When two male students execute a rag against the nearby Calladale women's agricultural college--a prank involving rhubarb and dead rats--the ladies decide to give the men back some of their own. They collect the litter and sneak it over to a pub...
Mrs. Beatrice Lestrange Bradley receives a visit from her barrister son, Ferdinand Lestrange, who brings with him a plea for help. The coastal convent and girls' school of Saint Peter's Finger reports that student Ursula Doyle has died under...
Lord Peter Wimsey becomes fascinated when bohemian Harriet Vane is accused of murdering her lover. He investigates further and finds himself falling in love with her as he visits her in prison and watches her in court. But can he save her from...
Letos je tomu již 120 let, kdy do mlhavých ulic viktoriánského Londýna a ponurých blat zapadlých hrabství vykročil muž, který věru neměl "ani špinavé ruce, ani strach",...
In this 1933 novel, goofy supersleuth Albert Campion masquerades as the Hereditary Paladin of Averna in order to restore the tiny Baltic kingdom to its rightful owners and foil a murderous industrialist. Danger (a mad doctor) and romance (a local...
In the offices of the Homicide Bureau of the Detective Division of the New York Police Department, on the third floor of the police headquarters building in Centre Street, there is a large steel filing cabinet; and within it, among thousands of...