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  • Bodies from the Library

    Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection

    by Agatha Christie, Georgette Heyer, A. A. Milne, Nicholas Blake, Christianna Brand ...
    This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 16 tales by masters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Agatha Christie crime story that has not been seen since 1922.At a time when crime and thriller writing has once again overtaken the sales of general and literary fiction, Bodies from the Library unearths lost ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Tangled Web

    by Nicholas Blake ...
    Hugo Chesterman is on trial for murdering a policeman. Why did he do it? Or could he be innocent?Daisy Bland is young, beautiful and naive, and her testimony threatens to send her husband to the gallows.For Daisy, it all started when she literally bumped into Hugo and fell madly in love. She gave up everything for him: her job, her friends, her independence. Blinded by love, she asks no questions ... Read more

    $6.09 USD

  • Bodies from the Library 3

    Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection

    by Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, Nicholas Blake ...
    This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 18 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including uncollected stories by Ngaio Marsh and John Dickson Carr.The Golden Age of detective fiction had begun inauspiciously with the publication of E.C. Bentley’s schismatic Trent’s Last Case in 1913, but it hit its stride in 1920 when both ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Deadly Joker

    by Nicholas Blake ...
    When John Waterson and his young wife chose Netherplash Cantorum, Dorset, for their retirement years, they could not have predicted that this idyllic spot had one severe but unforeseeable drawback: among its inhabitants was a practical joker whose fertile mind ran to the most bizarre and grotesque designs.The Village was no place for a quite retirement, or for a gentle recuperation from the ... Read more

    $13.79 USD

  • A Penknife in My Heart

    by Nicholas Blake ...
    First published in 1958, A Penknife in My Heart tells the story of how two men - total strangers - establish the perfect alibis by arranging to switch victims. Ned Stowe will kill Stuart Hammer's wealthy uncle for which service Hammer is to eliminate Stowe's neurotic wife, Helena. The men plot and the plan - with its horrifyingly simple premise - is solidified...'More convincing, more detailedly ... Read more

    $6.09 USD

  • The Private Wound

    by Nicholas Blake ...
    In the West of Ireland in 1939 a young novelist rents a lonely cottage to write his new book in peace.Almost at once, and without great resistance, he is seduced by the wife of the local squire. Harriet's husband is an older man - hot-tempered, impoverished, gone to seed - who once fought famously against the Black and Tans. Soon this eternal triangle becomes a local scandal, and the atmosphere of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Detective Stories Library (26 Books). Illustrated

    The House of the Poplars by Dorothy L. Sayers, Grand Guignol by John Dickson Carr, Boots by Ngaio Marsh, The Yellow Sphere by John Rhode, Shadowed Sunlight by Christianna Brand and Many Others

    by Dorothy L. Sayers, John Dickson Carr, Ngaio Marsh, E. C. R. Lorac, John Rhode, Anthony Berkeley, Anthony Gilbert, Christianna Brand, J. Jefferson Farjeon, Lynn Brock, Cyril Hare, Christopher Bush, Joseph Commings, Christopher St. John Sprigg, Alice Campbell, Stuart Palmer, Josephine Bell, G. D. H. & M. Cole, William A. R. Collins, Nicholas Blake, Ethel Lina White, H. C. Bailey, Gladys Mitchell, Richard Keverne, Herbert Adams ...
    The Detective Stories Library is a rich and engaging collection of classic mysteries by some of the greatest writers of the genre. This illustrated volume brings together brilliant tales of crime, deduction, and suspense, featuring works by masters of the Golden Age of detective fiction such as Dorothy L. Sayers, John Dickson Carr, Ngaio Marsh, John Rhode, and Christianna Brand. Among the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Golden Age Mystery Collection: Classic Detective Stories (25 Books). Illustrated

    The Wife of the Kenite by Agatha Christie, Room to Let by Margery Allingham, The Locked Room by Dorothy L. Sayers, Linckes’ Great Case by Georgette Heyer, and Many Others

    by Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, Edmund Crispin, Georgette Heyer, John Rhode, E. C. R. Lorac, Anthony Berkeley, S. S. Van Dine, H.C. Bailey, A.A. Milne, Arthur Upfield, Freeman Wills Crofts, Jonathan Latimer, J. J. Connington, Leo Bruce, Nicholas Blake, Cyril Hare, Vincent Cornier, Ernest Bramah, Roy Vickers, Peter Antony, Helen Simpson, Q. Patrick, Clayton Rawson, C. A. Alington ...
    The Golden Age Mystery Collection: Classic Detective Stories (25 Books) is a rich and captivating anthology that brings together some of the finest works from the Golden Age of detective fiction — a period celebrated for its intricate puzzles, fair-play clues, and brilliantly crafted mysteries. This illustrated volume features twenty-five classic stories by many of the genre’s most distinguished ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Mr Prendergast and the Orange

    by Nicholas Blake ...
    Mr Prendergast and the Orange by Nicholas Blake is a cleverly constructed detective story that blends psychological insight with the traditional puzzle of the Golden Age. Featuring the astute private investigator Mr. Prendergast, Blake delivers a story where observation, deduction, and careful reasoning uncover a murder hidden beneath the veneer of ordinary life. The mystery begins with a ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Beast Must Die

    by Nicholas Blake ...
    Narrated by Kevin Whately ...

    Abridged

    2 hours 49 min

    "I am going to kill a man. I don't know his name, I don't know where he lives, I have no idea what he looks like. But I am going to find him and kill him ..." So commences this classic story of retribution. Felix Lane is bent upon revenge for the death of his young son in a hit-and-run accident, and uses all the knowledge he has gained as a well-known crime writer to track down the culprit. The ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Bodies from the Library 3

    Selected Lost Stories of Mystery and Suspense by Masters of the Golden Age

    by Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, Nicholas Blake ...
    Narrated by Philip Bretherton ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 37 min

    This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 16 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form.The Golden Age of detective fiction had begun inauspiciously with the publication of E.C. Bentley’s schismatic Trent’s Last Case in 1913, but it hit its stride in 1920 when both Agatha Christie and Freeman Wills Crofts – latterly crowned queen and ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    Bodies from the Library 2

    Selected Lost Stories of Mystery and Suspense by Masters of the Golden Age

    by Agatha Christie, Edmund Crispin, Dorothy L. Sayers ...
    Narrated by Philip Bretherton ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 31 min

    This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 13 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Gervase Fen novella by Edmund Crispin that has never previously been published.With the Golden Age of detective fiction shining ever more brightly thanks to the recent reappearance of many forgotten crime novels, Bodies ... Read more

    $27.99 USD