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As in his previous anthologies for the British Library Crime Classics series, Martin Edwards introduces readers to fascinating neglected gems of British crime writing as well as uncovering lesser-known stories by the great novelists of the golden age. 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Was it consistent with the dignity of the Yard? The inspector tossed for it - and went.\u2019*\r\n\r\n\r\nChief Inspector Macdonald has been invited to a treasure hunt party at the house of Graham Coombe, the celebrated publisher of *Murder by Mesmerism*. Despite a handful of misgivings, the inspector joins a guest list of novelists and thriller writers disguised on the night under literary pseudonyms. The fun comes to an abrupt end, however, when \u2018Samuel Pepys\u2019 is found dead in the telephone room in bizarre circumstances.\r\n\r\nAmidst the confusion of too many fake names, clues, ciphers, and convoluted alibis, Macdonald and his allies in the C.I.D. must unravel a truly tangled case."}, "subject_times": ["1930s"], "series": [{"series": {"key": "/series/OL329106L"}, "position": "12"}], "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2021-10-08T01:02:43.561091"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-03-19T21:11:45.126447"}}, {"key": "/works/OL12554953W", "title": "Murder in Vienna", "first_publish_date": "1956", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL124990A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "dewey_number": ["823.91"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [8716573], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Superintendent Macdonald, C.I.D., studied his fellow-passengers on the Vienna plane simply because he couldn\u2019t help it, because he hadn\u2019t conditioned himself to being on holiday. The distinguished industrialist he recognised: the stout man he put down (quite mistakenly) as a traveller in whisky. The fair girl was going to a job (he was right there) and the aggressive young man in the camel coat might be something bookish. Macdonald turned away from his fellow-passengers deliberately; they weren\u2019t his business, he was on holiday - or so he thought.\r\n\r\nAgainst the background of beautiful Vienna, with its enchanting palaces and gardens, its disenchanted back-streets and derelicts of war, E. C. R. 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Then all of a sudden, murder is done.\r\n\r\n>The culprit flees from the scene, and when Macdonald takes charge of the investigation, he finds that someone else was present at the scene of the crime as well as the killer; this is a rare case of murder committed in front of witnesses. But might one of those witnesses be guilty?\r\n\r\n>The dead man's identity card (another period touch) and correspondence indicate that he was John Ward, a resident of 5A Belfort Grove, Notting Hill, but soon it becomes apparent that this was not his real name. 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The presence of the Metropolitan Police is respectfully requested.\"* \r\n\r\nWriting as Carter Dickson, the master of the locked room murder John Dickson Carr pits his series amateur detective Henry Merrivale against a seemingly watertight mystery: after the police are sent a note warning them about a forthcoming crime, a man is shot in a room on the top floor of a Kensington townhouse: a house watched from all sides during the murder. Surely nobody could have gotten in or out? And yet the man is dead, and just like the last time the police received a note like this, there are ten teacups set out at the scene of the crime. H.M. is drawn to unravel this bizarre crime, as the mysterious significance of the ten teacups in murders past and present pushes the police to their limits."}, "first_publish_date": "1951", "lc_classifications": ["PS'3505'A763'T4'1951"], "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T05:26:10.589936"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-12-18T18:23:02.669775"}}, {"key": "/works/OL3020881W", "title": "The Black Spectacles", "first_publish_date": "1969", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL465130A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [12891717, 6980357], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Published in the United States as *The Problem of the Green Capsule*\r\n\r\nA Dr Gideon Fell mystery\r\n\r\n>\"Most people,\" declared Marcus Chesney, \"are absolutely incapable of describing accurately what they see or hear. 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And Dr. Fell's explanation of the real black spectacles is perhaps the greatest detective triumph of his career."}, "subjects": ["American literature", "Fiction", "Gideon Fell (Fictitious character)", "Private investigators", "Poisoning"], "subject_places": ["England"], "lc_classifications": ["PZ3.C2317 Pr", "PS3505.A763 Pr"], "latest_revision": 8, "revision": 8, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T01:33:27.156225"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-12-18T18:07:16.465302"}}, {"description": "Holidays offer us the luxury of getting away from it all. So, in a different way, do detective stories. This collection of vintage mysteries combines both those pleasures. From a golf course at the English seaside to a pension in Paris, and from a Swiss mountain resort to the cliffs of Normandy, this new selection shows the enjoyable and unexpected ways in which crime writers have used summer holidays as a theme. These fourteen stories range widely across the golden age of British crime fiction. Stellar names from the past are well represented--Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton, for instance--with classic stories that have won acclaim over the decades. The collection also uncovers a wide range of hidden gems: Anthony Berkeley--whose brilliance with plot had even Agatha Christie in raptures--is represented by a story so (undeservedly) obscure that even the British Library seems not to own a copy. The stories by Phyllis Bentley and Helen Simpson are almost equally rare, despite the success which both writers achieved, while those by H. C. 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Delving into the stacks and tomes of the British Library collections, Martin Edwards invites you to a course on the darker side of scholarly ambition with an essential reading list of masterful short stories.\r\nWith a teaching cohort including esteemed writers such as Dorothy L Sayers, Celia Fremlin, Michael Innes and the commanding Arthur Conan Doyle, this new anthology offers an education in the beguiling art of mystery writing."}, "latest_revision": 3, "revision": 3, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-07-17T11:11:52.756390"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-11-24T05:41:12.907005"}}, {"title": "Deep Waters", "covers": [10325714], "key": "/works/OL21012190W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL229332A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["English literature", "Literature", "anthology", "short stories", "Detective and mystery stories"], "subtitle": "Mysteries on the Waves", "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "> From picturesque canals to the swirling currents of the ocean, a world of secrets lies buried beneath the surface of the water. Dubious vessels crawl along riverbeds, while the murky depths conceal more than one gruesome murder.\r\n\r\n>The stories in this collection will dredge up delight in crime fiction fans, as watery graves claim unintended dwellers, and disembodied whispers penetrate the sleeping quarters of a ship's captain. How might a thief plot their escape from a floating crime scene? And what is to follow when murder victims, lost to the ocean floor, inevitably resurface?\r\n\r\n>This British Library anthology uncovers the best mysteries set below the surface, including stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, William Hope Hodgson, and R. 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This means it's a very, very bad day when a secret society of her students meets by the river on a gloomy January afternoon--and finds the drowned body of the college bursar. Death on the Cherwell follows the investigation, which initially focuses on the girls themselves and ultimately leads them to do some detecting of their own. Soon they uncover a tangle of secrets--and clues that point to a fellow student. 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Who, after all, would have cause to murder a retired academic whose life was devoted to Elizabethan literature? Inspector Shelley's suspicions are aroused when he finds a packet of poisoned sugared almonds in the dead man's pocket; and a motive becomes clearer when he discovers Arnell's connection to a Texan oil millionaire. Soon another man plunges hundreds of feet into a reservoir on a Yorkshire moor. What can be the connection between two deaths so different, and so widely separated? The mild-mannered museum visitor Henry Fairhurst adds his detective talents to Inspector Shelley's own, and together they set about solving one of the most baffling cases Shelley has ever encountered.", "key": "/works/OL20030251W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL141999A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "title": "Murder in the Museum", "subject_places": ["England", "London"], "subjects": ["Museums", "Detective and mystery stories", "Investigation", "Historical fiction", "British Museum", "Murder", "Fiction", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [12852661], "latest_revision": 4, "revision": 4, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-07-19T13:20:08.092158"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-09-01T01:43:23.701405"}}, {"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"A man is forbidden to uncover the secret of the tower in a fairy-tale castle by the Rhine. A headless corpse is found in a secret garden in Paris - belonging to the city's chief of police. And a drowned man is fished from the sea off the Italian Riviera, leaving the carabinieri to wonder why his socialite friends at the Villa Almirante are so unconcerned by his death. These are three of the scenarios in this new collection of vintage crime stories. Detective stories from the golden age and beyond have used European settings - cosmopolitan cities, rural idylls and crumbling chateaux - to explore timeless themes of revenge, deception, murder and haunting. Including lesser-known stories by Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, J. 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Rose produced love letters from Humphrey which seemed to be conclusive proof of his guilt. Fearful for the future of her family, Celia sent for Will Hunt, her old flame and friend. Will tried to help, but the murder which soon followed only added to the network of troubles around Humphrey. Will's seemingly ineffective enquiries uncover evidence that starts to converge on the patrons and strange goings-on of the seedy Chelsea club, \"The Odd Flamingo.\"\r\n\r\nFirst published in 1954, this was one of two gritty and atmospheric crime novels written by the accomplished children's author Nina Bawden."