The Wintringham Mystery

Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-12T00:00:00Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781774648063

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The Wintringham Mystery by Anthony Berkeley Pdf

First published in 1927. Army officer Stephen Munro, who has been demobbed, decides to accept a position as a footman in order to make ends meet. Working for the elderly Lady Susan Carey at her lovely but dilapidated Sussex country home, Wintringham Hall, Stephen's first duty is to greet her eccentric guests at a weekend house party. Her bombastic nephew, who recognises Stephen from his previous life, decides that an after-dinner séance would be more entertaining than bridge. Cicely then vanishes! Lady Susan is reluctant to report what is likely a childish prank to the authorities, so Stephen and the brave Pauline Mainwaring decide to look into it. The game becomes much more serious after a suspicious demise, though. This age-appropriate winter mystery features a sprawling country home, a séance, a murder, a room locked from the inside, servants, suspects, and alibis, as well as a clever puzzle.

Author : Anthony Berkeley,A. Monmouth Platts
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008470111

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The Wintringham Mystery: Cicely Disappears by Anthony Berkeley,A. Monmouth Platts Pdf

Republished for the first time in nearly 95 years, a classic winter country house mystery by the founder of the Detection Club, with a twist that even Agatha Christie couldn’t solve!

Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504066211

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The Layton Court Mystery by Anthony Berkeley Pdf

The renowned British crime writer’s classic locked-room Golden Age mystery that introduced amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham. A party at Layton Court, the country house of Victor Stanworth, is disrupted when the host is found shot through the forehead in his own library, a suicide as far as the police are concerned. After all, the gun is found in his hand, a note has been left, and the room is locked from the inside. But one of the guests, author Roger Sheringham, has his doubts. The bullet wound is not positioned where it could have been easily self-inflicted. With a house full of partygoers and servants, suspects abound. It will take Sheringham’s sharp wit and fearless investigating to deduce who brought the festivities to a fatal end. The founder of the Detection Club in London, along with Agatha Christie and other writers, Anthony Berkeley wrote numerous novels, sometimes using the pseudonyms Francis Iles and A. Monmouth Platts. The Layton Court Mystery is his first book in the Roger Sheringham Cases, which includes The Poisoned Chocolates Case and The Silk Stocking Murders, among other titles. “Certainly, Berkeley’s short and fascinating career deserves to be saluted. For fans of the classic English crime novel, his books remain enjoyable to this day. Nobody has ever done ironic ingenuity better than Anthony Berkeley.” —Mystery Scene “He was one of the most influential crime novelists of the 1920s and 1930s, but has languished somewhat in obscurity since. A troubled, dark, incredibly innovative writer . . .” —Shedunnit

Author : Agatha Christie,Georgette Heyer,A. A. Milne,Nicholas Blake,Christianna Brand
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008289232

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Bodies from the Library: Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection by Agatha Christie,Georgette Heyer,A. A. Milne,Nicholas Blake,Christianna Brand Pdf

This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 16 tales by masters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Agatha Christie crime story that has not been seen since 1922.

Author : The Detection Club,Agatha Christie,Dorothy L. Sayers,Anthony Berkeley,Gladys Mitchell,Helen Simpson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007468652

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Ask a Policeman by The Detection Club,Agatha Christie,Dorothy L. Sayers,Anthony Berkeley,Gladys Mitchell,Helen Simpson Pdf

This new edition, which is reproduced from a first printing of the book, is introduced by the author Martin Edwards, archivist of the Detection Club, and includes a never-before-published Preface by Agatha Christie, ‘Detective Writers in England’, in which she discusses her fellow writers in the Detection Club.

Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher : Doubleday, Doran
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : UOM:39015063511763

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The Silk Stocking Murders by Anthony Berkeley Pdf

When the daughter of a country parson goes missing in London, Roger Sheringham receives a letter from her father pleading for help. As the amateur sleuth investigates, he discovers that the girl is already dead, found hanging from a door by her own silk stocking. It is presumed suicide, but when more young women are found dead in the same manner, questions arise. Was it merely copycat suicide, or will the case lead Sheringham into a maze of murder?

Author : Cyril Hare
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667627311

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An English Murder by Cyril Hare Pdf

A group of guests gather in a large country house, owned by the dying Lord Warbeck, who wants what is left of his family around him to celebrate what he assumes will be his last Christmas. The guests are a motley bunch, including Sir Julius Warbeck, Chancellor of the Exchequer, the wife of one of his underlings, the fascist son of the present Lord Warbeck, and the Chancellor's bodyguard. Also present is foreign historian Dr Bottwink, and the traditional faithful butler. When the first murder occurs, the house is cut off from the rest of the world by a heavy snowfall, and it is left to Sir Julius's bodyguard to initiate a preliminary investigation before contact can be made with the local police force.

Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-12T00:00:00Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781774648018

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The Silk Stocking Murders by Anthony Berkeley Pdf

First published in 1928, public domain in the US and Canada. A Roger Sheringham mystery from Golden Age author Anthony Berkeley When the daughter of a country parson goes missing in London, Roger Sheringham receives a letter from her father pleading for help. As the amateur sleuth investigates, he discovers that the girl is already dead, found hanging from a door by her own silk stocking. It is presumed suicide, but when more young women are found dead in the same manner, questions arise. Was it merely copycat suicide, or will the case lead Sheringham into a maze of murder?

Author : A. A. Milne
Publisher : Memorable Classics Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne Pdf

The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne - is a whodunnit by A. A. Milne, published in 1922. It was Milne's only mystery novel (except for Four Days Wonder). Plot introduction: The setting is an English country house, where Mark Ablett has been entertaining a house party consisting of a widow and her marriageable daughter, a retired major, a wilful actress, and Bill Beverley, a young man about town. Mark's long-lost brother Robert, the black sheep of the family, arrives from Australia and shortly thereafter is found dead, shot through the head. Mark Ablett has disappeared, so Tony Gillingham, a stranger who has just arrived to call on his friend Bill, decides to investigate. Gillingham plays Sherlock Holmes to his younger counterpart's Doctor Watson; they progress almost playfully through the novel while the clues mount up and the theories abound. Literary significance and criticism: The Red House Mystery was immediately popular; Alexander Woollcott called it "one of the three best mystery stories of all time", though Raymond Chandler, in his essay The Simple Art of Murder (1944), criticised Woollcott for that claim, referring to him as, "rather a fast man with a superlative". Chandler wrote of Milne's novel, "It is an agreeable book, light, amusing in the Punch style, written with a deceptive smoothness that is not as easy as it looks [...] Yet, however light in texture the story may be, it is offered as a problem of logic and deduction. If it is not that, it is nothing at all. There is nothing else for it to be. If the situation is false, you cannot even accept it as a light novel, for there is no story for the light novel to be about." In his introduction to the 1926 UK edition, A. A. Milne said he had "a passion" for detective stories, having "all sorts of curious preferences" about them: though in real life the best detectives and criminals are professionals, Milne demanded that the detective be an unscientific amateur, accompanied by a likable Watson, rubbing shoulders with an amateur villain against whom dossiers and fingerprints are of no avail.

Author : Francis Iles
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486834610

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Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles Pdf

A philandering doctor resolves to poison his domineering wife in this classic of psychological suspense. No. 16 in the Crime Writers' Association's Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time.

Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755120956

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From London Far by Michael Innes Pdf

As Meredith, an academic, stands in a Bloomsbury tobacconist waiting for his two ounces of tobacco, he murmurs a verse of 'London, a Poem' and is astounded when a trap door opens into the London Catacombs, bringing him face to face with the Horton Venus, by Titian.

Author : Carola Dunn
Publisher : Belgrave House
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781610843171

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My Lord Winter by Carola Dunn Pdf

Lady Jane Brooke sought shelter when her coach broke down, and found herself at the Earl of Wintringham’s estate. Trying to conceal her identity, she introduced herself as a governess. Lord Winter, as the apparently cold earl was called, thawed in response to the delightful Miss Brooke, but she knew he would never approve of her deception. Regency Romance by Carola Dunn; originally published by Harlequin

Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-12T00:00:00Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781774648070

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The Wychford Poisoning Case by Anthony Berkeley Pdf

First published in 1926. Mrs Bentley has been arrested for murder. The evidence is overwhelming: arsenic she extracted from fly papers was in her husband’s medicine, his food and his lemonade, and her crimes are being plastered across the newspapers. Even her lawyers believe she is guilty. But Roger Sheringham, the brilliant but outspoken young novelist, is convinced that there is ‘too much evidence’ against Mrs Bentley and sets out to prove her innocence.

Author : Anthony Berkeley (pseud. van Anthony Berkeley Cox.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1340635314

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The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley (pseud. van Anthony Berkeley Cox.) Pdf

Author : Josephine Bell
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781464215414

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The Port of London Murders by Josephine Bell Pdf

A suicide, a derelict barge, and floating pink chiffon nightdresses... When the San Angelo drifts into port in the Pool of London, telephones begin to ring across the capital and an intricate series of events is set in motion. Beset by dreadful storms in the Bay of Biscay, the ship, along with the "mixed cargo" it carries, is late. Unaware of the machinations of avaricious importers, wayward captains, and unscrupulous traders, docklands residents Harry Reed and June Harvey are thrust together by a riverside accident, before being swept into the current of a dark plot developing on the harborside. First published in 1938, this early novel from one of the great Golden Age mystery writers skillfully delivers a compelling tale of murder set against a gritty portrayal of life alongside the Thames. This edition also includes an Introduction by series editor CWA Diamond Dagger-Award winning author Martin Edwards.