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On a foggy night in London, an expert cracksman steals the Hardway diamonds, yet when he is discovered by the police, the diamonds aren't with him. One of the diamonds is found on a corpse in the marshes. Where are the rest? And who is this criminal mastermind, "Funny Toff"? Unearth the gripping tale of "The Hardway Diamonds Mystery" penned by the master of suspense, Miles Burton. Set amidst the opulence and intrigue of the 1930s, this comp...

Trade paperback. WHEN DEATH PAYS A CALL he generally leaves a card behind ...¿¿even if it sometimes takes a pathologist to find it. But on the morning that he visited the bathroom at Forstal Farm, he did it incognito. It took a man with a crowbar to break down the bathroom door, and there on the floor was Basil Maplewood, naked, with one foot still hanging over the edge of the bath. Basil was only twenty-one, and in the very pink of health, bu...

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How can an elderly lady, discovered lying dead in a hammock by her great-niece and companion, be sitting up and calmly giving an interview with reporters only minutes later? That is the perplexing question that comes to the ears of debonair sleuth Desmond Merrion in this 1950 mystery from the prolific Miles Burton.

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The latest addition to the series, for fans of crime fiction from the golden age. On a dark November evening, Sir Wilfred Saxonby is travelling alone on a train in a locked compartment, the train slows and stops inside a tunnel, when it emerges minutes later, Saxonby is dead. Inspector Arnold of Scotland Yard is stumped by the puzzle, and enlists the help of Desmond Merrion, an amateur expert in criminology.

WHEN DEATH PAYS A CALL he generally leaves a card behind . . . even if it sometimes takes a pathologist to find it. But on the morning that he visited the bathroom at Forstal Farm, he did it incognito. It took a man with a crowbar to break down the bathroom door, and there on the floor was Basil Maplewood, naked, with one foot still hanging over the edge of the bath. Basil was only twenty-one, and in the very pink of health, but the post-morte...