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  • The Treatise of Lorenzo Valla on the Donation of Constantine
    Christopher Bush Coleman / Lorenzo Valla
    'The treatise of Lorenzo Valla on the Donation of Constantine' presents a landmark work of Renaissance scholarship that shook the foundations of political and religious power. Lorenzo Valla’s meticulous analysis dissects the 'Donation of Constantine,' a document purporting to grant the papacy dominion over vast territories and secular authority. Valla, through careful linguisti...
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  • The Case of the Extra Grave
    Christopher Bush
    'No one could prove we had reason to suspect murder. We can afford to be thought fools. So we’ll go on behaving as if such a thought never entered our minds.''I’m sorry, gents. I thought for a moment I’d been coshed.' An odd sort of way in which to thank two helpful strangers after a nasty accident in a City street, and one bound to provoke speculation; especially when the stra...
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  • The Case of the Counterfeit Colonel
    Christopher Bush
    His head went sideways, like a hopping sparrow’s on a lawn.The man who saves Henry Clandon’s life during the campaign in Sicily visits him once in hospital, gives his name as David Seeway, makes vague and apparently pointless reference to somebody else called Archie Dibben and a country town called Bassingford, and then virtually disappears. Eight years later, Henry Clandon, no...
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  • The Case of the Flowery Corpse
    Christopher Bush
    Whoever was driving that car was either drunk or mad.The Case of the Flowery Corpse takes Ludovic Travers to the English rural idyll of Marstead in Suffolk, visiting his old friend Henry Morle. The quiet village seems hardly the place for mystery. Yet, following a car crash, a blackmail case emerges – and worse, not one, but two murders. There are multiple suspects, including a...
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  • The Case of the Russian Cross
    Christopher Bush
    That happened to be the last that either of us actually saw of Alysia Rimmell—alive.Ludovic Travers, associate of Scotland Yard, and the director of his own detective agency, is brought into a new case, and finds something very much wrong with an attempt at blackmail, an unsolved theft, and a murder . . . they all seem to link up. The more he studies them the more he is convinc...
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  • The Case of the Red Brunette
    Christopher Bush
    Providence, they say, is good to drunkards and children. Maybe there’s a third category—the unorthodox detective.A new case finds Ludovic Travers travelling to the respectable English Midlands town of Mainford. He is commissioned to investigate the death, under compromising circumstances, of Harry Landlace—a man of civic virtue. There is the suggestion of a smear and as Travers...
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  • The Case of the Three Lost Letters
    Christopher Bush / TBD
    I liked him. When I heard of his death I was quite upset.Henry Baldlow is a nervous man. An apparent invalid, he plans to emigrate for his health, yet claims to require a detective to guard his life in the interim. Ludovic Travers isn’t initially convinced, but when one of his operatives turns up dead, and then Baldlow himself, he takes charge. A series of visitors were asked t...
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  • The Case of the Burnt Bohemian
    Christopher Bush
    Isn’t it a tremendous coincidence that his murderer should also have had large front teeth?Ludovic Travers has received a good many queer requests and enquiries at the Broad Street Detective Agency, but a psychiatrist in fear of his life and in search of a bodyguard is something new. An appointment is made for the following day, but Travers has barely completed a few discreet e...
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  • The Case of the Silken Petticoat
    Christopher Bush / TBD
    Between the acting of a dreadful thing, and the first motion...Ludovic Travers sees it happen. He sees a strange young woman assault Clement Foorde, and all because he had expressed his dislike for a certain best-selling novel. Is it a publicity stunt? The matter escapes Travers’s mind until he hears on the radio one night that the author of the novel in question has been drown...
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  • The Case of the Benevolent Bookie
    Christopher Bush
    We’ve got to have a body.That’s what what detective Ludovic Travers says, after being contacted by one Lord Tynworth. Tynworth’s wife has vanished and his lordship wants her found – yet strangely doesn’t seem especially keen on getting her back. When Travers walks into the case, he enters a hall of mirrors. In it are thoroughbred horses, their trainers, at least one man determi...
