At Friocksheim, a bridge party sparkles with wit and social polish while concealing private desperation. Douglas Fairmile's charm masks his thoughts of Cynthia Pennard, and Eileen Cressage, playing dummy, is preoccupied not with the cards but with mounting debts, fragile pride, and the humiliations of living on too little money. Around them, the wealthy guests are sharply drawn: Mrs. Caistor Scorton's comfort, Conway Westenhanger's quiet intelligence, and Rollo Dangerfield's uneasy manner ...

Nordenholt's Million by J. J. ConningtonAs a new bacteria strain emerges and causes the collapse of the world's food supply, wealthy and powerful Stanley Nordenholt steps forward with a plan to try to save a small, select portion of the British population. Sequestered in Scotland, he leads the group in a race between their dwindling food supply and their effort to reverse the damage caused by the bacteria as the outside world descends into chaos and starvation. Blending ecological ...

A bloody murder on a train yields impossible questions for a police superintendent in this Golden Age classic—"An excellent straight detective story" (Dashiell Hammett, New York Post ).When the 10:35 local train from Horston arrives at Kempsford Junction, the porter is startled to find a body stowed beneath a seat in one of the first-class compartments. The victim is wealthy businessman Oswald F. Preston, shot five times ...

AS THE TRAIN glided into the wayside station, Jim Brandon lifted his well-worn suitcase and a shabby leg-of-mutton guncase down from the rack. Through the windows he caught successive glimpses of fresh-painted white palings, trim flwer-beds dripping from a recent shower, a girl’s figure on a broad sweep of gravelled platform, a tiny station-house, a handful of waiting travellers by the overhead bridge, and a ticket-collector at the gate giving egress into the station yard.

The Eye in the Museum, first published in 1930, is the first book in author J. J. Connington's series featuring Superintendent Ross of Scotland Yard. This 'golden-age' mystery centers on a young woman, Joyce Hazlemere, and her wealthy Aunt Evelyn. The aunt, who can become violent when drunk, stands to inherit the Hazlemere estate instead of Joyce. Miss Hazlemere speculates on the possibility of her aunt's death when the next day Evelyn is found murdered, and Superintendent...

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and ...

Every pathway leads to a dead end … except one.Love country estates? Do you like mysteries with unexpected twists and turns? Do you enjoy walking through a maze without knowing where each turn may lead? This long-buried classic masterpiece of secrets and murder by J.J. Connington is for you!When a suspicious death disturbs a quiet country estate, secrets unravel, suspicions flare, and alibis crack. Sir Clinton Driffield, with his sharp, relentless, and cunning detective abi...

Alfred Walter Stewart was born on the 5th September 1880 in Glasgow, Scotland.He was educated at Glasgow High School before entering Glasgow University to earn his doctorate in chemistry in 1902. Such was his talent that he was awarded the Mackay-Smith scholarship.After a year in Marburg engaged in research he entered, in 1903, University College, London. Here he began independent research and the results formed part of his thesis which gained him a DSc degree from Glasgow ...

Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffield's holiday on the coast is interrupted when he's asked to assist with the investigation of a murder on a nearby country estate. As Sir Clinton, his friend Wendover, and the local police work to uncover who's behind the murder, they encounter an expanding web of clues, characters with possible motives, questions related to the large inheritance involving the estate, and additional misdeeds. Working against time and the tides, Sir Clinton and his team mus...

During a masquerade ball at an English country estate with a valuable collection of artifacts on display there is a shot, the lights go out, and a robbery ensues. It's soon followed by an entertaining, if unsuccessful, chase of the thief by the costumed revelers. Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffield's investigation discovers the robbery was planned as a practical joke that has gone awry. There are conflicting clues, unclear motives, and then even deaths which may or may not be related to ...

We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation ? On a foggy night a doctor accidentally visits the wrong house and finds a man dying of a gunshot wound. He quickly calls Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffield for help, and further murders are discovered as the case unfolds. The mystery deepens when advertisements in a secret code appear in the local paper, a witness ...

We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation ? After twin brothers Neville and Roger Shandon are both found murdered on the same afternoon in the hedge maze on the grounds of their country estate outside London, the local county's Chief Constable must solve the mystery of their deaths and bring the perpetrator to justice. Murder in the Maze is the first of sevente...