by Mary Assistant Commissioner of Police T. X. Meredith, a man of unorthodox though successful methods of detection and best friend of myst...

by Mary Readers must have been surprised to learn Philo Vance bred Scottish terriers, but it was as well for the forces of law and order he...

by Mary Sir Henry Marquis is Chief of the C.I.D. at Scotland Yard. This collection relates some of the cases in which he played a part, alt...

by Mary As is her custom, Mrs Barbara Monkhouse is away for a week or two helping organise a women's emancipation movement but this ti...

by Mary Dr Jervis being away advising on a case in New York, Robert Anstey, KC, narrates the mystery of The Cat's Eye as the complicat...

by Mary Give me a novel opening with a fellow arriving for a social gathering at a country house, and I'm as happy as the proverbial cl...

by Mary As an assiduous reader of personal advertisements -- and if you won't admit to doing the same, I think you'll agree they ar...