The Reverend Ashley Drew is suspicious of Mrs. Slocombe's new companion, Margaret Cresswell - for he has just recognised in Margaret the former wife of the notorious criminal Albert Plimmer, whose capture he helped bring about. As Vicar of Cornborough, Ashley has a duty to uphold the moral standing of his flock, and he gives Mrs. Plimmer an ultimatum - confess all to her new employers or he will be forced to reveal the truth himself. But before he is able to put his ultimatum to effect, th...

Stephen Enderton, the deformed and disabled son of Sir Jeremy Enderton, is tragically killed when he is asphyxiated in a sealed room after passing out during an epileptic seizure. But why was the casement window of the room shut? And how did Stephen manage to turn on both gas taps on the room's stove as he fell? As a result of these doubts, the local police are pleased to receive the help of Inspector Bedison of Scotland Yard. As Bedison investigates, he discovers a tangled web of familial...

In the village of Edgmore, the body of Connie Crane has been discovered at Keeper's Cottage - home of bohemian poet Gerald Mortimer. When the poet is arrested, his friend Amelia is convinced of his innocence and engages the solicitor Errol Martin to investigate the crime. But when news emerges that the dead girl was pregnant, it becomes clear that a tragic scandal has been taking place under the surface of Edgmore's quiet facade...  Originally published in 1930, this vint...

Mrs. Prentice's extra-marital affairs are the talk of London - and her current fling with film actor Carrington Case has been particularly efficacious in setting society tongues wagging. So when Mrs. Prentice is found murdered outside Sark Street Chapel one snowy winter's night, a crime of passion is suspected and Prentice's loyal secretary, Godfrey Marston, turns detective in the hunt for the killer of his employer's late wife.Originally published in 1930, this is a classic Britis...

Inspector Bedison is not exactly a welcome visitor at 8 Selborne Gardens, home of the financier Randolph Sunderland, when he arrives to investigate the man's involvement in a financial swindle worth thousands of pounds. Sunderland insists that he is as much a victim of his absconding partners as any of his duped investors. Bedison is unsure of the man's guilt, but is not surprised to be called back to Selborne Gardens shortly afterwards - this time to investigate the matter of Sunderland's...

Dick Forsyth's parents died in a train crash when he was a young boy. On the same train was the wealthy Silas Wedderburn. Surviving the accident, Wedderburn adopted the unfortunate orphan as his own. Now, eleven years later, Wedderburn is on the brink of death and everyone in the little village of Castlebridge expects Dick to be made heir to the old man's fortune. But a startling revelation and a death-bed plea upset all of Dick's future plans - and force him to turn detective. As a family...

A chance meeting with his old friend, Detective-Inspector Pardoe, gives Gilbert Bevan an opportunity to seek some much-needed professional help on a baffling mystery. His flatmate Lawrence Heath has disappeared after an altercation with the husband of a woman with whom he has become romantically involved. When the husband in question, Alexander Secretan, turns up dead at a deserted cottage, Pardoe finds his pet case of disappearance transformed into a fully-fledged murder investigation. Bu...

On the night of his wife’s funeral, successful poet Mr Derwent leaves his house and disappears without a trace. Despite the assurances of Inspector Holt, Florence Derwent is convinced that her father has been murdered, and is determined to discover the truth, whatever it takes. Just what has become of Derwent? And could the mysterious woman in black, seen prowling the village at night, hold the key to the affair? When all is revealed, the final solution is more terrible and tragic than any...

Susannah Roperson and her half-sister Margaret are distraught when, one stormy evening, Margaret's mother falls to her death from the cliff path near their home on the south coast of England. A second death soon follows, however, and although the inquest rules that both tragedies were accidental, Susannah is by no means certain that at least one of the 'accidents' was not, in fact, something altogether more sinister...  Originally published in 1932, this is a classic Brit...

One summer night, Dr Everest of Tunbridge Wells is called to a house near his practice to tend to the dying Colonel Manningtree. But what he believes to be a routine case takes a turn for the sinister when the Colonel's daughter, Dora, visits him the following morning with a strange story. Claiming to have been disturbed by odd noises during the night, Dora is adamant that she heard her father's voice call out to her - and when she went to the room where his body lay, the face beneath the ...

Winner, Spur Award for Best Western Long Novel (Western Writers of America) and Southwest Book Award (Border Regional Library Association)On February 10, 1918, John Power woke to the sound of bells and horses’ hooves. He was sharing a cabin near the family mine with his brother Tom and their father Jeff; hired man Tom Sisson was also nearby. Then gunfire erupted, and so began the day when the Power brothers engaged the Graham County Sheriff’s Department in the bloo...

Like No Country for Old Men and Snow Falling on Cedars, a haunting, suspenseful, and dazzlingly written novel of secrets, corruption, tragedy, and vengeance from the author of Crazy Heart—the basis of the 2009 Academy Award-winning film—an electrifying crime drama and psychological thriller in which a young cop becomes the focal point for a community’s grief and rage in the aftermath of a tragic accident.Out on a rural highway on a cold, icy night, Patrol...