12th in the Solar Pons Series
by Basil Copper, Illustrated by Stefanie K.Hawks.
Contents:
"The Adventure of the Callous Colonel"
"The Adventure of the Phantom Face"
"The Adventure of the Verger’s Thumb"
"Death at the...
SUPERB COLLECTION OF CLASSIC MYSTERY TALES The Legendary Detectives II is a real treat for aficionados of classic detective fiction: Eight tales of the greatest fictional sleuths who prowled in search of murder and mystery through the era of...
Perry Mason, Della Street and Paul Drake... faced with a puzzle to which their arch antagonist, Hamilton Burger, alone seemed to have the missing piece... Muriell Gilman left her father at the breakfast table while she cooked seconds of sausages and...
When former banana-grower Edris Tidson hears of a possible sighting of a water-naid he insists that his wife, her aunt Prissie and Prissie's young ward Connie, travel with him to Winchester in search of the nymph. As tensions rise between Connie...
The Judas Window by John Dickson Carr (writing as Carter Dickson).
One of the five best locked room mysteries, as selected by 14 established mystery authors and critics (All But Impossible!, 1981. ed. E. Hoch).
The Case:...
The client had an extraordinary air of assurance about her — one could almost say a queenly air.
There was no doubt that she was in some sort of jam, which had started years before when she had won a beauty contest. The question was, why was...
Horace Warren pays five hundred dollars to have Perry Mason attend a buffet dinner to observe his guests. He also wants Mason to investigate a fingerprint and suspects his wife is being blackmailed. Mrs Warren's mysterious past may hold the...