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Yellowbacks eBook Series

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  • The Three Taps

    by Ronald Knox ...
    Series Book 150 - Yellowbacks
    In a gas-lit inn in the countryside a man lies dead. The police, of course, investigate - and so do Miles Bredon and his wife, in the interests of the Indescribable Insurance Company, with which the deceased man, Mr Mottram, had been heavily insured.The culprit is the three gas taps in Mr Mottram's room, and Miles hopes to prove that his death is suicide. Miles' old wartime colleague, Police ... Read more

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  • The Viaduct Murder

    by Ronald Arbuthnott Knox ...
    Nothing is ever wasted. The death of the animal fertilizes the vegetable world: bees swarm in the disused pillar-box; sooner or later, somebody will find a use for the munition-factories. And the old country-seats of feudal England, that bask among their figured terraces, frowning at the ignoble tourist down secular avenues and thrusting back the high-road he travels by into respectful detours ... Read more

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  • Tragedy at Ravensthorpe. Sir Clinton Driffield. Illustrated

    by J. J. Connington ...
    J. J. Connington’s Tragedy at Ravensthorpe is a refined example of Golden Age detective fiction, featuring the calm and analytical Sir Clinton Driffield. The novel is set at Ravensthorpe, an imposing country house surrounded by bleak moorland, where a family gathering is disrupted by a sudden and suspicious death. What first appears to be a tragic accident soon reveals signs of careful planning ... Read more

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  • Murder in the Maze. Sir Clinton Driffield. Illustrated

    by J. J. Connington ...
    J. J. Connington’s Murder in the Maze is a classic Golden Age detective novel featuring the methodical and sharp-minded investigator Sir Clinton Driffield. Set in the quiet English countryside, the story begins with what seems to be a harmless social gathering at an old country estate. The house is famous for its elaborate garden maze, a picturesque but confusing labyrinth that soon becomes the ... Read more

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  • The Studio Crime. Illustrated

    by Ianthe Jerrold ...
    The Studio Crime by Ianthe Jerrold is a captivating and atmospheric detective novel that combines the suspense of a classic Golden Age mystery with keen psychological insight and intricate plotting. Set in the confined and often secretive world of an artist’s studio, the story explores how ambition, rivalry, and hidden desires can lead to deadly consequences. When a crime disrupts the seemingly ... Read more

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  • The Case With Nine Solutions. Sir Clinton Driffield. Illustrated

    by J. J. Connington ...
    J. J. Connington’s The Case With Nine Solutions is an ingenious Golden Age mystery that once again places Sir Clinton Driffield at the center of a perplexing investigation. The story begins with an apparently straightforward crime, but what seems at first to be a simple problem soon develops into a tangle of contradictions. Several different explanations fit the known facts, and each suspect ... Read more

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  • The Duke of York's Steps

    by Henry Wade ...
    First published in 1929, now public domain in the US and Canada, this was the first in a series of seven novels featuring the character of Chief Inspector Poole, published during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. It is notable for its portrayal of a German Jewish character, a banker who seeks revenge and wants to murder someone for his mistreatment. It was well-received by critics and sold well ... Read more

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  • The Piccadilly Murder. Illustrated

    by Anthony Berkeley ...
    The Piccadilly Murder by Anthony Berkeley is a classic detective novel that combines suspense, clever twists, and Berkeley’s characteristic wit. Featuring the keen and unconventional amateur sleuth Ambrose Chitterwick, the story opens with a seemingly ordinary afternoon in a tearoom in Piccadilly, London, which quickly takes a sinister turn. Chitterwick, a quiet yet astute member of the Crimes ... Read more

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  • Appleby's End

    by Michael Innes ...
    Series Book 10 - The Inspector Appleby Mysteries
    A Scotland Yard detective is snowed in with a strange family and a killer with a lethal passion for literature in this classic British mystery.Something's afoot in the village of Snarl. Incidents include animals turned to stone and ominous tombstones inscribed with deaths yet to come. Det. Insp. John Appleby is travelling by train from London to consult on the case. However, impending his arrival ... Read more

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  • Mystery at Lynden Sands

    by J.J. Connington ...
    PAUL FORDINGBRIDGE, with a faintly reproachful glance at his sister, interrupted his study of the financial page of The Times and put the paper down on his knee. Deliberately he removed his reading-glasses; replaced them by his ordinary spectacles; and then turned to the restless figure at the window of the private sitting-room.“Well, Jay, you seem to have something on your mind. Would it be too ... Read more

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  • Dr. Priestley Investigates

    by John Rhode ...
    Series Book 8 - The Dr. Priestley Detective Stories
    Was it a tragic drunk-driving accident, or something more twisted? "You can never go far wrong with a Dr. Priestley story." — The New York TimesSuperintendent King has concluded that the drunk driver with a dead body in his car was only guilty of manslaughter, not intentional murder. But Dr. Lancelot Priestley thinks there's more to the story—especially considering that the victim's estate, ... Read more

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  • Operation Pax

    by Michael Innes ...
    Series Book 12 - The Inspector Appleby Mysteries
    In this chilling classic British mystery thriller, a Scotland Yard inspector and his sister search for her missing fiancé in a city of vanishing people.Petty con man Alfred Routh thinks a place like Milton Manor outside Oxford will have something nice to steal. When he learns what is inside, however, he is desperate to steal away with his life . . .Meanwhile, Sir John Appleby from Scotland Yard is ... Read more

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