Golden Age of Detective Fiction

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Goodreads Blurb:

Dr Eustice Hailey took a pinch of snuff, then considered the situation his agitated
young friend, the Honourable Robert Barling, had disclosed to him. While dancing the previous night with his fiancée, Olva Vorloff, a beautiful, tragic-eyed Russian exile, Bob saw her face pale with terror. He had turned just quickly enough to see a man in the doorway, a Russian she had recently passed on the stairs without recognition. The girl had pleaded fatigue and he took her home. The next morning she had vanished.

The Double-Thirteen Mystery

Series: Dr. Hailey (#2)

280 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1926. Published January 15, 2022 by Spitfire Publishers LTD.

Goodreads Blurb:

An inspector and four uniformed constables arrive one morning, unannounced, at Greystones, the imposing and remote country house of the Elderly family. Inspector Biggs brushes past the immaculate and outraged butler and demands to see John Elderly, head of the family. Behind the dark oak library door is the scene of a struggle; overturned and disarranged furniture, the telephone receiver is off the hook…
Where has the master gone? Who has cut the telephone wires and disabled the motor-cars? What is the inspector holding back from the assembled guests and country house staff?

The House of Disappearance

Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1927. Published January 1, 2023

Goodreads Blurb:

Sir Henry Gage is found dead at his country house in Hampshire. But who is to inherit his fortune? His great niece Laura and her half-brother Paul arrive from Canada to claim the inheritance and the family seat. But are they really who they say they are? How will they be received by Sir Henry’s cousin, Adela Durrant and her wayward, heroin-addicted son Leonard? The scene is set for murder, but the question is how many will die?

The Shadow on the Wall

272 pages, Kindle Edition

This edition was published January 29, 2022.

Goodreads Blurb:

The white stuccoed front of Kingsclere House, seat of the Meryon family, glimmered in the wintry twilight. Perched at the end of a long avenue of leafless elms, the Cornish country house was an imposing sight to Rosamund Lang fresh off the train from London. The woman at the agency had advised against her against the appointment, as had the foreboding prediction of medium, Madame Aurelia, but Rosamund needed a job and the setting was spectacular with the isle of Lundy on the horizon. Murder would be the next visitor to Kingsclere and it is up to Richard West, on leave from the Indian Police and an expert in eastern poisons to investigate. Together with Inspector Fordham he collaborates to solve this most puzzling of crimes.

The Kingsclere Mystery

Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1924. Published April 25, 2022.