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Description In his London townhouse, city magnate Sir Christopher Clarke is found lying murdered. At the other end of the house his safe hangs open and rifled, and earlier in the day he had visited his solicitors in order to make a drastic change in his will. Later it is discovered that there has...

Description Mr. Sargent, the manager of the Brush Hill Central Cinema, wished he had never held a Beauty Competition. Caroline Mears, the predicted winner, had already caused trouble with one of the other girls. Paul Irwin, a strong Puritan and influential councillor, had taken it into his head to...

Description What could be more innocent than a crossword puzzle? A game to while away an idle hour, a diversion for the lonely. And yet its cunning formula could still be turned to sinister purpose. The curious crossword devised by Mr. George Winterton turned out to be part of a game for high stakes...

Description The body of a brilliant woman journalist is recovered from the wreck of a burning car. It is soon discovered that the smash did not kill her; she was dead already, shot by a Browning automatic that was found near by. Superintendent Mitchell, with the help of Owen, a young University graduate...

Description Con Conway, the notorious cat burglar, was not the kind of person to be scared out of his wits for nothing. So it seemed odd to Sergeant Bobby Owen, when he met Con quite by chance rushing, terrified, along a road in the Brush Hill district just before midnight. Afterwards he investigated...

“Why should anyone want to pinch the dagger—except to do somebody in?” No one answered this question. Item: one anonymous phone call reporting a murder at a historic country house – but no body is to be found. Item: one ornate antique knife, discovered in a village call-box,...

An average girl—with a twist: She has two gifts, when only one is normal. Will her forbidden gift be enough to save her mother?Haylee lives in a land called Panoi, where magic is not distributed fairly. Like her mother, she has yet to manifest a gift for magic. Meanwhile, her father has a gift...

All sales developers want that one tip that will help them get an extra sales meeting per week. What if a book gave you access to over 160 tips and tricks? What would having that knowledge do for your pipeline? Your paycheck? Sales prospecting legend, E.R. Carpenter, has spent 14 years doing...

Eva is a little girl with a feather in her hair. Lost in the woods one day she meets a bear scrunching a pear who promises to help her get home. A storm is brewing, it is getting late and eyes peer out from beyond the trees. Will they make it home and avoid the evil Snyrd?

This vintage book contains a collection of classic articles on the subject of the hardening and tempering processes in blacksmithing. Although old, these articles contains a wealth of timeless information that will be of considerable utility to modern blacksmiths. "Hardening and Tempering" would make...

“There’s a spot of trouble this morning. Old gentleman found dead in his bath.” Bobby answered: “there may be one chance in a million it’s natural death.” When the notorious gangster Cy King was imprisoned thanks to Commander Bobby Owen’s investigation, he spent a good...

At that moment the door opened and a deep, harsh, husky voice said: “Discussing my murder, are you?” Bobby Owen of Scotland Yard and his wife Olive are busy bargain-hunting in a famous London department store. But a shopping expedition nearly turns into a crime scene when Olive discovers...

“What happens,” Bobby asked, “when a woman with an irresistible attraction for men, and the man with an irresistible attraction for women, meet? When glamour meets glamour . . . ?” “Lummy,” said the superintendent. A seemingly innocent young woman has disappeared, presumably...

Review: Kalpanik Shyamlan "Author, Inside the Giant Machine" I would have never thought one could fit in billionaire Russian tycoons, beautiful sunny Caribbean islands, sexy wives, and ... wait for it ... werewolves in a book and still make it so fun to read. But E. R. Bain did a...