Download or read book Murder Gone Mad Detective Club Crime Classics written by Philip MacDonald and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2016-12-29 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Golden Age detective novel to feature a serial killer with no rational motive – and surely impossible for Scotland Yard to solve?

Download or read book Murder gone Mad written by Philip MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Murder Gone Mad written by Philip MacDonald and published by Collins. This book was released on 2016-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Golden Age detective novel to feature a serial killer with no rational motive - and surely impossible for Scotland Yard to solve? A long knife with a brilliant but perverted brain directing it is terrorising Holmdale - innocent people are being done to death under the very eyes of the law. After every murder a business-like letter arrives announcing that another 'removal has been carried out', and Inspector Pike of Scotland Yard has nothing to go on but the evidence of the bodies themselves and the butcher's own bravado. With clear thinking impossible in the face of such a breathless killing spree, the police make painfully slow progress: but how do you find a maniac who has no rational motive?Philip MacDonald had shown himself in The Noose and The Rasp to be a master of the detective novel. In Murder Gone Mad he raised the stakes with the first Golden Age crime novel to feature a motiveless serial killer prompted only by blood lust - inspired by the real-life case in 1929 of the D�sseldorf Monster - and this time without the familiar Anthony Gethryn on hand to reassure the reader.This Detective Story Club classic is introduced by L. C. Tyler, Chair of the Crime Writers Association and author of the award-winning 'Elsie and Ethelred' crime novels and the John Grey historical mysteries.

Download or read book Murder Gone Mad written by MacDonald, Philip and published by London ; Toronto : W. Collins Sons. This book was released on 1944 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dark Days and Much Darker Days A Detective Story Club Christmas Annual Detective Club Crime Classics written by Hugh Conway and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ‘shilling shocker’ from the late 19th century, a macabre novel of murder and its consequences, originally published as a Christmas Annual for adults and now reissued complete with a hilarious parody by satirist Andrew Lang released the same Christmas.

Download or read book The Rasp Detective Club Crime Classics written by Philip MacDonald and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A victim is bludgeoned to death with a woodworker’s rasp in this first case for the famed gentleman detective Anthony Gethryn – the latest in a new series of classic detective novels from the vaults of HarperCollins.

Download or read book Nightmare Detective Club Crime Classics written by Lynn Brock and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven to madness by the cruelty of a small group of people, a young novelist sets about taking murderous revenge.

Download or read book The Noose Detective Club Crime Classics written by Philip MacDonald and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gentleman detective Anthony Gethryn is in a race against time to save an innocent man from the hangman’s noose.

Download or read book The Crime Club written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Rogues Syndicate The Maelstrom Detective Club Crime Classics written by Frank Froest and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting thriller by the late Frank Froest, himself a detective of international fame, will satisfy the most exacting of detective story connoisseurs. Against a familiar London background we have here a tale of breath-taking adventure – knifing, arson, racing-taxicabs, and shooting-to-kill.

Download or read book The crime club written by Frank Castle Froëst and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Mystery of the Yellow Room Detective Club Crime Classics written by Gaston Leroux and published by Collins. This book was released on 1908 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking down her door in response to the sounds of a violent attack and a gunshot, Mademoiselle Stangerson's rescuers are appalled to find her dying on the floor, clubbed down by a large mutton bone. But in a room with a barred window and locked door, how could her assailant have entered and escaped undetected? While bewildered police officials from the Sûreté begin an exhaustive investigation, so too does a young newspaperman, Joseph Rouletabille, who will encounter more impossibilities before this case can be closed.

Download or read book Murder at the Book Club written by Betsy Reavley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something bad is brewing among a friendly group of book lovers: “A deliciously Agatha Christie-style mystery that sucks you in from the first page.” —Sibel Hodge, bestselling author of Look Behind You Imagine nine women meeting. Tea and cake are on the coffee table. They’ve come together to share their love of books. They are friends. They trust each other. It’s a happy gathering. What could be more harmless? Then scratch the surface and look closer. One is lonely. One is desperate. And one of them is a killer. When the body of a woman is discovered on a Cambridge common, DCI Barrett and DI Palmer are called in to investigate. But the motive behind the crime isn’t clear—and it all leads back to a book club. As the lies, volatile friendships, and tension among the group rise to the surface, DCI Barrett and DI Palmer must work out the motive and track down a cold-blooded killer. But just when they think they’re on the right track, a twist in the plot throws them off course . . . “Will keep readers guessing till the very end!” —J.A. Baker, bestselling author of The Other Mother “A deliciously devilish whodunit!” —Robert Bryndza, bestselling author of the Detective Erika Foster series

Download or read book Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Detective Club Crime Classics written by R. L. Stevenson and published by Collins. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins is a reissue of one of literature s most audacious and thought-provoking novels of murder and intrigue, in hardback with its 1929 cover design and a brand new introduction. London lawyer Gabriel John Utterson is persuaded to investigate the sinister activities of the dastardly Mr Edward Hyde. He becomes convinced that Hyde is blackmailing his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and that a master criminal is at work. To his horror, Utterson discovers that the doctor s own researches into the duality of human nature have unleashed a murderous sociopath and set in motion a deadly chain of events that threatens to overwhelm him. Published in January 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson s crime fantasy was an immediate success, inspiring more than 100 stage and film adaptations and becoming one of the best-known stories ever written. It was reissued in the Detective Story Club in 1929 for being without equal in the realm of detective fiction . This Detective Story Club classic is introduced by supernatural and detective fiction researcher Richard Dalby. It includes Stevenson s macabre tales Markheim and The Body Snatcher, plus two of the earliest published Jekyll and Hyde parodies the detective story Dr Jekyl by Robert McLaughlin (1931) and a bizarre Untold Sequel by Francis Little (1890). The Detective Story Club, launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearing house for the best and most ingenious crime stories of the age, chosen by a select committee of experts. Now, almost 90 years later, these books are the classics of the Golden Age, republished at last with the same popular cover designs that appealed to their original readers."

Download or read book The Cask Detective Club Crime Classics written by Freeman Wills Crofts and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Collins Crime Club archive, the seminal first novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’ and recognised as one of the ‘big four’ Golden Age crime authors.

Download or read book Three Bags Full written by Leonie Swann and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty philosophical murder mystery with a charming twist: the crack detectives are sheep determined to discover who killed their beloved shepherd. On a hillside near the cozy Irish village of Glennkill, a flock of sheep gathers around their shepherd, George, whose body lies pinned to the ground with a spade. George has cared devotedly for the flock, even reading them books every night. Led by Miss Maple, the smartest sheep in Glennkill (and possibly the world), they set out to find George’s killer. The A-team of investigators includes Othello, the “bad-boy” black ram; Mopple the Whale, a Merino who eats a lot and remembers everything; and Zora, a pensive black-faced ewe with a weakness for abysses. Joined by other members of the richly talented flock, they engage in nightlong discussions about the crime, wild metaphysical speculations, and embark on reconnaissance missions into the village, where they encounter some likely suspects. Along the way, the sheep confront their own all-too-human struggles with guilt, misdeeds, and unrequited love. Funny, fresh, and endearing, it introduces a wonderful new breed of detectives to Canadian readers.

Download or read book The Thursday Murder Club written by Richard Osman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller | Soon to be a major motion picture “Witty, endearing and greatly entertaining.” —Wall Street Journal “Don’t trust anyone, including the four septuagenarian sleuths in Osman’s own laugh-out-loud whodunit.” —Parade Four septuagenarians with a few tricks up their sleeves A female cop with her first big case A brutal murder Welcome to... THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club. When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case. As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it's too late?