Curtis Evans

It is not for you to exact vengeance on my behalf. Remember that.' When successful novelist Christabel Strange dies suddenly aged 32, the bequests are hard to fathom. She leaves one wing of the ancestral home to good friend Marcia Wentworth for her... Lire la suite

In 1972, in an attempt to elevate the stature of the "crime novel," influential crime writer and critic Julian Symons cast numerous Golden Age detective fiction writers into literary perdition as "Humdrums," condemning their focus on puzzle plots... Lire la suite

Book 50 in the Detective Club Crime Classics series is Carolyn Wells’ Murder in the Bookshop, a classic locked room murder mystery which will have a special resonance for lovers and collectors of Golden Age detective fiction. Includes a bonus murder... Lire la suite

This book uses simple economic theories to explain how China's agricultural economic phenomena exists in reality. It also helps the reader to get a clear understanding of economic phenomena, insight into the "hog cycle" and "food safety," as well as... Lire la suite

**When a wealthy bachelor is murdered in his mansion, all of his relatives are suspects… A grand mansion.** Nearing the end of his life, the wealthy Martin Greenough hides away behind the high walls of his grand mansion in Boston, with only his cat... Lire la suite

Martin Greenough's walled-off mansion is the last remaining holdout in the Boston parkland known as the Fenway—and the fact that it eluded condemnation by the city is a testament to the elderly bachelor's great wealth. Childless and nearing the end... Lire la suite

'Augustus knows he is inconveniencing a great many people, and he is enjoying this. He will not change his mind.' Augustus Gale was a man in love-with a woman of genius who had been dead for over a century. So great was his dedication to the memory... Lire la suite

Mr Gabb, your son did not commit suicide. He was murdered.' Simon Gabb has everything - or so it seems: a beautiful house on a large estate, a flourishing business and two sons, both evidently endowed with the capacity to carry on the family firm.... Lire la suite

A scientifically minded professor is stumped by a case involving séances and an inexplicable inheritance . . . After drifting apart from Sir John Claverton, Dr. Lancelot Priestley is finally visiting his old friend for dinner. But Claverton's... Lire la suite

A shady operator is targeted for death and needs help from a professor with an "uncanny ability to ferret out the truth" ( The New York Times). An expert in alternative medicine is creating a clinic in Cranbury Hall that promises to cure fatigue,... Lire la suite

A man's car is impounded as a stolen vehicle—but that's not the worst of it—in this classic British mystery starring a "tartly logical professor" ( The New York Times). Kenneth Winslow's company has sold a car to his nephew, Noel Yewdale, who's... Lire la suite

An "extremely clever" mystery about a doctor who appears to have fatally injected himself and a dinner party devoted to detection ( The Saturday Review). Dr. Richard Mawsley was a happy man and a careful man. So how and why did the Harley Street... Lire la suite

A body on the tracks and a pair of missing wills have Dr. Priestley puzzled . . . Gervase Wickenden's estate is close to a railroad line—and that's where his mangled body is found after an unfortunate meeting with a train. The timing is a bit odd... Lire la suite

The "astute and sharp-spoken" crime-solving professor must find out if a missing man got away with murder ( The New York Times). After some initial suspicion, the death of Ernest Venner's wealthy uncle was attributed to natural causes—a simple... Lire la suite

Was it a tragic drunk-driving accident, or something more twisted? "You can never go far wrong with a Dr. Priestley story." — The New York Times Superintendent King has concluded that the drunk driver with a dead body in his car was only guilty of... Lire la suite

" 'To my son Andrew,' it said, 'I leave the problem of the Velasquez.' " He leaned forward and added eagerly, "The thing is, you see, there wasn't any Velasquez... there never had been." The Gaskells, wealthy owners of a family shipping line, were a... Lire la suite

"It had sometimes seemed to Maitland, in the course of his researches, that there was nothing original left to be done when it came to extracting poisonous substances from the hedgerow; they were all there, foxglove and monkshood and deadly... Lire la suite

"He didn't know where he was... ...and hard on that realization the further thought came with the force of a blow. He didn't know who he was." Antony and Jenny Maitland's old friend Peter Hammond didn't think he had smuggled heroin into the country... Lire la suite

And then he received the small note in a laboured, childish scrawl: "She didn't...she didn't...she didn't!" Is beautiful Barbara Wentworth, on trial for the fatal poisoning of her wealthy sister, Laura Canning, whose heir she was, telling the truth... Lire la suite

"Let's say, a man's presumed innocent-" "A very proper attitude," Denning applauded. "But don't you think you're carrying it a little too far?" Antony and Jenny Maitland's stage actress friend Meg Hamilton (see Bloody Instructions) tells them that... Lire la suite