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  • The Mystery of the Peacock’s Eye
    Brian Flynn
    Uncover a classic of English crime fiction with Brian Flynn’s 'The mystery of the Peacock’s Eye.' This meticulously crafted print edition transports readers into a world of intrigue, suspense, and brilliant detection, characteristic of the genre’s golden age. Set amidst the evocative landscapes of England, the story introduces the formidable detective Anthony Bathurst, whose ke...
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  • The Mystery of the Peacock’s Eye
    Brian Flynn
    Uncover a classic of English crime fiction with Brian Flynn’s 'The mystery of the Peacock’s Eye.' This meticulously crafted print edition transports readers into a world of intrigue, suspense, and brilliant detection, characteristic of the genre’s golden age. Set amidst the evocative landscapes of England, the story introduces the formidable detective Anthony Bathurst, whose ke...
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    36,62 €

  • The Case of the Black Twenty-Two
    Brian Flynn
    'The case of the Black Twenty-Two' by acclaimed author Brian Flynn invites readers into a classic world of intrigue and deduction. This essential entry in British crime fiction features the renowned detective Anthony Bathurst as he confronts a perplexing enigma.Set against a richly atmospheric English backdrop, this mystery novel plunges Bathurst into a complex investigation th...
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  • The Case of the Black Twenty-Two
    Brian Flynn
    'The case of the Black Twenty-Two' by acclaimed author Brian Flynn invites readers into a classic world of intrigue and deduction. This essential entry in British crime fiction features the renowned detective Anthony Bathurst as he confronts a perplexing enigma.Set against a richly atmospheric English backdrop, this mystery novel plunges Bathurst into a complex investigation th...
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    36,62 €

  • Men for Pieces
    Brian Flynn
    ’Tis all a chequerboard of nights and days, where Destiny with men for pieces plays; Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, and one by one back in the closet lays.Omar KhayyamAnthony Bathurst was enjoying a quiet lunch when he is approached for help by his waitress, Stella Forrest. Her boyfriend, Peter Oliver, had disappeared after some trouble at the bank where he wor...
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  • Black Agent
    Brian Flynn
    'Good things of the day begin to droop and drowse,while night’s black agents to their preys do rouse'Macbeth, William ShakespeareBarbara Marsden cut a memorable figure in her bright yellow dress at the New Year Social and Dance in Wavering, but nobody saw what happened to her and she vanished without trace. One month later, Vera Ferris appeared at the same venue wearing the sam...
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  • And Cauldron Bubble
    Brian Flynn
    'Double, double toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble.'Macbeth, William ShakespeareSir Hugo Blanchflower’s died peacefully in his bed in his castle in Quinster, but his last words to his wife filled her with terror. The next nine years, however, passed without incident until one night in the nearby Red Deer.Lady Blanchflower and her companion, Mrs Whitburn, seemed to ...
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  • Where There Was Smoke
    Brian Flynn
    'I never knew, till then, the possibilities inherent in spaghetti when controlled by an ingenious spirit.' Anthony BathursttWith austerity holding the country in a vice-like grip, chemist Donald Finney is happy with any offer of work. Even though the proposal from the mysterious Mr Reheboam of £100 for a single night’s work seems too good to be true, he never expected that it w...
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  • The Ring of Innocent
    Brian Flynn
    'I’ll slit his throat - without the slightest compunction or hesitation.'Martin Scudamore was in the cinema when he overheard this threat, as part of a conversation about four rings, and what would happen if 'Mr Lovelace' got in their way. Determined to do the right thing, he tells Helen Repton who works at Scotland Yard. And she promptly enlists the help of one Anthony Lotheri...
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    13,23 €

  • The Billiard Room Mystery
    Brian Flynn
    Step back in time to the 1930s with Brian Flynn’s classic cozy mystery, 'The Billiard Room Mystery.' Set against the backdrop of an English country house, this detective fiction explores the intricacies of social life and customs in early 20th century England.Flynn expertly weaves a tale of intrigue and suspense, characteristic of traditional mystery and detective novels. Reade...
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    34,74 €

