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Hag’s Nook by John Dickson Carr

Hag’s Nook, and the prison built around it, has loomed over the Starberth family for generations. An entail in the family inheritance dictates that on their twenty-fifth birthday, the eldest son must...

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The Hammersmith Murders by David Frome

A MAn iS BeIng MURdErED At 60 CaItHNESS rOAD" This anonymous message sends Inspector Bull to investigate a house, one seemingly like all the others in Hammersmith. But behind the gray brick façade Bull...

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The Plumley Inheritance by Christopher Bush

Financier Henry Plumley has been acting erratically of late. Now, facing potential financial ruin and arrest, he makes a very public speech in which he alludes to hidden treasure, then sips from his...

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The Blind Barber (1934) by John Dickson Carr

Henry Morgan and his friends have just completed the strangest sea voyage. A compromising film has been stolen and in an attempt to bring the culprit to justice, Henry and Co. mistakenly assault the...

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Knock, Murder, Knock by Harriet Rutland

Presteignton Hydro had been built in an age when people visited hydropathic establishments more for the sake of fashion than of health.”  That time is long gone and the Hydro is now the residence of...

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Information Received by E. R. Punshon

Bobby Owen has had a rather dull three years as a Police Constable, “even motorists themselves seemed to suffer from an epidemic of good behavior when he was near.”  Unfortunately, he has also ticked...

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