Desmond Merrion mysteries by Cecil Street (as Miles Burton)
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Overview: Cecil John Street (1884-1964) aka John Street aka John Rhode aka Miles Burton aka Cecil Waye was one of the most prolific authors from the Golden Age of detective fiction.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
The Hardway Diamonds Mystery (2)
On a night of fog Pussy Herridge stole the Hardway diamonds—and on the same night they were re-stolen. It was a grim trail that Dick Penhampton followed which led him to discover one of them on a dead man in the marshes. Who was the Funny Toff, the terror alike of police and criminals, the unknown man with such amazing resource and ingenuity, a devilish perverted sense of humour and a lunatic laugh that few heard twice? Death was the answer meted out to all who tried to solve the riddle—to all except Penhampton. Why was he spared so often by his unknown adversary in that ghastly game of cat-and-mouse played out in the dark? Was Inspector Pollard entirely deluded when he turned his attention to trailing the trailer? Or was Alison Weatherleigh’s faith in her lover justified?
Death of Mr. Gantley (5)
Mr. Gantley, owner of the Downhamshire Courier, is found dead in his car one Monday morning not far from his native town of Carnford. He had been shot through the head. Lady Gantley, Gantley’s sister-in-law, had died suddenly from a heart attack on the Saturday evening, and from her will it appeared that in the event of her death preceding that of Gantley her fortune shall go to her niece and nephew, Charles and Myrtle Harrington. If Gantley died first then her fortune should go to her companion, Sylvia Chadwick, and her brother Percy. Both Inspector Driffield, who is a local man, and Inspector Arnold of Scotland Yard are baffled by the crime. A lucky meeting with Desmond Merrion brings that skilled investigator into the case, to which he eventually succeeds in supplying a brilliant and surprising solution.
Death Leaves No Card (22)
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-mortem didn’t help much…no violence, no sign of poison. Here is a mystery in a thousand, and one that almost—but not quite—threw dust in the eyes of Inspector Arnold and his colleagues.
A Smell of Smoke (61)
When the body of Horace Ingrave was taken from the stream at Moat House no one in Lamsford was very disturbed—except Matthew Calder, who had been in the vicinity when the ne’er-do-well drowned. He had been aware of a strange smell of smoke, and it was this one fact which roused his suspicions about his nephew and heir, Ronald. But even when Matthew realised that the younger man might have had a motive for Ingrave’s death, he kept silent.
A second violent death in the village was clearly a case of murder, and it brought Inspector Arnold and Desmond Merrion on to the scene to unravel a case in which the silence of Matthew Calder was to become a vital factor in the fate of the suspects whose lives and happiness were in jeopardy.
Legacy of Death (63)
Welcome to Forest House, a nursing and convalescent home in the village of Brookfield. Caring for the elderly and the ill, it’s a place of peace and quiet. Apart from the dodgy Brigadier who seems intent on swindling some of the inhabitants out of some of their spare change, there’s not much happening there. But when Mary Tarrant, a widow who just happens to have disinherited her son in favour of one of the other residents, dies in vaguely suspicious circumstances, events are set in motion that are going to bring the House to the interest of Inspector Arnold of Scotland Yard and his sleuthing chum Desmond Merrion.
Soon, one of the nurses at the home takes a mysterious plunge off a bridge to her death and it seems that there is a cunning killer whose plans are far from over...
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Overview: Cecil John Street (1884-1964) aka John Street aka John Rhode aka Miles Burton aka Cecil Waye was one of the most prolific authors from the Golden Age of detective fiction.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
The Hardway Diamonds Mystery (2)
On a night of fog Pussy Herridge stole the Hardway diamonds—and on the same night they were re-stolen. It was a grim trail that Dick Penhampton followed which led him to discover one of them on a dead man in the marshes. Who was the Funny Toff, the terror alike of police and criminals, the unknown man with such amazing resource and ingenuity, a devilish perverted sense of humour and a lunatic laugh that few heard twice? Death was the answer meted out to all who tried to solve the riddle—to all except Penhampton. Why was he spared so often by his unknown adversary in that ghastly game of cat-and-mouse played out in the dark? Was Inspector Pollard entirely deluded when he turned his attention to trailing the trailer? Or was Alison Weatherleigh’s faith in her lover justified?
Death of Mr. Gantley (5)
Mr. Gantley, owner of the Downhamshire Courier, is found dead in his car one Monday morning not far from his native town of Carnford. He had been shot through the head. Lady Gantley, Gantley’s sister-in-law, had died suddenly from a heart attack on the Saturday evening, and from her will it appeared that in the event of her death preceding that of Gantley her fortune shall go to her niece and nephew, Charles and Myrtle Harrington. If Gantley died first then her fortune should go to her companion, Sylvia Chadwick, and her brother Percy. Both Inspector Driffield, who is a local man, and Inspector Arnold of Scotland Yard are baffled by the crime. A lucky meeting with Desmond Merrion brings that skilled investigator into the case, to which he eventually succeeds in supplying a brilliant and surprising solution.
Death Leaves No Card (22)
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-mortem didn’t help much…no violence, no sign of poison. Here is a mystery in a thousand, and one that almost—but not quite—threw dust in the eyes of Inspector Arnold and his colleagues.
A Smell of Smoke (61)
When the body of Horace Ingrave was taken from the stream at Moat House no one in Lamsford was very disturbed—except Matthew Calder, who had been in the vicinity when the ne’er-do-well drowned. He had been aware of a strange smell of smoke, and it was this one fact which roused his suspicions about his nephew and heir, Ronald. But even when Matthew realised that the younger man might have had a motive for Ingrave’s death, he kept silent.
A second violent death in the village was clearly a case of murder, and it brought Inspector Arnold and Desmond Merrion on to the scene to unravel a case in which the silence of Matthew Calder was to become a vital factor in the fate of the suspects whose lives and happiness were in jeopardy.
Legacy of Death (63)
Welcome to Forest House, a nursing and convalescent home in the village of Brookfield. Caring for the elderly and the ill, it’s a place of peace and quiet. Apart from the dodgy Brigadier who seems intent on swindling some of the inhabitants out of some of their spare change, there’s not much happening there. But when Mary Tarrant, a widow who just happens to have disinherited her son in favour of one of the other residents, dies in vaguely suspicious circumstances, events are set in motion that are going to bring the House to the interest of Inspector Arnold of Scotland Yard and his sleuthing chum Desmond Merrion.
Soon, one of the nurses at the home takes a mysterious plunge off a bridge to her death and it seems that there is a cunning killer whose plans are far from over...
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