Fiction - Crime

It was Murder Eve, and I was the last person in Sandbeach to suspect it.Ludovic Travers certainly isn't anticipating anything remotely resembling murder, least of all his own. But when he is invited to a strange hotel, someone does turns up murdered, and in...

Near the right temple was a hole, and down the forehead and along the nose was dried blood."Shot, by God No wonder the poor old devil couldn't hear."When the telephone bell rings in Bill Ellice's Broad Street Detective Agency, it happens to be Ludovic...

"I think you had better telephone for the police," he said. "This woman has been poisoned."Norma de Grey, the Principal in the Christmas pantomime Dick Whittington, was not popular with the rest of the Pavilion Theatre company. But was she hated enough to be...

Why should a holidaymaker, sitting to enjoy a game of village cricket, suddenly meet with death in the shape of a flying bullet?That most English of sporting pastimes: a cricket match between two rivalrous village teams. The game has just ended in a closely...

Grayson tipped back his head, and stared at the ceiling. Herby was certainly not liked, but who on earth, apart from himself, hated him sufficiently to think of murder?As he waits for the Norfolk-bound train to steam from its London terminus, Brother Ignatius experiences...

"Where are you going?" asked Knollis, as Brother Ignatius pushed back his chair."To try to prevent a murder."Roger Cartland was a successful and respected business man in Burnham. So all the citizens believe--until his poisoned body is found late one night in the wreckage...

Frank Jennings was a keen murder-mystery fan, but no one was more surprised than he to find himself mixed up in a murder mystery in real life, and that the victim was the wife of one of his own neighbours.Paul Murray was the sort...

He shone the torch into the depths of the well. There was water at the foot of the shaft. Something dark and mis-shapen was huddled against the brickwork.What Old Heatherington doesn't know about bee-keeping isn't worth knowing. But the behaviour of the bees that...

Madeleine Burke is prepared to swear that she was Dr. Challoner's last patient on Tuesday evening, and that he was alive and in good spirits when she bade him good night.While holidaying in Algiers, Hugh Challoner encounters the lightning-sketch artist Aubrey Highton. Highton is...

"Of course, it's rotten having a murder in the village, and especially in what was once my own house, but I'm not sorry that he's gone."Inspector Gordon Knollis heads from Scotland Yard to the village of Bowland, investigating what initially appears a trivial mystery....

"Lomas was poisoned, shaved after death, and placed in the river. He is full of whisky and the post-mortem examination will undoubtedly prove that cocaine was in the alcohol. The murderer worked on him with a lavish hand, one so lavish that it may...

""This is something desperately secret," she said. "Something I want you to do for me . . . But I can't tell you now. It's something I'm frightened about."Ludovic Travers, consulting specialist for Scotland Yard, receives two invitations at once to visit Beechingford. One...

It wasn't I who discovered the body. I want to make that perfectly clear, if only for the benefit of a couple of club acquaintances of mine.Ludovic Travers, special investigator for Scotland Yard, commits murder? No--but at the end of this novel you will...

"It's about a murder. . . . Here. Five Oaks, they call it. . . . A man, he's murdered. . . . Oh, no, it isn't a joke. I wish it was. . . . I said I wished it was. . ....

"Is he bad, sir?""Worse than that," I said. "In fact, he's dead."1943. Ludovic Travers, consulting specialist for Scotland Yard, is on a fortnight's well-earned leave in London from his military posting. Anticipating relaxation, he is instead thrown into a fresh mystery by a letter...

"Good God " I was staring like a lunatic. "Murdered, you say? When?""Less than half an hour ago, sir."TRAVERS: "I don't know why I should call this case that of the Magic Mirror for there's nothing in it reminiscent of "Snow White and the...

The curtain had been drawn back and there was the bed. Wharton and a stranger were standing by it, and when Wharton moved to meet me, I saw on the bed the body of Penelope Craye."She's dead," I said.Wharton merely nodded.Once again, we meet...

The tea had brought a pleasant warmth and Travers snuggled down in bed. Once more he was busy with something that had vastly cheered him of late--a perfect scheme for the murder of Stirrop.There were difficulties from the first day the blustering and objectionable...

An attendant had come in with the cage. He stooped and held the rope taut. The cage door was opened, Jules called from high in the roof and at once the rat began to climb. Then something went wrong. All at once Auguste scampered...

The action swings from London to Sweden, and then back into the past, to Franco's Spain, as Roy & Castells hunt a monstrous killer ... in the latest instalment of Johana Gustawsson's award-winning, international bestselling series. ***Longlisted for the CWA International Dagger*** 'Historical sections...

When a university student is murdered in Dunedin's university district, newly transferred young female police officer Sam Shephard is drawn into the investigation ... The heart-stoppingly tense next instalment in the page-turning, international bestselling Sam Shephard series 'Finally, UK readers get to discover New...

A heartbreaking, breathtakingly beautiful love story with an unforgettable tragedy at its heart, from the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Maria in the Moon and How To Be Brave. ***Shortlisted for the Sapere Books 'Most Popular Romantic Fiction' Award at the 2019 RNA Awards***...

Her daughter is dying ... and a killer with a fetish for body parts stalks London.As Detective Sergeant Jamie Brooke copes with the daily pain of watching her daughter suffer through her last days, she is assigned to a macabre murder case. The mutilated...

Travers looked down at the thing that sprawled. The head gave a last movement, and there was a faint sound like a tired moan. The time was eight minutes to eight.Ludovic Travers is approached by his sister after tales of strange doings and horrible...

"It's terrible. It's a body . . . the head cut off . . . and the hands."Who is--or was--the headless, handless corpse, found discarded on a bonfire? This baffling case of identity leads to a dead doctor who, according to information received, committed...