}, "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-11T03:13:52.698452"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-08-13T02:09:49.025977"}}, {"title": "Tea on Sunday", "key": "/works/OL4684358W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL967067A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fiction, mystery & detective, general"], "covers": [14524237], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "On a bitter winter\u2019s afternoon in London, Alberta Mansbridge sets the table with teacups for nine, mulling over the guests who will be arriving within the hour: her accountant and the ex-jailbird Barry; her nephew and his ghastly new flibberty-jibbet of a wife; the Italian playboy, the family doctor, the manager of her father\u2019s company and dear old Myra, with whom she had so recently fallen out... Alberta returns upstairs to get herself ready.\r\n\r\nYet as tea-time draws nigh and the guests\u2019 knocking goes unanswered, they are soon to discover that their host has been murdered \u2014 worse still, that the killer must have been one of their trusted number, let in early by Alberta. Faced with eight suspects whose alibis and motives are steeped in mystery, Inspector Corby joins a case in which the truth is trickling away down cold London streets and through the Yorkshire roots of Alberta\u2019s past.\r\n\r\nFirst published in 1973 but written in the vintage mystery mode, Lettice Cooper draws on a life lived in Leeds and London to deliver an authentic, literary detective story with a well-brewed psychological depth."}, "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T07:10:16.141038"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-06-15T23:17:34.840989"}}, {"subtitle": "A Detective Story", "title": "Mr. Pottermack's Oversight", "covers": [502729], "subject_places": ["London (England)"], "subjects": ["Doctor Thorndyke (Fictitious character)", "Fiction", "Physicians", "Fiction, suspense", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "England, fiction", "London (england), fiction", "Physicians, fiction"], "key": "/works/OL4112846W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL771377A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "First of all, Marcus Pottermack was not his real name. But Mr. \"Pottermack\" thought he had excellent reasons to adopt it and to murder James Lewson, bank-manager, blackmailer and among the most loathsome characters in all detective fiction.\r\n\r\nThe tension mounts rapidly in this \"inverted\" detective story - one of the earliest full-length examples, and still one of the best. Characteristically, we are quickly acquainted with the perpetrator's identity: to figure out \"whodunit\" is not the task set readers of inverted mysteries. They face a challenge many consider far more interesting: to deduce precisely how the detective will fasten upon the culprit despite scanty or seemingly nonexistent evidence.\r\n\r\nIn *Mr. Pottermack's Oversight* the obstacles are formidable, for the brilliant criminal has made his victim appear to have vanished into thin air while strolling in the country. Indeed, the ingenious Mr. Pottermack seems to have anticipated everything that might thwart his plan - except that his adversary would be Dr. John Thorndyke, England's renowned expert in medical jurisprudence, admired for nearly 80 years by mystery connoisseurs as the greatest of all scientific detectives.\r\n\r\nWhether or not you can match Dr. Thorndyke's penetrating insight - the clues are all placed fairly before the reader - you will be fascinated as you witness a virtuoso performance by a first-class scientific mind. And, equally absorbing, you will be drawn into the guilt-racked mind of a murderer as you watch ruthless determination attempting to fight off a growing sense of horror."}, "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T05:22:52.853446"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-06-15T23:04:38.954945"}}, {"title": "Death in White Pyjamas & Death Knows No Calendar", "subjects": ["English literature"], "key": "/works/OL21879267W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL2299133A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "*Death in White Pyjamas*: At the country home of Sam Richardson, a group of actors have gathered along with their somewhat sinister producer Basil Barnes and a playwright whose star is rising in the theater scene. The drama isn't staying in the production, as competitive tension in the air begins to rise between the three actresses Clara, Angela and Deirdre. But nobody expects to find Deirdre's murdered body on the grounds wearing, for some unknown reason, white pyjamas... An inspector Meredith mystery of the kind John Bude does best: a well-drawn and authentic period setting, and a satisfying mystery following the traditional rules and style of the golden age of the genre.\r\n\r\n*Death Knows No Calendar*: The \"locked-room\" element of the mystery is simple: Lydia Arundel, a fairly wealthy painter, is found shot dead in her locked studio, with suicide seemingly impossible due to the position of the weapon. Many figures in the local village, Beckwood, have a motive for her murder: the Reverend, who seems to have had an affair with her; her husband, who inherits all her money; Hawkinge, who used to be in love with her but now wants to marry Honororia, and Honororia herself, who saw Hawkinge with Lydia. All suspects were in the area the night she was killed, and local bobby Major Boddy is left to untangle the curious web. 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She had fled from Russia in the days of the Revolution, and had lived in obscurity and poverty with the one member of her family who remained alive, her grandson, Ivan. Now death brings her to the attention of Inspector Nightingale and Sergeant Beddoes of Scotland Yard. Very soon the Inspector begins to realize that the Princess did not die of natural causes. Her grandson is unaccountably missing, and the trunkful of magnificent jewels that she kept under her bed is empty. 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Name of Smallbone \u2014 Marcus Smallbone \u2014 very dead.\"*"}, "latest_revision": 17, "revision": 17, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-15T08:15:47.909262"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-06-13T21:34:26.730071"}}, {"title": "Death has deep roots", "key": "/works/OL41135W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL28135A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [12865353, 12865535, 13238896], "subjects": ["Detective and mystery stories", "Fiction in English", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "English literature"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The woman was young, French, and on trial for murdering a man said to be her ex-lover and the father of her dead child: an English major who had been one of the great heroes of the French Underground Resistance during the war. Mr. Macrea, hired to be her attorney on the first day of the trial, must find a way to prove her innocence in only one week. And he must dig deeply into the past to prove it."}, "latest_revision": 11, "revision": 11, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-15T08:15:47.909262"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-06-13T21:30:43.276675"}}, {"covers": [4782429], "key": "/works/OL5509362W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL1309657A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "title": "The Port of London Murders", "subject_places": ["London (England)"], "subjects": ["Fiction", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "English fiction", "Texts"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "> The port area of London's River Thames is a tough neighbourhood but it is nevertheless shocked when Mary Holland is found dead, an apparent suicide using Lysol poison. 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A slick charmer to some of the tenants \u2013 and a loathsome young scoundrel to others \u2013 his death doesn\u2019t draw out many tears among the house\u2019s residents and neighbours. And yet the sordid truth starts to seep into the heart of their small community \u2013 a murder is living among them, and who\u2019s to say when they might strike again? The shrewd Oxford man Superintendent Paul Grainger finds himself faced with a small circle of suspects whose connections and hidden motives heap complexity upon complexity in this tightly wrought mystery, shot through with a chilling touch of the macabre."}, "latest_revision": 2, "revision": 2, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T09:56:00.198260"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-05-27T00:10:44.061661"}}, {"covers": [14857373, 2020922, 12158109], "key": "/works/OL5204320W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL1163700A"}}], "title": "Antidote to venom", "subject_places": ["Great Britain", "England", "Birminghan", "Birmingham (England)", "Birmingham"], "subjects": ["Fiction", "Joseph French (Fictitious character)", "Police", "Murder", "Investigation", "Zoos", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "England, fiction", "Fiction, crime", "Poisoning", "Murderers"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "George Surridge, director of the Birmington Zoo, is a man with many worries: his marriage is collapsing; his finances are insecure; and an outbreak of disease threatens the animals in his care. As Surridge's debts mount and the pressure on him increases, he begins to dream of miracle solutions. But is he cunning enough to turn his dreams into reality - and could he commit the most devious murder in pursuit of his goals? This ingenious crime novel, with its unusual 'inverted' structure and sympathetic portrait of a man on the edge, is one of the greatest works by this highly respected author."}, "subject_people": ["Joseph French (Fictitious character)"], "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T09:01:56.993659"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-04-10T14:31:20.429203"}}, {"key": "/works/OL5204293W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL1163700A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "title": "The 12:30 from Croydon", "subject_places": ["Great Britain", "Yorkshire (England)"], "subjects": ["Fiction", "Joseph French (Fictitious character)", "Police", "Murderers", "Fiction, crime"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": "We begin with a body. Andrew Crowther, a wealthy retired manufacturer, is found dead in his seat on the 12.30 flight from Croydon to Paris. 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Inspector Cockrill \u2013 also a friend of the family \u2013 has a fiendish case ahead of him as his young rival Inspector Charlesworth joins the investigation, keen to see justice done for this unusual murder."