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The body was that of a tall, stout man wearing only a pair of gold pince-nez. Lord Peter Wimsey knew what the corpse was supposed to be. His problem was to find out the truth about whose body had found its way into Mr Alfred Thipps’ bathroom.
Two novels featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in a pocket hardback edition
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s great detective showcases his powers in this first collection of stories
A collection of the best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories featuring his famous detective
When Philip Marlowe sets out to find the missing wife of Derace Kingsley he knows it’s no ordinary case. But he doesn’t realise it would turn him from a hardworking private eye into a murderer.
A new translation in the Penguin Maigret series. Madame Maigret takes the lead in this disturbing investigation.
An intriguing collection of baffling mysteries from such masters as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton.
The moon must have risen about the mist, which was now faintly incandescent, and, when Arlette stopped, he saw the pale shape of her face, with the wide line of her mouth. Then, still standing there in front of him, she said in a changed voice, which was painful to hear: ‘And – don’t you want to take advantage of me, like the others?’
Samuel Whitehead, landlord of the Rose and Crown, is a stranger in the lonely East Anglian village of High Eldersham. When the newcomer is stabbed to death in his pub, and Scotland Yard are called to the scene, it seems that the veil dividing High Eldersham from the outside world is about to be lifted. Detective Inspector Young forms a theory about the case so utterly impossible that merely entertaining the suspicion makes him doubt his own sanity. Surrounded by sinister forces beyond his understanding, and feeling the need of rational assistance, he calls on a brilliant amateur and ‘living encyclopedia’, Desmond Merrion. Soon Merrion falls for the charms of a young woman in the village, Mavis Owerton. But does Mavis know more about the secrets of the village than she is willing to admit?
May, 1937, and London prepares to crown a new king. Bestselling writer Josephine Tey is in town to oversee a BBC radio production of her play, but adultery, treachery and pent-up jealousies are stalking the corridors of Broadcasting House. At the height of the Coronation celebrations, Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose is called in to investigate the murder of one of the BBC’s best-known broadcasters. A second victim – his mistress, and the play’s leading actress – suggests that the motive lies close to home, but Josephine suspects that the killings are linked to a decade-old scandal. With Archie’s hands tied by politics, and his attention taken by another, seemingly unrelated death, it is left to Josephine to get to the truth.
When a small-time crook is murdered on the Mediterranean island of Porquerolles it transpires he had fervently declared his friendship with Maigret beforehand. The famous French detective, with a Scotland Yard observer in tow, must travel there to investigate.
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