The creators of Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Lord Peter Wimsey, and Father Brown collaborate on one mystery, all applying their unique expertise to solve the same case. Reprint. NYT.
Who better to commit the perfect murders than the world's greatest mystery writers? Six masters have devised foolproof homicides that have withstood the scrutiny of Scotland Yard. The Detection Club gets away with murder in this compendium of crime.
News tycoon Lord Comstock is greedy, ruthless, scandal-mongering, and dead by Archbishop, MP, Scotland Yard Commissioner, or mysterious lady.1 Death at Hursley Lodge by John Rhode2 Mrs. Bradley’s Dilemma by Helen de Guerry Simpson3 Sir John Takes his Cu
Beyond the civilized world of Harrod's and high tea, there is a darker side to London -- a demi-monde of fog-enshrouded midnights and alleys eerily lit by gas lamps, stained with the blood of some of the most unspeakable crimes in history.This collection
Nothing could seem more civilized, more orderly and sedate than a weekend at one of Great Britain's country estates. Yet these staid, conservative houses play host to a wider variety of murders than do the mean streets of America's darkest cities.Contents
Murder: the unlawful, intentional killing of a human being - a terrible crime. But murder stories are always fascinating. Who did it? And how? Or why? And was it murder, or just an unfortunate accident? Who will triumph, the murderer or the detective? Thi
On Wall Street, the mere mention of the name Sigsbee Manderson is enough to send a stock soaring—or bring it tumbling back to earth. Feared but not loved, Manderson has no one to mourn him when the gardener at his British country estate finds him facedo
In Chloe Plus Olivia Lillian Faderman seeks no less than to radically redefine four centuries of lesbian literature, filling a need that has long been neglected: a literary anthology of lesbian writers over the past four centuries, with each piece set in