}, "latest_revision": 12, "revision": 12, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T06:26:23.088843"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-03-15T16:32:05.021655"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "title": "Murder As a Fine Art", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL13895739A"}}], "key": "/works/OL42541153W", "latest_revision": 1, "revision": 1, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-02-17T01:02:08.309096"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-02-17T01:02:08.309096"}}, {"subjects": ["Fiction in English", "English literature"], "key": "/works/OL11406215W", "title": "Crook O' Lune", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL124990A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [8598925], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "*\u201cI\u2019m minded of the way a fire spreads in dry bracken when we burn it off the fellside: tongues of flame this way and that \u2013 \u2019tis human tongues and words that\u2019s creeping like flames in brushwood.\u201d*\r\n\r\n\r\nIt all began up at High Gimmerdale with the sheep-stealing, a hateful act in the shepherding lands around the bend in the Lune river \u2013 the Crook o\u2019 Lune. Then came the fire at Aikengill house and with the leaping of the flames, death, disorder and dangerous gossip came to the quiet moorlands.\r\n\r\nVisiting his friends, the Hoggetts, while searching for some farmland to buy up ahead of his retirement, Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald\u2019s trip becomes a busman\u2019s holiday when he is drawn to investigate the deadly blaze and the deep-rooted motives behind the rising spate of crimes."}, "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-11T04:34:51.152439"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-11-24T03:48:07.118336"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "title": "Dramatic Murder", "subjects": ["English literature", "Mystery and detective stories", "Fiction, holidays"], "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL530397A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "key": "/works/OL39672382W", "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "*Katherine could imagine the headlines all too well...*\r\n*DEATH ON POSSETT ISLAND: Well-known Playwright Found Dead on Christmas Tree*\r\n\r\n\r\nDimpson McCabe - Dimpsie - has invited all of his closest friends of the theatre world to join him for Christmas at his castle on a private island a few hours\u2019 drive from Edinburgh. The festivities have barely had a chance to begin when poor Dimpsie is found draped atop the Christmas tree, electrocuted by the lights with which it is festooned.\r\n\r\nThe Sheriff\u2019s Court yields a verdict of Accidental Death, but in the swirling snow suspicion is dancing among the flakes. Through Dimpsie\u2019s cadre of directors, producers, actors, secretaries and agents runs a hot streak of hidden grievances and theatrical scheming, and as the group return to London the dogged Inspector Smith begins to circle, seeking to find the leading man or prima donna responsible for this ghoulish crime. \r\n\r\n\r\nFirst published in 1948 and lost for over 75 years, this classic seasonal murder mystery is long overdue its bedazzling return to print."}, "subject_times": ["1940s"], "latest_revision": 2, "revision": 2, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-09-18T10:36:44.581719"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-11-24T01:32:44.950842"}}, {"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The crime scene is within the House of Commons itself, in which a financier has been shot dead.\r\n\r\nEntreated by the financier\u2019s daughter, a young parliamentary private secretary turns sleuth to find the identity of the murderer \u2013 the world of politics proving itself to be domain not only of lies and intrigue, but also danger.Wilkinson\u2019s own political career positioned her perfectly for this accurate but also sharply satirical novel of double cross and rivalries within the seat of the British Government."}, "key": "/works/OL4553910W", "title": "The Division Bell Mystery", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL920092A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [9736186, 10367000, 8838793], "subjects": ["Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "Fiction, general", "Murder", "Fiction", "Investigation", "Capitalists and financiers", "Fathers and daughters", "English fiction", "English Detective and mystery stories", "Golden Age mystery", "London (england), fiction", "Fiction, crime"], "subject_times": ["1930s"], "latest_revision": 4, "revision": 4, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T06:44:10.325289"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-09-08T23:06:20.344842"}}, {"title": "Murder after Christmas", "key": "/works/OL7554699W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL2311916A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "**A lively riot of murder, mince pies, and misdirection plays with beloved murder mystery tropes to create something pacey, light- hearted, and admirably suited for the holiday season.**\r\n\r\n*\u201cA war\u2019s on and a murder has been committed - and we sit here talking nonsense about almond whirls and mince pies!\u201d*\r\n\r\nGood old Uncle Willie - rich, truculent and seemingly propped up by his fierce willpower alone - has come to stay with the Redpaths for the holidays. It is just their luck for him to be found dead in the snow on Boxing Day morning, dressed in his Santa Claus costume and seemingly poisoned by something in the Christmas confectionery. As the police flock to the house, Willie\u2019s descendants, past lovers, and distant relatives are drawn into a perplexing investigation to find out how the old man met his fate, and who stands to gain by such an unseasonable crime."}, "subjects": ["Mystery and detective stories", "Golden Age mystery", "Christmas mystery"], "subject_times": ["WWII", "Christmas", "mid 1940s"], "latest_revision": 3, "revision": 3, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T21:24:03.043720"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-07-29T00:44:03.790340"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "title": "Fear Stalks the Village", "subjects": ["English literature"], "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL13894902A"}}], "key": "/works/OL38620578W", "latest_revision": 1, "revision": 1, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-07-17T09:20:14.229370"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-07-17T09:20:14.229370"}}, {"title": "Surfeit of suspects", "key": "/works/OL11407858W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL1549954A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["English literature"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": ">*'At 8 o'clock in the evening on the 8th November, there was a terrific explosion in Green Lane, Evingden...'*\r\n\r\n>The offices of the Excelsior Joinery Company have been blown to smithereens; three of the company directors are found dead amongst the rubble, and the peace of a quiet town in Surrey lies in ruins. When the supposed cause of an ignited gas leak is dismissed and the presence of dynamite revealed, Superintendent Littlejohn of Scotland Yard is summoned to the scene.\r\n\r\n>But beneath the sleepy veneer of Evingden lies a hotbed of deep rooted grievances. The new subject of the town's talk, Littlejohn's investigation is soon confounded by an impressive cast of suspicious persons, each concealing their own axe to grind."}, "latest_revision": 3, "revision": 3, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-11T04:34:57.641933"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-07-03T07:19:15.456496"}}, {"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Thirteenth in the mystery series with Inspector Arnold and amateur detective Desmond Merrion.\r\n\r\n>\"On a dark November evening, Sir Wilfred Saxonby is travelling alone in the 5 o'clock train from Cannon Street, in a locked compartment. The train slows and stops inside a tunnel; and by the time it emerges again minutes later, Sir Wilfred has been shot dead, his heart pierced by a single bullet. Suicide seems to be the answer, even though no reason can be found. Inspector Arnold of Scotland Yard thinks again when he learns that a mysterious red light in the tunnel caused the train to slow down. Finding himself stumped by the puzzle, Arnold consults his friend Desmond Merrion, a wealthy amateur expert in criminology. To Merrion it seems that the dead man fell victim to a complex conspiracy, but the investigators are puzzled about the conspirators' motives, as well as their identities. Can there be a connection with Sir Wilfred's seemingly untroubled family life, his highly successful business, or his high-handed and unforgiving personality? And what is the significance of the wallet found on the corpse, and the bank notes that it contained?\"--"}, "key": "/works/OL20030246W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL6001513A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "title": "Death in the Tunnel", "subject_places": ["England"], "subjects": ["Fiction", "Murder", "Police", "Investigation", "Railroad travel", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "England, fiction"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-07-19T13:19:59.351500"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-06-22T21:23:32.292961"}}, {"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Sir Eustace is a cad of the first water, with a specialty in other men's wives, and the list of people who might want to do him in could fill a London phone book. But which of them actually sent the chocolates with their nasty hidden payload? Scotland Yard is baffled. Enter the Crime Circle, a group of society intellectuals with a shared conviction in their ability to succeed where the police have failed. Eventually, each member will produce a tightly reasoned solution to the Case of the Poisoned Chocolates, but each of those solutions will identify a different murderer. First published in 1929, this is both a classic of the golden age of mystery fiction, and one of the great puzzle-mysteries of all time."}, "title": "The Poisoned Chocolates Case", "covers": [8135532, -1, 502673, 7970857, 11099832, 12333542], "subject_places": ["Great Britain", "England", "London", "London (England)"], "subjects": ["Fiction", "Private investigators", "Roger Sheringham (Fictitious character)", "Police", "Golden Age mystery", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general"], "key": "/works/OL5591844W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL1345636A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "first_publish_date": "1986", "lc_classifications": ["PR'6005'O855'P6'1936"], "latest_revision": 10, "revision": 10, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T10:42:15.091985"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-05-18T16:57:30.332185"}}, {"title": "The Methods of Sergeant Cluff", "key": "/works/OL11359288W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL4771669A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fiction in English"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "> It is a wet and windy night in the town of Gunnarshaw, on the edge of the Yorkshire moors. The body of young Jane Trundle, assistant in the chemist's shop, is discovered lying face down on the cobblestones.