After a brutal murder occurs on an ocean liner, Dr. Gideon Fell investigates the strange crime and hunts for the killer

The Case of the Blind Barber

Literature & Fiction

Carr,John Dickson

United States

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Jeff Marle tries to decide which member of Judge Matthew Quayle's unhappy household put poison in the Judge's brandy

Poison in Jest

A scene of comedy, set on a sleeper coach as it heads from London to Glasgow, marks a frothy start to this twin-locked-room adventure, featuring Dr. Gideon Fell.

The case of the constant suicides

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Collier Books

The Corpse in the Waxworks

Contemporary

Macmillan USA

Death-watch

Mystery

Henri Bencolin, a French detective, comes out of retirement to help solve the strange murder of a Parisian courtesan, who may have been killed with one of four weapons found on the scene

Four False Weapons: Being the Return of Bencolin

Collier Books (Macmillan Pub Co.)

Christopher Kent is a wealthy young man who has made a thousand-pound bet with his friend Dan Reaper that he cannot start at Johannesburg without a penny in his pocket and meet his friend at the Royal Scarlet Hotel in Piccadilly in London, England, some weeks later. Twenty-four hours before the deadline, Kent is in front of the hotel, penniless and not having eaten for a day, and decides to order breakfast and charge it to a room in the hotel. After he's finished breakfast, the hotel staff ask him to go and wake up his "wife" because a previous guest has left a valuable bracelet hidden in the room. Upon arrival at room 707, the group is met by a "Do not disturb" sign upon which has been scrawled "Dead woman"

To wake the dead

Genre Fiction

Gideon Fell searches London for a gilt-painted creature who was present at the scene of a murder

The Crooked Hinge