"Have you heard the news, sir?" the waiter said."I'm afraid I haven't. What is it?""Plumley's dead, sir. Henry Plumley. We just got the news over the 'phone. Suicide they say it was. Anything else you want, sir?"Out-of-print for over nine decades and one of...

"Let us know when you're dead "Ludovic Travers had known it was a publicity stunt, all that business about the anonymous threatening letters. He expected a hoax but what he found was two men lying dead on the floor of Crewe's bedroom. To be...

"It was some sort of sudden death?"Travers made a face. "It certainly was sudden. I'll say it's ten to one it was murder."Ludovic Travers is asked by an old school friend, Henry Dryden, to investigate the cause of the agitation in the formerly placid...

However thorough your search was, I'm convinced the murderer, or the burglar--call him what you will--is still in the house.Little Levington Hall, the site of the seasonal house party in Dancing Death, is owned by Martin Braishe, inventor of a lethal gas. Unfortunately for...

"And that's not all. Somers is dead too ... He poisoned himself ... in the lounge "When the wealthy Cosmo Revere is killed by a falling tree, ex-CID officer John Franklin and Ludovic Travers chance to be staying in the vicinity. After examining the...

"And that's not all. Somers is dead too ... He poisoned himself ... in the lounge "The great English boxer Michael France looks set to become the new Heavyweight Champion of the world. Everyone is waiting with bated breath for the forthcoming and decisive...

I am going to commit a murder. I offer no apology for the curtness of the statement.An individual taking the name 'Marius' boasts in a series of letters that he will commit the Perfect Murder, daring Scotland Yard detectives to catch him if they...

"Give me my rights or I will let them kill you. Think what has happened already--" Benvenuto Brown is on the luxury liner Atalanta, heading for New York. His thoughts are on his forthcoming one-man exhibition, not murder - until a seemingly inoffensive old...

Before she could touch him she saw it--the handle of a weapon sticking out between his shoulder-blades. Playwright Martin Pitt's acclaimed new play, The Lily Flower, is having its London premiere. When the curtain rises, in attendance are the lovely Julia Dallas; Lord Charles...

A tragic discovery was made at Bishop's Hotel last evening when a maid, on entering the suite of Signora da Costa, a rich Argentine guest at the hotel, found her dead body on the bed wrapped in an eiderdown.Paul Ashby is excited to be...

The stage was set, Bobby thought, the actors in position; but how the drama would develop, that he could not even guess. The churchyard at Hillings-under-Moor is the final resting place of Janet Merton - buried, so everyone believes, along with celebrated poet Stephen...

"Take my advice; from to-day keep your own counsel. Listen to everything, disclose nothing. Avoid being alone. Come to me if you're in doubt about anything or feel you scent danger. I can assure you we both live in danger."Geoffrey Mayne is in need...

He caught the back of a chair, staggered and groaned. There was a heavy crash and fall, and the parson lay motionless and livid, while lilies from a vase fell, like a wreath, across his chest. The Rev. Ulder, everyone agreed, was the parish...

'Listen I see I'd better take you into my confidence.' 'I'd rather you didn't, ' I said. Betty Morrison, a lawyer's wife, is flung into the society of an ancient Edinburgh family, the Warrielaws. There's Neil the Rip, Cora the Siren, Rhoda the Business...

"He had his enemies, I suppose?" "Disputes, you mean? Over the merits of Puccini and Wagner, Strauss and Verdi But people do not entice an old man from his home many years afterwards to avenge Wagner or Puccini " It was a shock to...

Constantine reflected on the various means dentists have at their disposal, should they wish to silence their patients ... Mr Humphrey Davenport, society dentist, has an embarrassing problem - he has managed to get locked out of his own surgery. And to make matters...

News travels quickly and mysteriously on board ship. By the time lunch was over, the rumour began to spread that Mr. Smith's death had not been due to natural causes. The bibulous Mr Smith was no pillar of virtue. Crossing the Atlantic Ocean on...

Bobby Owen stood for a time in silence, looking down thoughtfully at the dead man's face. A small, insignificant face, lacking even that touch of repose and dignity which death, even violent death, so often gives, and one that Bobby had never seen before....

"Gets on your nerves, doesn't it? I mean, that playing of hers. I've never heard anything like it." "I haven't either," Bobby said. Bobby Owen (now 'temporary-acting-junior-under-deputy-assistant-commissioner' of the C.I.D.) and his wife Olive are house-hunting. Finding the perfect country home, every prospect pleases...

"I wouldn't come any nearer if I were you. It's not a thing to see unless you have to." TThe remote Conqueror Inn, possibly the oldest licensed house in England, has an unexpectedly key role to play in World War Two. Lorry drivers, army...

Carnivorous City is a story about love, family and a city by the lagoon filled with crimes.Author: Toni KanISBN-10: 1911115243ISBN-13: 9781911115243Publisher: Cassava Republic PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/15/2018Pages: 241Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.90d

Four years. That's how long it took Californian playboy Michael Vickers to regain his memory and come home. Four years. That's how long Vickers spent battered, bruised and south of the border, following the attack which sought to end his life - all because...

"What are you looking for, sir?" he said. "Bloodstains." Scotland Yard is concerned with the murderer, or murderers, of the mysterious Bernard Pitt. The dead man is discovered with a false identity, courtesy of the many forged papers and documents found with him. The...

"There's one thing which I daresay you noticed--that pair of slippers half kicked under the bath were of men's size." "Yes, I noticed that, too, and they were sprinkled with blood." A man went calmly about his work while his wife lay dead in...

"I'm writing to you about the death of Mr. Dearborn. You bet the murderer's laughing up his sleeve now that he's got away with it." An inquest is held in South Devon on the death of a man apparently killed in a motor accident...