A murder most foul When the landlord of a Yorkshire tavern is killed in plain sight, Freda Simonson, the only witness to the crime, becomes plagued with guilt, believing the wrong man has been convicted. Following her death, it seems that the truth...
Margery Allingham's Mr Campion finds himself a fish out of water when he investigates a murder in a Yorkshire mining village.
Following the death of the senior English master in a tragic road accident, Mr Campion's son Rupert and daughter-in-law...
Prefaced by the famous Atlantic Monthly essay of the same name, in which he argues the virtues of the hard-boiled detective novel, this collection mostly drawn from stories he wrote for the pulps demonstrates Chandler's imaginative, entertaining...