\r\n\r\n>Sergeant Caleb Cluff is not a man of many words, and neither does he play by the rules. He may exasperate his superiors, but he has the loyal support of his constable and he is the only CID man in the division. The case is his.\r\n\r\n>Life in Gunnarshaw is tough, with its people caught up in a rigid network of social conventions. But as Cluff's investigation deepens, Gunnarshaw's veneer of hard-working respectability starts to crumble. Sparse, tense, and moodily evoking the unforgiving landscape, this classic crime novel keeps the reader guessing to the end."}, "latest_revision": 4, "revision": 4, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-11T04:30:52.126642"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-05-18T16:33:51.837564"}}, {"title": "Sergeant Cluff stands firm", "key": "/works/OL11359292W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL4771669A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fiction, crime", "England, fiction"], "covers": [10698910], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": ">>*He could feel it in the blackness, a difference in atmosphere, a sense of evil, of things hidden.*\r\n\r\n>Amy Snowden, in middle age, has long since settled into a lonely life in the Yorkshire town of Gunnarshaw, until - to her neighbours\u2019 surprise - she suddenly marries a much younger man.\r\n\r\n>Months later Amy is found dead - apparently by her own hand - and her husband, Wright, has disappeared. Sergeant Caleb Cluff - silent, watchful, a man at home in the bleak moorland landscape of Gunnarshaw - must find the truth about the couple\u2019s unlikely marriage and solve the riddle of Amy\u2019s death."}, "latest_revision": 4, "revision": 4, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-11T04:30:52.126642"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-05-18T16:26:13.739321"}}, {"title": "Fell murder", "covers": [8598924, 12535423, 10860444], "key": "/works/OL11406217W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL124990A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["English literature", "Detective and mystery stories"], "subject_people": ["Chief Inspector Macdonald (fictitious character)"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": ">**'This crime is conditioned by the place. To understand the one you've got to study the other.'**\r\n\r\n>The Garths had farmed their fertile acres for generations, and fine land it was with the towering hills of the Lake Country on the far horizon. Here, hot-tempered Robert Garth, still hale and hearty at eighty-two, ruled Garthmere Hall with a rod of iron. Until, that is, old Garth was found dead - 'dead as mutton' - in the trampled mud of the ancient outhouse.\r\n\r\n>Glowering clouds gather over the dramatic dales and fells as seasoned investigator Chief Inspector Macdonald arrives in the north country. Awaiting him are the reticent Garths and their guarded neighbours of the Lune Valley and a battle of wits to unearth their murderous secrets.\r\n\r\n>First published in 1944, *Fell Murder* is a tightly paced mystery with authentic depictions of its breathtaking locales and Second World War setting."}, "subject_places": ["June Valley", "Lake Country", "England"], "subject_times": ["1940s"], "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-11T04:34:51.152439"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-05-18T15:23:11.119586"}}, {"first_publish_date": "1953", "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\u2018\u201cNever make trouble in the village\u201d is an unspoken law, but it\u2019s a binding law. You may know about your neighbours\u2019 sins and shortcomings, but you must never name them aloud. It\u2019d make trouble, and small societies want to avoid trouble.\u2019\r\nWhen Dr Raymond Ferens moves to a practice at Milham in the Moor in North Devon, he and his wife are enchanted with the beautiful hilltop village lying so close to moor and sky. At first they see only its charm, but soon they begin to uncover its secrets \u2013 envy, hatred and malice. A few months after the Ferens\u2019 arrival, the body of Sister Monica, warden of the local children\u2019s home, is found floating in the mill-race. 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Two men are making their way to the ball by car. Nicholas Brent, an ex-naval commander who now runs an inn in the neighbourhood, has offered a lift to a barrister called Ian Macbane, who comes from out of town but has local family connections. Their conversation turns to Dilys Maine, a beautiful young woman admired by both of them, and also to the strange disappearance of a local girl, Rosemary Reeve.\r\n\r\n>Nick Brent has arranged to drive Dilys home, but on the way back after the ball, he brakes to avoid hitting a corpse that is in the middle of the road. When he goes to a nearby house to call the police, he is knocked out by a man he presumes to be Michael Reeve, brother of the girl who went missing.\r\n\r\n>These events set in train a police investigation which is hampered by the reluctance of witnesses to tell the truth. Who is the deceased, and what could have been the motive for killing him?\r\n\r\n[From the Introduction by Martin Edwards]"}, "latest_revision": 3, "revision": 3, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2021-09-30T22:35:05.789775"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-03-24T16:26:23.637797"}}, {"subjects": ["Fiction", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Hitchcock, alfred, 1899-1980"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Best known as the basis for Hitchcock's classic early film, The Lady Vanishes, Ethel White's The Wheel Spins is a gripping and accomplished work in its own right.  The plot is deceptively simple, and the premise-a woman meets a mysterious stranger during a long railway journey-is classic.  It's easy to see why Hitchcock found this novel so compelling and so well-suited to his particular brand of filmmaking.The protagonist of the story is a young woman named Iris Carr, who suffers a blackout just before she is to board her train for a railway journey across Europe to London.  It is an ominous beginning to what will be a very disturbing trip.  On board, the still-woozy Iris befriends Mrs. Froy, a fellow Englishwoman who is a little eccentric, but who seems mostly agreeable and benign.  Mrs. Froy is the \"Vanishing Lady\" of Hitchcock's title, and she mysteriously disappears while Iris is napping.  Her inexplicable departure throws Iris into a mind-bending mystery that will make her alternately question her sanity and the designs of the people around her.  For when she asks about the vanished Mrs. Froy, everyone on board the train adamantly denies ever having seen the old woman.  Although Iris is tempted to believe that Mrs. Froy must have been merely a vivid hallucination, perhaps an aftereffect of sunstroke, a few stray, inexplicable details suggest that something much more sinister may be going on...Gripping as the plot is, the novel's true strength is the masterful way in which White subtly builds tension and creates a brooding, ominous atmosphere that hangs over even the most ordinary scenes.  She has, therefore, been compared to Edgar Allan Poe, although White also has much in common with Wilkie Collins, Patricia Highsmith and Mary Higgins Clark.  Unlike traditional mystery stories or whodunits, which generally open with a crime, White's novels trade on our anticipation of a future transgression and the eventual explanation of unusual events.  As a result, The Wheel Spins is charged with an electric atmosphere of expectancy that keeps the reader captivated from beginning to end."}, "key": "/works/OL7581114W", "title": "The wheel spins", "authors": [{"type": "/type/author_role", "author": {"key": "/authors/OL2323155A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [10822259], "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T21:26:49.377262"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-03-17T03:58:49.153215"}}, {"title": "A Telegram from Le Touquet", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL2299133A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "key": "/works/OL37910978W", "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": ">>*As he walked away from the phone there was a puzzled expression on Blampignon\u2019s massive countenance. He was thinking: Le Touquet again!*\r\n\r\n>With some trepidation Nigel Derry approaches the country house of his enigmatic and unpredictable aunt Gwenny for an Easter holiday visit. After a tense few days in which her guests\u2019 interactions range from awkward dinners to a knife fight, a disgruntled aunt Gwenny departs for Europe. Receiving a telegram from Le Touquet inviting him to join Gwenny in the south of France, Nigel finds himself on a vacation cut short by murder as a cold shadow of suspicion eclipses the sunny beauty of the C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur.\r\n\r\n>Enter Inspector Blampignon of the S\u00fbret\u00e9 Nationale, whose problems abound as the case suggests that the crime may have occurred hundreds of miles away from where the victim was discovered. Undeterred, the formidable French detective embarks on a thrilling race to discover the truth in this rare and spirited mystery novel."}, "latest_revision": 2, "revision": 2, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-03-05T01:09:51.795844"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-03-05T01:14:01.697038"}}, {"title": "Impact of Evidence", "subjects": ["Police", "Fiction"], "key": "/works/OL4886635W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL124990A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Originally published in 1954 under Lorac's other pen name Carol Carnac.\r\n\r\n> Near St. Brynneys in the Welsh border country, isolated by heavy snow and flooding from the thaw, a calamity has occurred. Old Dr. Robinson, a known \u2018menace on the roads\u2019, has met his end in a collision with a jeep on a hazardous junction. But when the police arrive at the scene, a burning question hints at something murkier than mere accident: why was there a second body\u2014a man not recognised by any locals\u2014in the back of Robinson\u2019s car? As the local inspectors dive into the muddy waters of this strange crime, Chief Inspector Julian Rivers and Inspector Lancing are summoned from Scotland Yard to the windswept wilds, where danger and deceit lie in wait."}, "latest_revision": 4, "revision": 4, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T07:53:14.442545"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-03-05T01:03:08.464049"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "title": "Golden Age of Detection Puzzle Book", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL2970457A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "key": "/works/OL25404929W", "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": ">**100+ Puzzles based on the British Library Crime Classics series. Hours of enjoyment for puzzle lovers!