Golden Age of Detective Fiction

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Streathfeild Manor, a secluded country house deep in the heart of southern England, was built for one of Queen Elizabeth I’s most trusted knights, Sir Aylmer Rupert. Sir Rupert’s portrait would remain in the Great Hall to bare witness to history’s long shadow; the sheltering of renegade priests, the end of the Rupert line and today, to murder. At a weekend house party the new owner of Streathfeild, nouveau riche financier, John Ryman, is found dead in the library, stabbed in the heart with an African sacrificial dagger. Papers vital to a controversial business deal are missing. His terrified guests, including his ward Eve and her fiancé, Felix, begin receiving threatening notes from a man calling himself ‘London.’ This person unknown, is determined to stop the deal from going through at all costs…

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Four years. That’s how long it took Californian playboy Michael Vickers to regain his memory and come home. Four years. That’s how long Vickers spent battered, bruised and south of the border, following the attack which sought to end his life – all because he’d mistaken a mortal enemy for a friend. Or a lover. And now Vickers is looking for four years’ worth of payback from the devil responsible for his near-demise. But within days of Vickers’ return, a murder attempt is made on one of his suspects – and this time it succeeds. Enter a very shrewd detective, whose eyes are on everyone. Especially Vickers. In Stranger at Home, the second George Sanders mystery novel, we are taken to a world removed from the backstage comic mystery of Crime on My Hands, but nonetheless a milieu very familiar to the actor – Southern California in the 1940’s. A world of stars and millionaires, but also vice, organized crime and shattered dreams. And Michael Vickers himself is a hero very much after the mould of Sanders’ irresistibly attractive screen persona – gilded and charming, languid and pleasure-seeking… but with a steely, remorseless core

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When a mutilated body is found beside a railway tunnel in Groote Park the tragedy appears a straightforward case of accidental death, but Middeldorp police Detective-Inspector Vandam senses foul play. Vandam begins an investigation into the dead man, Albert Smith, which takes the case from the wilds of South Africa to mountains and glens of Scotland, where a near-identical crime has been perpetrated

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