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Mr. Dench left his house on a wet September night to post a letter at a nearby pillar-box - and disappeared. A fortnight later his dead body was found in a tunnel a few miles away. He had been brutally murdered. Called in to investigate, Superintendent Robert Budd soon realizes t...

Gordan Cross, crime reporter for the Daily Clarion, is detailed to discover the identity of a man known as Mr. Midnight, the mastermind behind a series of robberies and murders. Acting on a tip, he investigates The Yellow Orchid nightclub - and meets a variety of odd and suspicio...

"Behind all the large-scale crimes of recent years, the police believe there is an organising genius. The name by which this mysterious personality has become familiar to the press, the police and the underworld is Mister Big. When murder and kidnapping are added to his crimes, S...

Archaeologist Reuben Hayles was under police protection after receiving a warning that his life was in imminent danger. Superintendent Budd guarded the door of his room and Sergeant Leek was stationed outside the room's only window. Despite this, Hayles was discovered battered to...

Bound for Liverpool to board his Japanese ship, OKI MARU, a Korean seaman is murdered and his identity assumed by his killer. Then, after the ship sails, it disappears - presumed lost in a storm ... The owner of a remote country house in Wales is pressured into selling it - then ...

Criminologist Felix Heron and his wife Thelma are called on to investigate the death of Sir Percival Trench on the hunting field. The inquest decided that it was an accident, but Sir Percival's fiancee thinks otherwise, especially after his fortune goes missing.

John Arbinger receives an anonymous note - offering 'protection' from criminal gangs in exchange for 5,000 - with the impression of a tiny silver horseshoe in the bottom right-hand corner. Ignoring the author's warning about going to the police, Arbinger seeks the help of Superin...

Millionaire Felix Dexon left his London hotel one morning and never returned. Then his American lawyers began to receive hand-written instructions from him to regularly transfer large sums of money abroad, with the cheques made out to himself. The letters and cheques were confirm...

"Rich Mrs. Mallaby is hated by almost everyone in the village of Long Manton. When she is murdered in the church, Superintendent Hockley is faced with a big problem - nearly everybody has a motive. And what about the five hundred pounds which the dead woman had drawn out of her a...

When Tony Frost and his colleague Jack Denton arrive for a holiday at Monk's Lodge, an ancient cottage deep in the Somerset countryside, they are immediately warned off by the local villagers and a message scrawled in crimson across a windowpane: 'THERE IS DANGER. GO WHILE YOU CA...

Whispering Beeches stands vacant, well back from the roadway, almost hidden by the thickly growing trees that give it its name - though since its owner, Doctor Shard, was murdered by an unknown hand three years ago, it has locally been known as Sinister House. One night, noticing...

When William Baker is found dead, his naked and twisted body lying under a bench in the dingy waiting room of a train station, the village police are baffled. Soon afterward another corpse appears, this time posthumously stuffed into full evening dress, with black pigment smeared...

Superintendent Budd is faced with one of his toughest assignments in separating the strands of mystery that grip the village of Chalebury: a series of robberies perpetrated by the burglar known as Stocking-foot; sightings of the ghostly Huntsman; and the murders of a villager and...

Near Avernley in Berkshire, Superintendent Budd of Scotland Yard is relaxing on holiday at the cottage of his friend, Jacob Mutch. However, Mr. Budd becomes involved in an investigation. He learns from Jacob's neighbour that his cottage has been burgled--twice. Yet nothing was ta...

Most people would regard winning a fortune on the football pools as a stroke of very good luck - but for three particular people, their big win is anything but lucky. For after receiving their presentation cheques from the pools company, each of them disappears mysteriously, thei...

"Norris Jordan uncovers a fiendish plot and is about to give evidence to the British Government - but on his return to England he is murdered. Having anticipated this, however, he has concealed his evidence within an elaborate series of riddles, each leading to a scrap of vital i...