by Mary As this novel opens, Leslie Seaforth and his fiancee Joyce Hazlemere are visiting the Struan Museum. Its eccentric collection inclu...

by Mary Much of the plot of The Twenty-One Clues revolves around members of the dwindling congregation of the Church of Awakened Israel, ...

by Mary Detective Murray Wigan relates a number of cases solved with the assistance of Charles Quarles, professor of philosophy. A ghastly...

by Mary Moris Klaw is a colourful fellow who runs a ramshackle curio emporium (some would call it a junk shop) at East London's Wapping...

by Mary The Dangerfield family is an ancient one, having resided in their mansion Friocksheim since before the Norman Conquest. Their titul...

by Mary London's Praed Street is typical of thousands of unremarkable urban streets, narrow, not too attractive, and occupied by reside...

by Mary MR TREADGOLD CUTS IN is a fitting name for a collection of short stories, by Valentine Williams, relating various investigations ...

by Mary I may be the last one to have seen this gem but I must say I really enjoyed The Master Mystery, stated to have been "Novelize...

by Mary The Mystery of the Ravenspurs relates the mortal peril faced by a family of ancient lineage residing in a castle within sight of ...

by Mary Ladies and gentlemen, it is my contention many cosy readers would enjoy works written during the Golden Age of Detection. A keen f...

by Mary One of the Psalms speaks of those who go down to the sea in ships and do business in great waters, but such ventures usually do not...

by Mary The Garden Murder Case runs on "passion, avarice, ambition and horse-racing" and the affair leaves the starting gate ...

by Mary Not to put too fine a point on it, Kaspar Kenting is a rotter. There are hints he has affairs, it is well known he gambles too muc...

by Mary Some time ago I noticed Conan Doyle published more than one collection of short stories involving protagonists other than his most ...

by Mary After less than a week Nurse Bosworth, employed to care for the two young sons of Mr and Mrs Francis M. Reed, becomes so nervous s...

by Mary Narrator John Farringdale kicks off his account by explaining he has been persuaded by old friend Frederick Ellingham to relate th...

by Mary A house party is under way at Rexton Manor in the Berkshires to celebrate the return of Carrington Rexon's son and heir Richar...

by Mary Since it was published in the 1950s, Death of a Viewer hangs its toes over the precipice marking the end of the Golden Age of myst...

by Mary And Then There Were None is Agatha Christie's justly famous impossible crime tour de force: how could it be that on otherwise u...

by Mary The Lake District Murder is by John Bude, author of The Cornish Coast Murder (reviewed by Eric on our blog last August at http://e...