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"The murder of Madame Bourchaud was puzzling. She was found dead in her bedroom, despite the police cordon around her hotel and private detective Lionel Crane bring stationed outside her room during the previous night. A fabulous pearl had been stolen, ripped free from the silver...

Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton...

A sniper who leaves no trace is terrorizing the city, and Jane Halifax is approached by Commander Tom Saracen to help find the killer. Currently a professor of forensic psychiatry, it's been almost 20 years since Jane worked with the police. As a celebrated academic in a long-ter...

"A Christmas party is punctuated by a gunshot under a policeman's watchful eye. A jewel heist is planned amidst the glitz and glamour of Oxford Streets Christmas shopping. Lost in a snowstorm, a man finds a motive for murder. Featuring stories by John Bude and E.C.R. Lorac, as we...

Caught in a thunderstorm one hot summer night, Peter Lake takes shelter in a public call-box. When the telephone begins to ring, and curiosity prompts him to answer, a desperate plea for help issues from the receiver - then a scream - then silence. His determination to assist the...

"Alexander Kielmann pursued his nefarious activities with impunity...blackmail, burglary, even murder. At Scotland Yard there were suspicions, but no proof available. then Kielmann received a letter : You have ruined lives, but death is waiting for you... Your associates will suf...

In Burma, the British manager of the ruby mines of Mogok has been away, attempting to track down a leopard that had been attacking livestock. He returns to discover his stand-in at the office lying dead on the floor, the safe door open and its contents stolen. Fifty of the mine's...

Working abroad, John Fordyce and his sister returned to England after learning that John was the beneficiary of the estate of his uncle, William Grant. Taking up occupancy of Raven House, a large mansion in its own grounds, they engaged servants to run it. But soon a series of my...

Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton...

Entirely unscrupulous and utterly heartless, the blackmailer who calls himself the Shadow is spreading terror across London. The disgruntled servants of prominent members of society provide endless grist for his mill, leading to some of his desperate victims committing suicide. W...

A card bearing the silhouette of a cowled head is discovered at numerous crime scenes. The man dubbed the Hooded Terror by the press rules his organization by fear - while within his heart, is a greater fear that one day, the brother of a man buried in a little cemetery in Devons...