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  • The Case of the Amateur Actor
    Christopher Bush
    There was no mess: just a dark stain one could see on the waistcoat. What was horrible was the contortion of the face and the tortured eyes. But even then I thought I knew him.There can be few people who would wish to go so far as to murder a literary agent. Which one takes the trouble to impersonate a well-known author and lure George Posfort of that calling to his violent end...
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  • The Case of the Extra Man
    Christopher Bush
    I never did like missing people. Far too often we’ve found them dead.When that cheerful soul, Doris Bosford, asked Ludovic Travers of the Broad Street Detective Agency to trace her missing husband the case soon involved matters less innocent than a mere disappearance. Andrew Bosford had been a crooner, but investigation showed that his latest source of income seemed concerned w...
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  • The Case of the Purloined Picture
    Christopher Bush
    “Murder’s my job, not parish politics.”Ludovic Travers, the unofficial expert of Scotland Yard, pairs with his friend, Superintendent Wharton, to dig deeply into an East Anglian murder. Interwoven are the thefts of antique rugs and pictures from old churches, and in putting together the facts and defining the motives, Travers comes up with the answer—all i’s dotted and t’s cros...
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  • The Case of the Corner Cottage
    Christopher Bush
    I was thinking of offering Godfrey Prial some sort of partnership. I’m pretty sure now of at least two things—that he liked me, and that he’d have accepted. If he’d lived.When Ludovic Travers took over Bill Ellice’s Broad Street Detective Agency, he was glad to welcome back from war service the Agency’s star operative, Godfrey Prial. But when something happened to Prial whilst ...
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  • The Case of the Housekeeper's Hair
    Christopher Bush
    “I have an idea that a certain man is going to commit murder. He told me so—in so many words.”If Ludovic Travers hadn’t been so sure the man was serious, he might not have gone snooping. If he hadn’t kept his eyes peeled, he might have noticed what happened to the housekeeper’s hair. It is even less likely he would have uncovered those dark deeds that took place in France, deed...
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  • The Case of the Second Chance
    Christopher Bush
    ‘Anything doing?’‘Maybe,’ he said guardedly, and then as a kind of afterthought: ‘Just slipping along to Hampstead. Charles Manfrey’s dead.’Ludovic Travers is on army leave in London when actor and theatrical impresario Charles Manfrey is murdered, so it is not surprising that Superintendent Wharton – ‘the General’ to the initiated – pulls him in to help investigate the crime. ...
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  • The Case of the Curious Client
    Christopher Bush
    Near the right temple was a hole, and down the forehead and along the nose was dried blood.“Shot, by God! No wonder the poor old devil couldn’t hear.”When the telephone bell rings in Bill Ellice’s Broad Street Detective Agency, it happens to be Ludovic Travers who takes the call. The new client is certainly out of the ordinary, for he claims that his life is in danger. He wants...
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  • The Case of the Haven Hotel
    Christopher Bush
    It was Murder Eve, and I was the last person in Sandbeach to suspect it.Ludovic Travers certainly isn’t anticipating anything remotely resembling murder, least of all his own. But when he is invited to a strange hotel, someone does turns up murdered, and in a most peculiar way. Travers, and his Scotland Yard supremo Superintendent Wharton, are not officially connected with the ...
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  • The Case of the Seven Bells
    Christopher Bush
    The murderer was clever and the planning was perfect. There was apparently nothing that had been overlooked and nothing that didn’t go to plan. There was nothing that could be called a slip. Why then was the murderer caught?Too few answers chasing too many questions is the problem facing Ludovic Travers and Superintendent George Wharton when a famous actress is murdered. The cr...
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  • The Case of the Happy Warrior
    Christopher Bush
    “At first it may seem an astounding coincidence that two members of a family should have considered it necessary to ask for the services of the same detective agency. I think I can prove otherwise, and even if I can’t, the facts remain. Alice Stonhill and Peter Wesslake did precisely what I have said, and what’s more . . .”So Ludovic Travers says at the opening of a case in whi...