  • The Case of Elymas the Sorcerer
    Brian Flynn
    Less than an hour later, the nude body of the dead man lay in the outhouse which did duty at St. Mead as the official mortuary.Anthony Bathurst is taking the sea-air at the village of St Mead, when the local constabulary drag him into the investigation of a local murder.The mystery is grotesque: someone has stripped the body, left it in a field and shaved the victim’s moustache...
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  • Conspiracy at Angel
    Brian Flynn
    'A dead man in my car? But how can that be? Do you mean somebody-er-that was taken ill or something?''No, sir. The dead man in your car was murdered.'When Richard Langley entered the town of Angel, he encountered the unexpected. He never expected to meet Priscilla Schofield. He never expected to be asked to deliver her kitten Ahaseurus to Priscilla’s father. And he never expect...
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  • The Sharp Quillet
    Brian Flynn
    'There’s little doubt, as I see it, that Flagon was killed by a dart thrown with amazing skill and dexterity.'The Bar Point-to-Point meeting at Quiddington St Philip is always an auspicious occasion. This year, Justice Nicholas Flagon is the favourite to win-there’s big money on him, and a fair bit against him as well. But who will scoop the jackpot when the leading jockey fail...
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  • Exit Sir John
    Brian Flynn
    Elisabeth slept! It is perhaps a matter for wonderment that her sleep was untroubled. For-had she but known it-she was so close to Terror and Tragedy! So close to Death and deaths-so close to the menace of `Mr Levi’!Mr Medlicott, a solicitor, heads to the country home of his old friend and client Sir John Wynward, to spend Christmas with Sir John’s family and friends. But after...
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  • The Swinging Death
    Brian Flynn
    The nude body swung-right-left-as its weight played on the rope which the hook held.Dr. Julian Field had a straightforward day ahead of him-a short train journey to visit his patient, the wife of Philip Stanhope of Stoke Pelly, and then a journey home. So what caused him to leave the station at an earlier station, Fullaford? Whatever it was apparently led him to St. Mark’s Chur...
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  • The Ebony Stag
    Brian Flynn
    'Tell me, Doctor, could the wound have been made by the antlers of an angry stag?'With Scotland Yard overstretched, Anthony Bathurst is recruited to investigate the death of seventy-three year old Robert Forsyth in the village of Upchalke. Forsyth had been brutally attacked in his home and stabbed through the chest with an unknown weapon.As suspicions form that Forsyth was not ...
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  • Cold Evil
    Brian Flynn
    'I believe those men were murdered just as clearly as if they had been stabbed to the heart with a knife. The only sign that they bore was a dull red mark . . . behind the ears.'Six men meet at the vicarage of St Crayle one evening to tell each other ghost stories. In particular, it is Martin Burke’s tale, one of a homicidal chimera in India, that chills his audience to the bon...
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  • Black Edged
    Brian Flynn
    The moment they entered, Anthony pointed to the floor and to a hand that protruded from beneath the bed.Dr. Traquair is determined that either he or his wife should die. He decides to allow her to cut a deck of cards to see who will shoot whom - highest card wins.As the winner of this deadly duel, Traquair takes flight, desperate to elude capture for his crime. Super-sleuth Ant...
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    13,50 €

