In this essential collection, Arthur Conan Doyle sharpens the very tools of detective fiction. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is not merely a series of cases; it is a curated exhibition of the genre's finest mechanics, each story a puzzle box demanding the keenest of...

Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2026-01-11
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The banks of the Didder on a sunny summer afternoon when the trout are rising seem an unlikely place for a murderer to strike. But when the body of a local landowner is discovered it soon becomes apparent that there are a number of people with good reason to dislike...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2026-01-07
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Ronald Hudson, travel writer and adventurer, visits Philip Tolefree with an anonymous letter written in cypher, which he hopes the sleuth can decode. But Tolefree is uneasy. What are Hudson's motives? Is his writer-persona a facade for espionage - or something even more...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-12-28
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''Number Nineteen: Ben's Last Case'' is the final adventure of J. Jefferson Farjeon's Cockney tramp, Ben, where he witnesses a murder on a park bench and gets entangled in a thrilling, humorous mystery at Number 19, Billiter Road, continuing his series known for its...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-12-28
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All is not well in the English town of Castle-Dinas, a strange un-English-looking, tumbled hill-town, which seemed to have jutted up out of the Middle Ages. Concerned about the brooding atmosphere surrounding his fiancee Katherine and her family, Jardine is persuaded by...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-12-28
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The story takes place on Jowle Street in London, where many of the houses are empty. Ben, a homeless man with a rich sense of humor and "naïve philosophies," has taken up residence in one of the untenanted properties, No. 29. He is a reluctant sleuth, often confused by...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-12-28
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''Ben on the Job'' by J. Jefferson Farjeon is a humorous, thrilling mystery featuring Ben the tramp, an unlikely Cockney detective, who stumbles upon a murder on a London bridge, gets framed, and then finds himself entangled in a dangerous plot involving an...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-12-28
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At the heart of this story is the eponymous man with the squeaky voice, a mysterious figure who appears at a small town, seemingly out of thin air. His peculiar voice and enigmatic presence arouse suspicion among the townspeople, especially when a series of strange...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-12-28
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When Broadall the merchant banker fails to appear at his office in Cumberland Court, his confidential clerk calls on Philip Tolefree to investigate the disappearance with the minimum of publicity. Breaking into Broadall's London residence, Tolefree finds that there is a...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-12-28
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''The Corpse in the Green Pyjamas'' is a classic 1935 mystery novel by R.A.J. Walling, featuring his recurring detective  Philip Tolefree, about a baffling case where a corpse appears and disappears, challenging Tolefree to unravel hidden truths and impossible...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-12-28
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A corpse is found in the Jeu de Paume Court of the Lanivet Castle. The corpse was bound, gagged and almost strangled before it was shot. And the white glove on one hand was smeared with oily graphite. Tolefree was not surprised when he discovered the body was that of...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-12-28
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''Detective Ben'' by J. Jefferson Farjeon is a Golden Age mystery featuring Ben, a resourceful Cockney tramp who stumbles into crime, becoming an accidental detective who thwarts international conspiracies with humor and thrills, starting with finding a dead man on a...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-12-28
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The mystery centers on room 18, at St Ann's hospital, where over the course of around a week 3 people die in there. However the story begins with a very awkward dinner party.

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-12-21
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Murderer's Trail  by J. Jefferson Farjeon is a humorous 1930s crime novel featuring  the resourceful tramp, Ben, who accidentally stows away on a ship with a real murderer, leading to a chaotic sea voyage filled with disappearances, comical mishaps, and thrilling...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-12-20
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London, 1863 A gentleman. A pickpocket. An unlikely alliance. When a chance encounter brings together two men from opposite worlds, mistrust and resentment run deep. Lloyd Webster, the privileged son of a baronet, is an idealist who values his reputation. Ezra Taylor, a...

Editeur : BoD - Books on Demand
Parution : 2026-01-27
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A high-stakes, whirlwind military romance Captain William Nicholson, of the Royal Marines, never anticipated the dramatic shift in his life the day Roxane Wright walked through his door.A devoted nurse, impregnated by an abusive man she had just left, Roxane had come to...

Editeur : So Romance - INT
Parution : 2025-12-21
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PRE-ORDER THE NEW THRILLER FROM MILLION COPY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER MICHAEL CONNELLYLos Angeles County Sheriff's Detective Stilwell has been "exiled" to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics drove him off a homicide desk on the...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2025-05-20
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'Forty years since her debut, Indemnity Only, Sara Paretsky's social conscience burns brighter than ever . . . the cracking pace maintains the intrigue and tension . . . Further proof, if any were needed, that Paretsky is a giant of modern American crime' TIMES ONLINEOn...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2022-05-05
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'Stunning, not only on account of the author's talent, of which there is clearly plenty, but also in its humanity' New York Times Book Review'A gripping read - everything beautifully evoked, from the alleys of the Old City to the atmosphere of corruption and secrets.'...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2022-03-31
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**THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Ruth Galloway and DCI Nelson are on the hunt for a murderer when Covid rears its ugly head. But can they find the killer despite lockdown?'GALLOWAY NOW SEEMS AS REAL AS MARPLE AND MORSE' The Times'INTENSELY ATMOSPHERIC AND...

Editeur : Quercus
Parution : 2022-02-03
Collection : The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries ePub