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  • Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery

    Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961

    by Curtis Evans ...
    In 1972, in an attempt to elevate the stature of the "crime novel," influential crime writer and critic Julian Symons cast numerous Golden Age detective fiction writers into literary perdition as "Humdrums," condemning their focus on puzzle plots over stylish writing and explorations of character, setting and theme. This volume explores the works of three prominent British "Humdrums"--Cecil John ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Peril at Cranbury Hall

    by John Rhode ...
    Series Book 9 - The Dr. Priestley Detective Stories
    A shady operator is targeted for death and needs help from a professor with an "uncanny ability to ferret out the truth" ( The New York Times).An expert in alternative medicine is creating a clinic in Cranbury Hall that promises to cure fatigue, and Arnold Gilroy is happy to invest in this promising moneymaking venture.Unfortunately, his brother Oliver has just finished a stint in prison for fraud ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Dr. Priestley Investigates

    by John Rhode ...
    Series Book 8 - The Dr. Priestley Detective Stories
    Was it a tragic drunk-driving accident, or something more twisted? "You can never go far wrong with a Dr. Priestley story." — The New York TimesSuperintendent King has concluded that the drunk driver with a dead body in his car was only guilty of manslaughter, not intentional murder. But Dr. Lancelot Priestley thinks there's more to the story—especially considering that the victim's estate, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Blackthorn House

    by John Rhode ...
    Series Book 48 - The Dr. Priestley Detective Stories
    A man's car is impounded as a stolen vehicle—but that's not the worst of it—in this classic British mystery starring a "tartly logical professor" ( The New York Times).Kenneth Winslow's company has sold a car to his nephew, Noel Yewdale, who's supposed to transport the large, locked chest in it. But before he can get the job done, the police seize the car—saying they think it's stolen.When the ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • TELECOMMUNICATION

    by curtis evan ...
    Hamming distance is one of the several string metrics for determining the edit distance between two sequences. It is named after the mathematician Richard Hamming. Hamming distance is the number of bit positions in which the corresponding symbols are different. In other words, the hamming distance measures the minimum number of substitutions required to change one string to another or the minimum ... Read more

    $687.10 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Venner Crime

    by John Rhode ...
    Series Book 16 - The Dr. Priestley Detective Stories
    The "astute and sharp-spoken" crime-solving professor must find out if a missing man got away with murder ( The New York Times).After some initial suspicion, the death of Ernest Venner's wealthy uncle was attributed to natural causes—a simple infection. But Dr. Lancelot Priestley and his crime-solving companions find it intriguing, to say the least, that as soon as Venner collected his much-needed ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • The Claverton Affair

    by John Rhode ...
    Series Book 14 - The Dr. Priestley Detective Stories
    A scientifically minded professor is stumped by a case involving séances and an inexplicable inheritance . . .After drifting apart from Sir John Claverton, Dr. Lancelot Priestley is finally visiting his old friend for dinner. But Claverton's situation is worrying. He's surrounded by relatives, among them a sister who speaks to the dead—but not to him—and a niece who may or may not be a qualified ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Though I Know She Lies

    An Antony Maitland Mystery

    by Sara Woods ...
    Series Book 8 - The Antony Maitland Mysteries
    And then he received the small note in a laboured, childish scrawl:"She didn't...she didn't...she didn't!"Is beautiful Barbara Wentworth, on trial for the fatal poisoning of her wealthy sister, Laura Canning, whose heir she was, telling the truth-or is she deceitfully spinning a web of lies? Antony Maitland, brought in by Barbara's barrister, his eminent uncle, Sir Nicholas Harding, Q. C., to ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Let's Choose Executors

    An Antony Maitland Mystery

    by Sara Woods ...
    Series Book 10 - The Antony Maitland Mysteries
    "It had sometimes seemed to Maitland, in the course of his researches, that there was nothing original left to be done when it came to extracting poisonous substances from the hedgerow; they were all there, foxglove and monkshood and deadly nightshade, and man's ingenuity more than sufficient to exploit their murderous qualities, even if he had been a little slow to split the atom or find a cure ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Tragedy on the Line

    by John Rhode ...
    Series Book 11 - The Dr. Priestley Detective Stories
    A body on the tracks and a pair of missing wills have Dr. Priestley puzzled . . .Gervase Wickenden's estate is close to a railroad line—and that's where his mangled body is found after an unfortunate meeting with a train. The timing is a bit odd though, considering this happened only two days after Wickenden changed his will. And now, neither version of the will can be located . . .The heirs ask ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Death in Harley Street

    by John Rhode ...
    Series Book 43 - The Dr. Priestley Detective Stories
    An "extremely clever" mystery about a doctor who appears to have fatally injected himself and a dinner party devoted to detection ( The Saturday Review).Dr. Richard Mawsley was a happy man and a careful man. So how and why did the Harley Street specialist inject himself with strychnine while in his locked office? There's no hint that anyone else was at the scene, and the guests at Dr. Lancelot ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Cat's Paw

    by Roger Scarlett ...
    Series series American Mystery Classics
    When a wealthy bachelor is murdered in his baroque Boston mansion, a bizarre clue holds the key to whodunnit.Martin Greenough's walled-off mansion is the last remaining holdout in the Boston parkland known as the Fenway—and the fact that it eluded condemnation by the city is a testament to the elderly bachelor's great wealth. Childless and nearing the end of his life, he surrounds himself with ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD