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Suedehead

Allen, Richard

Skinheads were dead, man. Phased out. Home had never appealed. All his life he had dreamed about a plush flat somewhere in the West End of London. So now he would make the leap from poverty street into the affluent society. In one gigantic jump. Fresh out of stir after kicking a police sergeant&rsq...

The Conqueror Inn

Punshon, E.R.

“I wouldn’t come any nearer if I were you. It’s not a thing to see unless you have to.” TThe remote Conqueror Inn, possibly the oldest licensed house in England, has an unexpectedly key role to play in World War Two. Lorry drivers, army camps, black marketeers and even the I...

The Crime at Tattenham Corner

Haynes, Annie

The body lay face downwards in a foot of water at the bottom of the ditch. Up to the present it has not been identified. But a card was found in the pocket with the name of – The grisly discovery was overshadowed in the public imagination by Derby Day, the most prestigious event in the Englis...

The Blind Side

Wentworth, Patricia

“Anybody could have told you what Ross was like.” “They did tell me,” said Mavis tearfully. “That’s why I did it.” Ross Craddock was just the type to be murdered. The new landlord of Craddock house, he begins by giving eviction notice to his aunt Lucy. He...

Beggar's Choice

Wentworth, Patricia

“Do you want to make 500 pounds? If you do and are willing to earn it, write to...” So reads the handbill thrust on Car Fairfax. He is literally down and out, for the soles of his shoes had gone long ago and the uppers show a crack which mean doom to his hopes of a job. And he has just...

Touch and Go

Wentworth, Patricia

“I know what we’ll do. We’ll play Devil-in-the dark.” When Sarah Trent was engaged as governess to seventeen-year-old Lucilla Hildred, she didn’t bargain for a series of sinister occurrences—scary noises, the nocturnal rattle of claws against glass, a sabotaged b...

Kingdom Lost

Wentworth, Patricia

When she had let down her case, she locked her bedroom door. And then she put out the light and climbed out of the window. Marooned as a baby, Valentine Ryven has been on a deserted South Sea island for twenty years, before she is rescued and returned to civilization—as heiress to a great for...

The Red Lacquer Case

Wentworth, Patricia

There was a hand pressed against the window, a large hand that looked unnaturally white, the blood driven from it by the pressure of a man's weight. The light showed the pale fingers-and the still paler palm crossed by a dark, jagged scar.Young Sally Meredith is distracted from her jam recipes by a...

Landscape in Sunlight

Fair, Elizabeth

At the end of the war, Mrs. Midge stayed on. While the war lasted Mrs. Custance had accepted her as part of the war-effort; it was only in the past year or two that Mrs. Midge had been transferred to the category which Mrs. Custance described as “people we could manage without.” Elizabe...

The Crow's Inn Tragedy

Haynes, Annie

“I cannot understand why Mr. Bechcombe apparently offered no resistance. His hand-bell, his speaking-tube, the telephone—all were close at hand. It looks as though he had recognized his assassin and had no fear of him.” The corner house of Crow’s Inn Square was the most dign...

The Dower House Mystery

Wentworth, Patricia

Why can no-one stay at the Dower House? Amabel Grey, a charming and lovely widow, had not seen scientist Julian Forsham since she chose to marry another man. But it is their fate to meet again now at the eerie Dower House, a house whose previous tenants had tended to quit abruptly. Amabel Grey has...

Blindfold

Wentworth, Patricia

She was looking at the place where the mirror had hung. It didn’t reflect anything because the glass was gone. Instead there was a blackness, a dark hole full of shadows. There was a shuffling and a sighing, and a deep and dreadful groan. Then something moved. Flossie Palmer worked in the kit...