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  • Fatal Descent

    by Carter Dickson, John Rhode ...
    A businessman dies in an elevator in such a way that it seems as though no one could have committed the murder. A seemingly impossible murder in a private elevator draws two sleuths to the case. Inspector Hornbeam and Dr. Horatio Glass are at odds from the beginning, each dismissive of the other's theories, thus creating an atmosphere as much of competition as cooperation. ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

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    The Judas Window

    by Carter Dickson ...
    Narrated by John Telfer ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics

    Unabridged

    8 hours 59 min

    One of the greatest locked-room murder mysteries of all time, hailing from 1938, returns to baffle a new bevy of armchair detectives. James Answell, visiting his father-in-law Avery Hume in his locked study, has the misfortune to wake up from a drugged-Whisky swoon to find his host dead, skewered with an arrow. He is, of course, prime suspect. After setting up this devilish scenario, unravels an ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Ten Teacups

    by Carter Dickson ...
    Narrated by John Telfer ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics

    Unabridged

    8 hours 14 min

    'There will be ten teacups at number 4, Berwick Terrace, W.8, on Wednesday, July 31st, at 5 p.m. precisely. The presence of the Metropolitan Police is respectfully requested.' The note was delivered to New Scotland Yard, its words evoking a cold murder case and its unsolved mystery of the ten teacups found beside the body. Scrambling to prevent a second killing, the police set up a watertight ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The White Priory Murders

    by Carter Dickson ...
    Narrated by John Telfer ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics

    Unabridged

    8 hours 37 min

    James Bennett, nephew of Sir Henry Merrivale (the cantankerous yet genius sleuth), has been invited to stay at White Priory for Christmas, among the retinue of the glamorous Hollywood actress Marcia Tait. Her producer, her lover, her playwright and her agent are all here along with the haughty master of the estate, Canifes and his daughter. So many suspects they become when Marcia Tait is found ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Vertical Farm

    Feeding the World in the 21st Century

    by Dickson Despommier, Gene A. Giacomelli ...
    "The vertical farm is a world-changing innovation whose time has come. Dickson Despommier's visionary book provides a blueprint for securing the world's food supply and at the same time solving one of the gravest environmental crises facing us today."--StingImagine a world where every town has their own local food source, grown in the safest way possible, where no drop of water or particle of ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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    Murder as a Fine Art

    by Carol Carnac ...
    Narrated by Mark Meadows ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics

    Unabridged

    7 hours 50 min

    When a civil servant at the newly formed Ministry of Fine Arts is found crushed beneath a monstrous marble bust after dark, it appears to be the third instance in a string of fatal accidents at the department. Already disturbed by rumours of forgeries and irregularities in the Ministry's dealings, Minister Humphry David is soon faced with the possibility that among his colleagues is a murderer – ... Read more

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    Tea on Sunday

    by Lettice Cooper ...
    Narrated by Paul Panting ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics

    Unabridged

    7 hours 44 min

    Alberta Mansbridge sets the table with teacups, mulling over the guests who will be arriving within the hour: her accountant and the ex-jailbird Barry; her nephew and his ghastly new wife; the Italian playboy, the family doctor, the manager of her father's company and dear old Myra, with whom she had so recently fallen out. . . Alberta returns upstairs to get herself ready. Yet the guests' ... Read more

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  • Vegetable Duck

    by John Rhode ...
    At the London service flat where she lives with her husband, dies after eating a meal which later analysis shows was infused with digitalis. Scotland Yard at first suspect her husband, who had been called away by a telephone call of murdering her. However, with the assistance of Priestley, the investigating officer is able to prove this is a long-premeditated crime by someone else. ... Read more

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  • Death at the Helm

    by John Rhode ...
    Death at the Helm (1941) is a Golden Age detective novel featuring recurring amateur sleuth, Dr. Lancelot Priestley, where Inspector Waghorn investigates the poisoning of two people on a grounded motor cruiser, a complex "howdunnit" rich in botanical details about poisons, set against a backdrop of wartime England. The book is praised for its well-clued puzzle, detailed detection, engaging ... Read more

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  • The Domestic Agency

    by John Rhode ...
    The true motive for the murder is introduced very late on, so as to conceal the identity of the killer. Gangland elements in the plot. The method of murder is very clever and there are a few genuine suspects. ... Read more

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  • The Secret Meeting

    by John Rhode ...
    The discovery of a seemingly unidentifiable corpse in a shabby block of offices off the Gray's Inn Road in central London inexplicably proves to be linked to the assassination of a member of parliament with secret communist ties on an express train heading northwards. ... Read more

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  • Death of an Author

    by John Rhode ...
    Nigel Ebbfleet, an author who after many years of effort has finally produced a successful book, settles down to live in a country cottage brought by the royalties of his hit work. However, his rural peace is shattered when he is killed in an explosion while chopping wood. Superintendent Jimmy Waghorn of Scotland Yard's investigation established that Ebbfleet was well-liked and no obvious motive ... Read more

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