The Man By The Sea A Classic British Locked Room Mystery

Author : Jack Benton
Publisher : AMMFA Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Man by the Sea: a classic British locked room mystery by Jack Benton Pdf

A classic British locked room mystery for fans of both thrillers and crime: The Man by the Sea by Jack Benton. "An absolute feast for noir and paranormal thriller fans alike. Highly recommended." ~~ bestthrillers.com John "Slim" Hardy, heavy drinker and disgraced soldier turned bumbling private detective, is hired to investigate Ted Douglas, an investment banker who slips out of work every Friday to visit a desolate cove on the Lancashire coast. There, he walks to the shore, opens an old book, and begins to read aloud. His wife thinks he's having an affair. Slim thinks he's insane. The truth is more incredible than either could imagine. The Man by the Sea is the sensational debut novel by Jack Benton, a classic story of love, betrayal, murder, and intrigue.

Author : Jack Benton
Publisher : AMMFA Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Games Keeper: A classic British locked room mystery by Jack Benton Pdf

A classic British locked room mystery for fans of both thrillers and crime: The Games Keeper Having fallen on hard times, disgraced soldier turned private investigator John “Slim” Hardy is hired by rich and enigmatic land owner Oliver Ozgood to uncover the identity of a mysterious blackmailer. The man is demanding a fortune in exchange for his silence. He claims to be Dennis Sharp, a former employee of Ozgood, and threatens to reveal secrets that will soil Ozgood’s family name and send the patriarch to prison. There’s only one problem. Dennis Sharp is dead, killed by Ozgood himself. In search of answers, Slim moves to the remote rural hamlet of Scuttleworth in the Devonshire countryside, where he will confront demons both from within and without in his most challenging case yet. The Games Keeper is the third book in the Slim Hardy Mystery series. While the stories follow a rough sequence, they can be read in any order. Other titles available: The Man by the Sea The Clockmaker’s Secret Slow Train The Angler's Tale

Author : Jack Benton
Publisher : AMMFA Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Eight Days: A classic British locked room mystery with twists until the last page by Jack Benton Pdf

Eight Days: A thrilling British mystery from master of the genre Jack Benton and featuring private investigator John 'Slim' Hardy in an adventure with twists up to the last page. After nearly a year out of the game, former soldier turned private detective John “Slim” Hardy takes what he hopes will be an easy comeback case in the quiet Devonshire town of Launceston. The disappearance in mysterious circumstances of local schoolgirl Emily Martin left police clueless. Eight days later, her sudden reappearance left them equally baffled. Apparently unharmed, Emily claimed no memory of her period of abduction, and in time, the investigation faded. Two years later, as her relationship with her daughter falls apart, Emily’s desperate mother Gloria turns to Slim, wanting answers. Her eight days missing has changed Emily, so much so that Gloria is unsure the girl is even her daughter at all … From the author of The Man by the Sea and The Clockmaker’s Secret, comes another stunning mystery, one which will keep you guessing to the last page.

Author : Jack Benton
Publisher : AMMFA Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Clockmaker's Secret: a classic British locked room mystery by Jack Benton Pdf

A classic British locked room mystery for fans of both thrillers and crime: The Clockmaker's Secret. Currently FREE for a limited time only! A buried clock holds the key to a decades-old mystery. On holiday to escape the nightmares of his last case, disgraced soldier turned private detective John “Slim” Hardy comes upon something buried in the peat on Bodmin Moor. Unfinished and water-damaged but still ticking, the old clock provides a vital clue to an unsolved missing-persons case. As Slim begins to ask questions of the tiny Cornish village of Penleven, he is drawn into a world of lies, rumours, and secrets, some of which the residents would prefer to stay buried. Twenty-three years ago, a reclusive clockmaker left his workshop and walked out onto Bodmin Moor, taking his last, unfinished clock with him. He disappeared. Slim is determined to find out why. The Clockmaker’s Secret is the stunning sequel to Jack Benton’s acclaimed debut, The Man by the Sea. #freeebook #freemystery #classicmystery #britishmystery #privateinvestigator #lockedroom #traditionalbritish #theclockmakerssecret #doomedlove #secretsandlies

Author : Carter Dickson
Publisher : International Polygonics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995-11
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 1558820272

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Merrivale Holds the Key by Carter Dickson Pdf

Author : Kate White
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062945426

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The Fiancée by Kate White Pdf