**\r\n\r\n>Polish off your magnifying glass and step into the shoes of your favourite detectives as you unlock tantalising clues and solve intricate puzzles. There are over 100 criminally teasing challenges to be scrutinised, including word searches, anagrams, snapshot covers, and crosswords - a favourite puzzle of crime fiction's golden age. Suitable for all levels, this is the ultimate test for fans of the British Library Crime Classics series."}, "latest_revision": 2, "revision": 2, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2021-09-29T22:54:21.659976"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-01-04T00:17:10.019037"}}, {"title": "Crimes of Cymru", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL229332A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "key": "/works/OL37505421W", "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "> \"Mystery and murder runs amok amidst ominous peaks and icy lakes. In hushed valleys, venom flows through villages harbouring grievances which span generations. The landscapes and locales of Wales (\"Cymru\", in the Welsh language) have fired the imagination of some of the greatest writers in the field of crime and mystery fiction. Presenting fourteen stories from ranging from the 1909 through to the 1980s, this new anthology celebrates a selection of beloved Welsh authors...\"--Publisher"}, "subjects": ["Detective and mystery fiction", "Detective and mystery stories", "English Welsh authors", "Fiction", "Short stories", "Welsh authors", "Wales", "Wales Fiction", "short stories (multiple authors)", "anthologies (multiple authors)"], "subject_places": ["Wales"], "subtitle": "Classic Mystery Tales of Wales", "latest_revision": 2, "revision": 2, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-01-03T04:19:58.456399"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-01-03T04:29:45.254350"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "title": "Death on the down Beat", "subjects": ["English literature"], "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL13423772A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "key": "/works/OL27809096W", "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": ">>*The headline from* The Maningpool Telegraph *read:\r\nTRAGIC DEATH OF SIR NOEL GRAMPIAN \u2013 shot during performance \u2013 Symphony Concert Calamity*\r\n\r\n>As a rousing Strauss piece is reaching its crescendo in Maningpool Civic Hall, the talented yet obnoxious conductor Sir Noel Grampian is shot dead in full view of the Municipal Orchestra and the audience. It was no secret that he had many enemies \u2013 musicians and music critics among them \u2013 but to be killed in mid-flow suggests an act of the coldest calculation.\r\n\r\n>Told through the letters and documents sent by D.I. Alan Hope to his wife as he puzzles through the dauntingly vast pool of suspects and scant physical evidence in the case, this is an innovative and playful mystery underscored by the author\u2019s extensive experience of the highly-strung world of music professionals. \r\n\r\nFirst published in 1941."}, "latest_revision": 3, "revision": 3, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-05-25T17:17:02.299546"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-01-03T03:56:20.167565"}}, {"title": "Jumping Jenny", "key": "/works/OL5591831W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL1345636A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [502675, 13304048, 12751418], "first_publish_date": "1941", "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Original UK title *Jumping Jenny*\r\n\r\nAt a costume party with the dubious theme of \u2018famous murderers and their victims\u2019, the know-it-all amateur criminologist Roger Sheringham is settled in for an evening of beer, small talk and analysing his companions. One guest in particular has caught his attention for her theatrics, and his theory that she might have several enemies among the partygoers proves true when she is found hanging from the \u2018decorative\u2019 gallows on the roof terrace.\r\n\r\nNoticing a key detail which could implicate a friend in the crime, Sheringham decides to meddle with the scene and unwittingly casts himself into jeopardy as the uncommonly thorough police investigation circles closer and closer to the truth."}, "subjects": ["English literature", "Detective and mystery stories", "Fiction, general"], "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T10:42:15.091985"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-01-03T03:42:19.555972"}}, {"description": "Never, even in his most optimistic moments, had he visualised a scene of this nature\u2014himself in one arm-chair, a police officer in another, and between them . . . a mystery.\u201d So thinks the Reverend Dodd\u2014vicar of the quiet Cornish village of Boscawen and a reader of detective novels\u2014when an actual mystery unexpectedly lands on his doorstep in The Cornish Coast Murder. Julius Tregarthan, a secretive and ill-tempered magistrate, is found at his house in Boscawen, shot through the head\u2014and the local police investigator is baffled by the complete absence of clues. Fortunately for the inspector, the Reverend Dodd is at hand, ready to put his lifetime of vicarious detecting experience to the test.", "covers": [8135959, -1, 11193041], "key": "/works/OL17840240W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL2299133A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "title": "The Cornish Coast Murder", "subjects": ["British Crime Classic", "Fiction", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "Crime, fiction"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2018-02-13T22:11:59.533486"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-12-25T23:41:34.113188"}}, {"lc_classifications": ["PZ3.R526 Bat2", "PR6035.I9 Bat2"], "key": "/works/OL1238540W", "title": "Bats in the Belfry", "subject_places": ["Great Britain", "England", "London (England)"], "first_publish_date": "1937", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL124990A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Police", "Fiction", "Actresses", "Novelists", "Investigation", "Missing persons", "Extortion", "Separated people", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general"], "description": "\"Bruce Attleton dazzled London's literary scene with his first two novels - but his early promise did not bear fruit. His wife Sybilla is a glittering actress, unforgiving of Bruce's failure, and the couple lead separate lives in their house at Regent's Park. When Bruce is called away on a sudden trip to Paris, he vanishes completely - until his suitcase and passport are found in a sinister artist's studio, the Belfry, in a crumbling house in Notting Hill. Inspector Macdonald must uncover Bruce's secrets, and find out the identity of his mysterious blackmailer. This intricate mystery from a classic writer is set in a superbly evoked London of the 1930s.\"--Provided by publisher.", "covers": [8838264, 11549398], "latest_revision": 4, "revision": 4, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T20:49:25.136561"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-12-25T19:04:44.663565"}}, {"key": "/works/OL1238559W", "title": "Fire in the thatch", "subject_places": ["Great Britain", "Devon", "England", "Devon (England)"], "first_publish_date": "1946", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL124990A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Police", "Fiction", "Murder", "Veterans", "Investigation", "World War, 1939-1945", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "England, fiction"], "dewey_number": ["823.91"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"The Second World War is drawing to a close. Nicholas Vaughan, released from the army after an accident, takes refuge in Devon - renting a thatched cottage in the beautiful countryside at Mallory Fitzjohn. Vaughan sets to work farming the land, rearing geese and renovating the cottage. Hard work and rural peace seem to make this a happy bachelor life. On a nearby farm lives the bored, flirtatious June St Cyres, an exile from London while her husband is a Japanese POW. June's presence attracts fashionable visitors of dubious character, and threatens to spoil Vaughan's prized seclusion. When Little Thatch is destroyed in a blaze, all Vaughan's work goes up in smoke - and Inspector Macdonald is drafted in to uncover a motive for murder.\"--Provided by publisher."}, "latest_revision": 3, "revision": 3, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T20:49:25.136561"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-11-20T17:56:07.067176"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "title": "Death of an Author", "subjects": ["English literature"], "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL124990A"}}], "key": "/works/OL34341397W", "latest_revision": 2, "revision": 2, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-02-17T04:24:04.432340"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-11-18T12:16:49.617406"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "title": "Theft of the Iron Dogs", "subjects": ["English literature"], "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL124990A"}}], "key": "/works/OL36461025W", "latest_revision": 2, "revision": 2, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-08-17T03:55:37.919233"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-11-18T12:16:49.617406"}}, {"covers": [8599419], "first_publish_date": "1956", "key": "/works/OL12788154W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL124990A"}}], "title": "The double turn", "dewey_number": ["823.91"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-11T07:47:43.895449"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-11-18T12:16:49.617406"}}, {"title": "Verdict of twelve", "covers": [12888044, 696651], "key": "/works/OL5110572W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL4336199A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "Trials (Murder)", "Jurors", "Prejudices", "Fiction", "Fiction, crime", "Trials (Murder) -- Fiction", "Jurors -- Fiction", "Prejudices -- Fiction"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "> A woman is on trial for her life, accused of murder. The twelve members of the jury each carry their own secret burden of guilt and prejudice which could affect the outcome. In this extraordinary crime novel, we follow the trial through the eyes of the jurors as they hear the evidence and try to reach a unanimous verdict. Will they find the defendant guilty, or not guilty? And will the jurors\u2019 decision be the correct one?"}, "latest_revision": 10, "revision": 10, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T08:41:04.849487"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-10-25T03:05:22.364181"}}, {"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "1913. John Farringdale, with his cousin Eric Foster, visits the famous archaeologist Tolgen Reisby. At Scarweather--Reisby's lonely house on the windswept northern coast of England--Eric is quickly attracted to Reisby's much younger wife, and matters soon take a dangerous turn. Fifteen years later, the final scene of the drama is enacted. This unorthodox novel from 1934 is by a gifted crime writer who, wrote Dorothy L. Sayers, 'handles his characters like a \"real\" novelist and the English language like a \"real\" writer--merits which are still, unhappily, rarer than they should be in the ranks of the murder specialists.'"