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  • Mystery at Lynden Sands
    J. J. Connington / JJConnington
    Mr. Connington has written several detective stories of a high order and one-Murder in the Maze-which ranks with the best thrillers in recent years. Mystery at Lynden Sands is certainly on the same high level. The mysterious death of a caretaker; the burglary of the mansion left in his charge; a murder on the beach, which throws suspicion on one character after another; an appa...
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    21,08 €

  • The Sweepstake Murders
    J. J. Connington / JJConnington
    Mr. Connington’s new detective story, The Sweepstake Murders, opens at the end of a bridge-party, when one of the players suggests the formation of a small syndicate to have a flutter in a coming sweepstake. Winnings are to be pooled and divided among the members. Most of the bridge-players join, on terms proposed and accepted on the spot of the moment. A syndicate tickets wins...
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    22,34 €

  • Jack-in-the-Box
    J. J. Connington / JJConnington
    'Again Sir Clinton Driffield, an old favorite with Connington fans, gets into action with all his usual acumen, and the unraveling of another mystery proceeds under his suave direction to its inevitable outcome.'Jack-in-the-Box opens with the discovery of a Viking’s hoard of gold, stolen many centuries ago from a Norman abbey and accidentally unearthed during an archaeologist’s...
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    22,32 €

  • The Counsellor
    J. J. Connington / JJConnington
    The Counsellor, a young man of means, makes his living by giving advice to listeners over a continental broadcasting station. Unusual requests come to him from all over England. But none more unusual—or challenging—than that which asks him to find a girl who has mysteriously disappeared. Remember that Mr. Connington always writes an honest detective story. No clues are hidden, ...
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    21,06 €

  • The Four Defences
    J. J. Connington / JJConnington
    Mr. Connington’s wireless detective, The Counsellor, matches wits with a murderer who has planned a veritable Maginot Line of defences to screen his guilt. First: The corpse in the burning car—unrecognizable itself—would be identified and a verdict of suicide reached. Second: If there should be a suspicion of murder, the murderer would not be identified. Third: If actually brou...
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    19,82 €

  • Truth Comes Limping
    J. J. Connington / JJConnington
    Sir Clinton Driffield, hardened solver of many a knotty problem, was playing chess with his old friend, Wendover, when their game was interrupted by the news that a dead man had been found in a lane near by. When it turned out to be the body of a hack journalist, with a reputation for always being hard-up and for writing a particularly revealing type of biography, and a hundred...
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    22,38 €

  • Murder Will Speak
    J. J. Connington / JJConnington
    After his employer is taken ill, Hyson takes advantage by putting himself in complete charge at the office. Always on the lookout for financial gain or female conquest, his controlling behavior both at work and at home ends only with his death. But was it suicide or murder? Sir Clinton Driffield must untangle this puzzle, with the further complication that another criminal seem...
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    21,05 €

  • The Eye in the Museum
    J. J. Connington / JJConnington
    The plot of Mr. Connington’s The Eye in the Museum (1929) is woven round the unexpected death of Mrs. Fenton. Was it a natural death, due to heart-failure, as the medical history of her case seemed to suggest? Or was it caused by the accident of an overdose of a sleeping-draught? Or was there something further in the background? Who was most likely to profit by her death? Her n...
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    19,94 €

  • A Minor Operation
    J. J. Connington / JJConnington
    There was blood on the drawing-room floor and Hazel Deerhurst had disappeared-disappeared apparently wearing slippers over walking-shoes, two pairs of stockings and a bright silk kimono. First investigations shed interesting light on Hazel. There were blots on her family escutcheon, at least one of them put there by her husband. She was also secretary to a man whose secrets inv...
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    22,34 €

  • The Brandon Case
    J. J. Connington / JJConnington
    Readers who like to take their detective stories straight have found that Connington’s name on a title-page guarantees a zestful contest of wits. This story is one of his best, a puzzle in which every piece is presented for the reader’s inspection until they are fitted together in the surprising solution. It was at the hidden stone wall in the spinney that Johnnie Brandon, rabb...
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    22,37 €

  • The Dangerfield Talisman
    J. J. Connington / JJConnington
    In the first place, there was the Dangerfield Talisman, an ancient golden armlet set with diamonds and valued at fifty thousand pounds-an unguarded treasure which, although stolen more than once, always came back. In the second place, there was the Dangerfield secret. Old Rollo Dangerfield gave a house party and one night during a wild thunderstorm the armlet vanished. The owne...
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    18,67 €

  • No Past is Dead
    J. J. Connington / JJConnington
    It was not altogether surprising that Ambrose Brenthurst was found brutally murdered outside Fountain Court the night he had presided over the dinner meeting of the 'Hernshaw Thirteen Club.' And many were the potential murderers-some of them guests at the dinner. Diana Teramond, the beautiful Creole actress, lived at Fountain Court, and was the owner of the pet cheetah which wa...
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    22,32 €

