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  • Dead Opposite the Church
    Francis Vivian
    At what point in the life of Edward Packman did the Angel of Death put his finger on him and say “You are mine!”?When Packman was killed, he died unmourned. The editor of a weekly paper, Packman was heartily hated by his staff, and where you have reason for hatred you may have motive for murder. There was no lack of suspects.Shortly before he died, Packman was knocked cold in h...
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  • The Singing Masons
    Francis Vivian
    He shone the torch into the depths of the well. There was water at the foot of the shaft. Something dark and mis-shapen was huddled against the brickwork.What Old Heatherington doesn’t know about bee-keeping isn’t worth knowing. But the behaviour of the bees that day was extraordinary—they swarmed to a new hive where no hive should have been, and which was damp to boot. There w...
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  • The Threefold Cord
    Francis Vivian
    “Of course, it’s rotten having a murder in the village, and especially in what was once my own house, but I’m not sorry that he’s gone.”Inspector Gordon Knollis heads from Scotland Yard to the village of Bowland, investigating what initially appears a trivial mystery. Mrs. Frederick Manchester’s life centres on her husband and her two pets. Entering her boudoir after breakfast ...
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  • The Ninth Enemy
    Francis Vivian
    “Inspector, it’s—it’s dastardly!”“Mrs. Huntingdon,” said Knollis, “your choice of words is admirable!”Inspector Knollis of Scotland Yard is hoping for a nice quiet weekend in the country. Instead he is embroiled in a murder case—the death by gunshot of local bigwig Richard Huntingdon.Jean, the dead man’s wife, discovers the body in dense woods near a river. Knollis soon learns ...
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  • The Laughing Dog
    Francis Vivian
    Madeleine Burke is prepared to swear that she was Dr. Challoner’s last patient on Tuesday evening, and that he was alive and in good spirits when she bade him good night.While holidaying in Algiers, Hugh Challoner encounters the lightning-sketch artist Aubrey Highton. Highton is desirous of finding a job back in England, and Challoner agrees to help—but then his enigmatic new f...
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  • The Elusive Bowman
    Francis Vivian
    “He’s dead all right. Taken him clean through the heart. It’s murder, Rose!”Michael Maddison, the host of the Fox Inn, is hellbent on preventing his sister and niece from marrying—a difficult task when both ladies are being ardently courted in the district. When one of the suitors, expert archer Harry Saunders, finds two of his lethal arrows missing, it seems Maddison is in dea...
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  • The Death of Mr. Lomas
    Francis Vivian
    “Lomas was poisoned, shaved after death, and placed in the river. He is full of whisky and the post-mortem examination will undoubtedly prove that cocaine was in the alcohol. The murderer worked on him with a lavish hand, one so lavish that it may eventually prove to be his undoing.”When Mr. Lomas visits the Chief Constable of Burnham and describes his symptoms, Sir Wilfred Bur...
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  • Darkling Death
    Francis Vivian
    Grayson tipped back his head, and stared at the ceiling. Herby was certainly not liked, but who on earth, apart from himself, hated him sufficiently to think of murder?As he waits for the Norfolk-bound train to steam from its London terminus, Brother Ignatius experiences a strange premonition. Quite suddenly he knows that a man on the platform will shortly come to join him in h...
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  • Sable Messenger
    Francis Vivian
    If Lesley Dexter had not been a snob her husband might have lived out his three-score-and-ten years.Five years have passed without any major crime disturbing the provincial peace of the city of Burnham, and then, on an October night, a scream rends the midnight air in the residential suburb of Westford Bridge. P.C. Daker, hurrying to the door of Himalaya Villa in River Close, f...
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  • The Ladies of Locksley
    Francis Vivian
    “Where are you going?” asked Knollis, as Brother Ignatius pushed back his chair.“To try to prevent a murder.”Roger Cartland was a successful and respected business man in Burnham. So all the citizens believe—until his poisoned body is found late one night in the wreckage of his car, and it becomes a case of murder. It is only after Knollis starts his investigations that the sta...
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  • The Sleeping Island
    Francis Vivian
    Frank Jennings was a keen murder-mystery fan, but no one was more surprised than he to find himself mixed up in a murder mystery in real life, and that the victim was the wife of one of his own neighbours.Paul Murray was the sort of man who ought to have hanged for murder. There everybody who knew him was agreed. It was on the question of whether he was responsible for the murd...
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