When unloading a steamer’s hold, four casks fall. One damaged cask reveals a woman’s hand inside. Thus begins the complex plot of Freeman Wills Crofts’ first novel - The Cask.
Review of The Cask
Review of The Case is Closed
The second Miss Silver mystery delivers a broad range of fascinating characters and far more action than you’d expect for a 1938 mystery containing a drab little woman with indeterminate features as the detective.
Review of The Mystery of the Pharaoh’s Diamonds
In the small town of Livingston, diamonds from a Ramessess exhibit have been stolen. But don’t worry, Eva and her clever friend Carol are on the case.
Review of Death in the Stocks
Open this book for the title, but stay for the comic dialogue. Death in the Stocks by Georgette Heyer begins with a policeman discovering the exceedingly wealthy and extremely unlikable Arnold Vereker in stocks on a village green.
The Fairfax Redemption
Jonathan Fairfax is an awkward, unassuming young illustrator who manages to get himself into the most outlandish predicaments.
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