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  • The Secret Search
    E.R. Punshon
    “There’s a spot of trouble this morning. Old gentleman found dead in his bath.” Bobby answered: “there may be one chance in a million it’s natural death.” When the notorious gangster Cy King was imprisoned thanks to Commander Bobby Owen’s investigation, he spent a good deal of time talking about avenging himself. Now Cy’s out of jail, linked to a notorious London nightclub ow...
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  • Strange Ending
    E.R. Punshon
    “The poor devil’s mouth was filled with feathers. An unconscious man with his mouth full of feathers wouldn’t have had much chance of surviving, and this one didn’t.” The press gleefully dubbed it the ‘Banquet Murder’. The murdered man, Hugh Newton, had apparently been making a sumptuous feast for two in his flat, before his own goose was cooked. Bobby Owen of the Yard is dra...
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  • The Attending Truth
    E.R. Punshon
    “It’s murder all right; no one could bash his own head in the way this chap’s was.” The stranger’s body was discovered by businesswoman Mrs Holcombe, the unofficial queen of Pending Dale. As if there wasn’t enough gossip rife in the village, now the Queen may be under suspicion of murder. Talk is cheap, but reputations are valuable – but were they worth buying silence at the ...
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  • Brought to Light
    E.R. Punshon
    The stage was set, Bobby thought, the actors in position; but how the drama would develop, that he could not even guess. The churchyard at Hillings-under-Moor is the final resting place of Janet Merton – buried, so everyone believes, along with celebrated poet Stephen Asprey’s unpublished verses and love letters. The potential value of the poems has posed a constant danger of ...
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  • Ten Star Clues
    E.R. Punshon
    “I’ll have breakfast ready before you’re dressed,” Olive said, her mind full of bacon and eggs, tea, toast. “Can’t stop,” Bobby told her. “I’ve to be at Castle Wych at once.” “What’s happened there?” “Murder,” Bobby answered as he made for the door. Bobby Owen has left London and is now a policeman in the bucolic county of Wychshire. The local community is stunned when a mi...
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  • The Dusky Hour
    E.R. Punshon
    The hour of dusk was the climax in the strange case of the man found dead in the chalk pit. Who was the murdered man? And why did so many clues lead to that infamous London nightclub, the ‘Cut and Come Again’?E.R. Punshon leads the redoubtable Sergeant Bobby Owen and his readers on a dizzy chase through a maze of suspicions to a surprise ending – though the clues are there for ...
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  • So Many Doors
    E.R. Punshon
    “What happens,” Bobby asked, “when a woman with an irresistible attraction for men, and the man with an irresistible attraction for women, meet? When glamour meets glamour . . . ?” “Lummy,” said the superintendent. A seemingly innocent young woman has disappeared, presumably to elope with an unscrupulous lothario. Despite his wife Olive’s urging, Met Commander Bobby Owen is o...
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    11,78 €

  • Everybody Always Tells
    E.R. Punshon
    At that moment the door opened and a deep, harsh, husky voice said: “Discussing my murder, are you?” Bobby Owen of Scotland Yard and his wife Olive are busy bargain-hunting in a famous London department store. But a shopping expedition nearly turns into a crime scene when Olive discovers a necklace stuffed in her handbag. The plot thickens when it transpires it was placed the...
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  • The Golden Dagger
    E.R. Punshon
    “Why should anyone want to pinch the dagger—except to do somebody in?” No one answered this question. Item: one anonymous phone call reporting a murder at a historic country house – but no body is to be found. Item: one ornate antique knife, discovered in a village call-box, blood-stains on the blade. Rather than identifying a corpse, Bobby Owen of the Yard has to find out w...
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  • Triple Quest
    E.R. Punshon
    Bobby studied the Rembrandt intently, with his own strange intensity of gaze that seemed as if by sheer strength of will it could force all secrets to reveal themselves. Commander Bobby Owen receives a visit from private detective Marmaduke Groan. Groan is concerned about a missing client, the influential art critic Alfred Atts. Due to give a much-anticipated Royal Arts lectur...