  • The Case of the Faithful Heart
    Brian Flynn
    'Before she could finish what she wanted to say, she just gasped once or twice and died there in my arms.'Nothing seems amiss at the Hillier family dinner party but the very next morning Jacqueline Hillier is found dying in her car. Her clothes are dirty and torn, her face bruised, but it was an overdose of chloral hydrate which took her life. Nobody knows where she might have ...
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  • The Case of the Painted Ladies
    Brian Flynn
    'I cannot tell you of your future - because there is no future for you.'Three remarkable things happen to Aubrey Coventry in one day. First, he is contacted by Wall Street financier Silas Montgomery with a lucrative business proposition - although Montgomery insists on meeting him at two a.m. the following day. Second, at a village garden party, a fortune teller cannot read his...
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  • They Never Came Back
    Brian Flynn
    'I don’t like any of it. He’s either being prevented from going home by force . . . or else he’ll never go home again.'’Lefty’ Donovan, a boxer, leaves home after receiving a mysterious offer that seems too good to be true-and is never seen again. His wife, Flora, approaches Anthony Bathurst to look for her husband, but he fears the worst, especially when he discovers another f...
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  • Such Bright Disguises
    Brian Flynn
    'Murder? Is that how you see it? Well-I don’t! Justifiable homicide more like it!'Hubert Grant is a fairly unpleasant man. He also thinks he is happily married.Dorothy Grant despises her husband but finds consolation in the handsome Laurence Weston. In order for the lovers to be happy, however, the intolerable Hubert needs to be cut out of the picture. Permanently.Dorothy and L...
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  • Glittering Prizes
    Brian Flynn
    'It has been evident to me for some time that this country, the Empire and all that you and I hold dear are in deadly peril.'Mrs. Warren Clinton, the American millionaire, summons nine talented individuals to the Royal Sceptre Hotel. Her stated purpose-to save the British Empire. Through a series of fiendish intellectual tests, she whittles the numbers down to two-only for the ...
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  • Reverse the Charges
    Brian Flynn
    'What I smelt and what you smelt, Constable Wragg, was burning flesh!'William Norman dies of shock after being burnt by hot coals. The Mallett constabulary first look for a motive amongst his fellow farmers. But when a second murder occurs by poisoning, and a third by drowning, it appears this is no farming dispute but the work of a serial killer stalking the streets.With no in...
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  • The Grim Maiden
    Brian Flynn
    'She came to me for help, Andrew, and I failed her. I failed her living, but I promise to God I won’t fail her dead!'Richard Arbuthnot is convinced that a crime will be committed. The odd behaviour of a man who shares his train to work in Kingsley raises suspicions-suspicions which soon drive Artbuthnot to contact detective Anthony Bathurst.The next day, Bathurst is approached ...
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  • The Billiard Room Mystery
    Brian Flynn
    A sharp turn of the lamp, a hush in the billiard room, and a mystery that refuses to let go. The Billiard Room Mystery invites you to follow a determined sleuth through smoke-filled parlours and candlelit corridors, where every chalked cue and whispered ruse hides a clue.In this classic mystery, Alpha Editions revives a tale that blends deft puzzle solving with keen social obse...
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    20,36 €

  • The Padded Door
    Brian Flynn
    'The murderer must have crept stealthily behind Pearson and taken him all unawares-unsuspecting.'Leonard Pearson was not a pleasant individual - a likely blackmailer - so it came as no surprise when he met a sticky end. Attacked from behind, his head smashed with a blunt instrument, the only tangible clue lay in the identity of his final visitor. Captain Hilary Frant called on ...
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  • The Edge of Terror
    Brian Flynn
    Within the next six months from to-day, I shall have removed from your midst one of the most prominent citizens of your most atrocious town. I have not yet made up my mind which one I shall honour in this way, or the exact day upon which the removal will take place.A random serial killer? Hardly-the police discover that the first two victims are related. But they have two major...
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  • The Spiked Lion
    Brian Flynn
    'Did you hear, during these last few days, any mention from your brother of an animal?'Amazingly, she nodded! 'Yes . . . I heard him refer once-to a spiked lion.'John Pender Blundell, a codebreaker in the Great War, is found dead in Bushey Park. He met his end, despite the savaged appearance of his body, from cyanide poisoning.Another similar death is soon discovered, and then ...
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  • The League of Matthias
    Brian Flynn
    The doctors who performed the post-mortem on his body came to the opinion that his veins had been opened by jagged glass. There was little doubt that this opinion was sound.Lance Maturin has been travelling across Europe for a few months and finds himself in an Antwerp nightclub. He is mesmerised by one of the dancers and when she passes a note to him, pleading for help, he is ...
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