...

The Cartwright Gardens Murder is another of those stories of crime which have made Mr. Fletcher one of the most popular writers of the day. There is a great deal of character study in it, as well as a baffling plot, and, at the end, a striking surprise. The characters who move in this drama, which is concerned with the murder by unusually subtle means and under extraordinary circumstances, of one Alfred Jakyn, are distinctly clever and original. And as is also usual in Mr. Fletcher’s novel...

J.S. Fletcher was a British author who wrote over 200 books. Fletcher wrote on many subjects but his most famous work was detective fiction as he was considered one of the best in the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.

Classic murder mystery featuring two upstanding citizens in northern towns who wish to keep their past secret.