}, "title": "Scarweather", "subject_places": ["Northern England"], "subjects": ["Archaeologists", "Fiction", "History", "Fiction, crime", "England, fiction", "FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional", "Archaeologists -- England, Northern -- Fiction", "England, Northern -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction"], "key": "/works/OL20055141W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL7614875A"}}], "subject_times": ["20th century"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [14515308], "latest_revision": 4, "revision": 4, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-07-19T23:09:11.276151"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-10-24T04:46:27.339372"}}, {"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Prince's College, Cambridge, is a peaceful and scholarly community, enlivened by Prudence Pinsent, the Master's daughter. Spirited, beautiful, and thoroughly unconventional, Prudence is a remarkable young woman.One fine morning she sets out for Suffolk to join her cousin Lord Wellende for a few days' hunting. On the way Prudence encounters Captain Studde of the coastguard - who is pursuing a quarry of his own.Studde is on the trail of a drug smuggling ring that connects Wellende Hall with the cloistered world of Cambridge. It falls to Prudence to unravel the identity of the smugglers - who may be forced to kill, to protect their secret.This witty and entertaining crime novel has not been republished since the 1930s. This new edition includes an introduction by Kirsten T. Saxton, professor of English at Mills College, California."}, "key": "/works/OL19710864W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL7521016A"}}], "title": "The incredible crime", "subject_places": ["Cambridge (England)"], "subjects": ["Drug traffic", "College stories", "Fiction", "Fiction, crime", "Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths", "England, fiction", "Austen, jane, 1775-1817, fiction", "Drug traffic -- Fiction", "Cambridge (England) -- Fiction"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [14478619], "latest_revision": 3, "revision": 3, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-05-23T20:46:56.840754"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-10-21T13:40:02.768546"}}, {"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Robert Arthur Kewdingham is an eccentric failure of a man. In middle age he retreats into a private world, hunting for Roman artifacts and devoting himself to bizarre mystical beliefs. Robert's wife, Bertha, feels that there are few things more dreadful than a husband who will persist in making a fool of himself in public. Their marriage consists of horrible quarrels, futile arguments, incessant bickering. Scarcely any friends will visit the Kewdinghams in their peaceful hometown Shufflecester. Everything is wrong - and with the entrance of John Harrigall, a bohemian bachelor from London who catches Bertha's eye, they take a turn for the worse. Soon deep passions and resentments shatter the calm facade of the Kewdinghams' lives."}, "key": "/works/OL20055129W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL7614875A"}}], "title": "Family matters", "subject_places": ["England"], "subjects": ["Man-woman relationships", "Investigation", "Eccentrics and eccentricities", "Poisoning", "Married people", "Murder", "Fiction", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "Crime, fiction", "Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction", "Married people -- Fiction", "Man-woman relationships -- Fiction", "Poisoning -- Fiction", "Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction", "England -- Fiction"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [14465362], "latest_revision": 3, "revision": 3, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-07-19T23:08:56.426128"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-10-20T13:37:03.747169"}}, {"title": "The \"Z\" murders", "key": "/works/OL10647341W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL4435794A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [9396912, 10187702], "subjects": ["Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "Murder", "Fiction", "Investigation", "Serial murder investigation", "Golden Age mystery", "Fiction, crime"], "description": "Richard Temperley arrives at Euston station early on a fogbound London morning. He takes refuge in a nearby hotel, along with a disagreeable fellow passenger, who has snored his way through the train journey. But within minutes the other man has snored for the last time; he has been shot dead while sleeping in an armchair. Temperley has a brief encounter with a beautiful young woman, but she flees the scene. When the police arrive, Detective Inspector James discovers a token at the crime scene: a small piece of crimson coloured, enamelled metal, in the shape of the letter Z. Temperley sets off in pursuit of the mysterious woman, only to find himself embroiled in a cross-country chase on the tail of a sinister serial killer.", "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-11T03:21:00.106040"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-10-03T23:49:29.617013"}}, {"subjects": ["Private investigators", "Murder", "Investigation", "Detective and mystery stories", "Fiction", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "Fiction, crime"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Today translated crime fiction is in vogue - but this was not always the case. A century before Scandi-noir, writers across Europe and beyond were publishing detective stories of high quality. Often these did not appear in English and they have been known only by a small number of experts. This is the first ever collection of classic crime in translation from the golden age of the genre in the 20th century. 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It is now republished for the first time since the 1930s, with an introduction by the award-winning crime writer Stephen Booth.", "subject_places": ["England"], "latest_revision": 10, "revision": 10, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-03-31T05:52:37.187509"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-09-26T16:07:07.443023"}}, {"subjects": ["Murder", "Secrets", "Family life", "Christmas stories", "Country homes", "City and town life", "Fiction", "Santa Claus", "Fiction, mystery & detective, collections & anthologies", "Crime, fiction", "Great britain, fiction", "Golden Age mystery", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general"], "key": "/works/OL19368677W", "title": "The Santa Klaus Murder", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL7491368A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [8492730, 10838328, 14001520], "description": "From Crimereads.com: \"Originally published in 1936, Mavis Doriel Hay\u2019s The Santa Klaus Murder is generally regarded as the blueprint for the zillions (at a rough estimate) of English manor house Yuletide murder mysteries to follow. It has all the elements\u2014a family gathering at the ancestral home; a universally disliked and quickly dispatched family patriarch; multiple suspects hiding multiple secrets; and a dogged investigator trying to make sense of it all. But what really makes this Golden Age mystery unique is the author\u2019s unusual choice to include multiple perspectives as each suspect writes his or her statement.\r\n\r\nIn this very cleverly plotted mystery (which includes that lovely old-fashioned reader\u2019s aid, the detailed floor plan), a guest dressed as Santa Claus (or Klaus, if you prefer) finds family patriarch Sir Osmond Melbury on Christmas Day with a bullet in his head. As usual there is no dearth of suspects, but their motivations are a bit more difficult to winkle out.\"", "subject_times": ["1930s"], "latest_revision": 8, "revision": 8, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-03-31T05:52:26.104354"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-09-26T16:07:07.443023"}}, {"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "When a body is found at an isolated garage, Inspector Meredith is drawn into a complex investigation where every clue leads to another puzzle: was this a suicide, or something more sinister? Why was the dead man planning to flee the country? 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Not for along time did she realize that he had killed, and was planning to kill again.\r\n\r\nMade into the famous Cary Grant-Joan Fontaine motion picture Suspicion, this story has seldom been surpassed for sheer, blood-curdling suspense. 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It is a riveting portrait of the psychology of a murderer.\r\n\r\n\r\nEach December, Adrian Gray invites his extended family to stay at his lonely house, Kings Poplars. None of Gray's six surviving children is fond of him; several have cause to wish him dead. The family gathers on Christmas Eve - and by the following morning, their wish has been granted. \r\n\r\nThis fascinating and unusual novel tells the story of what happened that dark Christmas night; and what the murderer did next."}, "covers": [8134747, -1, 10856976, 11458420], "key": "/works/OL7411938W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL763964A"}}], "title": "Portrait of a murderer", "subjects": ["Golden Age mystery", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T21:06:41.325219"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-05-25T01:07:40.667842"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "title": "Murder's a Swine", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL2364144A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "key": "/works/OL25459397W", "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "> When newlyweds Agnes and Andrew Kinghof are present for the discovery of an over-ripe corpse in the air-raid shelter of their apartment building, the two set out to put their amateur detective skills to work. The dead man's sister is nearly frightened to death by the appearance of a grinning pig's head outside her window, and she claims to be threatened by someone calling himself 'The Pig'. The newlyweds deduce that it must be someone who lives in the same apartment building. Set during the Second World War, this deceptively light-hearted page-turner is one of two detective novels jointly-written by Pamela Hansford Johnson and her first husband and journalist, Neil Stewart, under the joint pseudonym 'Nap Lombard'."}, "covers": [13315162], "latest_revision": 4, "revision": 4, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2021-09-30T13:46:18.541116"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-02-12T14:46:04.425852"}}, {"description": "\"In the winter of 1942, England lies cold and dark in the wartime blackout. 