The Wychford Murders

Author : Paula Gosling
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509860754
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wychford Murders written by Paula Gosling and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wychford is a charming and quiet West Country village. Or rather, it was – until Mrs Tompkins was found with her throat slashed. Now, when evening shadows fall, the picturesque little lanes seem filled with menace and golden Cotswold stones are stained with blood in the first of Paula Gosling’s Luke Abbott series, The Wychford Murders. Detective Chief Inspector Luke Abbott is sent to find the killer. He was born and brought up in Wychford – but he hardly recognizes it. The young girl he loved has become the local doctor. The boy who once bullied him is now a respected local Squire. And in all the small homes and cottages the people of Wychford hide – wondering who next will fall victim to the killer’s bloody knife. Abbott’s investigation exposes the private lives behind the postcard prettiness: secret loves and hates, perversion, envy, jealousy, greed, and – eventually – a ruthless murderer.

Author : Paula Gosling
Publisher : Macmillan Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9780333423974
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wychford Murders written by Paula Gosling and published by Macmillan Children's Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062113437
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder Is Easy written by Agatha Christie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quiet English village is plagued by a fiendish serial killer in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic thriller, Murder is Easy. Luke Fitzwilliam does not believe Miss Pinkerton’s wild allegation that a multiple murderer is at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood and that her local doctor is next in line. But within hours, Miss Pinkerton has been killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Mere coincidence? Luke is inclined to think so—until he reads in the Times of the unexpected demise of Wychwood’s Dr. Humbleby.…

Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher : Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780008333881
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wychford Poisoning Case written by Anthony Berkeley and published by Collins. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the earliest psychological crime novels. Mrs Bentley has been arrested for murder. The evidence is overwhelming: arsenic she extracted from fly papers was in her husband's medicine, his food and his lemonade, and her crimes are being plastered across the newspapers. Even her lawyers believe she is guilty. But Roger Sheringham, the brilliant but outspoken young novelist, is convinced that there is 'too much evidence' against Mrs Bentley and sets out to prove her innocence. Credited as the book that first introduced psychology to the detective novel, The Wychford Poisoning Case was based on a notorious real-life murder inquiry. Written by Anthony Berkeley, a founder of the celebrated Detection Club who also found fame under the pen-name 'Francis Iles', the story saw the return of Roger Sheringham, the Golden Age's breeziest - and booziest - detective.

Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher : Doubleday, Doran
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silk Stocking Murders written by Anthony Berkeley and published by Doubleday, Doran. This book was released on 1928 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the daughter of a country parson goes missing in London, Roger Sheringham receives a letter from her father pleading for help. As the amateur sleuth investigates, he discovers that the girl is already dead, found hanging from a door by her own silk stocking. It is presumed suicide, but when more young women are found dead in the same manner, questions arise. Was it merely copycat suicide, or will the case lead Sheringham into a maze of murder?

Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504066219
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Layton Court Mystery written by Anthony Berkeley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned British crime writer’s classic locked-room Golden Age mystery that introduced amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham. A party at Layton Court, the country house of Victor Stanworth, is disrupted when the host is found shot through the forehead in his own library, a suicide as far as the police are concerned. After all, the gun is found in his hand, a note has been left, and the room is locked from the inside. But one of the guests, author Roger Sheringham, has his doubts. The bullet wound is not positioned where it could have been easily self-inflicted. With a house full of partygoers and servants, suspects abound. It will take Sheringham’s sharp wit and fearless investigating to deduce who brought the festivities to a fatal end. The founder of the Detection Club in London, along with Agatha Christie and other writers, Anthony Berkeley wrote numerous novels, sometimes using the pseudonyms Francis Iles and A. Monmouth Platts. The Layton Court Mystery is his first book in the Roger Sheringham Cases, which includes The Poisoned Chocolates Case and The Silk Stocking Murders, among other titles. “Certainly, Berkeley’s short and fascinating career deserves to be saluted. For fans of the classic English crime novel, his books remain enjoyable to this day. Nobody has ever done ironic ingenuity better than Anthony Berkeley.” —Mystery Scene “He was one of the most influential crime novelists of the 1920s and 1930s, but has languished somewhat in obscurity since. A troubled, dark, incredibly innovative writer . . .” —Shedunnit

Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780755102136
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Top Storey Murder written by Anthony Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Malcolm J. Turnbull
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879727161
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elusion Aforethought written by Malcolm J. Turnbull and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not content with Cox's (1893-1971) hero status among a small cult following, Australian historian Turnbull provides significant new information about the English writer of crime detective fiction and introduces him to a wider academic sphere. He also describes Cox's other genres, such as humor and satire, and investigates his preoccupation with anonymity and use of pseudonyms. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Patricia Harwin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416506691
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slaying is Such Sweet Sorrow written by Patricia Harwin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: File "M" for Murder Librarian and former New Yorker Catherine Penny has already sleuthed out the truth behind a deadly house fire since settling in the tiny English town of Far Wychwood. But nowhere is too far for painful memories to find her when her ex-husband, who left her single in her sixties, arrives with his new lady love to attend a family affair. Catherine can't avoid him at the awards ceremony honoring their son-in-law, Peter, who is a shoo-in for a prestigious appointment at Oxford's Mercy College. But the shock of Peter not being chosen is matched only by who is: pompous, womanizing scholar Edgar Stone. And when Stone is found murdered, Peter's guilt seems hardly academic.... Patricia Harwin, who introduced a "charming, compassionate" (The New Mystery Reader) heroine in Arson and Old Lace, shows once again why an American woman in an English town can unearth a whole lot of trouble.

Author : Janet G. Husband
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838909671
Total Pages : 793 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sequels written by Janet G. Husband and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.