Overview :Olive in Italy is an Italian travel story that states, "For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full mixed, a... Read More
Overview :"I want to catch them. To do that we've got to lead them on. Now listen to me."Elbert J. Pakenham of New York City is among just nine surviv... Read More
Overview :Murder in the poisoned bosom of a genteel, if alarmingly dysfunctional, family in the English countryside.Dennyford is a "peaceful little pl... Read More
Overview :"'Tes a queer place seemingly. . . . Full of ghostesses, what with beasts coming down from the church roof and her that walks, hair blowing ... Read More
Overview :"The man's heart was dicky. It couldn't stand a shock. The question is-what shock?"Roger Frere is delighted to meet the lovely Celia Holland... Read More
Overview :"If I meet any dragons I'll run away."When Mary Borlase, English governess of the little Countess Nadine, escapes from Russia during the Gre... Read More
Overview :"Life hasn't always been easy here, but nobody has tried to murder me before."Roger Fordyce, a little battered by an unhappy affair, visits ... Read More
Overview :"The truth can't hurt anyone," she said rather faintly.He did not speak for a minute. Then he said without looking at her. "Not if he's inno... Read More
Overview :"All this blood and violence. God help us. It is like a bad dream. When shall we wake?"It is the summer of 1943, and the height of the war i... Read More
Overview :It had been so quickly done that he felt almost as if a little knife had actually flashed by him and stuck, quivering, in the door at his ba... Read More
Overview :"It is believed locally that her death was accidental, but I'm afraid--"Our story begins with psychic investigator Cosmo Thor meeting Madame... Read More
Overview :Together they looked down at the inert sprawling figure of a man fantastically dressed in red-and-white-striped pyjama trousers, with a red ... Read More
Overview :"Not another murder!""You've said it."Kindly Reverend John Clare pays a social call upon the saturnine Simon Killick at his forbidding house... Read More
Overview :"I'm worried. . . .This damned black-out. I'm afraid of what may happen in the dark."Artists' model Althea Greville was, in life, known as s... Read More
Overview :"I see you told her fortune. Had she a good hand?""There was death in it."The inhabitants of the quiet English village of Teene are a mixed ... Read More
Overview :"We've managed to head off the Press men so far. But that won't last. We can't escape publicity, and the reading public enjoys murders."Harr... Read More