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    11,77 €

  • Dark is the Clue
    E.R. Punshon
    “You called him a ‘wrong ’un’. Why? Birds of a feather know each other? Is that the idea? Or do you really know something about him? Oh, and don’t lie.” Commander Bobby Owen of the Yard is on his way to visit Willoughby Wynne, concerning a gang of thieves operating in the immediate rural neighbourhood. But when murder comes, amid the loganberry bushes, it is a suspected blackm...
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  • Six Were Present
    E.R. Punshon
    “You’re the murder man, aren’t you?” Mrs. James demanded. “Well, that’s not exactly how I describe myself,” Bobby answered. Bobby Owen and his wife Olive are on holiday, enjoying a motor tour of England, when they visit Bobby’s old ancestral home and his cousin Myra. An eerie air hangs over the household, where Teddy Peel, a psychic medium of dubious repute, has become a fixt...
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  • Secrets Can't be Kept
    E.R. Punshon
    Deep in bucolic Wychshire something dreadful is stirring … The disappearance of a club-footed and inquisitive youth leads to a tangle involving two instances of stolen jewels, a water-colour which may be the most remarkable picture ever painted … and eventually to the discovery of a body in a forest with ‘a smell of rotting, a smell of things decaying’. The scene abounds with t...
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  • There's a Reason for Everything
    E.R. Punshon
    With a slow gesture of one lifted hand, Bobby pointed. There, in a space between the prostrate stag and posturing goddess, was a human leg, a twisted, motionless leg in a strained, unnatural position. Bobby Owen, now Deputy Chief Constable of Wychshire, finds himself taking part in a ghost hunt at legendary haunted mansion Nonpareil. What he discovers is the very real corpse o...
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  • It Might Lead Anywhere
    E.R. Punshon
    “Give me gossip or Sherlock Holmes, and I take gossip every time. The detective’s first aid and ever present help in time of doubt.” Why should anyone want to murder a man like Alfred Brown? Yet slain he was, in his own home and with a poker. The murder seems to be connected to a bout of religious fervour gripping the village of Oldfordham – in particular a battle royal betwee...
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  • Helen Passes By
    E.R. Punshon
    “I don’t like it, Olive. No good, plain evidence, not so much as the smell of a fingerprint. Nothing but psychology and an atmosphere of doubt, menace, and suspicion.” Bobby Owen’s latest case begins with him warily lending five shillings to an old reprobate. But this is driven from his mind when he hears of the murder of one Itter Bain, found shot in the woods. Bobby is calle...
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  • The Dark Garden
    E.R. Punshon
    Late in the afternoon a man, unidentified, had been seen to throw a glove into the Midwych, Wychshire and Southern Canal… Osman Ford said he would kill the lawyer Mr. Anderson. So when the latter is found dead, with a bullet in the back, the disagreeable Mr. Ford is top suspect. But the lawyer’s office was also a cauldron of repressed feelings, and not all the staff are sorry ...
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  • Music Tells All
    E.R. Punshon
    “Gets on your nerves, doesn’t it? I mean, that playing of hers. I’ve never heard anything like it.” “I haven’t either,” Bobby said. Bobby Owen (now ‘temporary-acting-junior-under-deputy-assistant-commissioner’ of the C.I.D.) and his wife Olive are house-hunting. Finding the perfect country home, every prospect pleases … until they meet their neighbours, including the odd, pia...
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  • Diabolic Candelabra
    E.R. Punshon
    “Ode to a chocolate,” murmured Bobby. Olive, Inspector Bobby Owen’s wife, is on a mission to obtain the recipe for some uncommonly good chocolates. But the most innocent beginning means trouble for Bobby Owen: take one wood-dwelling hermit, a girl who talks to animals, an evil stepfather and two exceedingly valuable works of art, and you have the recipe, not for chocolate, but...
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  • The Conqueror Inn
    E.R. Punshon
    “I wouldn’t come any nearer if I were you. It’s not a thing to see unless you have to.” TThe remote Conqueror Inn, possibly the oldest licensed house in England, has an unexpectedly key role to play in World War Two. Lorry drivers, army camps, black marketeers and even the IRA become entangled in the sinister web which draws this novel’s plot together. Bobby Owen, after findin...
