Download or read book An English Murder Musaicum Vintage Mysteries written by Cyril Hare and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During Christmas dinner, Robert Warbeck, the only son and heir of the old Lord, dies in front of the other guests. Because of heavy snowfall Warbeck Hall is cut off the outer world, and the phone line is broken. Detective Rogers takes upon himself the task of investigating the murder. Soon after the old Lord Warbeck, already being on his last legs, dies. A silent panic strikes the guests, who try to keep together. Still, another guest dies, this time it is Mrs. Carstairs. Both Robert Warbeck and Mrs. Carstairs seem to have been poisoned. Doctor Bottwink, who was originally invited to study centuries-old documents in the family library, turns into an amateur detective trying to solve murder cases.

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Download or read book The Ponson Case Musaicum Vintage Mysteries written by Freeman Wills Crofts and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the dead body of Sir William Ponson is found in a nearby river, he is presumed to have died due to drowning. But then the clues start pointing towards a gruesome murder. Now it is up to Inspector Tanner to find the owner of the mysterious footprints and prevent the estate from falling into the hands of Sir William's murderers.

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Download or read book The Cluny Problem Musaicum Murder Mysteries written by Dorothy Fielding and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innocent masked-ball party in the touristy town of Cluny turns into a puzzling scene of crime with two of the guests being found dead in a locked room! Excerpt: "Anthony!" Vivian Young made a laughing surprised clutch at a tall figure stalking ahead of her down the station platform. The man turned sharply. At the sight of his fiancée he smiled pleasantly, though a sharp observer would have said that there was something in his eyes that suggested a man about to make the best of a position not entirely to his liking. "My dear girl!" he ejaculated warmly, "what brings you to Macon? Did you get into the wrong train, or out of the right one, or what?" "I'm on my way to Cluny."

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