The staff of Hillmaston School are gathered to choose the next production to be performed by the Musical, Operatic and Dramatic Society. After some argument they agree on The Mikado and, to everyone’s surprise, the meek and self-effacing...
The room in Hatton Manor is sealed for a reason. It’s where Harvey Thorne went mad and placed a curse on the family. Now his great-nephew Harris wants to open it up, but his brother Brian, a clairvoyant, warns him against the idea. Harris is the...
A ravishing blonde with a ravenous appetite draws Perry Mason into investigating a curious legal matter--turned lethal by a mysterious murder--in another timeless legal thriller by bestselling mystery author Erle Stanley...
“The body” was discovered by Inspector Roderick Alleyn himself, old friend of the deceased, eighty-three-year-old Miss Emily Pride. Miss Pride had been looking for trouble: the sole inheritor of a tiny island, site of a miraculous spring, she...
"Three Witnesses" — 1956 /Novella Titles: "When a Man Murders," "Die Like a Dog," "The Next Witness"/
In "The Next Witness" you will encounter the very timely case of the telephone answering service and the wiretappers, a case which Nero can solve...
In this story Nero working for the War Department. The case presented to him involves widespread industrial sabotage, and without much in the way of clues, Nero, with Archie’s help, sets his own “booby traps” to catch a murderer and a...
SHE PLAYED THE ODDS -- AND LOST!
When the beautiful girlfriend of a notorious gangster vanishes, the last man to be seen with her needs an alibi -- and fast. Enter Donald Lam of the Cool & Lam detective agency. Donald tracks down...