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  • The Case of the Fourth Detective
    Christopher Bush
    He was deader than last year’s hit-song. At the side of the skull was where the bullet had done its work.Four detectives? Surely things must have come to quite a pass if the well-tried team of Ludovic Travers and George Wharton has to be doubled in order to crack even the most baffling case. Yet when sudden death comes to the head of a big firm of grocers in the City, our old f...
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  • The Case of the Happy Medium
    Christopher Bush
    “Famous Spiritualist Dead . . . Gun Found in Flat”In The Case of the Happy Medium Ludovic Travers is at the top of his considerable form. When Ludovic and his wife set out to attend a séance, they are in a mood of amiable scepticism. But the atmosphere swiftly changes when Travers is plunged headlong into a case where he, and Scotland Yard supremo George Wharton, must tussle wi...
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  • The Case of the Murdered Major
    Christopher Bush
    The tea had brought a pleasant warmth and Travers snuggled down in bed. Once more he was busy with something that had vastly cheered him of late—a perfect scheme for the murder of Stirrop.There were difficulties from the first day the blustering and objectionable Major Stirrop set foot in the Prisoner-of-War camp. Captain Ludovic Travers, his adjutant, saw trouble—dire trouble—...
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  • The Case of the Flying Donkey
    Christopher Bush
    As Travers’s finger touched the dead hand, he felt the warmth, and wondered if the man were still alive. Then he saw the knife that stuck sideways in the ribs.It was three years after Ludovic Travers had acquired a painting by the famous contemporary French artist, Henri Larne, that a mysterious art dealer named Braque turned up, showed great interest in the picture, and invite...
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  • The Case of the Magic Mirror
    Christopher Bush
    “Good God!” I was staring like a lunatic. “Murdered, you say? When?”“Less than half an hour ago, sir.”TRAVERS: “I don’t know why I should call this case that of the Magic Mirror for there’s nothing in it reminiscent of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” even if the mirror did do a certain amount of magical revelation.“As a matter of fact the title is my obstinate own. In the fi...
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  • The Case of the Climbing Rat
    Christopher Bush
    An attendant had come in with the cage. He stooped and held the rope taut. The cage door was opened, Jules called from high in the roof and at once the rat began to climb. Then something went wrong. All at once Auguste scampered down and shot back into his cage.When Ludovic Travers arrives in the South of France to say a few well-chosen words to his wife’s shady relative, Gusta...
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  • The Case of the Kidnapped Colonel
    Christopher Bush
    The curtain had been drawn back and there was the bed. Wharton and a stranger were standing by it, and when Wharton moved to meet me, I saw on the bed the body of Penelope Craye.“She’s dead,” I said.Wharton merely nodded.Once again, we meet our old friend Ludovic Travers—now Major Travers, and commandant of Camp 55 in England during World War Two. Nearby lives the rather myster...
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  • The Case of the Fighting Soldier
    Christopher Bush
    What was I to be this time? A Commandant again of a Prisoner of War Camp? Was I to get a sedentary job at the War Office itself, and begin the slow process of fossilisation? Was I due for some wholly new job of which the rank and file had never even heard? As it turned out, I most certainly was.Ludovic Travers reports to room 299 of the War Office to receive new orders. He is s...
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  • The Case of the Running Mouse
    Christopher Bush
    “Is he bad, sir?”“Worse than that,” I said. “In fact, he’s dead.”1943. Ludovic Travers, consulting specialist for Scotland Yard, is on a fortnight’s well-earned leave in London from his military posting. Anticipating relaxation, he is instead thrown into a fresh mystery by a letter from one Peter Worrack, the owner of a genteel gambling club.Worrack’s business partner, Georgina...
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  • The Case of the Platinum Blonde
    Christopher Bush
    “It’s about a murder. . . . Here. Five Oaks, they call it. . . . A man, he’s murdered. . . . Oh, no, it isn’t a joke. I wish it was. . . . I said I wished it was. . . . You’ll send someone at once?”Ludovic Travers, still in the army, is obliged to combine his military duties with being an invaluable private sleuth on behalf of Scotland Yard. Now Inspector Wharton has asked Ludo...
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