At crowded noon, in front of Fifth Avenue's most fashionable department store, while hundreds of sidewalk onlookers watch a demonstration of modernistic furniture in the window, the demonstrator touches a button regulating a concealed wall-bed —...
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In this second volume we return to Number 7B Praed Street where the inimitable and infallible master of deductive detection awaits. Again, we join Solar Pons, the latter-day Sherlock Holmes, and his colleague Dr Lyndon Parker, as they solve another...
Althea Graham's hypochondriac mother seldom visitsthe gazebo- yet she is found dead in it one morning.The Graham estate had once enjoyed a rural view, butnow the grounds are part of suburban London and thegazebo is an anachronistic summerhouse....
A woman suffers amnesia as she regains consciousness to find herself standing on cellar steps with a dead girl down below. As she flees she runs into Miss Silver, who takes on this most mysterious...
Uncle Slater O’Shea was loaded. Uncle Slater was supporting the lot of them — five freeloaders. And in spite of liberal daily applications of whisky, Uncle Slater had his health. He intended to keep it, so he had made a new will. So long as he...
We’ve just received word that the British journal Book and Magazine Collector has selected Paul Halter’s story “The Night of the Wolf,” first published in English in EQMM (see our May 2006 issue), for its list of the 50 Top Locked Room...
The Greek Coffin...
A young couple deeply in love comes to seek Nero Wolfe’s help because the young woman’s husband has died. She believes he was murdered but because of her affair is afraid to go to the police. The mystery clue seems to concern the movement of the...
The Harlequin Tea Set and Other...
A circus owner’s murder produces a roster of bizarre suspects
Summer heat is choking New York, and the Great Merlini — conjurer, sleuth, and godson of P. T. Barnum — offers his friend Ross Harte a chance to get out of town. Before they can...