Download or read book The Castleford Conundrum written by J J Connington and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2014-06-14 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Castleford was more than worried. Were all those years he had spent attending to Winifred's whims, enduring her habits, to count for nothing? He hadn't minded it too much for he thought that his daughter Hilary would have security - but now he found her shabbily treated and his own position undermined by his wife's grasping brothers. Such were the affairs at Carron Hill one fine morning when Winifred was discovered murdered in the deserted summer house ...

Download or read book The Castleford Conundrum written by J. J. CONNINGTON (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Castleford Conundrum written by Alfred Walter Stewart 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 Two Tickets Puzzle written by J J Connington and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Mr J. J. Connington is a name revered by all specialists on detective fiction' Spectator When Oswald F. Preston is shot dead on the 10.35 local train from Horston, two obvious suspects are immediately in the frame: his wife's lover and an employer with a grudge. With red herrings a-plenty, and a number of other contenders for murderer, including a young heiress, Superintendant Ross has his work cut out for him.

Download or read book Nemesis at Raynham Parva written by J J Connington and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Mr J. J. Connington is a name revered by all specialists on detective fiction' Spectator When Sir Clinton Driffield travels to the village of Raynham Parva to visit his sister, he little imagines that his latest case will involve his own family. His niece has married an Argentinian, and the village is soon filled with exotic incomers, one of whom appears to have been a foreign agent. This unusual case presents Sir Clinton with three interlocking mysteries, which lead to a startling conclusion.

Download or read book No Past Is Dead written by J J Connington and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2014-06-14 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was not altogether surprising that Ambrose Brenthurst was found brutally murdered outside Fountain Court the night he had presided over the diner meeting of the 'Hernshaw Thirteen Club'. Many were the potential murderers - some of them guests at the diner. But when a second murder takes place it precipitates a crisis in which investigator Sir Clinton Driffield must penetrate a maze of conflicting evidence to spot the murderer.

Download or read book Tragedy at Ravensthorpe written by J J Connington and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Mr J. J. Connington is a name revered by all specialists on detective fiction' Spectator In Clinton Driffield's second case he must tangle with a plethora of crimes including robbery, murder and a disappearance - not to mention a Family Curse, and a less than sympathetic victim ...

Download or read book The Sweepstake Murders written by J J Connington and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2014-06-14 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine men formed a sweepstake syndicate. One man died. To forestall legal argument they agreed that only living members should share any winnings. They won £241,920. And then the deadly arithmetic began. Nine less one left eight shares worth £30,240; Eight less one left seven shares worth £34,560; Seven less one left six shares worth £40,320; Six less one left five shares worth £48,384. Who was killing for profit? And who would be left to collect?

Download or read book The Eye in the Museum written by J J Connington and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The terms of her father's will tie Joyce to her Aunt Evelyn until she is 25 - or Evelyn will inherit the entire estate. But Joyce wants to marry Leslie, and the money she will eventually inherit would be a considerable help to him in his career. Aunt Evelyn is a violent drunk, and one evening Joyce speculates to Leslie that if she fended of one of her aunt's violent attacks and her aunt died of 'one of her heart attacks' she could hardly be held accountable - could she? Leslie isn't really sure. And the next day Aunt Evelyn dies suddenly.

Download or read book The Twenty One Clues written by J J Connington and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Constable was content to call it a suicide pact. All the evidence was there. The bodies of John Barratt and Mrs Callis were discovered in a lovers' nook among some bracken. Beside them was a pistol with Barratt's fingerprints on it, and torn up letters in the handwriting of Barratt and Mrs Callis were scattered around. Arrangements for the elopement had apparently been complete. Why had their plans fallen through? Why had they turned their backs on the railway station with tickets to London in their pockets? Sir Clinton Driffield is not so sure that the obvious solution is the right one ...

Download or read book Truth Comes Limping written by J J Connington and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When two corpses are found in a small English village, all who have a go at solving the crime are completely baffled, and spur the local Chief Constable to investigating. Local gossip, blackmail and a family feud form the ingredients that point towards the perpetrator ... 'A top-notch murder yarn that is guaranteed to leave its readers baffled until the 11th hour' Boston Herald

Download or read book Common Sense Is All You Need written by J J Connington and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Pickford's body was found hanging from a beam in his garage, Inspector Loxton was sure that it was a case of suicide following a series of financial and domestic worries. Then came the criminologist with his slogan, 'Common sense is all you need', and in ten minutes he upset the inspector's hypothesis. Further evidence pointed so clearly in one direction that the arrest and the conviction of the criminal seemed almost a matter of form. But both the Inspector and the expert are way off course, and it is left to the Chief Constable to clear up the mystery ... 'Mr Connington has the art of writing delightful detective novels' Baltimore Evening Sun

Download or read book Murder in the Maze written by J J Connington and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A really first-rate detective story' T. S. Eliot When twin brothers Roger and Neville Shandon are murdered by poisoned darts in Whistlefield's famous hedge maze, Sir Clinton Driffield arrives to restore order. He finds two terrified witnesses - visitors to the estate - and clues aplenty in this brilliantly conceived and meticulously realized country-house mystery.

Download or read book Murder Will Speak written by J J Connington and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thief, criminal and probably a coward, would Hyson have had the courage to kill himself or did someone catch up with him? Did his death have anything to do with Mrs Telford, who committed suicide shortly before? The Inspector, anticipating a routine investigation, finds conflicting stories, poison pen letters, and damning information about Hyson. It takes Sir Clinton Driffield to untangle the case and prove that the cast-iron alibi is the one which should arouse suspicion.

Download or read book The Four Defences written by J J Connington and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unidentified body is found in a blazing car. A man in the locality is missing. But the corpse in the car is not that of the missing man, though someone has made an uncommonly thorough job of faking it to seem so. And just because his unknown opponent had gone to such lengths to prevent an investigation going further, Detective Mark Brand aka The Counsellor's 'satiable curiosity' is up ... 'As a maker of watertight puzzles Mr Connington has no superior' Daily Mail

Download or read book The Dangerfield Talisman written by J J Connington and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2014-06-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first place there was the Dangerfield Talisman, an ancient golden armlet set with diamonds and valued at $50,000 - an unguarded treasure, which, although stolen more than once, always came back. Second was the Dangerfield Secret. The last thief of the talisman has been found on the lawn of Old Rollo Dangerfield's home, dead of a heart attack. And in unearthing the mystery a whole series of bewildering complications unfolds ... 'Specially ingenious' Observer

Download or read book The Counsellor written by J J Connington and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2014-06-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Sunday on Radio Ardennes, the Counsellor had his hour. His voice clear, expressive and sympathetic as it answered a selection of the queries that crowded his post-bag. 'Just ask a question' was his motto. But even he did not expect Wallace Whatgift to ask for his help in solving the mysterious disappearance of a young woman.