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  • Death in the Forest
    Moray Dalton
    'The man’s heart was dicky. It couldn’t stand a shock. The question is-what shock?'Roger Frere is delighted to meet the lovely Celia Holland. But Celia is leaving for the South American republic of San Rinaldo, taking a post as governess. When Celia gets accidentally mixed up in a bloody San Rinaldo revolution, she manages to return to England . . . and finds herself plunged in...
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  • Death at the Villa
    Moray Dalton
    'All this blood and violence. God help us. It is like a bad dream. When shall we wake?'It is the summer of 1943, and the height of the war in Italy. Alda Olivier’s quiet life at the Villa Gualtieri is violently disrupted when a wounded English paratrooper lands in the area. Alda shelters the handsome Englishman, Richard Drew, in an abandoned tomb, attempting to evade enemies an...
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  • The Murder of Eve
    Moray Dalton
    'Life hasn’t always been easy here, but nobody has tried to murder me before.'Roger Fordyce, a little battered by an unhappy affair, visits the Albergo Del Castello, a splendid hotel located in a little town outside Rome. While wandering the grounds one morning, Roger believes he sees a dead body with long black hair floating in a water tank. The hotel-owner dismisses the corps...
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  • The Mystery of the Kneeling Woman
    Moray Dalton
    'Not another murder!''You’ve said it.'Kindly Reverend John Clare pays a social call upon the saturnine Simon Killick at his forbidding house, The Grange. Killick is a virtual recluse who relies on three dogs and a parrot for company.Killick is soon found murdered in his home, while in a nearby wood a local schoolboy, Toby, discovers a dying stranger whose last words refer to a ...
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  • Death in the Dark
    Moray Dalton
    'The truth can’t hurt anyone,' she said rather faintly.He did not speak for a minute. Then he said without looking at her. 'Not if he’s innocent.'David Merle, a young circus acrobat, is arrested and convicted of the murder in London of wealthy eccentric Joshua Fallowes. Only his sister, Judy, and their aunt really believe in his innocence, although kindly Ben Levy stands by Jud...
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  • The Art School Murders
    Moray Dalton
    “I’m worried. . . .This damned black-out. I’m afraid of what may happen in the dark.”Artists’ model Althea Greville was, in life, known as something of a femme fatale. But the phrase becomes only too literal. What initially appears to be red paint leads instead to Althea’s dead body, murdered in Morosini’s renowned school of art. Hugh Collier of Scotland Yard is called in, but ...
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  • The Belfry Murder
    Moray Dalton
    “If I meet any dragons I’ll run away.”When Mary Borlase, English governess of the little Countess Nadine, escapes from Russia during the Great War, she brings with her jewels belonging to the ill-fated Romanoffs, including a famous emerald, the Eye of Nero. Mary dies of pneumonia a few days after reaching England, in a room over her brother’s antique shop. What has become of th...
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  • The Belgrave Manor Crime
    Moray Dalton
    “It is believed locally that her death was accidental, but I’m afraid—”Our story begins with psychic investigator Cosmo Thor meeting Madame Luna, a fortune teller down on her luck. Madame Luna shortly tries to make desperate contact with Thor, but without success. Concerned, Thor consults his friend, Hugh Collier of Scotland Yard, and learns that Madame Luna may be a woman foun...
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  • The Condamine Case
    Moray Dalton
    “’Tes a queer place seemingly. . . . Full of ghostesses, what with beasts coming down from the church roof and her that walks, hair blowing like smoke in the gale. ’T’esn’t a place to be out alone at night.”In London, rising young movie director Stephen Latimer learns of a gentrified family in Somerset with an old history of witchcraft and haunting. Scenting an excellent subjec...
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  • The Case of Alan Copeland
    Moray Dalton
    “I see you told her fortune. Had she a good hand?”“There was death in it.”The inhabitants of the quiet English village of Teene are a mixed bag. The schoolmistress is an artist manqué, her quick brain wasted for lack of opportunity. There is old Mrs. Simmons at the filling station, gloating over her discreditable past, and bullying her flighty young daughter. The fastidious Rev...
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  • The Strange Case of Harriet Hall
    Moray Dalton
    “We’ve managed to head off the Press men so far. But that won’t last. We can’t escape publicity, and the reading public enjoys murders.”Harriet Hall, living in her isolated cottage outside the village of Larnwood, might not have been everyone’s cup of tea, but why did someone feel the need to kill her on the eve of the arrival of her young niece, Amy? Why had the likeable Deene...
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  • The Night of Fear
    Moray Dalton
    Together they looked down at the inert sprawling figure of a man fantastically dressed in red-and-white-striped pyjama trousers, with a red sash belt and a white silk shirt open at the neck.A Christmas gathering of young and old in a great country house in England—a masquerade—and the lights are turned off for a game of hide and seek. Silence—then a man’s cry for “Lights!” The ...
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  • The Body in the Road
    Moray Dalton
    It had been so quickly done that he felt almost as if a little knife had actually flashed by him and stuck, quivering, in the door at his back.Violet Hunter disappears at dusk one evening on a lonely road not far from a mysterious sanatorium. Her body is found buried in her friend’s garden. Has Linda strangled her in a fit of jealousy? Or has the sanatorium’s sinister foreign d...
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  • One by One They Disappeared
    Moray Dalton
    “I want to catch them. To do that we’ve got to lead them on. Now listen to me.”Elbert J. Pakenham of New York City is among just nine survivors of the sinking of the Coptic – not counting his black cat Jehosaphat. The benevolent Mr. Pakenham has made his fellow survivors joint beneficiaries in his will, his nephew having recently passed away. But it seems that someone is unwill...
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  • Death in the Cup
    Moray Dalton
    Murder in the poisoned bosom of a genteel, if alarmingly dysfunctional, family in the English countryside.Dennyford is a “peaceful little place . . . where the most exciting thing that could happen would be the lowering of somebody’s golf handicap. . . .” Or so the locals used to think. But young Lucy Rivers is in love with handsome Mark Armour, the local police’s chief suspect...
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