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  • The Two Tickets Puzzle

    by J.J. Connington ...
    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. ... Read more

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  • The Ha Ha Case

    by J. J. Connington ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Murder in the Maze: Annotated Version with Foreword by Paul Di Filippo

    by J.J Connington ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Mystery at Lynden Sands

    by J. J. Connington ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Murder in the Maze

    by J. J. Connington ...
    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 seventeen detective novels by J. J. Connington. It was first published in Britain in 1927 ... Read more

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  • Nordenholt's Million: 'In the days before the catastrophe….''

    by J J Connington ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The case with nine solutions

    by J. J. Connington ...
    In "The Case with Nine Solutions," J. J. Connington skillfully weaves a complex narrative that challenges the reader to engage with intricate puzzles and deductive reasoning. Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century England, this detective novel employs a blend of clever misdirection and intellectual rigor, capturing the conventions of golden age crime fiction. The book's unique structure, ... Read more

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  • The Eye In The Museum

    by J. J. Connington ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Death at Swaythling Court

    by J.J. Connington ...
    COLONEL SANDERSTEAD looked gloomily at his wrist-watch for the third time. Punctual to a second himself, he expected an equal clockwork precision from others; and even his long series of disappointments in the matter had failed to reconcile him to humanity’s slipshod methods. He gave another glance down the empty avenue which fell away from the terrace of the Manor towards the gates on the ... Read more

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  • The Castleford Conundrum

    by J. J. Connington ...
    AS PHILIP CASTLEFORD came down the broad stairs, a faint burst of laughter reached him through the closed door of the drawing room. At the sound of his wife’s shrill titter rising above the bass of the two men’s voices, he winced and gave vent to his spleen in an ejaculation, all the more vehement because it was uttered under his breath.“Damn those people!”In that concise imprecation he included ... Read more

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  • Mystery At Lynden Sands

    by J. J. Connington ...
    Mystery At Lynden Sands, first published in 1928, is the fourth book in author J. J. Connington's series featuring chief-constable Sir Clinton Driffield. Set on the English seaside, Driffield encounters the return of a missing heir (who is possibly an impostor), an accidental bigamist, secret marriages and impersonations, embezzlement of trust funds, a kidnapping, and two murders. As is typical of ... Read more

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  • Grim Vengeance

    by J. J. Connington ...
    Grim Vengeance, first published in 1929, is the fifth book in author J. J. Connington's series featuring chief-constable Sir Clinton Driffield. From the dustjacket of the first edition: "Two murders at night, both the victims foreigners; and when Sir Clinton Driffield, visiting his sister, is forced to suspect the South American whom his niece has just married, he finds himself faced with a ... Read more

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