  • Alias J. J. Connington
    A. W. Stewart / AWStewart / J. J. Connington / JJConnington
    When he wrote this book, the late Professor A. W. Stewart had already retired from academic life after a long career during which he held various University posts in London, Glasgow, and elsewhere. His chemical research work included, among many other matters, the discovery of the Tesla-luminescence spectra which opened up a new field in spectroscopy, and the recognition of the...
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    24,66 €

  • The Case with Nine Solutions
    J. J. Connington / JJConnington
    As a writer of detective stories, the distinguished Irishman who signs himself '’J. J. Connington’ has rapidly arrived in the first rank. ’The Case with Nine Solutions’ is an intriguing as its title promises. Early in the book a number of deaths occur, and by the sixth chapter the exposition is finished and the record of crime almost complete. Nine different solutions are propo...
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    21,18 €

  • The Twenty-One Clues
    J. J. Connington / JJConnington
    'The bodies of a worthy prelate and one of his wealthy lady parishioners are found in a bracken patch somewhat famed as a lovers’ rendezvous. Torn-up love letters are scattered about. A pistol with the clergyman’s finger-prints lies beside the body . . . 'If Mr. Connington says there are twenty-one clues, you can depend on it that they are offered to you as they turn up and tha...
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    22,34 €

  • The Two Tickets Puzzle
    J. J. Connington / JJConnington
    A man is found murdered on a train, and Superintendent Ross is on the case. This is a classic 'fair play' mystery that will be enjoyed by every reader who wants to pit their wits against the detective. About this story, the London Daily Mail wrote: 'For those who ask first of all in a detective story for exact and mathematical accuracy in the construction of the plot, there is ...
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    19,99 €

  • The Boat-House Riddle
    J. J. Connington / JJConnington
    In this Golden Age mystery classic the famous Sir Clinton Driffield reappears. A young land owner, Colin Keith-Westerton, has just brought home his bride, who is accompanied by her confessor, a French priest. They settle down temporarily at the Dower House of the estate, pending the modernizing of the mansion Silver Grove. Shortly after their arrival, one of Keith-Westerton’s k...
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    19,98 €

  • Gold Brick Island
    J. J. Connington / JJConnington
    Mr. Connington here turns from the straight detective story to a mystery tale-a real thriller. The Trents have been lent for their honeymoon a large house on the lonely islet of Ruffa. Shortly after arriving, Trent accidentally intercepts a mysterious wireless message and, a bit later, stumbles across a wounded man who vanishes, leaving behind him an ingot which seems to have s...
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    21,17 €

  • Tragedy at Ravensthorpe
    J. J. Connington / JJConnington
    At Ravensthorpe-a lonely country house inherited by Maurice Chacewater-a masked ball is in progress amid scenes of great gaiety, celebrating the honor of his sister’s coming of age. What each guest was to wear had been kept a secret and all who enter Ravensthorpe that night wear masks. Cecil, who is on bad terms with his brother Maurice, arranges a practical joke with several y...
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    18,63 €

  • Death at Swaythling Court
    J. J. Connington / JJConnington
    Hubbard made his money in blackmail, most detestable blackmail at that. A loathsome creature, there were no special regrets when he was found dead at his desk in his own home. Yet Colonel Sanderstead felt it his duty to probe the affair, since his nephew’s best friend had very good reason to wish Hubbard dead and might easily enough be involved. A ghost appears in the village, ...
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    21,22 €

  • Grim Vengeance (Nemesis at Raynham Parva)
    J. J. Connington / JJConnington
    Two murders at night, both the victims foreigners; and when Sir Clinton Driffield, visiting his sister, is forced to suspect the South American whom his niece has just married, he finds himself faced with a problem in morals and psychology. Finally, a third murder takes place, this one in the house of Sir Clinton’s sister, and in broad daylight. Suspicion naturally falls on a y...
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    21,10 €

  • Murder in the Maze
    J. J. Connington / JJConnington
    'After both Roger and Neville Shandon are felled in Whistlefield’s famous hedge maze by curare-tipped darts, Sir Clinton [Driffield] arrives to restore order at this fractious country estate. Sir Clinton’s performance as a criminal investigator is dazzlingly acute and the novel boasts several bravura scenes, all centering on the sinister hedge maze of death. Surely Murder in th...
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    21,17 €

  • The Castleford Conundrum
    J. J. Connington / JJConnington
    'One of the very best of the Connington country house mysteries . . . is The Castleford Conundrum. In this tale the author does an extremely effective job of portraying an odious, stupid woman, Winifred Castleford, and her detestable, sponging in-laws. Even her seemingly sympathetic second husband, Philip Castleford, is offhandedly dismissed with contempt by Clinton Driffield ...
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    20,96 €

  • The Tau Cross Mystery
    J. J. Connington / JJConnington
    'The tenth Clinton Driffield detective novel, 1935’s The Tau Cross Mystery . . . moves away from a country house milieu . . . to a well-conveyed setting in an English suburb beset with a multitude of sins. The mystery itself is meticulously clued and compelling and the kicker of a closing paragraph is a classic of its kind, showing a pithily sardonic Sir Clinton to great advant...
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    21,12 €