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    11,48 €

  • Night's Cloak
    E.R. Punshon
    “I’ve got to hurry,” Bobby said. “Mr Weston has been found dead from a knife-wound in his study.” It’s not easy for a county police Inspector to handle prominent local citizens diplomatically, while getting on with the real work of crime detection. But it’s particularly hard when Bobby Owen finds himself the victim of a sinister swindle worked by a millionaire business executi...
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  • The House of Godwinsson
    E.R. Punshon
    Bobby Owen stood for a time in silence, looking down thoughtfully at the dead man’s face. A small, insignificant face, lacking even that touch of repose and dignity which death, even violent death, so often gives, and one that Bobby had never seen before. Of that at least he was sure. Yet this same man was found dead with a detailed and accurate plan of Bobby Owen’s new London...
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  • Four Strange Women
    E.R. Punshon
    “You think it’s murder, don’t you?”“There is no proof of that as yet, sir,” Bobby answered cautiously.“No, I know, but it’s what you think,” Glynne answered. After a pause, he added: “So do I.”Viscount Byatt was found dead in his car without a mark on him. Millionaire Andy White’s corpse was discovered in a remote cottage in Wales – no clue to the cause of death. When a grotesq...
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  • Comes a Stranger
    E.R. Punshon
    “You see,” Miss Kayne said, “I committed a murder once myself.” Miss Kayne’s proud boast to Detective-Sergeant Bobby Owen is that she has committed the Perfect Murder – a crime with no clues. Bobby thinks at first it is a macabre joke, but before long a body is reportedly found, stabbed in the world-famous Kayne Library. When Bobby gets to the scene, the corpse has disappeared...
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  • Murder Abroad
    E.R. Punshon
    Perhaps the victim had not been unconscious but had known her fate, had sent upwards from the black pit a cry that none but murderers had heard. Bobby takes the rare opportunity for a holiday – albeit a working one. Prompted by his fiancée Olive, he sets off to France to find out what happened to Miss Polthwaite’s diamonds – and why her dead body was discovered at the bottom o...
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  • Suspects - Nine
    E.R. Punshon
    “Know him?” he asked. Bobby was for a moment too surprised to answer. He had thought of every one else but not of the man whose dead face now was staring up at him. “Yes. I know him,” he said. Bobby Owen’s fiancée and milliner to the wealthy, Olive Farrar, has a problem. It concerns two competitive society matrons and a missing hat. But it becomes a case of murder when the b...
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  • Dictator’s Way
    E.R. Punshon
    When an old acquaintance of Bobby Owen’s from Oxford days turns up out of the blue, he needs help. Bobby little suspects that investigating the sinister enclave of ‘Dictator’s Way’ will quickly set in train a series of momentous events, involving Bobby in a fistfight with an ex-professional boxer, kidnap, peril at sea and international intrigue – not to mention encounters with ...
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  • The Bath Mysteries
    E.R. Punshon
    Bobby Owen is on a mission of unusual delicacy, finding himself conducting an investigation which involves his own titled but impecunious family. This time the cards were stacked against Bobby. He knew full well the cause of his cousin’s mysterious disappearance, but he could not understand the baffling circumstances surrounding Ronnie Owen’s death. Ronnie was a drunkard, but e...
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    11,16 €

  • Mystery of Mr. Jessop
    E.R. Punshon
    Who killed Mr. Jessop? Who stole the Fellows necklace? Who attacked Hilda May? The web of suspicion encompasses a dealer in ‘hot goods’, respected jewellers, a millionaire, an ex-pugilist, a playboy, members of the nobility, a hard-boiled moll and a girl who could not forget her past. All the clues are there, as the indefatigible Bobby Owen works his way through a real peasoup...
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  • Death Comes to Cambers
    E.R. Punshon
    Police officer Bobby Owen is a weekend guest at Lady Cambers’s majestic country pile, there to advise on security following recent burglary scares. But when the lady of the house disappears, her bed unslept-in, it’s a case of murder not burglary – for Bobby discovers her ladyship, strangled, in a nearby field. One of the finest of the early Bobby Owens novels, Death Comes to C...
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