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- The British Library, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5673-2
EAN 9780712356732
Locked-room mysteries and other impossible crime stories have been relished by puzzle-lovers ever since the invention of detective fiction. Fiendishly intricate cases were particularly well suited to the cerebral type of detective story that became so popular during the 'golden age of murder' between the two world wars. But the tradition goes back to the ...
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- The British Library, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,65 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5669-5
EAN 9780712356695
'The characters are quite extraordinarily living...A most original and grimly farcical situation' - Dorothy L. Sayers Robert Arthur Kewdingham is an eccentric failure of a man. In middle age he retreats into a private world, hunting for Roman artefacts and devoting himself to bizarre mystical beliefs.Robert's wife, Bertha, feels that there are few things more ...
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- The British Library, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,20 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5664-0
EAN 9780712356640
'My friend Ellingham has persuaded me to reveal to the public the astounding features of the Reisby case. As a study in criminal aberration it is, he tells me, of particular interest, while in singularity of horror and in perversity of ingenious method it is probably unique.' 1913. John Farringdale, with his cousin Eric Foster, ...
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- The British Library, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5674-9
EAN 9780712356749
A woman is on trial for her life, accused of murder. The twelve members of the jury each carry their own secret burden of guilt and prejudice which could affect the outcome.In this extraordinary crime novel, we follow the trial through the eyes of the jurors as they hear the evidence and try to reach ...
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- The British Library, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5652-7
EAN 9780712356527
Two classic cases featuring Detective-Inspector Littlejohn.In the winter of 1940, the Home Guard unearths a skeleton on the moor above the busy town of Hatterworth. Twenty-three years earlier, the body of a young textile worker was found in the same spot, and the prime suspect was never found - but the second body is now ...
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Crimson Snow
Winter Mysteries
- The British Library, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5665-7
EAN 9780712356657
Crimson Snow brings together a dozen vintage crime stories set in winter. Welcome to a world of Father Christmases behaving oddly, a famous fictional detective in a Yuletide drama, mysterious tracks in the snow----, and some very unpleasant carol singers. The mysterious events chronicled by a distinguished array of contributors in this volume frequently take ...
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- The British Library, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5653-4
EAN 9780712356534
Julian SymonsGraham and Joan Bendix have apparently succeeded in making that eighth wonder of the modern world, a happy marriage. And into the middle of it there drops, like a clap of thunder, a box of chocolates.Joan Bendix is killed by a poisoned box of liqueur chocolates that cannot have been intended for her to ...
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- The British Library, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-7123-5644-2
EAN 9780712356442
The eponymous nosy parker in Death of a Busybody is Miss Ethel Tither. She has made herself deeply unpopular in the quintessentially English village of Hilary Magna, since she goes out of her way to snoop on people, and interfere with their lives. On being introduced to her, the seasoned reader of detective stories will ...
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- The British Library, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5647-3
EAN 9780712356473
After battling for justice, at great personal risk, in his first recorded case, Sergeant Caleb Cluff made a swift return to duty in this book. The story opens one wet and windy night, with the discovery of a young woman's corpse, lying face down on the cobblestones of a passageway in the Yorkshire town of ...
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- The British Library, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5651-0
EAN 9780712356510
Mystery in the Channel is a classic crime novel with a strikingly modern sub-text. The story begins with a shocking discovery. The captain of the Newhaven to Dieppe steamer spots a small pleasure yacht lying motionless in the water, and on closer inspection, sees a body lying on the deck.When members of his crew go ...
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- The British Library, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,40 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5648-0
EAN 9780712356480
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- The British Library, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 11,80 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5646-6
EAN 9780712356466
'He could feel it in the blackness, a difference in atmosphere, a sense of evil, of things hidden.'Amy Snowden, in middle age, has long since settled into a lonely life in the Yorkshire town of Gunnarshaw, until - to her neighbours' surprise - she suddenly marries a much younger man. Months later, Amy is found ...
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- The British Library, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5649-7
EAN 9780712356497
'Crofts constructs his alibi with immense elaboration...The story is highly successful, and Mr Crofts is to be congratulated upon his experiment' - Dorothy L. SayersWe begin with a body. Andrew Crowther, a wealthy retired manufacturer, is found dead in his seat on the 12.30 flight from Croydon to Paris.Rather less orthodox is the ensuing flashback ...
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- The British Library, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,20 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5609-1
EAN 9780712356091
Samuel Whitehead, landlord of the Rose and Crown, is a stranger in the lonely East Anglian village of High Eldersham. When the newcomer is stabbed to death in his pub, and Scotland Yard are called to the scene, it seems that the veil dividing High Eldersham from the outside world is about to be lifted.Detective-Inspector ...
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- The British Library, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5641-1
EAN 9780712356411
On a dark November evening, Sir Wilfred Saxonby is travelling alone in the 5 o'clock train from Cannon Street, in a locked compartment. The train slows and stops inside a tunnel; and by the time it emerges again minutes later, Sir Wilfred has been shot dead, his heart pierced by a single bullet.Suicide seems to ...
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- The British Library, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5783-8
EAN 9780712357838
In the peaceful seaside town of Broadgate, an impossible crime occurs. The operator of the cliff railway locks the empty carriage one evening; when he returns to work next morning, a dead body is locked inside - a man who has been stabbed in the back.Jimmy London, a newspaper reporter, is first on the scene. ...
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- The British Library, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5650-3
EAN 9780712356503
Arthur Simpson - 'British to the core', but without a passport to prove it - lives in Athens, scraping by as a driver, journalist and petty thief. When Simpson spots Harper at the airport he recognises him as a tourist new to the city and in need of a private driver. But an ill-judged attempt ...
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- The British Library, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5794-4
EAN 9780712357944
An eclectic mix of crime stories written over half a century. From a tale of poison-pen letters tearing apart a village community to a macabre mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle, the stories collected here reveal the dark truths hidden in an assortment of rural paradises.
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- The British Library, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 386 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-0993-6
EAN 9780712309936
The English country house is an iconic setting for some of the greatest British crime fiction. Short stories are an important part of this tradition, and writers from Agatha Christie to Margery Allingham became famous for the intricate cases which their detectives unravelled in rambling country houses. These stories continue to enjoy wide appeal, driven ...
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- The British Library, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5637-4
EAN 9780712356374
When a counterfeit currency racket comes to light on the French Riviera, Detective Inspector Meredith is sent speeding southwards - out of the London murk to the warmth and glitter of the Mediterranean. Along with Inspector Blampignon - an amiable policeman from Nice - Meredith must trace the whereabouts of Chalky Cobbett, crook and forger.Soon ...
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