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Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When someone shoots Horatio Leavenworth, a wealthy retired merchant, through the head in his library late one night, the evidence at the inquest indicates that no one could have left the victim's locked Manhattan mansion before the discovery of the body the next morning. Suspicion thus falls on members of the household, specifically the dead man's nieces, Mary and Eleanore, only one of whom stands to benefit from their uncle's death. Everett Raymond,...
2) Dark hollow
Author
Publisher
Hesperus Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In a small town shrouded in secrets a woman seeks to find the truth behind a terrible injustice in this classic mystery from "the mother of the detective novel"A mysterious veiled woman slips into the home of the secretive Judge Ostrander in the town of Shelby. The people of the town rush after her to protect their respected judge, but in the confusion and furor that follow, a servant of the house dies. In the solemn atmosphere succeeding this drama,...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The first book in an exciting new classic mystery series created in partnership with the Library of Congress, That Affair Next Door follows Miss Amelia Butterworth, an inquisitive single woman who becomes involved in a murder investigation after the woman next door turns up dead. Miss Amelia Butterworth is unmarried but quite content as an observer of human nature-until late one evening she notices a man and woman enter the supposedly empty house...
Author
Series
Fifty classics of crime fiction 1900-1950 volume no. 23
Publisher
Garland Pub
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Description
The reclusive owner of a distinguished house is discovered stabbed to death in the circular study at the heart of that house. The only other occupants are a deaf-and-dumb butler and a caged starling that can parrot occasional words it hears. Aided by some of Amelia's insights but more especially by an ambitious young cop, who displays exemplary enterprise and deductive skills, Gryce doesn't take too long to discover who the murderer is. (Goodreads)...
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