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It was a frightening house to a nervous boy, who was there only because his parents were dead. Lady Wainwright had disapproved of Christopher's mother marrying his father (a film director), but she took the boy in, partly because her two adored sons, Hugh and David, had been lost in the war. She had two surviving sons, to be sure, Christopher's Uncle Miles and Uncle Stephen, but they weren't the sons she had loved.\r\n\r\n>Christopher grew up as a poor relation and as an audience. Then, when he was almost a man grown, and his great-aunt was dying, word came that David had apparently *not* died in the war - he had survived, but he had never let anyone at Belting know.\r\n\r\n>Was it *really* David who was returning to solace his dying mother in her last hours? 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The operator of the cliff railway locks the empty carriage one evening; when he returns to work next morning, a dead body is locked inside--a man who has been stabbed in the back. Jimmy London, a newspaper reporter, is first on the scene. He is quick on the trail for clues--and agrees to pool his knowledge with Inspector Shelley of Scotland Yard, who is holidaying in the area. Mistrustful of the plodding local policeman, Inspector Beech, the two men launch their own investigation into the most baffling locked-room mystery--a case that could reignite Jimmy's flagging career, but one that exposes him to great danger.\"--Page 4 of cover."}, "key": "/works/OL20030241W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL141999A"}}], "title": "Calamity in Kent", "subject_places": ["Kent (England)", "England"], "subjects": ["Murder", "Investigation", "Fiction", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "England, fiction"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [12852659], "latest_revision": 3, "revision": 3, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-07-19T13:19:53.478980"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-12-08T09:09:55.394200"}}, {"title": "The Murder of My Aunt", "key": "/works/OL8008459W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL623734A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fiction in English", "Large type books", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "Country life", "Families", "Attempted murder", "Aunts", "Fiction", "Wales, fiction", "Golden Age mystery"], "covers": [785620, 8838365], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"Edward Powell lives with his Aunt Mildred in the Welsh town of Llwll. His aunt thinks Llwll an idyllic place to live, but Edward loathes the countryside - and thinks the company even worse. In fact, Edward has decided to murder his aunt\"--Provided by publisher."}, "subject_places": ["Wales"], "latest_revision": 4, "revision": 4, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T22:17:42.612628"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-11-22T02:42:35.930319"}}, {"key": "/works/OL3645229W", "title": "Excellent intentions", "first_publish_date": "1949", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL623734A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "dewey_number": ["823.912"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": "'From the point of view of the nation, it's a good thing that he died.' Great Barwick's least popular man is murdered on a train. Twelve jurors sit in court. Four suspects are identified - but which of them is on trial? 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Entreated by Lucy to join her party for an evening back at the Bath residence, Hugh is powerless to resist, but when the night ends with the judge\u2019s inexplicable murder he is pitched back into a world of chaos and crime \u2013 a world he had tried to escape for good."}, "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T20:49:24.887006"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-08-06T00:42:55.282675"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "title": "Death of a Bookseller", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL4500520A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "key": "/works/OL28162706W", "description": ">A title dedicated to the book trade, moving between various London bookshops, with humorous and astute observations about booksellers and rare book collectors.\r\n\r\n>*\u201cSome dealers and collectors have no conscience whatever. 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The other guests are wealthy people draped in jewels; Jim cannot imagine why he belongs in such company. After a weekend of adventure, with attempted robbery and a vanishing guest, secrets come to light and Jim unravels a mystery from his past.", "key": "/works/OL19750341W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL2203193A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "title": "Weekend at Thrackley", "subject_places": ["Surrey (England)"], "subjects": ["Rich people", "Crimes against", "Fiction", "Collection and preservation", "Precious stones", "Secrecy", "Hospitality", "Country homes", "Collectors and collecting", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "Fiction, crime"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [12849014], "latest_revision": 4, "revision": 4, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-05-24T09:18:40.652899"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-08-04T22:20:30.075341"}}, {"title": "Silent Nights", "subjects": ["carbuncles", "Christmas dinners", "commissionaires", "Fiction", "Private investigators", "Christmas stories", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "Crime, fiction", "English Detective and mystery stories"], "key": "/works/OL20015469W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL229332A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [12384971, 10840534], "description": "Introduction / Martin Edwards --\r\n[Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518317W) / Arthur Conan Doyle --\r\nParlour tricks / Ralph Plummer --\r\nA happy solution / Raymund Allen --\r\nThe flying stars / G.K. 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Several passengers take shelter in a deserted country house, where the fire has been lit and the table laid for tea \u2013 but no one is at home.\r\n\r\nTrapped together for Christmas, the passengers are seeking to unravel the secrets of the empty house when a murderer strikes in their midst.", "subject_places": ["Hemmersby", "England"], "subtitle": "A Christmas Crime Story", "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T09:01:45.355642"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-08-03T02:35:21.632977"}}, {"title": "Death in Fancy Dress", "key": "/works/OL4080064W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL763964A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["English literature", "Golden Age mystery"], "covers": [10837653], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "> **A fancy dress ball is in full swing when in the tumult of the revelry, Sir Ralph Feltham is found dead..**.\r\n\r\n>The British Secret Service agents, working to uncover a large-scale blackmail ring and catch its mysterious mastermind, \"The Spider,\" find themselves at the country residence, Feltham Abbey, where the ball is in full swing.\r\n\r\n>When Sir Ralph Feltham is found dead, Tony, a bewildered young lawyer, sets out to make sense of the night's activities and the motives of the other guests. 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Within the clay tanks at the pottery company Shentall's, a body has been found. Amid cries of industrial espionage and sabotage of this leader of the pottery industry, there is a case of bitter murder to solve for Inspector Hedley Nicholson. \r\nKelly's mystery won the CWA Gold Dagger Award in 1961 for its impeccable sense of place and detail, and for the emotional weight of its central crime. The novel is part of a shift from the cosiness of earlier crime novels to mysteries characterised by their psychological interest and affecting realism. An influential classic."}, "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T22:39:40.283981"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-07-17T00:30:59.131096"}}, {"title": "Thirteen Guests", "key": "/works/OL5203146W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL4435794A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": "On a fine autumn weekend Lord Aveling hosts a hunting party at his country house, Bragley Court. Among the guests are an actress, a journalist, an artist and a mystery novelist. The unlucky thirteenth is John Foss, injured at the local train station and brought to the house to recuperate but John is nursing a secret of his own. Soon events take a sinister turn when a painting is mutilated, a dog stabbed and a man strangled. Death strikes more than one of the house guests, and the police are called. 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Late one night the body of Mary Gregor, sister of the laird of Duchlan, is found in the castle. She has been stabbed to death in her bedroom - but the room is locked from within and the windows are barred. The only tiny clue to the culprit is a silver fish's scale, left on the floor next to Mary's body.\r\nInspector Dundas is dispatched to Duchlan to investigate the case. The Gregor family and their servants are quick - perhaps too quick - to explain that Mary was a kind and charitable woman. Dundas uncovers a more complex truth, and the cruel character of the dead woman continues to pervade the house after her death. Soon further deaths, equally impossible, occur, and the atmosphere grows ever darker. Superstitious locals believe that fish creatures from the nearby waters are responsible; but luckily for Inspector Dundas, the gifted amateur sleuth Eustace Hailey is on the scene, and unravels a more logical solution to this most fiendish of plots.\r\n\r\nAnthony Wynne wrote some of the best locked-room mysteries from the golden age of British crime fiction. This cunningly plotted novel - one of Wynne's finest - has never been reprinted since 1931, and is long overdue for rediscovery.", "covers": [10345289], "key": "/works/OL21182789W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL2306278A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "title": "Murder of a Lady", "subjects": ["Eustace Hailey (Fictitious character)", "Fiction", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "England, fiction", "Golden Age mystery"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 4, "revision": 4, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2020-08-13T03:04:17.842504"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-07-16T15:21:36.250735"}}, {"description": "When Bobbie Cheldon falls in love with a pretty young dancer at the Frozen Fang night club in Soho, he has every hope of an idyllic marriage. But Nancy has more worldly ideas about her future: she is attracted not so much to Bobbie as to the fortune he expects to inherit. Bobbie's miserly uncle Massy stands between him and happiness: he will not relinquish the ten thousand a year on which Nancy's hopes rest. When Bobbie falls under the sway of the roguish Nosey Ruslin, the stage is set for murder in the heart of Piccadilly--and for Nancy's dreams to be realised. When Chief Inspector Wake of Scotland Yard enters the scene, he uncovers a tangled web of love affairs, a cynical Soho underworld, and a motive for murder. 