Lord Comstock is a tycoon with enemies in high places. His murder poses a dilemma for the Home Secretary. In the hours before his death, his visitors included the Chief Whip, an Archbishop, and the Assistant Commissioner for Scotland Yard. Abandoning protocol, the Home Secretary invites four famous detectives to solve the case.

Ask a Policeman

Literature & Fiction

THE DETECTION CLUB

GLADYS MITCHELL

Anthony Berkeley

Dorothy-L-Sayers

Milward Kennedy

John Rhode

Helen de Guerry Simpson

Literary

Harpercollins

A unique anthology for crime aficionados – seven of the world’s most notorious genuine murder mysteries retold by the most accomplished classic crime writers of their generation. A manipulative murderer who stalked the streets of paris; a young wife who poisoned her eccentric husband; a bank cashier’s mysterious suicide; a brutal double murder in new zealand… seven of the world’s greatest crime writers turn their hand to some of the world’s most spine-tingling mysteries – all of them astonishingly true. This remarkable collection from the archives of the detection club follows the floating admiral, ask a policeman and six against the yard back into print after more than 75 years, and shows some of the most accomplished authors of their generation retelling real-life murder mysteries with all the relish of the tastiest crime fiction.

The Anatomy of Murder [Hardcover] The Detection Club

Freeman Wills Crofts

Margaret Cole

Francis Iles

E. R. Punshon

This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together eighteen tales from the golden age of detective fiction for the first time in audiobook form. The golden age of detective fiction had begun inauspiciously with the publication of E. C. Bentley's schismatic Trent's Last Case in 1913, but it hit its stride in 1920 when both Agatha Christie and Freeman Wills Crofts--later crowned queen and king of the genre--had crime novels published for the first time. They ushered in two decades of exemplary mystery writing, the era of the whodunit, the impossible crime. and the locked-room mystery, with stories that have thrilled and baffled generations of readers. This new volume in the Bodies from the Library series features the work of eighteen prolific authors who, like Christie and Crofts, saw their popularity soar during the golden age. Aside from novels, they all wrote short fiction--stories, serials and plays--and although most of them have been collected in books over the last 100 years, here are the ones that got away. In this audiobook you will encounter classic series detectives including Colonel Gore, Roger Sheringham, Hildegarde Withers, and Henri Bencolin; Hercule Poirot solves "The Incident of the Dog's Ball;" and Dorothy L. Sayers' chilling "The House of the Poplars" is published for the first time. With a full-length novella by John Dickson Carr, this diverse collection concludes with some early "flash fiction" commissioned by Collins' Crime Club in 1938. Each mini story had to feature an orange, resulting in six very different tales from Peter Cheyney, Ethel Lina White, David Hume, Nicholas Blake, John Rhode, and--in his only foray into writing detective fiction--the publisher himself, William Collins.

Bodies from the Library 3: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense by the Queens of Crime and Other Masters of Golden Age Detective (The Bodies From the Library Series)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

NGAIO MARSH

Others

Agatha, Christie

Mystery

HarperCollins UK and Blackstone Publishing

The 1978 release of the Dorothy Sayers classic.

The Whimsical Christian: 18 essays

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Macmillan

Lord Peter: A Collection of All the Lord Peter Wimsey Stories

One of the founding mothers of mystery, Dorothy Sayers first introduced the popular character Lord Peter Wimsey in 1923 with the publication of Whose Body? Over the next twenty years, more novels and short stories about the aristocratic amateur sleuth appeared, each one as cunningly written as the next.Now in single volume, here are all the Lord Peter Wimsey stories, a treasure for any mystery lover. From "The Fantastic Horror of the Cat in the Bag" to "The Image in the Mirror" and "Talboys," this collection is Lord Peter at his best -- and a true testament to the art of detective fiction.

Thrillers & Suspense

Harper Row Publishers

The Wimsey Family: A Fragmentary History Compiled from Correspondence with Dorothy L. Sayers

Charles Wilfrid Scott-Giles

Busman's Honeymoon: A Love Story With Detective Interruptions (A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery With Harriet Vane)

The great Dorothy L. Sayers is considered by many to be the premier detective novelist of the Golden Age, and her dashing sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, one of mystery fiction's most enduring and endearing protagonists. Acclaimed author Ruth Rendell has expressed her admiration for Sayers's work, praising her "great fertility of invention, ingenuity, and wonderful eye for detail.

Busman's Honeymoon: A Love Story with Detective Interruptions (A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery with Harriet Vane)

Harper&Row

Mystery novelist Harriet Vane knew all about poisons, and when her fiancÉ died in the manner prescribed in one of her books, a jury of her peers had a hangman's noose in mind. But Lord Peter Wimsey was determined to find her innocent--as determined as he was to make her his wife.

Strong Poison (Peter Wimsey)

HarperCollins, Publishers

Lord Peter Views the Body

In the Teeth of the Evidence

A must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion Mysteries, Lord Peter Wimsey is the immortal amateur sleuth created by Dorothy L Sayers.  All that was left of the garage was a heap of charred and smouldering beams. In the driving seat of the burnt-out car were the remains of a body ...An accident, said the police.  An accident, said the widow. She had been warning her husband about the danger of the car for months. Murder, said the famous detective Lord Peter Wimsey - and proceeded to track down the killer.

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