My accidents can't be accidental. Very well, there's only one thing they can be-and that's attemp...

Former governess Emma Betony is living in quiet and boring retirement when two unexpected letters...

How many times have I told you that we must appear to run this hotel as commercial proposition?'

'It won't be much longer now. Keep your head and hold your tongue.'

It was not until the fifth death in Long Greeting that Miss Tidy made up her mind to go to the po...

'What I read in your hand is tragedy-a horrible tragedy that doesn't come to one in a million peo...

'But Pierre could never know that in death Fame was his, for his was the second corpse.'

In the beginning was the Word-

Stretched across the road was the body of a policeman.

'Augustus knows he is inconveniencing a great many people, and he is enjoying this. He will not c...

It is not for you to exact vengeance on my behalf. Remember that.'

'So you know House-on-the-Hill, Mr. Terhune?'Local bookseller and amateur detective Theodore Te...