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Their trainer is the fearless Anton, whose work demands absolute fitness and the steadiest of nerves. When Anton is found lying dead in the tigers' cage, it seems that he has lost control and been mauled by the tigers--but Detective-Inspector Minto of Scotland Yard is not convinced. Minto's investigations lead him deep into the circus world of tents and caravans, clowns and acrobats, human and animal performers. No one is above suspicion. Carey, the circus-owner with a secret to hide; Dodo, the clown whose costume is scratched as if by a claw; and Lorimer, the trapeze artist jealous of his flirtatious wife--all come under Minto's scrutiny as the mystery deepens.\"--Back cover.", "latest_revision": 4, "revision": 4, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-05-24T01:43:29.011217"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-07-14T02:27:59.889289"}}, {"description": "German bombers are overhead and there is danger the streets of London.\r\n\r\nA tall foreigner with strange 'blind' looking eyes triggers one of Detective Inspector McCarthy's infamous 'hunches'.\r\n\r\nLater that night, during the pitch blackness of the wartime blackout, a piercing scream rends the air and Detective Inspector McCarthy is first on the scene to find a bloodied murder weapon, a woman's lace handkerchief, but no victim to be seen.\r\n\r\nAs McCarthy attempts to unravel the mystery, the bodies start to pile up, and the whodunit becomes a more complex and colourful story of secret government plans, cross dressing German spies, and murderous dwarves.\r\n\r\nMcCarthy must move through the dark, seedy Soho underworld - peopled by Italian Gangsters and glamorous Austrian aristocrats alike - not only to find his murderer, but to save Britain's defences against the Nazi threat.\r\n\r\nSet in London during the early days of the Second World War, A Scream in Soho is an evocative and suspenseful London novel from the golden age of British detective fiction.\r\n- https://www.fantasticfiction.com/b/john-g-brandon/scream-in-soho.htm", "links": [{"url": "https://www.fantasticfiction.com/b/john-g-brandon/scream-in-soho.htm", "title": "Fantastic Fiction page", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Kirkus review", "url": "https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/john-g-brandon/scream-soho/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "title": "A Scream in Soho", "covers": [8492737], "subjects": ["Murder", "Investigation", "Fiction", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "Fiction, crime", "London (england), fiction"], "key": "/works/OL19368683W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL4326451A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subject_times": ["1940s", "World War II"], "subject_places": ["London"], "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-03-31T05:53:09.096130"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-05-30T22:59:23.592588"}}, {"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "In the seeming tranquility of Regency Square in Cheltenham live the diverse inhabitants of its ten houses. 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Six of the square's inhabitants are keen members of the Wellington Archery Club, but if Meredith thought that the case was going to be easy to solve, he was wrong..."}, "key": "/works/OL20050172W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL2299133A"}}], "title": "The Cheltenham Square murder", "subject_places": ["Cheltenham (England)"], "subjects": ["Murder", "Investigation", "Neighborhoods", "Fiction", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "Crime, fiction"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [12754308], "latest_revision": 3, "revision": 3, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-07-19T21:21:02.993993"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-05-27T18:03:35.053707"}}, {"title": "Fear stalks the village", "key": "/works/OL7581104W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL2323155A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 2, "revision": 2, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T21:26:49.377262"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-05-25T11:15:36.912169"}}, {"subject_places": ["England", "Kent", "Kent (England)"], "subjects": ["Fiction", "Inspector Cockrill (Fictitious character)", "Police", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "Cockrill, inspector (fictitious character), fiction"], "key": "/works/OL4463256W", "title": "Tour De Force", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL889814A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [4702831, 542596], "latest_revision": 4, "revision": 4, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T06:26:23.088843"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-05-14T20:28:21.928873"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "title": "The Notting Hill Mystery", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL1474105A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "covers": [10833603], "key": "/works/OL24315899W", "subjects": ["Murder", "Fiction", "Investigation", "Insurance investigators"], "subject_times": ["1860s"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "From Wikipedia: \"Source documents compiled by insurance investigator Ralph Henderson are used to build a case against Baron \"R___\", who is suspected of murdering his wife. The baron's wife died from drinking a bottle of acid, apparently while sleepwalking in her husband's private laboratory. Henderson's suspicions are raised when he learns that the baron recently had purchased five life insurance policies for his wife. As Henderson investigates the case, he discovers not one but three murders. The plot hinges on the dangers of mesmerism, a subject explored in fiction earlier by Isabella Frances Romer. Although the baron's guilt is clear to the reader even from the outset, how he did it remains a mystery. Eventually this is revealed, but how to catch him becomes the final challenge; he seems to have committed the perfect crime.\"\r\n\r\n\"Some critics \u2013 including Julian Symons, a crime writer and poet \u2013 believe it to be the first modern detective novel, though it was later overshadowed by works by Wilkie Collins and \u00c9mile Gaboriau, which usually receive that accolade. Some aspects of detective fiction can also be found in R. D. Blackmore's sensation novel Clara Vaughan (written in 1853, published in 1864), about the daughter of a murder victim seeking her father's killer, but Adams's novel contains several innovations, such as the main character presenting evidence of his own findings through diary entries, family letters, depositions, chemical analysts report and crime scene map.  These techniques would not become common until the 1920s. Symons said it \"quite bowled me over\" how far ahead of its time it was.\""}, "subject_places": ["London"], "latest_revision": 3, "revision": 3, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2021-04-05T18:52:27.463159"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-01-30T05:10:42.961599"}}, {"title": "Not to Be Taken", "covers": [502678], "key": "/works/OL5591815W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL1345636A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The medical certificate stated that John Waterhouse died of gastric ulcers, but when his estranged brother demanded an exhumation, the real cause of death \u2013 arsenic poisoning.  Someone with extreme care and amazing cleverness planned and executed the murder, the solution to which lay not in the *what, when, where* and *how* \u2013 but rather in the *why*."}, "latest_revision": 4, "revision": 4, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T10:42:15.091985"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2021-11-21T01:39:46.240207"}}, {"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Already it looked as if the police were up against a carefully planned and cleverly executed murder, and, what was more, a murder without a corpse! Two brothers, John and William Rother, live together at Chalklands Farm in the beautiful Sussex Downs. Their peaceful rural life is shattered when John Rother disappears and his abandoned car is found. Has he been kidnapped? Or is his disappearance more sinister- connected, perhaps, to his growing rather too friendly with his brother's wife? Superintendent Meredith is called to investigate- and begins to suspect the worst when human bones are discovered on Chalklands farmland. His patient, careful detective method begins slowly to untangle the clues as suspicion shifts from one character to the next."}, "covers": [10099163], "key": "/works/OL20013002W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL2299133A"}}], "title": "The Sussex Downs murder", "subjects": ["Murder", "Brothers", "Detective and mystery stories", "Fiction", "Police", "Investigation", "Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural", "Brothers, fiction", "Crime, fiction", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 4, "revision": 4, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-07-19T06:14:08.756115"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2021-11-02T23:45:55.137359"}}, {"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"'Miss Gladden', the first female detective, is a determined and resourceful figure, with ingenious skills of logic and deduction. Pursuing mysterious cases, she works undercover and only introduces herself as a detective when the need arises. Her personal circumstances and even her real name are never revealed. This obfuscation makes sense, considering that when The female detective was first published in 1864 there were no official female detectives in Britain--in fact, there were no women police officers either (and would not be for another 50 years). And the novel itself was well ahead of its time; further stories and novels featuring women detectives would not be widely published until the turn of the century\"--Page [4] of cover."}, "key": "/works/OL20040211W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL1398904A"}}], "title": "The female detective", "subject_places": ["England"], "subjects": ["Fiction", "Women detectives", "Investigation", "Murder", "Criminal investigation", "Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths", "Crime, fiction", "England, fiction"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [10990312], "latest_revision": 3, "revision": 3, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-07-19T17:42:46.156803"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2021-05-11T02:19:23.503216"}}, {"title": "Someone from the Past", "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-11T00:37:28.683653"}, "covers": [5076649], "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2011-01-09T21:29:09.602460"}, "latest_revision": 3, "key": "/works/OL9489764W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL3503951A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "revision": 3}], "authors": []}