“A tense, simmering, fast-paced mystery.”—Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author of The Last House Guest and The Girl from Widow Hills The New York Times bestselling author returns with an unsettling but riveting psychological thriller about a captivating woman who joins a family and threatens to upend their picture-perfect lives. They had everything they needed for a perfect family vacation: close-knit relatives, a bucolic setting . . . and a murderer in their midst? Summer’s looking forward to a break from hustling for acting work in Manhattan when she, her husband Gabe, and Gabe’s nine-year-old son arrive at the annual family get-together at her in-laws’ sprawling estate. On the agenda are leisurely gourmet meals, tennis matches, and plenty of relaxation by the pool. But this year, Gabe’s brother Nick has invited his new flame Hannah, whom Summer immediately recognizes from a few years before. Oddly, her brother-in-law’s girlfriend claims not to know her. Yet she charms the other family members, and after Nick announces that he’s proposed to Hannah, Summer doesn’t have much choice but to grin and bear it. Then the reunion is rocked by tragedy when a family member is found dead. Though the doctors attribute the loss to natural causes, a grieving Summer fears that the too-good-to-be-true Hannah is involved, even as Gabe dismisses her suspicions. How far will Summer go to expose the truth? As she investigates just what Nick’s fiancée might have done to keep her perfect image intact, she begins to fear that the first death might only be the beginning . . .

Author : David Stuart Davies
Publisher : Macmillan Collector's Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1909621374

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Classic Locked Room Mysteries by David Stuart Davies Pdf

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. A fascinating collection of ingenious mysteries which all pose the question 'howdunnit?' - 'how was the crime done?' Featuring well-known sleuths from Sherlock Holmes to Father Brown, as well as the less familiar, including Jacques Futrelle's Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, in each story the reader is invited to play detective and is presented with a challenge: can you solve the mystery before the solution is revealed? Such stories reached their height of popularity in the Victorian and Edwardian eras; this collection, edited and introduced by David Stuart Davies, brings together stories from such masters of the genre as Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins and G. K. Chesterton.

Author : M. Cook
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230313736

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Narratives of Enclosure in Detective Fiction by M. Cook Pdf

The locked room mystery is one of the iconic creations of popular fiction. Michael Cook's critical study reveals how this archetypal form of the puzzle story has had a significant effect in shaping the immensely popular genre of detective fiction. The book includes analysis of texts from Poe to the present day.

Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Corvus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 0857898922

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The Locked-Room Mysteries by Otto Penzler Pdf

The purest kind of detective story involves a crime solved by observation and deduction, rather than luck, coincidence or confession. The supreme form of detection involves the explanation of an impossible crime, whether the sort of vanishing act that would make Houdini proud, a murder that leaves no visible trace, or the most unlikely villain imaginable. Virtually all of the great writers of detective fiction have produced masterpieces in this genre, including Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, Dorothy L. Sayers, Arthur Conan Doyle, Raymond Chandler, G.K. Chesterton, John Dickson Carr, Dashiell Hammett, Ngaio Marsh and Stephen King. In this definitive collection, Otto Penzler selects a multifarious mix from across the entire history of the locked room story, which should form the cornerstone of any crime reader's library.

Author : John Dickson Carr
Publisher : Orion
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409129363

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The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr Pdf

The most famous of all locked-room mysteries - a classic in the crime genre. 'The first deadly walking of the hollow man took place when the side streets of London were quiet with snow and the three coffins of the prophecy were filled at last...' The murderer of Dr Grimauld walked through a locked door, shot his victim and vanished. He killed his second victim in the middle of an empty street, with watchers at each end, yet nobody saw him, and he left no footprints in the snow. And so it is up to the irrepressible, larger-than-life Dr Gideon Fell to solve this most famous and taxing of locked-room mysteries.

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : C & R Crime
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780333564

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The Mammoth Book of Locked Room Mysteries & Impossible Crimes by Mike Ashley Pdf

This collection of criminal conundrums are more than whodunits, they're howdunits and are intended to stretch your powers of deduction to the limits.

Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755118175

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The Man From The Sea by Michael Innes Pdf

When a man swims to shore from a freighter off the Scottish coast, he interrupts a midnight rendezvous between Richard Cranston and Lady Blair. Richard hears the swimmer's incredible tale of espionage, treason and looming death and is propelled into life threatening danger.

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1992-10
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 078574858X

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The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie Pdf

A corpse is discovered in the home of Col. and Mrs. Bantry, and when suspicion fall on the colonel, Miss Marple set out to prove her innocence.

Author : Douglas G. Greene
Publisher : International Polygonics Limited
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1558821384

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Death Locked in by Douglas G. Greene Pdf

An anthology of locked-room mysteries.

Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 0857890913

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The Locked Room by Otto Penzler Pdf

The purest kind of detective story involves a crime solved by observation and deduction, rather than luck, coincidence or confession. The supreme form of detection involves the explanation of an impossible crime, whether the sort of vanishing act that would make Houdini proud, a murder that leaves no visible trace, or the most unlikely villain imaginable. Virtually all of the great writers of detective fiction have produced masterpieces in this genre, including Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, Dorothy L. Sayers, Arthur Conan Doyle, Raymond Chandler, G.K. Chesterton, John Dickson Carr, Dashiell Hammett, Ngaio Marsh and Stephen King. In this definitive collection, Otto Penzler selects a multifarious mix from across the entire history of the locked room story, which should form the cornerstone of any crime reader's library.